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… John Lundon was a not atypical 'public man' in mid nineteenth century New Zealand, a society where political forms … with his family, arriving at Auckland on the Westminster on 1 April 1843. He started work by helping his father to farm, but soon widened his …
Type: Biography
… 18 February 1840, the eldest child of William Nation, a printer, and his wife, Mary Jenkin Howe. In 1857 the family … New Zealand. On arrival William junior began work as a printer for the Colonist newspaper, established by his father. An advocate of temperance, he helped organise a Band of Hope for …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand was named by a Dutch cartographer some time after the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman made the first recorded … then known as New Holland, and so New Zealand was named after Zeeland, the other main Netherlands province. The commonly accepted Māori name for the country is Aotearoa (‘land of the …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… In praise of the bush After the 1960s, respect for the integrity of the landscape became more widespread. The massive … of wild landscapes. The Resource Management Act 1991 stated that applications for new constructions had to consider … New landscapes – after the 1960s …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… for New Zealanders. They allow a geographically isolated nation to gain access to international events and provide a local perspective on them. … small, highly dispersed population to learn about and better understand itself. Technological limitations The …
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Part of story: Television
… Picton has an impressive setting in upper Queen Charlotte Sound, in the inlet known as Picton Harbour. The harbour … streets Many of Picton’s first streets were named after New Zealand provinces – as well as, more characteristically, for English counties. The town centre has …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… a few vaccines were available in New Zealand. People were often vaccinated in response to a disease outbreak or as part of specific … at specific ages. Initially only the combined diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine was offered. The schedule …
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Part of story: Epidemics
… After the 1840s wars Armed Police Force (APF) constables … theory for settler colonies. Colonial forces were expected to move gradually away from reacting to offences and … them. Preventive policing using minimum force was expected to come about by regular patrolling , on routes known as …
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Part of story: Police
… (1948–2011) had been headed towards a career as a school teacher. After winning the Mobil Song Quest in 1972 he studied at the Vienna Music Academy in Austria, and two years later was offered a position as principal tenor at the Vienna …
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Part of story: Classical musicians
… and mother of Palmerston North. Together, they were associated with founding or initiating most of the institutions and … George Mathew Snelson was born in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England, on 22 November 1837. He was the son of … to work for a general agent in Bedford. Several years later he emigrated to New Zealand, arriving in Wellington on …
Type: Biography
… Naming species Eighteenth-century British explorer James Cook and botanist … to New Zealand environmental features. Many of these were terms which already existed in the English language, but were often tagged with …
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Part of story: English language in New Zealand
… wife, Anne Catherine Hawker. In 1832 his father was accepted as a lay preacher with the Church Missionary Society. The family sailed from London on 21 September 1832 on the convict ship Camden to Port Jackson, New … New Zealand, arriving on 11 April 1833. Anne Wilson died at Te Papa mission station, Tauranga, on 23 November 1838, …
Type: Biography
… to visit New Zealand. Among sealers and whalers who frequented New Zealand waters in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was Captain William …
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Part of story: Scots
… to become Buddhists. What is Buddhism? Buddhists follow the teachings of the Buddha, who lived in the Indian … and rebirth and achieve nirvana (a perfectly peaceful state of mind). Parliamentary Buddhism In July 2010 a copy of the Dhammapada, a collection of traditional Buddhist teachings, was given to the New Zealand Parliament. The book …
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Part of story: Diverse religions
… sometimes helped by government grants. Streets were often little more than dirt tracks, which became dust bowls in summer and quagmires in winter. Such was the condition of Dunedin’s streets that it was nicknamed ‘Mud-edin’. Auckland’s Queen Street was bisected by the Ligar Canal (Te Wai Horotou), effectively an open …
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Part of story: Streets and lighting
… story of James Caddell, who was taken prisoner by Māori on Stewart Island in 1810 and then grew up among his captors, is … have been a lad of only 16 when he arrived off South Cape, Stewart Island, in the sealer Sydney Cove. Five sailors and … his life by throwing a cloak over him. Caddell soon adapted to the ways of his captors. Tokitoki became his wife, he …
Type: Biography
… by all in the early 1900s), hosiery, gloves and manchester (cotton sheets and towels, mostly produced in the English city of Manchester). A draper sold fabrics and sewing equipment. Silk mercers sold textiles, mainly silk. Haberdashers were specialists in …
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Part of story: Shops
… by the Native Lands Acts of 1862 and 1865 to investigate titles to Māori land. As the Māori Land Court, it is … and its functions and jurisdiction are set out in the Te Ture Whenua Maori/Maori Land Act 1993. The 1862 act … or assessors presided over by the local resident magistrate. This first act only operated in a few places, mainly …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… named the Corriedale in 1911. Large flocks were later established in North and South America and in Australia. … Murray and Board’s Vacreator Until the 1930s New Zealand butter was often tainted with unpleasant smells. Lamont Murray and Frank …
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Part of story: Inventions, patents and trademarks
… applications on their economic merit – such as the potential for new investment, technology or export markets – and on the background of the … New Zealand. A doubly special place The two names of Te Kurī-a-Pāoa or Young Nick's Head tell the story of two …
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Part of story: Land ownership