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… Italian artist Girolamo Nerli, another 1890s arrival, fostered the talent of artists Frances Hodgkins and Grace Joel … (1876). The music was composed by John Joseph Woods, a teacher from Lawrence. Visual arts A later generation of artists featured the landforms and …
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Part of story: Otago region
… Seasons The four seasons were hōtoke (winter), kōanga (spring), raumati (summer) and ngahuru … was divided into lunar months. The new year began in winter in the month of Pipiri (May–June), signalled by the … a particular pre-dawn star. The timing of activities was determined by the nights of the moon, each of which had a …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… on 20 January 1819, the son of John Chambers, framework knitter, and his wife, Hannah Borebank. Raised in a Quaker household, John Chambers attended the Society of Friends' school at Ackworth, … Dry Creek, near Adelaide; they had five sons and three daughters between 1849 and 1862. They later moved to Victoria, …
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… Women were hampered in their attempts to get legal remedies for family violence. Winning the vote in 1893 gave them a say at the polling booth, but for …
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Part of story: Family violence
… From the beginning of European settlement, waterfalls were known mainly as places of beauty. But a few … Hydroelectricity At the end of the 19th century the potential for hydroelectricity was apparent. Because … Europeans and waterfalls …
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Part of story: Waterfalls
… but his father served as a senior artillery officer at Waterloo, and in 1806 had published a volume of aquatints of … North Riding) Regiment of Foot on 20 March 1828 and a lieutenant's commission on 28 October 1831; from 1830 until 1837 …
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… Whatu weaving Māori did not use weaving technology such as looms and spinning wheels. Instead, weavers developed a system of finger weaving that produced elaborate and beautiful …
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Part of story: Māori weaving and tukutuku – te raranga me te whatu
… Piopio Rural service township on State Highway 3, 24 kilometres south-west of Te Kūiti, with a 2013 population of 396. Piopio was laid out around 1902 and served a dairy-farming hinterland. Piopio School opened in 1909. In the early 1920s …
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Part of story: King Country places
… Gisborne. Her mother, Mere Hape, was of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki descent, from Manutūkē, near Gisborne. … Her father, James Woodbine Johnson, a Cambridge graduate, had emigrated with his brother, George Randall Johnson, to Poverty Bay …
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… Tarāwhai Within one hapū in particular, Ngāti Tarāwhai of Te Arawa, the art of whakairo continued to thrive after the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand. As they were … of the government, Ngāti Tarāwhai’s lands were not confiscated, and they maintained a strong and unbroken line of …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… 145 km from Gisborne, 20 km from Ruatōria, and 24 km from Te Araroa. From Te Araroa State Highway 35 climbs over hills to the Maraehara River …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… Waimate plain The Waimate plain, north-west of Hāwera on the southern ring plain, … Waimate plain …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… Writing A number of awards are available. The BNZ Young Writer Award is an annual prize for secondary-school students. … Competition. The biennial Pikihuia Awards for Māori Writers include a secondary-schools category for short stories …
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Part of story: Young people and the arts
… 1823 at Wraysbury, near Windsor, England. She was the daughter of Robert Style, a farmer, and his second wife, … March 1849 at St Lawrence's Church, Southampton. Shortly after her marriage, on 1 May 1849, Sarah and her husband …
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… arrival of Samuel Marsden in 1814, the country became a site for the propagation by missionaries of the Christian … next 200 years. New Zealand has not been a significant site of new Christian ideas, with the exception of some new … religion and the occasional lone theologian like the late-20th-century radical thinker Lloyd Geering. The beauty of …
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Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… was established in 1975 against the backdrop of the protest movement of the 1970s and following decades of calls … original jurisdiction allowed it to focus only on contemporary issues, and its early inquiries were modest. …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… area Nelson: 10,231 sq km New Zealand: 268,690 sq km Climate (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research data, 1981–2010) Nelson …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… the widest point. 274 km above sea level, it has an estimated maximum depth of 311 m. The lake is protected by the Lake Wanaka Preservation Act 1973, which …
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Part of story: Otago places
… East Coast made observations about what sports Māori were interested in: ‘We have seen Māori are keen on athletics … particularly racing and jumping, [rugby] football, tennis and golf. Cricket is the game which has not yet …
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Part of story: Māori and sport – hākinakina
… the Mormon message The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, … Pāora the prophet At a large hui in March 1881 at Te Ore Ore marae near Masterton, the prophet Pāora Te Pōtangaroa predicted that a new …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations