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… When drought struck in Queensland there was, for the first time, significant migration from that state to New … go, rather than settle. But Charles Stephen Boreham, who first came in 1884, eventually stayed and became prominent … or capitalists to exploit workers. Cultural influences A woman mountaineer Mountain-starved Australian climbers have …
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Part of story: Australians
… training course in 1894 and her pupils often took first place in dominion examinations. On 1 November 1895 … Isabella Fraser believed that nursing was 'essentially a woman's work' and that 'To be a successful nurse Head & … British Red Cross Society, giving home service during the First World War. Isabella Fraser never married. She died in …
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… well-dressed, she was an accomplished public speaker and ‘a woman with a fine sense of values, a lively mind, wit and … experience, including service from 1938 to 1946 as the first woman on the Council of the University of Otago. For … Freshly remembered (1973). Also in 1973, she won first prize in the Otago Daily Times ’s historical essay …
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… and clearly adored her father. She wrote vividly of her first 24 years in an unpublished autobiography, 'Life's … into society in 1882. An intelligent and articulate young woman, she revelled in music and reading and excelled at … Lodge Private School, and while principal there passed her first law exams. She transferred to the University of Otago …
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… had to apply to the English courts. In 1867 New Zealand’s first divorce law, the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, … rape or extreme cruelty. Rotten marriages Whether 'the woman suffered from being associated with an unjust and … couples. Leaving a marriage was easier for a man than a woman. Men were paid more, so could support themselves. …
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Part of story: Divorce and separation
… by Ryan’s argument that Flora MacKenzie was a lonely woman who liked company and gave young women a good roof … She has been described as ‘a flamboyant, happy-go-lucky woman … who did not care a damn about what the so-called … sent to attend the incident. This was the occasion of the first of many meetings with Flora MacKenzie, which became …
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… Swiss scientist, H. B. de Saussure, offered a prize for the first ascent, which was made in 1786. The late 18th- and … emerged. Edward Whymper, who was in the party that made the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, was a modern … Taranaki in 1855 was the first notable climb by a European woman. In November 1849, Lieutenant-Governor Edward Eyre …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… committee for nearly 50 years – the longest-serving woman. For close to 20 years she worked full time for the … attended an Asian Pacific peace conference in China, the first of several trips to that country. She also visited the … her husband, Ted, had died in 1986. Described as a ‘woman of principles’ and a ‘ceaseless lifetime battler’, she …
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… weeks. Widespread damage The Edgecumbe earthquake was the first since the 1968 Īnangahua quake to cause major damage. … but several dozen people suffered serious injuries. One woman was hurt by a falling piano in her home, and another … some sections were marked just by zones of cracks. A woman who had been picking fruit was thrown from a ladder by …
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Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… Baker's children's column was highly successful; as the first 'Dot' (who became an institution outlasting the Otago … innovative. Instead of the 'common scissors-and-paste-woman-page affair' despised by the writer Jane Mander , it …
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… the secretary of Oxford’s anthropology committee, was the first extensive anthropological work by a Māori scholar. It … gained a PhD from Edinburgh University, becoming the first Māori to receive a doctorate overseas. Winiata wrote … early Māori academics Ngāpare Hopa was the first Māori woman to graduate from the University of Oxford with a …
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… Library at a salary of £100 a year. In 1918 she became the first librarian of Auckland University College at a salary … and Auckland University College library became the first fully catalogued and classified university library in … been an extremely able librarian, but suffered for being a woman in what was then considered to be a man's job, and her …
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… humanity needed both to become complete. Joan espoused a woman’s right to sexual pleasure within marriage and … about sexuality. In 1948 Joan Cochran attended the first conference of the World Council of Churches, held at … This established a fairly liberal standard: in the first year it judged James Baldwin’s Another country and …
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… Union . She played an important part in parish affairs, first at Hampden and after 1879 at Winton in Southland, and … practice in Invercargill, and is thought to have been the first woman doctor in Southland. On 10 January 1908 at …
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… and her father's prominence as a lawyer, a member of the first Stafford ministry and finally a Supreme Court judge … founded the free kindergarten movement in Wellington. The first of the Richmond Kindergarten Schools, named after Mary … She was parents' representative (1906–16) and the first woman on the Wellington College and Girls' High School board …
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… her initials so readers would not know the writer was a woman. Her articles were comprehensive guides to all aspects … She also published three books on poultry-keeping; the first, Profitable poultry keeping in New Zealand , ran to … a practice based on her research at Massey. Stewart was the first woman member of a primary producer board, serving as …
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… of North Wales, Bangor, from 1912 to 1916, and became the first woman in the United Kingdom to complete a BSc in forestry. … Kingdom. She was made a forestry assistant in 1923, the first, and for many years the only, woman appointed to a …
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… Hospital, Dublin, gaining her LM in 1911. During the First World War she practised medicine in England and … children and practised obstetrics: she was reputedly the first in Auckland to use 'twilight sleep' for painless … coalition survivors, Reform and United. She was first chairwoman of the Auckland women's section of the party and …
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… Howell established a whaling station there. He took a Māori woman of high rank as his wife and thereby acquired a lot of … the Riverton heritage centre, opened in 2007. Riverton firsts As Southland’s oldest Pākehā settlement, Riverton/Aparima won a number of firsts for Southland province: the first school was opened …
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Part of story: Southland places
… Fiona Kidman’s A b reed of w omen (1979), about a young woman rebelling against small-town conventions, was a … New Zealand fiction in various ways. C. K. Stead Stead’s first novel, Smith’s d ream (1971), became a cult classic. A … four more collections of stories over the next decade. His first novel, Miracle (1976), was a satire, followed by the …
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Part of story: Fiction