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… and John James Henry Hall, clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Ōhinemutu. Mere’s father, who was English, had … and joined the Armed Constabulary. Her mother was a daughter of Edward Ainsley and his wife Haana Ngaki Te Kāpaiwaho, …
Type: Biography
… and pastoral settlement commencing in the 1840s. The date and place of his birth are not known. Both of his parents, Tāhere, or Te Haere, and Āniwaniwa, were descended from the Ngāi Tahu …
Type: Biography
… Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, probably on 2 September 1829, the daughter of Elizabeth Caven and her husband, John Carmont. She … husband, Charles Clifford, farmed the huge Flaxbourne estate in Marlborough, New Zealand. She arrived at Wellington on …
Type: Biography
… Mona Tracy was one of three Canterbury writers whose children's books, written in the 1920s, have …
Type: Biography
… Robert Agrippa Moengaroa Waitiri (later Whaitiri), commonly known as Bob, was born in Bluff, … 1916. Through his parents, Robert Agrippa Waitiri, an oysterman, and his wife, Mariam (Miriam) Effie Te Aroha Tōpi Pātuki, he could claim links with Ngāti Māmoe, …
Type: Biography
… continuing battle with epidemics took precedence in terms of health campaigns. Within general campaigns, the … aimed for. The Young Maori Party, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and Kīngitanga (Māori King movement) leader Te Puea Hērangi all worked to improve the health of Māori. …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… a distinguished anthropologist, and an eloquent statesman, was held in high regard by Māori and non-Māori … 26 years. He may be remembered best for his translation of te Tiriti o Waitangi, the Māori version of the Treaty of …
Type: Biography
… upbringing was bicultural from the outset. James Carroll later recorded that his birth was accompanied by traditional … referred also to whare wānanga instruction, although in later life he apparently believed in the Mesopotamian origin …
Type: Biography
… sector from the 1970s to the 1990s. As curator, and later director, of Manawatū Museum, she pioneered a model of … which placed primacy on mātauranga Māori rather than western collecting practices. She carried this kaupapa to a …
Type: Biography
… Whalers Tacking off the South Canterbury coast in February 1770, James Cook saw and described the Hunters Hills, but did not land. When whaling began in New Zealand waters, the reefs at Caroline Bay were used (as Māori used …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… the war was being fought, the government planned to confiscate Waikato lands and establish defended townships to deter Māori from reoccupying their territory. The chosen settlers were the Waikato militia – …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato region
… The longest active fault in New Zealand, it lies on a major tectonic plate boundary, where the Pacific and Australian plates collide …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough region
… New Zealand’s history many men have formed primary intimate and sexual relationships with other men. In the early … century some gay men still concealed their sexuality. In spite of their relative invisibility, many gay men have made … among Māori before 1840, although we do know these existed. Some scholars argue that early Māori carvings depicting …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gay men’s lives
… in dense forest. Settlers under Julius Vogel’s assisted immigration schemes came from England, East Prussia (now … Dairy Company, with its distinctive ‘Sunflower’ brand butter, became the Moa-Nui Co-operative after northern …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… born in Waspik, Noord Brabant, in the Netherlands, on 15 September 1876, the son of Cornelius Langerwerf, a farmer, and … Lucia Smeur. Feeling a call to be a missionary priest, he entered the Society of St Joseph for Foreign Missions. After …
Type: Biography
… Māori and Europeans in the King Country occurred from the late 1820s on the coast. In the early 1830s flax traders … and Amos Kent, employees of Sydney-based merchant Joseph Montefiore, worked in Mōkau and Kāwhia respectively. New …
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Part of story: King Country region
… music industry, but apart from the Howard Morrison Quartet’s occasional recordings of Māori popular standards, there was very little that celebrated Māori culture between the 1960s and 1980s. The Māori … spawn important figures such as John Rowles and Prince Tui Teka. Rastaman vibration In 1979 Jamaican reggae legend Bob …
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Part of story: Popular music
… and London were the two urban areas Māori travellers visited most frequently from the late 18th century. Both cities now have long histories of … and relocating to them. Māori and Sydney From the late 18th century Māori travelled the world, often as crew on …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… broadly sketched, due to a lack of information. In the late 18th century the Māori population was about 90,000–100,000. Estimates of the birth rate suggest that each woman had an average of about five …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… New Zealand was home to more than 46,100 Muslims. Three-quarters had been born overseas, with significant groups coming … rushes, and Gujarati Indian Muslim families settled here after 1910. However, New Zealand Muslims totalled less than 100 until after the Second World War. After the Fiji coups in 1987, 2000 …
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Part of story: Diverse religions