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… on 29 August 1921, the identical-twin daughters and first of three children of William Lumley and his wife, … a perfect line. Doreen Lumley, in the inside lane, was the first to show out and was clearly ahead at halfway. The … 11 seconds. This was a remarkable achievement for a young woman of 17, especially under the conditions. Bernice Lumley …
Type: Biography
… botanist in the DSIR’s Botany Division in Wellington. Her first scientific task was to establish a seed herbarium, and … Expedition. Another of Mason’s wartime projects, and her first major research, was an anatomical investigation of … respected, as a fine botanist and lexicographer, and as a woman who was always true to her ideals. A tireless and …
Type: Biography
… Ann Hunter and her husband, Percy Wise Clarkson, the first Anglican vicar of Taihape. She was educated at Taihape … people at the time were not 'altogether trustful' of a woman surgeon, it was not until later that patients' parents … the mothers in the care of their children. Bassam was the first hospital in New Zealand to offer live-in accommodation …
Type: Biography
… freely of her services in assisting many causes. During the First World War she belonged to a musical group that … Josef (Jef) Denyn, she graduated with distinction: the first British woman to do so. She undertook recital tours of carillons in …
Type: Biography
… she was endlessly active in many roles. Her home – first a raupō hut with no kitchen, then two mud cottages, … boarding school for young Māori women. They also opened the first English girls' school, for the daughters and younger … was the first substantial witness to record, from a woman's point of view, early domestic interaction among …
Type: Biography
… of Ann Brown and her husband, James Brown, a shipmaster. A woman 'of the true old puritan type' who set a high value on … his father suffered financial losses he supported himself, first at the University of Edinburgh and later at Glasgow, … assurance that he was 'as a student and a man, in the first class'. A man of wide-ranging interests and an …
Type: Biography
… In the Māori creation narrative, Papatūānuku is the first female entity, followed by Hineahuone, who was created … his deeds. Māui meets his doom between the legs of a woman, but this too highlights the potency of women’s tapu – … wāhine feature in the tradition of Tinirau and Kae, as the first kapa haka group. These women are seen as deities in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… the Association of the Friends of the Blind, and also the first president of the Auckland Anglican Mothers' Union. … over rough roads by horseback. She was said to be the first Pākehā woman to make the journey from Wellington to New Plymouth on …
Type: Biography
… Women made up less than 1% of the NZSA’s membership in its first 10 years (1908–1918), 10% in 1987 and 39% in 2009. The … Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA) elected its first woman president, Sue Sheldon, in 1999. Accounting Standards …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Accountancy
… of the city's most prominent community workers. During the First World War Edith Macfarlane, like many other New … in peace time. For her services to the community during the First World War Edith Macfarlane was made an OBE in 1919. … she became president of the Auckland branch, the second woman to hold this position, and she continued in office …
Type: Biography
… While visiting Tūhua (Mayor Island) he saw a beautiful woman, Waitaiki, and seized her. Pursued by her husband, … but they are generally thought to have been Waitaha, the first settlers of the South Island. The West Coast was … Wairangi in the 16th or 17th centuries. By the time of first European contact in the early 19th century Ngāti …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… and Tom felled the bush, from which they built their first house, and burned, raked and cleared the land for … opportunity to educate herself and her children. During the First World War, when two of her sons were serving in the … She was described by all who knew her as a truly amazing woman. …
Type: Biography
… Church in Bowen Street, Wellington. The couple had probably first met when she painted his portrait after he was awarded … they lived near Foxton, where Gilbert farmed. Their first child, John Gilbert, was born on 5 July 1889 at … by the Alexander Turnbull Library) shows her to be a slim woman with dark curly hair. She was described as …
Type: Biography
… English language and literature. At university she made her first contact with socialist thought, reading the New … some speech attacking the unemployed and the poor…I was the first to shout, as secretary, and the policeman who escorted … she sent articles to New Zealand periodicals: the Working Woman , Woman To-day , Workers' Weekly and Tomorrow. …
Type: Biography
… English and English history in 1917 and MA in history with first-class honours in 1918. That year she began teaching at … writing, although she was awarded a state pension by the first Labour government in August 1942. Tragedy struck in … Eileen and Julia McLeely lived with Mary. A shy, sensitive woman with blue eyes and red-gold hair, she cited ill health …
Type: Biography
… director of the school. By 1894 Kimbell had received the first in a succession of first- and second-class passes in the South Kensington art … artist, look a purple mauve?' A portrait of a Maori woman dated 1910 would after Kimbell's death be described by …
Type: Biography
… sister, Mary, and a brother, Dan (killed in France in the First World War). When she was five the family moved to … close friendship with the poet Thomas Bracken . During the First World War she became a reporter, then sub-editor, on … of Armaments in Washington DC, in 1921–22 (she was the only woman reporter present). During two years there she became …
Type: Biography
… actual people, places and events since moving images were first recorded and exhibited at the end of the 19th century. … people and places were filmed in an observational manner. First documentary footage Prolific film-maker Joseph Perry, … with her husband Rudall, was New Zealand’s first known woman film-maker. Changes in film With the introduction of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Documentary film
… The discovery of love letters from Daniel to another woman, Martha Stewart, dating from eight days after Marion’s … this liaison. The baby was to be adopted by a Christchurch woman, but when she decided she could not look after the … were to be dealt with separately, with the outcome of the first determining whether the others would proceed. The …
Type: Biography
… classes, where she excelled. In 1902 she became one of the first government-appointed shorthand writers working in the … work which gave her a rare insight – particularly for a woman – into a wide range of social issues. In 1904 she set … issues. In July 1915, during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, she set up the New Zealand Volunteer …
Type: Biography