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… as well. Employment and education Urban centres offered better paid jobs, although in the main, the first wave of arrivals were poorly educated and took up unskilled manual work. Such jobs would … and the city municipal works. Others went into the teaching services, and into government departments, …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… Samuel Ironside is said to have been born on 9 September 1814 at Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, and was … had been successively clerk, collector of debts, real estate agent and accountant. Samuel was educated at the …
Type: Biography
… Waikato region consists of valleys and coastal lands separated by ranges. The Thames valley is divided from the Waikato … Hapūakohe and Hūnua ranges. Another greywacke range separates the Waikato basin from the west coast. The Hakarimata and Taupiri ranges create a boundary between the middle and lower reaches of the …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… main trunk The South Island’s main trunk line was completed in the late 1870s. Christchurch was connected to Timaru in 1876 and to Dunedin two years later, …
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Part of story: Railways
… From the late 19th century, Pākehā included Māori traditions, customs … Rotorua. From the 1900s, Māori carving became accepted as a symbol of New Zealand. Important foreign visitors … strengthened Māori demands for more equal treatment by state agencies. From the late 1960s Māori activists such as the …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… important cultural go-betweens. They were usually better educated or more highly trained than Pākehā–Māori and, unlike … respect of both peoples. They were usually the first schoolteachers in Māori communities, teaching adults as well as …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… in New Zealand, as elsewhere. However, many of the stereotypes which had been legitimised by racial theory … them, pungently expressed in this song by Tuini Ngāwai: Te mātauranga o te Pākehā He mea whakatō hei tinanatanga Mō … Modern racial stereotypes …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… of William Moore and his wife, Ruth Twigg, who had emigrated from Australia around 1868. William was a miner, later a mining engineer, and George also trained as a mining engineer on leaving school. After the Salvation Army arrived in Brunnerton in August 1890, …
Type: Biography
… theatre and Māori marae-based theatre. Rawiri Paratene and Rangimoana Taylor were among the early graduates of the New Zealand Drama School in the 1970s. Māori …
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Part of story: Actors and acting
… other jobs done by men. Pay equity in the 1980s From the late 1970s, the pay gap between men and women stalled at just … of jobs done by women with jobs done by men. It had the potential to resolve the historic undervaluing of work …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… Land reserves such as national parks have been accepted in New Zealand for well over 100 years. But it was not … – areas from which no harvest is allowed. Marine reserves After many years of lobbying by scientists and divers, New Zealand’s first marine reserve was created in 1975. Formerly known as the Leigh Marine Reserve …
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Part of story: Marine conservation
… Elite leadership At first, race meetings were organised by committees. In the main centres, committee members were mostly community leaders, with sufficient …
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Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… a Māori cultural centre As a major destination for early international tourism, Rotorua provided a good environment … on a commercial basis. Concert parties were set up and a Te Arawa group led by tourist guide Mākereti Papakura performed in England in 1911. Rotorua was also a site for early film-making, with Te Arawa Māori playing many …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life
… Kilmihil district of County Clare, Ireland, the fifth of ten children of Mary Sharkey and her husband, John Reidy, a … living with her nine brothers on a 73-acre dairy farm and attending the local elementary school. Her parents had met and … married on the West Coast of New Zealand, and in 1896, after the death of her mother, her father sold the lease of …
Type: Biography
… Sense of injustice In the 1970s a wave of protest actions such as the Māori land march in 1975 and the … of Bastion Point and Raglan golf course drew public attention to the Māori people’s sense of injustice. From 1980 annual protests on Waitangi Day impelled successive governments to …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… to Australia that same year. With Māori excluded from the team sent to play the Springboks, the New Zealand Maoris … Ron Bryers, Brownie Cherrington, Ben Couch, Tori Reid and Peter Smith. With such skilled players, the team drew the series against Australia, with one win each …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… with the passing of the Electoral Act 1993. They were an integral part of the new mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system, first used in the 1996 election. Suddenly, any political party that won at least 5% of the vote or an electorate seat was represented in Parliament. …
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Part of story: Political parties
… in the family home. At the age of 16 Smyth left the isolated settlement of Pungaere to attend St Stephen's Native Boys’ School, then in Parnell, Auckland. He …
Type: Biography
… as chief in the area and today his descendants are known as Te Aitanga a Hauiti (the descendants of Hauiti). Cook’s … Cook and the crew of the Endeavour took on board fresh water, cut wood, fish and kūmara (sweet potato) during their …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… was little concern for the effects of widespread changes. Attempts to save forests Concerns were being expressed in the … dwindling of native bird populations. In October 1868, Canterbury MP Thomas Potts made what was probably the first …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history