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… and turning it into a glamorous annual event. He staged his first show in 1960 and held the Miss New Zealand franchise … country’s major annual events. Regional contests were held first and the winners toured the country for three months … degrading and sexist because they were primarily based on a woman’s looks and body shape, and they dismissed suggestions …
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Part of story: Beauty contests
… the birth Kahungunu’s wife Ruareretai was a high-born woman of Tūranga. Just before she gave birth to their … this Kahungunu decided to head south, leaving behind his first wife Hinetapu and their children, Tamateaiti, Haruatai … Māori history. Later, in his old age, Kahungunu married a woman of high rank, Pou Wharekura, who was captured at …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… the welfare of women and children. She thus became the first woman to represent New Zealand at the League of Nations. She … on 2 June 1947. She was a formidable and tenacious woman whose ability as a teacher and political activist …
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… Stanhope Andrews, to train O’Brien as a director. Her first film was an exhibition loop in 1947, which explored … (1965). For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand. A Weekly News reporter … housed in the studios of the National Film Unit’. A slim woman with reddish hair, she was said to be ‘serious and …
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… 1 Hineahuone Another story holds that the creation of the first human took place in Hawaiki. Here is the account of … and Tāne-great-of-the-heavens desired that he should have a woman. Earth said to him, ‘Go to Hine-tua-oni, there to …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… tangata’ (give it life). This egg then produced the first tuatara. In some stories, lizards originate from the … lizards. Another ngārara, Te Whakaruaki, forcibly took a woman as his bride. Her family trapped and burnt him inside …
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Part of story: Ngārara – reptiles
… later the couple settled in Wanganui, New Zealand, and the first of their four daughters, Lena, was born. From about … an unqualified mistake to admit participation of men at the first meeting of the council 'as it proved an opportunity … itself to executive meetings only, was part of the six-woman deputation to Seddon on women's 'disabilities'. At the …
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… wife, Elizabeth Friars, had arrived in Auckland with their first five children on the Helenslee in December 1864. The … School, where in 1889 she began her teaching career, first as a pupil-teacher and then as an assistant. Her … Described by her nephew as a 'strong and handsome woman…with a proud (almost imperious) upright bearing,' she …
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… and Pacific health providers. Medical practitioners The first Māori medical doctor was Māui Pōmare, who graduated … during a conference there in 1897. Multi-tasking The first Māori woman doctor was Rina Ropiha, who graduated in 1948. She …
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Part of story: Health practitioners
… this wage was enshrined in 1935 labour legislation of the first Labour government. The Labour government’s Social … Family allowances and support for deserted wives After the First World War the government strengthened direct financial … by the first Labour government in 1936. However, a woman had to take proceedings out against her husband to …
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Part of story: Family welfare
… New Zealand's first Plunket nurse, Joanna MacKinnon was born in … Dunedin to extend the influence of his scheme. During the first months of her work Joanna MacKinnon responded to many … her bicycle'. Regarded by King as a 'bright, winsome young woman' and a highly capable and receptive nurse, MacKinnon …
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… team toured Australia. The national women’s team first visited Australia in 1979 and then hosted Australia in … and Thailand to claim an international trophy at the first attempt. In the 1980s the national team finished … the president of New Zealand Football in 2019, the first woman to reach the top of the administration of New Zealand …
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Part of story: Football
… and was then appointed secretary of the union. She was the first New Zealand woman to be secretary of a male union, and was widely … party than from the National Party candidate. In her first four years as a back-bencher Mabel Howard frequently …
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… Affairs and edited initially by Erik Schwimmer, was the first significant outlet for the publication of fiction by … Grace. Te Ao Hou contributor Heretaunga Pat Baker was the first Māori author to publish a historical novel, with … Waiariki , the first collection of short stories by a Māori woman writer, was published. International acclaim In 2008 …
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Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… In the first eight elections held under mixed-member proportional … government formed after the 2023 election was the first three-party coalition under MMP. Changes in … female prime minister. In 1999 Helen Clark was the first woman to become prime minister following an election. She …
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Part of story: Parliament
… when the museum was under-resourced and badly housed in its first location behind Parliament Buildings in Wellington. … collections under Hamilton's supervision. She was the first entomologist and the first woman appointed in a professional role in a New Zealand …
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… Association's stores. In Lyttelton the Cryers lived first in a tent, and then in London Street; Moses was said to be the town's first butcher. He quickly began acquiring land, most … played croquet and probably tennis. She was a noted horsewoman, a keen organiser of riding expeditions, an eager …
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… In 1863 Otago Boys’ High School opened. And New Zealand’s first public high school for girls – one of the earliest … long campaign by a Scot, Learmonth Dalrymple. The school’s first principal, Margaret Gordon Burn, was also Scottish. … of physiology, John Malcolm, were both Scots. A Scottish woman, Grace Neill, played a key role in the development of …
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Part of story: Scots
… around 1863, when the Reverend Franklin Bradley held the first formal meeting in Auckland. The first Unitarian church opened in Auckland in 1898, for … 1920s the congregation also appointed New Zealand’s first woman minister, Wilna Constable, who shared the role with …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… One of her mother's sisters was Elizabeth McCombs, the first woman member of Parliament in New Zealand. Christabel grew … released from some of her teaching duties to become its first officer. In 1936 Keys and Robinson persuaded the …
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