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… Ōtene Pāora was born, probably in the 1860s or early 1870s, … third son of Pāora Kāwharu and his wife, Rāhera Uruamo of Te Taoū, Ngā Oho and Te Uringutu hapū of Ngāti Whātua . He was baptised in … Pāora, Ōtene …
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… a contract as head ploughman on Purvis Russell's estate, Woburn, near Waipukurau, New Zealand, and the family … Bunyan in November 1860. From Wellington they sailed by cutter to Porangahau beach, before travelling by dray to Woburn. Alex Peebles had no formal schooling. He started his working life at nine as a mail runner, and at 15 was …
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… Original plants Much of Canterbury was originally covered by tall podocarp forests. Kahikatea and mataī trees flourished in fertile, damp sites, while tōtara dominated stony soils. There was beech …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… Watkins was born on 17 March 1880 in Onehunga, the daughter of Madeline (Magdaline) Rātahi Cochrane and her husband, … Watkins, a millhand. Her mother was the grand-daughter of early Hokianga settler F. E. Maning and Moengaroa of Te Hikutu, a hapū of Ngāpuhi . Her parents divorced, and …
Type: Biography
… by the public. These include streets, squares, parks, waterfronts, and public buildings such as town halls and … publicly owned but some, such as shopping malls, are privately owned. Public spaces contribute to the functioning of cities and enhance their vitality. …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… changed the law to allow Māori to stand in European electorates, and only in 1975 did Māori gain the choice to enrol … Rātana members held the Southern Māori seat from 1932, Western Māori from 1935 and Northern Māori from 1938. The … movement took credit for this and secured the Māori vote for Labour until 1996. During this time important Māori …
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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties
… Jane Ann Lewis. Little is known of his early life. He graduated from Queen's College, Belfast, in 1856, and after being ordained as a Presbyterian minister spent some time in France and Switzerland. …
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… advice of former Waikato Militia officer Captain William Steele, Thomas Russell, the Auckland financier, formed a syndicate and, in the face of vehement opposition, purchased from … acres of the Piako swamp in 1873. Russell was a partner in Te Akau run, situated north of Raglan, and there is a …
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… Violet Augusta Roche was born on 17 June 1885 in Te Awamutu, the daughter of Constance Gertrude Malcolm and her husband, Robert … prosperity. When Violet was about six they moved from Te Awamutu to Devonport. They later lived in Mount Eden and …
Type: Biography
… when whaling from shore began in New Zealand is a matter of debate. Ex-convict and sea captain John (Jacky) Guard claimed … that he began whaling (for bone, not oil) in 1827 at Te Awaiti in Tory Channel. The date is disputed and it …
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Part of story: Whaling
… William Alexander Sim achieved distinction in disparate fields of the law. He was a leading barrister in Dunedin, first full-time president of the Court of … bent. Sim was born at Wanganui, New Zealand, on 13 September 1858, to Peter Lockhart Sim, a miller, and his wife, …
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… Vocal tuition Teaching of performance singing began in New Zealand … in Wellington, and there were significant strengths at Canterbury, Otago and Waikato universities. The National … Singing and Dramatic Art (NASDA), part of Christchurch Polytechnic, was known for teaching popular vocal styles, …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… was born in Kingstone Lisle, Berkshire, England, on 8 September 1881, the daughter of Charles Collins Smith, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Ann Danse. She was educated at Hemdean House School, Caversham. In the hope of …
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… in 2013. Early growth Southland’s urban population grew steadily from the 1870s (apart from a dip in the late 1880s). This paralleled the rise of its farming economy. … the country’s regional centres. Farming boomed in the quarter-century after the Second World War, and the towns …
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Part of story: Southland region
… an Anglican priest at the age of 70. Charles was educated privately and at Otago Boys' High School. He entered his father's office to train as an accountant but …
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… Martin Gloster Sullivan was born in Auckland on 30 March 1910, the son … Connell. Both parents were from County Kerry, Ireland. After attending Auckland Grammar School, Sullivan was a probationary … Sullivan, Martin Gloster …
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… Land hunger In 1841 the New Zealand Company turned its attention to the north of the South Island, looking for sites for settlement. In October, William Wakefield led an … Cook Strait. He chose Nelson for initial settlement, attracted by its harbour. But it soon became clear that there was …
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Part of story: European exploration
… Marlborough’s wine region, Renwick is at the junction of state highways 6 (to Nelson) and 63 (the road along the Upper … 40 km. Many of the lower slopes of the range were deforested in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the 1970s they have …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… volcano Mt Ruapehu. The region's main rivers – the Manganuioteao, the Mangawhero and the Whangaehu – all have their headwaters on the mountain's slopes. Raetihi Town on the Waimarino … plain, 89 km north-east of Whanganui at the junction of State Highways 4 and 49. It was founded in 1892 on the …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… East. ‘Orientals’ were seen as exotic and sometimes threatening, but more often as passive and backward. For their part, the Japanese … tourist Visiting in 1886, the scholar Shiga Shigetaka wrote of the ‘cultural and racial oppression’ in New Zealand. …
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Part of story: Japanese