Search
… Michael Laws (2004–10) was a former member of Parliament, first for the National Party and then for New Zealand First. Annette Main (2010–16) was the first woman to hold the office. Governors-general …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui region
… the duty of spouses to live together, undertaking manly or womanly tasks and providing companionship and sex, remained. … both world wars and the 1930s economic depression. The first New Zealand law stating a minimum age at marriage was … more likely she was to be pregnant. Nearly two-thirds of first births to those under 21 occurred within seven months …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marriage and partnering
… on overseas service in 1943, and during his absence their first child died accidentally. Sayers returned in 1944 and … of the college, and in 1955 became a fellow – the first New Zealand woman to do so. Faulkner returned from overseas in 1946. The …
Type: Biography
… of a dying race (1901), and Hone Tiki dialogues (1910). His first novel, Atareta, the belle of the kainga appeared in … is contrasted with the puritan humourlessness of a Pākehā woman. It is also possible that he found it easier and more … point. The Englishman, Craig, is pursued by a young Māori woman, Hinerau, but remains passive in the face of her …
Type: Biography
… meeting. Arnold Izard, who chaired the meeting, was elected first president of the New Zealand Ladies' Hockey … selector and manager in 1909 when the team competed at the first national tournament played under the auspices of the … accredited an umpire by the men's association, the first woman to be so recognised. Cora Maris Clark was first …
Type: Biography
… June 1831 he married Sarah Nichols or Nickless, a Berkshire woman 15 years older than he, at St Pancras Old Church, … worked with Mortimer Lewis, the colonial architect. He won first and second prizes in a competition for the design of a … the prefabricated Government House sent from England. The first Auckland land sale was held in this building with …
Type: Biography
… Zealand, but it was difficult for her to travel as a single woman as borders began closing in the lead-up to the Second … Initially manufacturing wine in a shed, they opened their first ‘konoba’ (cellar) in 1945; many of their earliest … a cabernet sauvignon, a pinotage and a Müller-Thurgau, the first of many Nobilo wines to be awarded top prizes in …
Type: Biography
… fossil remains in a remote Hawke’s Bay valley produced the first evidence that dinosaurs had once lived on the New … opportunities for young women. Aged 20, Joan joined the Woman’s Auxiliary Air Force and was initially posted to Wellington. Her first job was as a runner in Defence headquarters, …
Type: Biography
… Women veterinarians New Zealand’s first female vet was Pearl Dawson, who obtained an American … employment. Sporty vet Pearl Dawson, New Zealand’s first woman vet, was also an excellent hockey player, and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Veterinary services
… Rangatira Rangatira status was determined by birth. The first-born of the most senior family in an iwi was ariki. The most senior family descended through the first-born descendants of a founding ancestor. Seniority … ancestors, and ultimately from the gods, met. Often a woman's authority would be exercised by her husband or by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… all pursue the same career, his sister Jessie becoming the first woman to qualify as a dentist in New Zealand. Norman Cox … its citizens. Other dentists were not so convinced, and the First World War delayed developments. Cox did, however, …
Type: Biography
… secure government subsidies for kindergartens and was the first secretary and treasurer. She maintained a lifelong … honoured with a life membership of the union. During the First World War Susanna Hanan helped set up the Southland … Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board, becoming the first woman to hold the position. She fulfilled her duties well, …
Type: Biography
… many Pākehā came into close contact with Māori for the first time. Leading by example As Māori poured into the … One early internal migrant was Miraka Szaszy, a Far North woman of Dalmatian and Māori descent. She was a founder of … provided an example in her own life, becoming one of the first Māori women to graduate from university. Social …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… found the Canterbury Housewives’ Union and became its first president, serving until 1944. She also joined the … director. Helped by an enthusiastic group of friends, its first production, The tinder box by Nicholas Stuart Gray, … of the New Zealand Drama Council. A petite, vivacious woman, in later years she lived in a small, neat house in …
Type: Biography
… public service, post office, railways and teachers – had first formed a Central Committee of Combined Service … Pay Act in 1960, the Women Teachers’ Association was the first to take advantage of it. Sisterhood is powerful In … Inland Revenue clerk, Jean Parker, became the first woman to successfully challenge the appointment of a male …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Unions and employee organisations
… a mild flu-like disease, but if caught by a pregnant woman it can seriously harm, or even kill, the foetus. It … method that was outlawed by cruelty prevention acts. The first dog control law dates from 1844, and there were … and general assembly acts in the 1860s and 1870s. The first national law requiring owners to register their dogs …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pets
… Jane Mander's first ambition was to write fiction, and it is as a novelist … until 1906 Jane was its sub-editor and reporter. As a young woman she longed to escape the 'brain-benumbing, … ; she also commenced work on a new novel. After the First World War broke out she put her writing to one side. …
Type: Biography
… to be in their late 20s or early 30s at the birth of their first child. Women’s fertility was highest in the age group … of delayed parenting People who become parents for the first time in their 30s will be older parents of teenage … fertility but more twins The average number of births per woman in 2017 was 1.81, below the level required to replace …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Families: a history
… medicine and fluent in the Māori language. As a young woman, at her father's station at Otahuhu, she was known for … boarding school, a favourite project of the bishop. Her first child, Frances Mary, was born in February 1844 when … major work was her contribution to the publication of the first complete Bible in Māori in 1868. The Old Testament, …
Type: Biography
… roles will be publicly understood. In a 2009 study one woman commented that ‘because I wasn’t the birth mother, … marriage for Mabel Politician Mabel Howard, New Zealand’s first woman cabinet minister, is believed to have been a … after she left. In 2005 Labour MP Maryan Street became the first openly identified lesbian elected to Parliament. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Lesbian lives