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… Wiremu Hākopa Toa Te Āwhitu, the first Māori to be ordained as a Catholic … 1914. He was the third of 10 children of Tamakaitoa (Toa) Te Āwhitu and his wife, Katarina Toia Bell; Katarina also … Ngāti Hāuaroa and Ngāti Maniapoto . From his large immediate and extended families Wiremu learnt the importance of …
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… Te Wherowhero was born in Waikato towards the end of the eighteenth century. He was the eldest son of a Waikato warrior chief, Te Rauangaanga, and Parengāope of Ngāti Koura. He belonged … Te Wherowhero, Pōtatau …
Type: Biography
… Tini Pana was baptised Jane Burns at Moeraki on 27 September 1850 by the Wesleyan missionary Charles Creed; her brother, John, and sister, Margaret, were baptised with her. By 1854 Tini's mother … Waruwarutū, a man of considerable mana. Waruwarutū supported the work of the missionaries at Moeraki from 1843, and, …
Type: Biography
… Establishment Jean Baptiste Pompallier, the first Catholic bishop in New Zealand, … with other Catholic priests in 1838 and first celebrated mass at Tōtara Point in the Hokianga. As with other … local Māori converts and their descendants remained committed to their early choice of faith. In 1839 seven priests of …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… Pāoa Ngāti Pāoa descend from the ancestor Pāoa, who migrated from Ngāruawāhia on the Waikato River to Hauraki … of Ngāti Pāoa, conquered much of Tāmaki (Auckland) in separate battles. Ngāti Pāoa fought a number of campaigns against Ngāti Whātua and Te Wai-o-Hua of Tāmaki at Mahurangi and the Whau and Tāmaki …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… of a hundred lovers), referring to the desirable, fertile site at the hub of a network of waterways taking travellers north, south, east or west. For centuries different groups flourished, cohabited and displaced each other in turn. Canoes None of the …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… A regional park is a large area of open space intended for the use of town and city dwellers in a particular … managed by the Department of Conservation. They accommodate a wide range of functions, including recreation, farming, … 8,400 sheep and 950 cattle in its parks, most notably in Awhitu Regional Park, which is a working farm. Auckland …
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Part of story: City parks and green spaces
… in the 1820s and 1830s. He also had connections with Te Rarawa, Te Roroa and Ngāti Whātua. He is thought to have been born in the late eighteenth century and was descended from Ngāpuhi …
Type: Biography
… early 1840s. His father was the prominent Ngāi Tahu chief Te Mātenga Taiaroa , of Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, and his mother was Mawera of Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… James Michael Liston (registered at birth as Michael James) was born in Dunedin on 9 … of Mary Sullivan and her husband, James Liston, a hotel-keeper. His parents were both from County Clare and had … In 1944 he ordained the first Maori priest, Wiremu Te Awhitu. With the post-war drift to the city by Maori, he …
Type: Biography
… Kenneth Cumberland was the first qualified geographer to teach the subject at university level in New Zealand. He joined the new Department of Geography at Canterbury University College in 1938, and soon established himself as a prolific author. He later set up a geography department at Auckland University …
Type: Biography