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… Those with happy relationships have the highest level of wellbeing. For many older people, their spouses or partner are the most important person in their life – as a result, widowhood can be a difficult experience of older age. Children are also important and adult children can be a source of friendship, support …
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… born probably on 25 August 1815 at Newry, County Down, Ireland. His parentage is unknown. Probably educated at one of Newry's three National schools, he served a printer's … his delaying moves as 'the old family physician' to bring 'life and vigour' into 'this dying province'. Williamson's …
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… was born on 8 December 1859 at Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, the son of John Ranstead, an engine fitter, and his wife, Margaret … At the age of 13 he was apprenticed as a clerk at the Crown Life Insurance Office. After John Ranstead's death in 1881 …
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… Te Roera and Kurupō Tāreha, prominent landowners in Hawke's Bay, were sons of Tāreha Te Moananui, a principal chief of Ngāti Kahungunu. … Wolseley motor cars seen in Hawke's Bay. Throughout his life Te Roera was a highly respected elder in the Māori …
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… Efford, who played an important role in the organisation and development of the New Zealand peace movement, was born in Christchurch … New Zealand No More War Movement – with which he retained a lifelong association – and in 1930 he organised a …
Type: Biography
… Ramai Hayward was a pioneering documentary and feature film-maker. She trained as a photographer in the … film Rewi’s last stand (1940). This was the beginning of a 34-year film-making partnership with Hayward. Ramai was … unique figure in an industry dominated by Pākehā men. Early life By her own account, Ramai Rongomaitara Te Miha was born …
Type: Biography
… Beatrice Hill Tinsley was an English-born, New Zealand-educated, theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist. … evolve and interact with each other, pioneering a new field of research. As well as being a scholar who published more … teacher, mother to two children, and a violinist. Early life and education Beatrice Muriel Hill was born on 27 …
Type: Biography
… was born on 18 July 1882 at Waltham, Christchurch, the son of Florance (Flurence) Sullivan, from County Kerry, Ireland, and his wife, Mary Dow, from Dundee, Scotland. They had … Zealand Labour Party. He represented it for the rest of his life. During the early 1920s he was prominent in the largely …
Type: Biography
… Section: Creative and Intellectual Life Architecture and Design Domestic architecture Fashion … institutions Social sciences Whare wānanga – centres of learning Visual Arts Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu … and the City Economic History and Geography Business cycles Customs and tariffs Economic history Economic thought …
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… James Thorn was born in Christchurch on 1 June 1882, the son of John Thorn, a master butcher, and his wife, Jessie Alston. John Thorn had apparently … perilously across the gulf.' The last few years of Thorn's life were spent in retirement in Lower Hutt. He was …
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… was born in Mangaweka on 18 April 1909, the eldest son of Alice Chalk and her husband, Thomas Edward Skinner, a tinsmith and … to further education. An enthusiast for sport and outdoor life, Skinner enjoyed plumbing and established his own …
Type: Biography
… Mahuta Tāwhiao of Ngāti Mahuta was born at Whatiwhatihoe, Waikato, probably … He was the eldest son of Tāwhiao , the second Māori King, and his senior wife, Hera. She was the daughter of Tāmati … his handwriting remained shaky and unformed throughout his life. As an adult he was his father's heir apparent, and …
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… New Zealand’s fourth Labour prime minister, Norman Eric Kirk, was … Waimate in South Canterbury on 6 January 1923, the eldest of three children of devout Salvation Army parents Norman … his wife, Vera Janet Jury. Persistent rumours during his lifetime and since claimed that Norman Kirk had some Ngāi …
Type: Biography