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… After a dance, a man might indicate his interest in a woman by asking for other dances, or accompanying her home. … drank beer, but usually outside. They had to make the first move and ask women to dance. While women and men often … dance halls, ballrooms and cabaret clubs opened after the First World War, particularly in cities. Young women were no …
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Part of story: Love and romance
… farmers’. The best known (and most infamous) was Southland woman Minnie Dean, who was executed after being convicted of … and Their Families Act 1989 put immediate family care first. Care within the wider family was the next best option … Caregivers cannot choose which children they care for. The first family home opened in 1954. Family homes traditionally …
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Part of story: Children’s homes and fostering
… Film school graduates In the 1980s, for the first time, students were able to learn film-making skills … counter to the government’s version of events and was the first feature-length New Zealand documentary directed by a woman. Vanguard Films Vanguard Films, a left-wing collective …
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Part of story: Documentary film
… a teacher and friend of Edith Searle but also a model: a woman who had achieved prominence in her career as a teacher … in 1882, graduated BA in 1884 and received an MA with first-class honours in Latin and English and third-class … to a higher morality than men was explored in Grossmann's first novel, Angela , in which a young woman is wrongfully …
Type: Biography
… with change), ‘whakawāhine’ (creating or becoming a woman), ‘tangata ira tāne’(a person with the spirit or … One Ngāti Kuri rangatahi told her: 'Takatāpui means that first and foremost, I’m Māori. Then I’m everything else but … female at birth – have much less visibility, with the first public gathering of fa’atama held in Samoa in 2017. …
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Part of story: Gender diversity
… Initially, she was sent to Dunedin as one of New Zealand's first four school doctors. This involved her in the physical … she put to professionals making submissions show her as a woman of her time, sharing in contemporary concerns about … camp committee, and promoted harmony among staff. As the first permanent, year-round children's health camp, Raukawa …
Type: Biography
… for visitors, including missionaries on furlough. The first deaconess to be trained by Spencer-Smith was ordained … sure vision, serene wisdom and calm confidence, she was a woman of strong convictions, yet had a twinkle in her eye. … be trained in Australia. In 1943 she was invited to be the first principal of a national women's training college in …
Type: Biography
… sometimes depended on Māori trade and other assistance. The first Pākehā charities Pākehā settlers created their own … Of these, 16 were destitute widows, one of them an older woman with 10 children. Thirteen deserted wives and 14 … orphanages and shelters Church-run ‘homes for fallen women’ first attempted to ‘save’ prostitutes by teaching them more …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… television directors and documentary-makers produced their first work in the mid-1970s, and the first feature films came out in the mid-1980s, including … theology and structure. Sometimes called the ‘woman-church’ movement, its members were predominantly …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… continued with her appointment in 1926 as one of the first women justices of the peace; she exercised … after her retirement. In 1922 she became one of the first women appointed to an Anglican vestry in New Zealand, … when she was made a life member of the NCW, the third woman to be so honoured. Caring for others also dominated …
Type: Biography
… with horses was evident from an early age. She won her first prize in the show-ring at five, and several years … horses, which she had helped to prepare, formed her first stable. It is likely that she initially operated from … Success'. He described Maher as 'a most accomplished horsewoman, physically admirably equipped, possessed of a woman's …
Type: Biography
… Hicks Bay. After moving to Te Kaha, Pāhewa married a local woman, Roka Bristow (Peretō), who was of Pākehā and Te … parish rounds, and developed his own plates. Although his first duty was always to his flock, Pāhewa had eyes beyond … he wore it frequently. In 1918 Pāhewa was made one of the first honorary canons of the Waiapu cathedral in Napier, the …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand’s first general election When New Zealand held its first general election in 1853, there were no political … Nene Russell, the son of a European shipbuilder and a Māori woman of mana, was nominated and elected unopposed. The …
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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties
… became a mainstream ministry division, albeit a large one. First woman New Zealand’s first female diplomat was Southlander Jean McKenzie. She …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation
… to London alone and worked at the Times Book Club. Her first two novels, Insolence of office (1934) and Awake at … set in England, Escott used the pen-name C. M. Allen. The first book was sufficiently well received for Escott to … in the First World War gradually falls in love with a woman doctor. The novel is concerned with the consequences …
Type: Biography
… of the time, ‘the four corners of the world’. Te Hokioi The first was Te Hokioi o Niu Tireni e Rere atu na (January–May … King movement) and Māori – and a far-reaching voice. As the first editorial noted, the advantage of the press was that … usually men, Te Puke ki Hiku rangi had Niniwa-i-te-rangi, a woman of mana of Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne, as an editor …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… and businessman, and his wife, Ellen Borrowes, an Irishwoman who died when Edith was a baby. Edith's youth was … admitted by Bishop Julius in 1892. New Zealand's first resident Anglican deaconess was five feet two inches … communion over the status of deaconesses. The community's first sisters were all deaconesses or waiting to turn 30, …
Type: Biography
… motorcycles, but soon turned to cars, having one of the first in Hawke's Bay – a Wolseley. He was reputed to have made the first crossing of the new Wairoa bridge, and to have been … gained fame in November 1929 as the North Island's first woman pilot. She died in August 1941, and on 21 November …
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… at Palmerston North High School. In 1920 Cath was in the first class of pupils to attend the newly established … she won a Senior Scholarship and became head prefect and first dux. The following year she enrolled at the University … among younger players. She was to become the first woman president of the Manawatu Lawn Tennis Association in …
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… they made a career playing accompaniments in cinemas, first at the King's Theatre and later at the Empress … to Nelson. The entry of Italy on the Allied side in the First World War in May enabled the Italian immigrants who … daughter, Rosie, returned to New Zealand as a young woman, and took over the household after her grandmother's …
Type: Biography