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… which she completed, while teaching full time, in 1917. Her first certificated position was at Fernridge School, west of … was an interesting teacher because she was an interesting woman in her own right. She was interesting because she was … a pacifist or because she had lost a special friend in the First World War was not resolved. She never married. Olive …
Type: Biography
… violence. Their extent was largely unknown when the first rape crisis centres and women’s refuges opened. … Refuge Several Christchurch women’s groups set up the first women’s refuge in 1974. Although they had been … Violence sometimes provoked militant action. One raped woman knew her attacker and the public bar he frequented. …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… Agnes emigrated to New Zealand in 1953 as a young single woman who wanted to become a nurse. She was given a training … for education and employment. In 1954 Agnes had her first child; she was engaged to the boy’s father, but he … of the Pacific Island Presbyterian Church in Newton, the first Pacific Island church in New Zealand. This church …
Type: Biography
… In the New Zealand context it meant an experienced woman who came into the home and provided support and … Karitane hospitals (named after the location of King’s first hospital) were run from 1907 to 1980 to care for … like Plunket actively promoted breast milk as the best first food for babies. Despite this, breastfeeding declined …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… Anne, subject to the postings of her husband, assisted first with the mission school at Paihia, then from 1831 had … in July 1833 to teach. In 1835 Anne and Thomas founded the first mission station at Te Koutu, Rotorua; for Anne it was two days' journey from her nearest European woman neighbour at Tauranga. The mission was closed by …
Type: Biography
… dramatised documentary Seeing red . NFU film-makers The first woman to direct films in New Zealand was Margaret Thomson, … NFU documentaries included Railway worker (1948) and The first two years at school (1949). Other Weekly review …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Documentary film
… and church-based youth work. In 1913 she was appointed the first matron of the Manunui Māori Boys' Agricultural … Women's Training Institute in Dunedin. At the end of her first year she declined a position on the staff of a … and she thought him a gentle and kind man. A tall, strong woman, Sister Annie was well suited physically and …
Type: Biography
… stints as a milk-bar maid and shirt machinist. As a young woman she spent three years in hospital with rheumatic … of the Auckland Drug Factories’ Employees’ Union. Her first challenge was to persuade the workers in the drug and … New Zealand Federation of Labour conferences; she was the first woman to represent the FOL overseas. In 1971 she spent …
Type: Biography
… Act gave women within marriage a legal existence for the first time: it let them hold property, make contracts in … a wife could be divorced for a single act of adultery, a woman could divorce a man only if his adultery was combined … violation, continued to have a low reporting rate. The first legal measure aimed at protecting women from violence …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gender inequalities
… off many professional performing opportunities after the First World War . The amateurs carried on, with women not … company, the New Zealand Players, and becoming the first director of the New Zealand Drama School. In the later 20th century it again became possible for a woman to make a living as an actor. But parts for women, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gender inequalities
… the depression in late 1929 Connie lost her job, but as a woman she was not eligible for unemployment relief. With … the party around this time. In 1934 she helped organise the first national conference of working women. She chaired the first day of the conference and was elected to the national …
Type: Biography
… of labour. Her appointment in March 1894 as New Zealand's first woman inspector of factories began a 13-year career in the … for implementing this, said to be the world's first national registration act for nurses. Neill defined …
Type: Biography
… (whose married name was Wilson) later wrote a book, My first eighty years , and Henry became a Supreme Court judge. … the land, gardened, fenced, and, observing how their first one-roomed shelter was constructed, built their own … by her religious upbringing, Emma Ostler was otherwise a woman of strong convictions; homoeopathy was one of them. A …
Type: Biography
… subjects like agriculture. Central government passed the first Education Act in 1877, but agriculture was still not … nature study and social studies. Farming in the classroom A woman who started her teaching career in a sole-charge … level; in 1945, 72% had some secondary education. The first school in New Zealand to teach practical agriculture …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… to find the camp’s waitress; her hut had been one of the first carried away. Eleven men at No. 4 camp climbed onto a … the rising water to high ground. In all, 20 men and one woman at No. 4 camp were drowned. One man was drowned at …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Floods
… which were Women’s Franchise Leagues renamed. The leagues’ first task was getting women onto the electoral roll – there … her sister Isabel May, and Edith Searle Grossmann. At first the Institute had male as well as female members, … boards, and in 1917 CWI member Ada Wells became the first woman elected to the Christchurch City Council. Society for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women’s movement
… Jackson, a mariner, and his wife, Sarah Smith. Jackson first came to New Zealand in 1829, as mate of the schooner … became second in charge under Guard at New Zealand's first shore-based whaling station, situated at Tar'white, as … Jackson entered into a form of marriage with a Maori woman, with whom he is said to have had several children. By …
Type: Biography
… thousands of meals to military personnel. A big, outgoing woman with blue eyes and ‘a heart as large as her stature’, … 1956 Walter was elected to the Nelson City Council as its first woman councillor. She was to serve on the council until …
Type: Biography
… Emily considered homemaking an important part of a woman's role and just as important as education. By the time … her to resign in May 1874, but the next year she gained her first-class teaching certificate, which was the equivalent … were not only successful scholastically, but also healthy, womanly and moral. Emily Foster died suddenly on 30 December …
Type: Biography
… Hinematioro was a woman of high standing among the East Coast peoples from … to Ūawa (Tolaga Bay), about the time that James Cook first visited New Zealand, in 1769. Her mana and tapu … who possessed 'a large territory and numerous subjects'. A woman of great beauty, renowned for her kindness, …
Type: Biography