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… Traditionally members of whānau (extended family) and hapū (sub-tribe) lived together while … groups linked to iwi, known as taura-here. But the internet has provided a new means for iwi interaction. Virtual marae Iwi and hapū members can connect to …
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Part of story: Mātauranga hangarau – information technology
… William Henry Terry Tucker was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 5 January … Henry Tucker, colonial storekeeper and former paymaster on the Royal Navy supply ship Buffalo. His mother died … following year, died when he was seven. William was educated at Wesley College, Auckland, and at about the age of 15 …
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… John Kinder was born on 17 September 1819 at London, England, the oldest surviving child … merchant, and his second wife, Fanny Pickworth. John's interest in art began early when he took walks near …
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… William Swainson was born at Lancaster, England, probably on 25 April 1809, the eldest son of … Swainson. His mother's name is not known. He was educated at Lancaster Grammar School, admitted to the Middle …
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… and her husband, Henry Turbott, a Pukekohe-born painter and carpenter. Harold attended Remuera School until standard five, …
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… 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 the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes (including those who …
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Part of story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes
… of Captain Thomas Abraham and his wife, Louisa Susanna Carter. Abraham's father had served in the Napoleonic wars and … age of seven Charles was sent to Dr Thomas Arnold's private school at Laleham, Surrey. He was a pupil at Eton from …
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… taught at a Church of England adult Sunday school, before entering the Church Missionary Society for training in June … in 1853. Morgan was among the first CMS missionaries to enter the Thames and Waikato regions, travelling between …
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… Bay, of Ngāti Rākaipaaka of Nūhaka and Māhia. His birth date was registered as 25 April 1905, but he later claimed he was born in 1908. His father, Peta Piripoi …
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… Bronwyn Dalley began planning the project. They hosted a workshop with academics and experts and two hui with Māori scholars. Phillips and Dalley visited every university giving presentations, soliciting ideas and talking with people who might join advisory committees or become contributors. In May 2002 the Reference Group …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… second son of Robert Browne and his wife, Sarah Dorothea Steward. The family, of Anglo-Irish origin, had settled near Aylesbury in the late eighteenth century: sons in each generation had entered …
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… Ralph Hōtere was one of New Zealand’s most important late twentieth-century artists. He began as a painter with a … Hotere, Hone Papita Raukura (Ralph) …
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… 11 km south-west of Palmerston North. Linton was named after Palmerston North early settler and mayor James Linton, … in 1985 when the permanent force at Singapore was relocated there. More units have transferred from Auckland and Waiōuru. An adjacent prison, first for youths and later for adults, opened in 1971. In 2013 the military camp …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… As land was sold and confiscated, Māori moved en masse into a labouring class. In the … anthropologist Ernest Beaglehole observed, ‘there is a tendency to rank most Maori in a group equivalent in status to that of the lowest-class White group’. 1 This type of identification altered as Māori …
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Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… but Chaseland is the form which occurs most commonly in contemporary records of him. Chaseland himself was illiterate. His father was an English settler and his mother an …
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… Frederick Earp was born on 27 October 1841 at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, the youngest child of Edward Earp, a … died when he was young, and he was brought up by his sister, Matilda Jane. At the age of nine Fred Earp left school …
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… Northland: 12,600 sq km New Zealand: 268,690 sq km Climate (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) data, 1981–2010) Kaitāia …
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Part of story: Northland region
… Island Māori. From this period the government showed less interest in buying remaining Māori land, and more concern that impoverished Māori should not be a burden on the state. The Native Land Court moved away from its role as a ‘land-taking court’, and instead made greater efforts to help Māori develop their …
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Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… Māori fishing In spring, Māori caught whitebait moving upstream, using nets and groynes formed in the … kōkopu in scoop nets and traps. Īnanga were taken from Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) in nets made from stripped flax. … by fishermen on shore, the other by those in a waka. Whitebait were also netted by hand using a single mānuka pole, …
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Part of story: Whitebait and whitebaiting
… to Ōtaki. It is named for Kāpiti Island, which dominates Wellington’s west coast. The terrain consists of alluvial debris and windblown silt, … once covered with a mixture of dense coastal forest and extensive wetlands, but much of this was cleared in the 19th …
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Part of story: Wellington places