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… practitioners have always been significantly under-represented in the medical workforce compared to their proportion of … been increases since the 1990s. Māori and Pacific workers tend to be concentrated in support roles like caregiving, which require fewer …
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Part of story: Health practitioners
… of New Zealand’s production workers (mainly clothing and textile workers), 21% of white-collar workers and 27% of service workers. They joined the appropriate unions. In 1969, women were well represented in trade …
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Part of story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement
… for a marae are numerous: electricity; repairs and maintenance such as painting; plumbing expenses; fuel; telephone charges; accountancy fees; advertising and stationery; bank fees; catering expenses; fire extinguishers; pillows and linen; …
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Part of story: Marae management – te whakahaere marae
… and another 100 in Christchurch. The Korean martial art of tae kwon do, developed in the 1950s, opened its first club …
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Part of story: Martial arts
… Maxwell's dedication to the preservation of the historic Te Papa mission station, at a time when few Pakeha New Zealanders realised the value of such sites, was both far-sighted and courageous. She was born on 9 October 1860 in …
Type: Biography
… 13 national parks. These parks have scenery, ecological systems or natural features which are so beautiful, distinctive or scientifically interesting that it is in the national interest to preserve them permanently. New Zealanders value …
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Part of story: National parks
… Otago Peninsula is the eastern flank of an extinct volcanic system. The highest summit, Mt Charles/Poatiri, reaches 408 metres. On the Otago Harbour side a sealed waterfront road links Taiaroa Head with Dunedin; on the remote …
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Part of story: Otago places
… continued in Jayforce (the force that served in Japan after the Second World War), with the 270-strong D Squadron of … Italy to Japan in 1946, it was made up entirely of volunteers from the 28th (Māori) Battalion. Two drafts of reinforcements recruited from volunteers in New Zealand replaced them in mid-1946 …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… The Volcanic Plateau stretches south-west from the Bay of Plenty coast to Mt … ranges, and to the west by older formations – the Mamaku Plateau and the Hauhungaroa Range. Volcanic activity Unpredictable and fascinating, the Volcanic Plateau is New Zealand’s main area of volcanic activity. In …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… Set against the backdrop of the Southern Alps, South Canterbury lies in the middle of the South Island, on the east … is halfway between Christchurch and Dunedin. A varied climate Stretching from the snow-clad pinnacle of Aoraki/Mt Cook … the region has one of the country's most variable climates. Summer temperatures quickly rise into the 20s and often …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… Before humans arrived, much of the region was forested, with some tussock grass in the lowlands and also in valleys amid forests. Snow tussock predominated above the treeline. Human impact on the plains Polynesians who arrived around 1250–1300 CE burnt extensive areas of vegetation. As a result, much forest and …
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Part of story: Southland region
… briefly as it dashes in and out of hiding. It is related to the more familiar weka, but is slimmer, and can fly. … rail has a long tapered bill and spindle-shaped body, suited to pushing through dense scrub. Its head is usually stretched forward, led by the pointed bill. Its toes are not webbed, but the bird is a good …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… Table tennis origins In table tennis, also known as ping-pong, two players or two pairs of … table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side. Table tennis began in England in the 1880s as a … Table tennis …
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Part of story: Indoor sports
… and commercial logos; sports and social club badges; corporate letterheads; calendars; gravestones; and even in the design of … mountain as Taranaki, Pukeonaki or Pukehaupapa, and venerate its peak. In tradition, Taranaki Maunga once dwelled with …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… Mt Tongariro is not a single volcano, but a complex of craters that have been active at different periods. In 1868, … earthquakes marked the eruption that formed the upper Te Maari crater, named after a Māori chieftainess. Upper Te Maari …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… the whole whānau – not just of their mother and father. The terms for mother and father – whaea and matua – are also … to mean aunt and uncle. Children were raised in, and supported by, a wider whānau that included grandparents, aunts and … as well as parents. All our children Joan Metge has written that ‘[w]hen a whānau functions as a unit, adult members …
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Part of story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting
… West Auckland’s relatively cheap housing has attracted a youthful and multicultural population. In the words of … Country’. 1 A real cracker Although Crown Lynn Potteries refined its techniques after the Second World War, one salesman was …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… Anna Maria Williams, known as Maria, was born at Waimate mission station, near Paihia, Northland, New Zealand, on 25 February 1839, the daughter of Jane Nelson and her husband, William Williams , … Maria was the sixth child in a family of nine. In late December 1839 Jane and William Williams and their family …
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… Christiana Baker and her husband, James Wilson, a brewer. After attending Southland Boys’ High School (1900–1902), he was … Invercargill dental surgeon A. E. Smith. Ivon became a registered dentist in 1909 and by 1911 had his own practice in …
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… Mako Kaimoana. At an early age he became known as Turi, after an ancestor, Turipārera. His father was one of eight … brothers was Sir James Carroll . Turi was descended from Te Kapuamātotoru and Te Whewhera through their son, Tiakiwai. Turi's parents …
Type: Biography