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… years. Mary Jane Milne was a trustworthy and capable young woman. She immediately found work as head milliner with … Henry joined Mary Jane as a business partner. The firm at first concentrated on fashion, variety and quality in all … there on 4 April 1921. Mary Jane Milne was a remarkable woman, reliable and capable, with a good business sense. She …
Type: Biography
… the musical life of her new country with the vigour of a woman half her age. She soon became a national artist for … important contribution to her adopted country was as the first woman to gain a measure of national repute as a composer. By …
Type: Biography
… Māori and intermarriage The first rural families in New Zealand were Māori. As Māori … there were even fewer women. Run, boy, run When a woman arrived at the new settlement of Āpiti in the Manawatū … boss asked what was wrong. ‘Look,’ said the man, ‘there’s a woman coming, I’m going further back.’ 3 On the east coast …
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Part of story: Farm families
… Turnbull's experience was representative of that of a woman employee. She worked a 5½-day week, starting at 7.45 … without payment. Bessie made about 12 shillings in her first fortnight while she was still learning, but worked … old, dying at the Ross Home, Dunedin, on 4 June 1988. A woman of great humour, courage and endurance, Bessie …
Type: Biography
… commenced his own commercial enterprise; he was among the first to set up business in the newly opened bush settlement … T. H. Penn and Frank Arden, he spent five days making the first recorded alpine circuit of the mountain. During this … was also a mountaineer, and in 1891 she became the first woman known to reach the summit by the Stratford Road track. …
Type: Biography
… at Whakarewarewa. As Guide Sophia she was the most famous woman of her time in Rotorua. She was born in Kororāreka … at Three Kings in Auckland. Little is known of Sophia's first marriage in the north to a man whose name is recorded … to her own description, 11 days before the eruption Sophia first noticed an unusual rising of the lake's waters, and …
Type: Biography
… began putting engines on bicycles in the late 1800s. The first motorised tricycle was brought to New Zealand in 1899, … bicycles also began to appear around the country. In the first decade of the 1900s, hundreds of motorcycles were … Have washing machine, will travel In 1939 Marlborough woman Mary Watson, known as the ‘Happy Day Washerwoman’, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Motorcycles
… solicitor. He encountered Donald Sutherland, the first settler and at that time sole resident at Milford … crossings of the Mackinnon Pass after its discovery, on the first occasion accompanied by his wife, Rosa, who would thus appear to have been the first woman to walk the Milford Track. Samuel Moreton's …
Type: Biography
… Māori total fertility rate dropped from 5.1 children per woman to just 2.8. By the 1980s it had almost reached the … surgery with eight children in tow, in the early 1960s. The woman asked to go on the contraceptive pill. After Kjestrup … savings can then be used to fund tertiary education, first homes and retirement – in Australia or New Zealand. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… left to serve overseas with the New Zealand forces in the First World War. There were two sons of the marriage: … A former pupil recalls that she was a trim looking woman with dark, rather bushy hair and vivid blue eyes. She … of the pioneer settlers but claims to see the past from a woman's perspective. In her introduction Mabel states that …
Type: Biography
… view. British navigator James Cook and his crew were the first Europeans to see Taranaki Maunga. On 11 January 1770, … Loaves’, and the mountain after the Earl of Egmont, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Two years later French explorer … the summit. Jane Maria Atkinson was the first Pākehā woman to climb the mountain, with her husband Arthur and …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… excelled, Miriam Cummings became a pupil-teacher in 1896, first at New Plymouth Central School and then at Kauaeranga … Miriam Soljak the spur to political activism came with the First World War. She was outraged to learn that by marrying … 'with compliments', a bill he was introducing to enable a woman marrying a foreigner to retain her nationality. In …
Type: Biography
… base on Lake Karāpiro. Single sculler Rob Waddell was the first to hit the jackpot with an Olympic gold in Sydney in … Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan won New Zealand’s first gold medal at the games in the double sculls. The next … three golds, Lisa Carrington became the first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic kayaking gold medal, in the K1 200 …
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Part of story: Olympic and Commonwealth games
… became well-known for this ability. As an accomplished horsewoman she willingly rode long distances to give treatment. … and 1876 she had three sons. In 1881 Margaret Caro was the first woman to be listed on the Dentists' Register of New … practice until 1909. She was the only woman to attend the first conference of the New Zealand Dental Association held …
Type: Biography
… Queen Street, Auckland, and in 1906 was awarded an MA with first-class honours in botany after studying at Auckland … the Waitakere Range to collect specimens. A tall, angular woman, she set little store by dressing or even behaving in … much of the leadership for the women's movement after the First World War, Elsie Griffin brought with her from America …
Type: Biography
… different theories. Though families have usually been the first to help when care is needed, institutional care was … can be difficult to care for, there are rewards. One woman said of her husband, ‘he’s lovely just the same. I sit … Carers can apply for a carer support subsidy, which first requires a needs assessment. They are then given a …
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Part of story: Care and carers
… Alice Woodward moved back to Auckland and became the first woman doctor to register there. She set up practice above a … and pathologist to Auckland Hospital. She was the first woman doctor to be employed by the hospital and held …
Type: Biography
… assumed name (Horton) and preferred Ray or Slim as a first name. He attended Blenheim Borough School, then, after … 10 Horton had fallen into a pattern of truancy and theft, first appearing before the Nelson Children’s Court in August … In late September, following a brief affair with a married woman, he moved to Wellington. Soon after, on Sunday 26 …
Type: Biography
… of the primal parents, Papatūānuku, was the earth, and the first human was formed from soil taken from Papatūānuku at Kurawaka. In one tradition, Tāne made the first woman, Hineahuone (earth-formed woman), from soil before …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Oneone – soils
… Wairarapa coast. She was strong-minded, even as a young woman, and appears to have once opposed her father in court … and generosity, Kaihau and Irāia became popular. During the First World War Kaihau became heavily involved in the … which was taken from the English version of her husband's first name, she was also referred to as Maikara Irāia and …
Type: Biography