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… Donald McIntyre was headed for a career as a primary school teacher when, at the insistence of James Robertson (then principal conductor of New … he set off for study in London in 1958. Before he had completed two years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he …
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Part of story: Classical musicians
… workers on the Tongariro power scheme. The project diverted water from the Whangaehu, Moawhango, Tongariro and Whanganui … The new town was laid out west of the re-aligned State Highway 1, while the older community remained to the …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… Waimate Town 45 km south-west of Timaru, with a 2013 population … In July 1854 Michael Studholme reached an agreement with Te Huruhuru, leader of the local Māori, to found the Te Waimate sheep run. A small part of the property remains … Waimate …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places
… Colonial Defence Force. Māori prophet and military leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and his men rode horses, and in the late 1860s captured many of their enemies’ mounts. When Te …
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Part of story: Horses
… Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister, its longest-serving woman MP, and a staunch advocate in … Tirikatene-Sullivan, Tini Whetu Marama …
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… The two Bulstrode sisters were Englishwomen who came to New Zealand to take charge of Hukarere Native Girls' School in Napier after Anna Maria Williams retired in 1899. Their father, …
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… a linen draper, and his wife, Fannie Gibson. She was educated at a Quaker school and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. While volunteer nursing at the beginning of the First World War, she …
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… the mode of collective creation. It dramatised Māori protest over land rights, and a performance at Parliament in … switch Harry Dansey is thought to be the first Māori writer to have a play professionally performed and published. Te raukura: the feathers of the albatross , based on Te …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… Twenty-nine books about New Zealand were written for children in the 19th century. Most were works of … about settlers, their adventures in a new land and their interactions with Māori. Most were published overseas, mainly …
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Part of story: Children’s and young adult literature
… he lived on the family farm, Grassleas, with his four sisters and two brothers. When his father took a position as … moved to Fernbank, a house on Tinakori Road, Wellington. After 5½ years of schooling in Wellington Elsdon Best passed …
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… towards completing the district inquiries, it turned its attention to kaupapa (thematic) and contemporary claims. Alongside the changing work programme came …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated Te Whakatōhea (including those who indicated more than …
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Part of story: Te Whakatōhea
… since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated Ngāti Awa (including those who indicated more than one …
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Part of story: Ngāti Awa
… since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated Muriwhenua tribes (including those who indicated more …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… Whaling With the advent of whaling in Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the later 18th century, many Māori became involved in the … women. The end of whaling Māori continued whaling in the late 19th century, long after most of the whaling stations had …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… River The principal Bay of Plenty river. Its headwaters rise in the Ahimanawa Range, south of State Highway 5 between Taupō and Napier. From there the river finds its way across the volcanic Kāingaroa Plateau, drawing in tributaries, notably the Wheao and the …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… A rongoā reawakening From the later 20th century, there was renewed Māori interest in rongoā. This was due to several factors: the … of all aspects of Māori culture a loss of confidence in Western medicine – partly because Māori health continued to be …
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Part of story: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants
… responsibility for thermal resorts – the final step in a long withdrawal. The spas were never as profitable … World War. Retrenchment during the war and the 1920s hastened the decline, which was interrupted only by a final burst of spending in the 1930s. A …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… Harry Delamere Barter Dansey was born in Greenlane, Auckland, on 1 November … of Harry Delamere Dansey and his wife, Winifred Patience Barter. His father was a civil engineer, and is thought to have … was of Ngāti Rauhoto of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Tūhourangi of Te Arawa, with connections to Ngāti Raukawa. Harry began his …
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… was the son of Andrew Joseph Thomas Anderson and his wife, Te Rākura (Te Rākura) Niu, of the local Ngāti Kura (Ngāti Kurawhatiia) … mail by canoe on the Whanganui River. In 1892 he started working as a deck hand on the river steamers of A. …
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