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… community. In January 1856 Crombie offered 'every man, woman and child an opportunity of procuring a portrait which … The advertising succeeded: Crombie claimed that during his first 15 months in Auckland he took over 1,000 portraits. … had been there before him. He described how he first used the daguerreotype process to produce portraits. …
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… she earned up to 10 guineas a week as one of the country's first professional fashion models, working for the New … to Brisbane, starting on 19 November. At Sydney she led the first hike across the new harbour bridge. She reached Brisbane on 25 September 1933, becoming the first woman known to have completed the walk. She remained in …
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… Beath, the husband of Isabel's sister Marie. During the first seven years of their marriage Isabel had four … the visit in 1885 of Mary Leavitt, an emissary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the United States of … and fresh air, and cycling and rational dress. May read her first paper on dress reform to the Christchurch branch later …
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… Unions Tradesmen were also instrumental in setting up the first unions and advocating for better work conditions. … an eight-hour work day in Wellington in 1840. New Zealand’s first recorded trade society, a Benevolent Society of … 5,434 plumbers and gasfitters in New Zealand, not one was a woman. The situation does not look likely to change quickly. …
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Part of story: Building trades
… two brothers to seek their fortunes in Australia. Among the first Lebanese to reach Australia, they established a … clean and formed a network of mutual support. The Coorys first opened a fancy-goods store, then moved into importing. … the closed Lebanese community. Shirefie Coory soon became a woman of influence: an adviser to younger women, someone to …
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… a probationer at New Plymouth Hospital in 1886 when the first trained matron was appointed, but her father, a man of … maternity hospitals where they could train. Holford was the first nurse to apply for state registration when it was … on 22 December 1966. Alice Holford was a warm, outgoing woman who loved entertaining and 'had a philosophy of making …
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… until the 20th century. Some couples used condoms in the first half of the 20th century. After the contraceptive pill … women could better control their fertility on their own. At first, women relied on intuition and physical changes to … treatments could be tested before implantation in the woman’s womb (preimplantation genetic diagnosis – PGD). This …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… South Island in basketball. Completing a BA in 1929 with first-class grades in English and French, she declined the … two years at Somerville College she graduated in 1932 with first-class honours in English, winning praise for her … member of the university. In 1955 she became the first woman academic member of the council, her contributions …
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… over by the whole family. Her mother, a tall, handsome woman, was a thwarted actress with strong feminist views. … School in Parnell. The family's life was disrupted by the First World War, during which her father served on the … her. She flew the Moth back to England, thus becoming the first woman pilot to fly from England to Australia and back. …
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… ascents of the high peak of Mt Cook, including six of the first eight ascents, the first traverse, a new route, and the first grand traverse of … have four children. Muriel was the first New Zealand-born woman known to have climbed Mt Cook, ascending with Peter in …
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… a vigorous semi-professional artistic life. The country's first public art school was founded there in 1870. William … finance a long holiday in Australia. Demonstrating from the first the independence that is so marked a feature of her … girl with flaxen hair' (1893), a sensitive study of young womanhood, which is probably the best-known work of this …
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… refused to formalise such marriages, particularly if the woman was unbaptised. Reverend Samuel Marsden opposed Thomas … civilization, and I consider lawful marriage to be of the first importance.’ 1 Polished Māori In 1873 the Reverend … Māori men, but not in large numbers. The idea that a Pākehā woman might desire a Māori man was not a widely held view, …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… Scottish Academy. The following year she exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon of the Société des artistes … By 1933 she was being described as 'New Zealand's foremost woman portrait painter'. Much of this acclaim can be … gained more recognition abroad than any other New Zealand woman artist. …
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… She used the prize money to buy a newer camera. Her first photographs were of school friends, but as her … Montgomery remarked that Thelma Kent was ‘a sensible woman’. On another occasion, when driving from Taupo to … unsealed road, but the man later died. Usually she took a woman companion with her on her trips to help with equipment …
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… and the great, the husband, the wife, the old man, the old woman these all obtain admittance to the Runanga Maori, with all their thoughts and speeches ... this woman gets up and has her talk ...)’. 1 Sign here please … Hērangi of Waikato emerged as a major Māori leader in the first half of the 20th century. She led the establishment of …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… the breach with a grant. Arts magazines The 1970s saw the first of a number of new magazines that profiled and … the circulations of magazines such as the Listener and the Woman’s Weekly declined steeply, although many specialist … current and archival content. Don’t be ridiculous In 2010 Woman’s Day editor Sarah Henry doubted the internet would …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… them. The glory of Onehunga Elizabeth Yates became the first woman mayor in the British Empire when she was elected mayor … paper wrote, ‘The glory hath departed Onehunga.’ 2 No other woman was elected mayor in New Zealand until 1957, when …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… Estimates of the birth rate suggest that each woman had an average of about five births. The rate of … (The death of a child may be overcome, but the death of a woman is a calamity.) Maternal deaths and birth rates Rates … early 20th-century Māori communities are unknown, as the first figures were not collected until 1920. In that year …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… to repeat the experience with family and friends. After the First World War army-surplus materials included many tents … and other camping equipment. Contented tenting One of the first locally made tents was the Auckland-made Reliable … resorts such as Mt Maunganui were booked to capacity. A woman’s work is never done A motor-camp holiday permitted …
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Part of story: Camping
… upon and returned to us enhanced in price?’ 1 New Zealand’s first woollen mills were built in 1871 in the South Island – … setting up the Mosgiel Woollen Company, New Zealand’s first woollen mill, Arthur Burns went to Britain to buy … factory conditions, a Parliamentarian remarked that that ‘a woman who had learned to tend a loom should be as eligible …
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Part of story: Agricultural processing industries