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… end of the Second World War , New Zealand experienced the first stage of the baby boom – high rates of early marriage … had been high before the war (averaging six births per woman) and remained high until the 1960s, when family size … levels than even the US and Australia – 4.1 births per woman in 1960. Most Pākehā women not only married at a young …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… Youthful marriage and high fertility The impact of a woman’s age at marriage on the number of children she had is … another six children. Fertility The rate of births per woman among settlers between 1840 and 1880 was among the … This was largely because they married earlier and had their first children at a younger age. Fertility rates dropped …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… quickly began to revive the union’s fortunes. During her first four months in charge she travelled 2,175 miles and … bun topped with a fashionable hat. She was a tall, imposing woman, capable of holding her own in the aggressive, … as president; at the time, she was said to be the only woman president of a trade union in New Zealand. De Lany’s …
Type: Biography
… could do nothing but cry. 2 After a month at sea in 1869, a woman migrant took out ‘likenesses’ of her family, read their letters, and had a good cry. 3 But in 1858 a woman who felt inclined to join other women crying, asked … would be on deck before daybreak to watch for the first sign of their new home. Vessels that arrived carrying …
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Part of story: The voyage out
… took refuge for several months at Mokoia Island. Their first son was born there, and Hine-i-tūrama named him … After the capture of Te Tumu by Te Arawa in May, a captive woman was brought to Hine-i-tūrama at Mokoia for her to kill … of the British soldiers, but when he turned to help another woman she was killed. Her daughter Ewa also died in the …
Type: Biography
… Hetty attended Wellington Girls' College from 1914. The First World War years were difficult: a German name was not … She was the principal author of the 1927 party programme Woman's road to freedom in which she advocated equal pay and … no children. In the 1930s Hetty Weitzel helped edit Working Woman and its successor, Woman To-day. However, several new …
Type: Biography
… Māori writing. In 1972 he published Pounamu, p ounamu, the first book of short stories by a Māori writer. Ihimaera … critical and popular acclaim. Waiariki (1975) was the first story collection by a Māori woman writer. Potiki (1986) won the New Zealand Book Award …
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Part of story: Fiction
… of about 2500 competitors. Ironman World Championships The first Hawaiian Ironman, a 225-kilometre circuit around the … Island (the Big Island) in 1981. Murray Hills was the first New Zealander to compete, in 1981. Cameron Brown won … the only other medal-winning performances by a New Zealand woman. Joanne Lawn won Ironman New Zealand seven times, from …
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Part of story: Triathlon and multisport
… issues, political representation and welfare work. The first arose out of her family activities as a working-class … schoolboys. Although two of Snow's sons enlisted during the First World War, she joined the Women's Anti-Conscription … she served from 1918 to 1924, and she became the first woman member of the Wellington School Committees' …
Type: Biography
… on 1YA, which gave her a national audience for the first time. The programme included the domestically-focused … have children so they could concentrate on their careers. Woman’s Weekly columnist In 1964 Raymond left Feminine … reform, particularly where they affect women’. 4 Raymond’s first column canvassed the subject of ‘mixed marriages’ …
Type: Biography
… up in March 1886 with an English cousin, C. D. Fox, in the first attempt on Mt Cook by a New Zealander. The pair … Mannering made a number of successful climbs, including the first crossing of the Ball Pass and exploration of the … Mildred for some years Mannering married a much younger woman, Dorothy Margaret Samuel, at Christchurch on 19 …
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… Her salary of about £70 (raised to £80 at the end of her first year's work) was provided by the deacons' court from … to a degree', Sister Mary, with Sister Evelyn McAdam of First Church, soon began to urge a more vigorous … and encouragement. She was an attractive, warm and generous woman, whose strong personality and sensible attitudes …
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… the people of the Māhia Peninsula. She was ariki tapairu (a woman of very high rank), descended from both Ruawharo, the … and in Te Papa Creek at Māhia. Ruawharo established the first house of learning, Ngāheru-mai-tawhiti, at Waikawa … the spiritual centre of the entire East Coast. Ruawharo’s first pā was Wahatoa, above Ōraka. His second pā, …
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Part of story: Ngāti Rongomaiwahine
… local branch of the Plunket Society in 1908. She was the first secretary of the branch in 1908–9 and served again in … for a number of years in the 1920s and 1930s. When the first Plunket nurse, Joanna MacKinnon, promoted the … had amalgamated with Wellington, she became the first woman to be elected to the Wellington City Council. An …
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… scholarship; she attended Canterbury College and passed the first part of her BA in 1882. For a short period she was … the vote Wells realised that this victory was merely the first in a long battle to achieve equality for women. While … 1917 she stood as a Labour candidate and became the first woman to be elected to the Christchurch City Council; this …
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… dead girl by the Kōtukutuku. Keita Horowai died as a young woman; it was believed that the two elder sisters were the … as Stirling Castle, and there she soon produced a son, the first of 10 children. He was named Taikorekore for a senior … in seasonal rituals and activities. She was entitled to a first share of the fish called moki caught each season at …
Type: Biography
… skills at art classes at Auckland City Art Gallery. Her first public exhibition came in 1959, at 16, in a one-woman show at the John Court Ltd department store in … was drawn together in a retrospective exhibition for the first time in 2023. She always recognised and delighted in …
Type: Biography
… expressed through participation in the Caledonian games, first held in 1871. Caledonian gatherings (Caledonia is the … identity in the south from the 1860s. New Zealand’s first Caledonian society was formed in 1862. Scottish, … visited Dunedin in 1954, she was welcomed in Gaelic by a woman from Skye. Poetry, sports and knitting A love of …
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Part of story: Scots
… modelled it on the Alpine Club of England, where climbing first developed as a gentleman’s amateur pursuit. The New … Zealand climbers were middle-class professionals, but the first three men to climb Aoraki/Mt Cook were working-class. … and Mick Bowie. In the 1940s Junee Ashurst became the first woman to make her mark as a guide. After the Mount Cook …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… Ranginui and Papatūānuku The first parents in Māori tradition were the atua (gods) … their parents – which in one tradition was considered the first sin. Tāne and Hineahuone In Māori tradition humans are … Tāne, a son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, shaped the first woman, Hineahuone, from clay and gave her life. Tāne then …
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Part of story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting