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… early in the nineteenth century. Her mother was Waitohi , of Ngāti Toa and Ngāti Raukawa, and her father Te Rākaherea. … On 14 May 1840 Te Rangitopeora signed a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi, taken to Kapiti by Henry Williams . She was one of …
Type: Biography
… declined more quickly from the mid-1960s. The proportion of the population who were Anglicans, Presbyterians or … were also active in educational efforts to support the Treaty of Waitangi. Christian political parties The conservative …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… emphasised. At others, the education and skills development of offenders, combined with family support, has been preferred. 19th century The Treaty of Waitangi brought English criminal law to New Zealand. Māori … Treatment of young offenders, 1840 to 1980s …
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Part of story: Youth offenders
… Heke Pōkai was born at Pākaraka, near the Bay of Islands, probably after the death of his mother's brother … district extending from Kaikohe to Waimate North, Pākaraka, Waitangi, Paihia and Rāwhiti. As one belonging to a senior … to the assembled chiefs the document since known as the Treaty of Waitangi. There were two versions, one in Māori …
Type: Biography
… Patuone was the eldest son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngāti Hao of Hokianga, and … enabled him to be present in February at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. He had been baptised on 26 January by Henry …
Type: Biography
… Jack Kent Hunn, the eldest of three children, was born on 24 August 1906 in Masterton … review of organisation and staffing at the South East Asian Treaty Organisation secretariat general in Bangkok. With … its time, and contained little reference to the Treaty of Waitangi. During his brief term Hunn made strenuous efforts …
Type: Biography
… Ireland, probably on 5 July in 1811 or 1812, the eldest son of moderately wealthy, Protestant, Anglo-Irish parents. His … government was ambivalent at first. He spoke against the Treaty of Waitangi when Lieutenant Governor William Hobson brought it …
Type: Biography
… Taiaroa, the son of Kōrako and Wharerauaruhe, belonged to Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki … Although the name of Taiaroa appears on the copy of the Treaty of Waitangi taken to the Otago region in June 1840, he did not …
Type: Biography
… Moetara was a leader of Ngāti Korokoro at Hokianga during the period of European … and Māori. On 20 March 1834 he attended a meeting at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands, called by the newly … adopted the name Rangatira Moetara by which he signed the Treaty of Waitangi. …
Type: Biography
… who were eventually born into that bright colonial future often loathed it. The commonest storyline in New Zealand … 1930s to 1950s. The centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi provided the occasion for a series of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction
… Kihikihi, Waikato. His father, John Gage (Hōne Keeti), was of Ngāti Maniapoto. His mother, Rea Waitāuhi Nikorima of Te … East Coast leader and secretary of the Kotahitanga of the Treaty of Waitangi movement, which aimed at uniting Māori under God …
Type: Biography
… the population to have been 70,000 to 90,000 when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840. It is likely that the Māori …
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Part of story: Population change
… and art galleries were constructed that became focal points of regional and national identity and culture, including: … are signs that some iwi, after the settlement of their Treaty of Waitangi claims, would like to take their taonga out of …
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Part of story: Museums
… on 23 February 1906 at Tuahiwi, a Māori settlement north of Kaiapoi, the eldest of 12 children of Weretā Tainui … Māori, and to promote his movement and his petition on the Treaty of Waitangi. Pītama was one of the speakers who welcomed …
Type: Biography
… Kereopa Te Rau was one of the five original disciples of Te Ua Haumēne , the … In 2014 a statutory pardon for Kereopa Te Rau was part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement between the Crown and Ngāti Rangiwewehi. …
Type: Biography
… in or about 1850, just two years after the Crown purchase of Canterbury from Ngāi Tahu , and within months of the … ship and travelled extensively. As John Love he signed the Treaty of Waitangi at Akaroa in 1840, and he was also a signatory to …
Type: Biography
… Tūpaea of Te Whānau-a-Tauwhao hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi was born … to make peace with Te Arawa. Tūpaea did not sign the Treaty of Waitangi when it was presented to him in April and again in …
Type: Biography
… Number of visitors The number of people using Te Ara has increased … New Year’, ’Geothermal energy’, ‘Historic earthquakes’, ‘Treaty of Waitangi’, ‘Spiders and other arachnids’ and ‘Sandflies and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… te Tonga (D’Urville Island) Large island in the north-west of the Marlborough Sounds. At 163 sq km, it is just over … Missionary Henry Williams gained 13 signatures to the Treaty of Waitangi on the island on 11 May 1840. European settlers …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana was the founder of a Māori religious movement which, in the late 1920s, also … journey to Britain he would take both the Bible and the Treaty of Waitangi, symbolic of the spiritual and political sides of …
Type: Biography