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… the public’s attention. The report found that a 32-year-old woman had as much chance of finding a male partner of the same age as an 82-year-old woman did. The findings were confirmed in a 2008 study, … people and join groups and societies. New Zealand’s first women’s movement was city-born. The women who …
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Part of story: Men and women in the city
… assisted by a strategic marriage. The high-born Ngāti Hako woman Ruawehea was married to Tamaterā, the son of … The first tribes …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… New Zealand appeared in the late 18th century, but the first home-grown novels were not published until the 1860s. … romance and interest in faraway places. 1860s The first novel published in New Zealand was Henry Butler … The following year Isabella Aylmer became the first woman to publish a novel about New Zealand. Distant h omes; …
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Part of story: Fiction
… radio programme to that time. Te reo on te radio The first bishop of Aotearoa, Frederick Bennett, broadcast a … appointed Māori announcers in the four main centres. The first, employed in 1936, was Lou Paul (Ngāti Whātua) in … (Ngāi Tahu) in Christchurch, and the pioneering Māori woman broadcaster Airini Grenell in Dunedin. First …
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Part of story: Māori radio – reo irirangi
… its content, or its time and place of performance. First New Zealand play Marcilina, o r t he m aid of … and playwright James Marriott, lays claim to being the first original play staged in New Zealand. On 11 July 1848 … Rabbits centres on the character of Maggie Blake, a lonely woman enduring an isolated existence in a shack in south …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… women inched closer to full citizenship. A trickle of ‘firsts’ marked their progress. Women won the right to stand … in 1919, and in 1933 Elizabeth McCombs became the first woman MP. In 1927 Dr Nina Muir, New Zealand’s first …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… In Māori tradition, the first woman was created from the soil of the earth mother …
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… coat of arms features a Māori warrior and a European woman facing one another on either side of a British crown … and a shield with symbols of New Zealand’s identity. The first New Zealand coat of arms was introduced in 1911, but …
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… used to describe these women include puhi (high-born, unwed woman), wahine rangatira (women of rank), kahurangi (chieftainess) and ariki tapairu (first-born in a family of note), depending on the woman. … to Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa), in Ngāti Kahungunu, first-born females of senior families were known as …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… hold on it. In 1993 Labour lost the seat to the New Zealand First party, which went on to capture all five Māori … Elizabeth McCombs and Sarah Snow, were elected to Labour’s first national executive in 1916. Women’s role in national … before 1996. First Labour women MPs The first Labour woman candidate for Parliament was Elizabeth McCombs, in …
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Part of story: Labour Party
… Austria and Germany, and was in Paris studying art when the First World War broke out. She returned to Holland, and on … worked in the civil service. Hedda had two children: the first, a daughter, died very young; her son was born in … and a niece from Holland. In December 1932 the New Zealand Woman's Weekly began; it had two owners in the first 15 …
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… and we did not expect great things from her'. As a young woman, Elizabeth was overshadowed by her talented elder … removal of women's civil and political disabilities. Her first important public role was as secretary to the … of neglected and destitute children. Elizabeth was the first president of the Young People's No License League in …
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… near the Ku-ring-gai Chase national park where, as a young woman, she explored and taught herself to rock-climb. Freda … and frustrations of family and society. Du Faur's first significant ascent was of Mt Sealy on 19 December … 1910 with Peter and Alexander (Alec) Graham , was the first by a woman and the fastest to that date. On this climb …
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… of humans from the earth. In the Hineahuone tradition, the first woman was formed from clay at Kurawaka by Tāne, a son of … and Papatūānuku. Her name, Hineahuone, means earth-formed woman. In a Northland tribal tradition, the ancestor …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… and one son, aged from 12 to three. A fiercely independent woman, she remained on her land to raise her family. She fed … granted a licence to open a hotel there in July 1914. Her first hotel was in the bush on the old Prohibition Road. In … Catholic Benevolent Society and was their first woman member in New Zealand. At her death at Waiuta on …
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… been employed, off and on, as a railway worker. As a young woman Bessie was torn between conventional ideas of a … of Australia in 1887 and was elected president. At the first national convention she was appointed editor of the … Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union , she made her first visit to New Zealand and played a key role in a …
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… 1920, she married Arthur Nattle Grigg, a farmer. The couple first lived and farmed at Longbeach, his family property … three children. Mary Grigg undertook voluntary work. She first held office in the Plunket Society, becoming president … branch of the party, in which capacity she became the first woman member of the party’s dominion executive. In 1941 Mary …
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… its treacherous tides and weather patterns. Following the first, and unsuccessful, attempts by R. G. Webster and Lily … in 1929, various people tried but failed to conquer it. The first successful crossing was made by Barrie Devenport on 20 November 1962. American Lynne Cox was the first woman to cross, on 4 February 1975. The first non-stop …
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Part of story: Open water swimming
… The golden age of guided climbing After the first ascent of Aoraki/Mt Cook in 1894, the government … New Zealand mountaineering. Other notable members of this first generation of New Zealand guides were Darby Thomson … their services. The most famous was a young Australian woman, Freda Du Faur. In only her second season of serious …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… climbed in all the world’s major ranges. The Himalayas The first New Zealander to climb in the Himalayas was Dan Bryant … Everest Expedition. In 1955, Norman Hardie was one of the first to climb Kanchenjunga. Other overseas ranges New … or in small groups. In 1988, Lydia Bradey became the first woman (in 2020 she was still the only New Zealander) to …
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Part of story: Mountaineering