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… fairies wave banners of peace after the carnage of the First World War. Her last book, Robin of Maoriland (1929), … and general reporting. The energetic, slightly built young woman became 'Lady Gay', and her chaotic office was filled … aware of the isolation of many country children, and her first remedy was to organise pen-friends for them, to …
Type: Biography
… Scotland. While volunteer nursing at the beginning of the First World War, she met her future husband, Alfred Sinclair … Dorset, the couple emigrated to New Zealand. With her first-born son they settled in Milton, Otago, where Alfred … Reports from women's organisations, such as the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Women's …
Type: Biography
… athletics Amateur athletics went into recess during the First World War, but was soon stronger than ever. It was … in the amateur ranks. International competition The first post-war international success came in 1919, when … well into the second half of the century. Obstacles to woman athletes In response to requests for a women’s …
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Part of story: Athletics
… Chess New Zealand’s first chess club was formed in Dunedin in 1863 and the first national championship was held in Christchurch in … For many years she wrote a bridge column in the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly . Ishmael Del’Monte has represented New …
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Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… as to be unable to walk – though previously a healthy young woman.' Her first home was at Judge H. S. Chapman 's property in Karori. … was here in August 1850 that William Francis (Frank), the first of Sarah's nine children, was born. Sarah Barraud …
Type: Biography
… Canterbury Collegiate Union classes and was one of the first students of Canterbury College. Attending lectures part time, he gained a BA in 1881 and an MA with first-class honours in Latin and Greek in 1882. He was … Foster married Emily Sophia Brittan , the senior woman teacher at Christchurch West and a former classmate at …
Type: Biography
… and their Fulton, Jeffreys and Valpy cousins were the first New Zealand-born generation of these prominent Otago … branch of the Plunket Society; her sister, Mary, was its first nurse. Fan Smith ensured that her three children – … a thoughtful, kindly – though reserved and intellectual – woman whose example they respected. She died at home on 1 …
Type: Biography
… After it fell to the Japanese, she was detained first in Katong Internment Camp and was then marched the 8½ … end of her internment, on 9 September 1945. She was sent first to Madras, where the prisoners received a great … in a matter-of-fact style, it gives a portrait of a brave woman, clearly of a practical nature, but always concerned …
Type: Biography
… ancestors, Whironui (Whiro) and the Nukutere canoe were the first to arrive. Whiro (known as Hilo in Hawaii, Hiro in … made landfall at Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island), where a woman named Kanawa went ashore and brought some aruhe (fern … while Awapaka and Pāoa walked there. Another crew member, a woman named Hinekauirangi, made an even longer overland …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… to set up what might be regarded as lesbian households. A woman’s duty Mary Taylor, a businesswoman in Wellington in the mid-19th century, never married, … being financially independent, and argued that ‘a woman’s first duty, like a man’s, is to earn a living’. Women who …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… June 1904. She told the court that she and another Moriori woman, Ani Wī Hoeta, were the sole surviving relatives of … was heard. She never again saw the children from her first marriage and they were fostered out among other … Mātenga Ashton , who remembered Kiti as a strong and proud woman who would say little about her past. Kiti died at …
Type: Biography
… daughter of Dr J. A. R. Menzies, runholder, politician and first provincial superintendent of Southland, and his wife, … was a full-time cowman–gardener. A vibrant and energetic woman, Ellenor cooked, sewed, wrote, decorated and did … Board promotions. In speeches and the magazine NZ Countrywoman , Watson encouraged, inspired and sometimes …
Type: Biography
… Mavis were raised by their mother in London during the First World War, and spent a year in California shortly … stage name Davina Craig. After struggling to find work, her first professional performance was as an extra and second … for equal treatment and was appointed New Zealand’s first woman radio drama producer in 1958. In 1976 she represented …
Type: Biography
… by boat from the steamer Charles Edward. Margaret, their first child, was born in July. Three more daughters were to … Agnes Addison won a reputation as a teetotaller and a woman of high moral standards. She became active in the … on 28 January 1903. Agnes Addison was a leading businesswoman in Hokitika in the 1890s. Her independent effort as a …
Type: Biography
… She organised a street collection which raised the first funds of about £500 towards the purchase of the … years she was the New Zealand correspondent for the Gentlewoman magazine, and in 1892 Henry Brett invited her to … the entry of women into politics, she contended that 'Woman as she is may not be physically or morally capable of …
Type: Biography
… alone to Wellington and is reputed to have been the first woman ever to address the House of Representatives. In 1892 …
Type: Biography
… The Wesleyan Missionary Society in Britain established its first New Zealand mission at Kaeo, in Northland, in 1823. … and carpentry. One of its early pupils was young Waikato woman Martha Pātene, whose father was a Methodist minister. …
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Part of story: Methodist Church
… areas, lakes and rivers. Alfred Warbrick, one of the first guides, was particularly active after the 1886 … a soprano–baritone duo in the 1920s. They were among the first recorded New Zealand artists, and were often heard on … 1996. In 1981 Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku became the first Māori woman to be awarded a doctoral degree. Her thesis was on the …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… Ralston Wyllie and his wife, Kate (Keita), a Rongowhakaata woman of mana and daughter of early English trader Thomas … 12 community libraries, serves the region. The region’s first library, Turanga Library, was opened in 1869 in a room … Writing and writers The Poverty Bay Herald was first published in Gisborne on 5 January 1874. Its name …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… Carroll won the Eastern Māori seat in 1887, and became the first Māori elected to a general seat when he won in Waiapu … and Ben Couch won Awarua and Wairarapa respectively. The first Māori woman to win a general seat was Sandra Lee, who took …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation