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… Company’s Wellington and Nelson settlement schemes. After three very dubious purchases (since discredited) the company acquired 1.2 million hectares on both sides of Cook Strait. Soon after, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed at three locations in …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… Council, at the suggestion of journalist and library advocate Mark Cohen, organised a conference of public libraries. … day Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA). In 1992 a group for Māori librarians called Te Rōpū Whakahau (TRW) was set up within LIANZA. TRW became …
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Part of story: Libraries
… breakdown has undermined health. Building communities and extending the protective effect of strong whānau bonds has been an important … worked with public health nurses and Māori mothers, assisted with immunisation, and discussed family planning, …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… Māori use During the first century or so after their arrival in New Zealand from Polynesia (around 1250–1300 CE), Māori extensively hunted moa as a ready source of food. Hundreds of …
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Part of story: Moa
… Africa. This was a see-saw campaign fought between two gateways, El Agheila in the west and El Alamein in the east. … Operation Crusader In November 1941 the 2nd NZ Division entered the fray in Operation Crusader, designed to relieve … the link up was made with Tobruk, and Rommel’s forces retreated. Syrian interlude The New Zealand division spent …
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Part of story: Second World War
… turn of the century, community health programmes implemented by Māori health practitioners such as Māui Pōmare and Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa) were instrumental in improving Māori …
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Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… New Zealand’s most common, and probably most widespread, protected areas. They were first created when communities wanted to retain some original …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… continued to lag far behind that of non-Māori. The first systematic study of Māori living conditions, in the 1930s, … the population were living in houses of a poor standard, often with overcrowding, polluted water supplies and unsatisfactory sanitary facilities. …
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Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… changed upon contact with Europeans. Some tribes migrated to coastal regions in order to benefit from trade. Those groups able to reap the greatest benefits came to dominate others. The musket wars of the 1820s and 1830s caused …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… is a tohunga? Priests were known as tohunga. Māori scholar Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck) suggested that the term derives from tohu, meaning to guide or …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… 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 Whanganui tribes (including those who indicated more …
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Part of story: Whanganui tribes
… 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 Tauranga Moana tribes (including those who indicated …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… been 27 sub-tribes, only six are now active. These are Ngāi Te Ao, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Pāriri, Ngāti Tamarangi, Ngāti … own the lake, and both of the active marae overlook the water. The lake was once an abundant source of food – eel, whitebait, crayfish, flounder, freshwater mussels, water birds …
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Part of story: Muaūpoko
… Trevor Chute is said to have been born at Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, on 31 July 1816, the son of Francis Chute and his wife, Mary Ann Bomford. He entered the army in … Chute, Trevor …
Type: Biography
… Cork, Ireland, and baptised there on 27 June 1837. His paternal ancestors were Huguenots who had fled to Ireland to escape persecution. Joseph attended Fermoy College, an institution noted for its liberal …
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… Marlborough: 14,534 sq km New Zealand: 268,690 sq km Climate (Blenheim) (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research data, 1981–2010) Mean …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… and his wife, Sarah Matilda Clow. Known as Willie, and later Bill, he spent his early years on the family dairy farm at Horotiu, north of Hamilton. He started at Te Kōwhai School in 1916, but in 1920 moved with his family …
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… second child and eldest son of Rina Puhipuhi Meihana and Teoti (George) MacDonald, who represented Rangitāne in the 1892 Native Land Court hearings over …
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… A distinctive aspect of New Zealand place naming is the interplay of Māori and non-Māori names. European naming … own place names as well as new names. New names were often for new features, like towns. Many features which Māori … fishing grounds, were unfamiliar to Europeans, or were obliterated in the course of settlement. Fading heroes of Empire …
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Part of story: Place names
… 28 July 1818, the first of three children of John Mason, a tea dealer, and his wife, Catharine Smart of Warwick. Both … leaving Thomas in the care of his uncles and aunts. He attended Bootham School from 1829 to 1832 and then worked in … bought a section at Taita, where, except for one short interval, the Masons lived for the rest of their lives, …
Type: Biography