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… years. At the same time she was establishing herself as the first woman doctor in private practice in Wellington. Tall and … boons conferred on the children of Wellington'. She was the first president of the Plunket Society in Wellington, and …
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… Michael Edward Rogers, an Anglican clergyman. Emily's first 24 or so years were spent in various manors and … on a farm adjoining Kaiteriteri beach. Here Emily made her first New Zealand garden, of necessity a mainly utilitarian … from around New Zealand and overseas. A consummate plantswoman and discerning gardener, Emily White came across …
Type: Biography
… an Irish heritage such as Pat Hickey or Micky Savage, the first Labour prime minister (1935–40), played a significant … (sometimes spelt 'sheelah' or 'sheeler'), meaning a woman, or more usually a girlfriend, has an Irish origin. The term comes from the common Irish first name Sheila (in Gaelic spelt Síle). Revived Irish …
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Part of story: Irish
… New Zealand government, and the British Empire. When the First World War broke out, Catholics volunteered in lower … even calling Queen Victoria ‘a certain fat old German woman’. 1 Political tensions Moderate Irish Catholics began … and seminarians could be called up for service in the First World War. Instead of being rewarded for their loyalty …
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Part of story: Irish
… Mary Elizabeth Grenside Hewett, the first principal of Napier Girls' High School, was born on 24 … educated primarily to become enlightened homemakers. At first the school curriculum consisted of subjects considered … other schools soon followed. Mary Hewett was an attractive woman. She was dark, slender and always immaculately …
Type: Biography
… to England in 1806 with a Māori named Moehanga, the first New Zealander to visit England. He observed: ‘The … to the whānau, hapū or tribe. In other cases a young man or woman might first talk to his or her kaumātua of their desire to marry …
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Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… grew in popularity in the 20th century. Rugby Matches were first played in the 1870s, and Whangārei Rugby Club was set … by 1885. Local miners gave the game fresh impetus, and the first rugby union was formed in Whangārei in 1895. Called … to 1985, is considered to have been New Zealand’s finest woman hockey player. She was raised at Maungakaramea, near …
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Part of story: Northland region
… and Te Arawa canoes conducted similar rites when they first arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia. After a while, … a small grove at Waihīhī. When the Tainui arrived there, a woman named Mārama went ashore with an entourage and planted … Tukumana Te Taniwha, a local Ngāti Whanaunga elder of the first half of the 20th century, the grove survived until the …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… the importance of cleanliness and fresh air, and as a woman of prayer she invariably prayed with them. Her short, … Brighton for men in the early stages of tuberculosis. The first such sanatorium had been opened near Cambridge in … of patients leaving hospital and offered her rooms as a first aid centre for nearby factories. Nurse Maude …
Type: Biography
… taste and age, guide its length, colour and style. How a woman wears her hair reveals much about the society in which … again with the ‘big hair’ look of the 1980s. The ‘new woman’ As more women took up work outside the home, hairstyles became less intricate and shorter. The First World War hastened this process, and in the 1920s many …
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Part of story: Personal grooming
… from the 1840s. Decimus Dolamore became New Zealand’s first Baptist minister in 1851 when he arrived in Nelson, … graduated with a BA in mathematics and Latin in 1877, the first New Zealand woman to gain a university degree. In 1890 she married Welsh …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… the marriage. In August 1850, soon after the birth of their first son, Frances and Thomas left England on the Sir Edward … New Zealand themes. One poem, 'The ordination of ROTA, the first Maori deacon, St Paul's Church, Auckland, Trinity … families. Frances Shayle George was an articulate spokeswoman for the cause of girls' education. She wrote letters …
Type: Biography
… ideas of their time. At the age of 15 Cybele helped a woman take her drunken husband home, and from that day she … Cybele Kirk entered primary school teaching, working at first in country schools and later in private and … for women to serve on juries. In 1926 Kirk was one of the first four Wellington women to be appointed justice of the …
Type: Biography
… Board for a number of years. In 1950 she became the first woman elected to the Dunedin City Council, on which she was … to pursue a successful public career in Dunedin. The first woman trustee of a savings bank in New Zealand (1960), …
Type: Biography
… churchwomen formed welfare groups, and deaconesses, at first trained overseas and then locally, often cared for … Associated Churches of Christ, between 1951 and 1977. The first woman to be ordained as a minister in the Methodist Church …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… her training was interrupted by ill health. During the First World War she was sister in charge of the wards given … it was the custom of the river Māori not to allow a woman to speak on the marae or, in those days, to preach in … Smith started a play group for local Māori children – the first of its kind in the country and a forerunner of play …
Type: Biography
… put to the test the following year with the outbreak of the First World War. As president of the Otago and Southland … exemplified her closely held personal belief that a 'woman's real social value lies in her power of sympathy and … focused on his parliamentary career and his well-being. At first Mary Stewart was concerned that her status as a …
Type: Biography
… her prize being a silver teapot. She was probably the first woman in New Zealand to win a trophy in a driving … During the influenza epidemic at the end of the First World War she worked in soup kitchens and every night …
Type: Biography
… when she was only 12 years old. It is more likely that she first arrived in New Zealand three years later as a … 1820s he set up what was long thought to be New Zealand's first shore whaling station at Te Awaiti, Tory Channel. Te … became Betty's new home. She was reputedly the first woman of European descent to settle in the South Island. On …
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… protesters, who felt it denigrated the Treaty of Waitangi. First protests In 1971 activist group Ngā Tamatoa organised the first protest at Waitangi on Waitangi Day – something that … the 150th anniversary of the treaty, a young Māori woman threw a T-shirt at Queen Elizabeth II. Almost as …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements