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… up to £727 per year in the insurance industry; the most a woman could earn was £450 (61.9%). Equal pay Equal pay – … pushed for equal pay, notably the NCW. It passed its first resolution supporting equal pay in 1896, the year it … In 2022, equal pay was the only goal adopted at the NCW’s first conference that had not been achieved. National …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… and included the text of the Treaty of Waitangi in the first issue. Aotearoa was unusual at the time because unlike … was a candidate for the Northern Māori electorate, the first Māori woman to stand for Parliament. Her high lineage allowed her …
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… social activities. In 1976 Dorothy McNab became the first women to chair a party division – Otago-Southland. In 1982 Sue Wood was elected as National’s first woman president. Before the 2020 election, 20 of National’s …
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Part of story: National Party
… drive and organisational skills. Before the end of the first year he had established 11 thriving corps between … were sent out from England and among them was a young woman, Captain Pearcey, a convert during Pollard's work at … Church, Invercargill. They were to have four sons, the first of whom died in infancy. In 1884 George Pollard …
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… a relatively large Māori population. Whalers were the first European settlers. Unlike the rest of Hawke’s Bay, the … between runholders Airini Donnelly (a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana married to an Irish settler) and Gertrude … south of Cape Kidnappers. Pourerere was the location of the first sheep run (1849) in Hawke’s Bay and, along with …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… the Immigration Restriction Act 1908. It was said to be the first case of its kind in New Zealand and dragged on into … £100 poll-tax. During these traumatic early years her first-born child died and she also had a miscarriage. … life encapsulates the plight of the immigrant Chinese woman. She endured not only the eternal bondage to …
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… According to family tradition he married three times. His first wife was Katirina Apatū, who is said to have died in … Rina. Rīpeka Pōmare, his second wife, was a high-born Māhia woman with whom he had two children, Raiha and Ereti, before … family home in Nūhaka became a missionary residence. The First Presidency of the Latter-day Saints church, consisting …
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… Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of … moved to Rotorua, where Malcolm had been appointed as the first principal of Waiariki Community College. The move to … director from 1981 to 1985, Erihapeti initiated the first national survey of Māori women’s health undertaken by …
Type: Biography
… of Victorian practicality as The Swiss family Robinson. Her first taste of literary success came at the age of 12 when … lost the dominant figure in her life and learned for the first time of her father’s crime and imprisonment. She was … often probing the confused feelings of a dreamy young woman towards the relatives who have brought her up. As a …
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… business. In 1922 she moved to Rotorua to nurse wounded First World War veterans. There she met Kouma Te Ōmeka … descendant of the trader Phillip Tapsell and Ngāti Whakaue woman of mana Hine-i-tūrama . Through his mother, Ngātai … was one of the few Pākehā women in the area. Rejected at first, she soon won over her in-laws with her many skills. …
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… of poetry and short stories. Long overshadowed by her first husband, the poet James K. Baxter , Jacquie emerged in … early writing career Jacquie continued writing poetry; her first poem was published in the student magazine Critic , … focused on her studies and on proving that a young Māori woman could succeed in the Pākehā world. In late 1947 she …
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… well known throughout Otago during the 1860s as a businesswoman and public figure. Little is known about her early … in Ireland to provide work for women and children. In this first undertaking, as in her later work, she was interested … Barely a fortnight after landing, she delivered the first in a series of public lectures on the importance of …
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… She worked in her father's racing stables and trained her first thoroughbred winner at the age of 20. As owner of the … This was granted in February 1927, making her the second woman (after Granny Maher in 1924) to become a professional … Bill Doyle's horse, Thurina, gave Laurel Campbell her first major race victory by winning the New Zealand Grand …
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… with Married & gone to New Zealand that she published her first book on the topic. It comprised extracts from … settlement in the region. It gave a lively account of the first 30 years of colonisation and the everyday lives of … researchers. Alison Drummond was an amiable, affectionate woman with a sense of fun and a large number of friends. She …
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… One of New Zealand's first professional women photographers, Rosaline (Rose) … technology, particularly in printing, but the lens she had first used when she joined the Tyree studio was as good as … had been her loyal assistant. An attractive, dark-haired woman, Rose Frank had never married and lived for many years …
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… Mary Gibbs was also believed to have been one of the first women members of a school committee. She was a … an ankle-length taffeta gown and lace cap. A strong-minded woman, she disagreed with the sermon preached on her first visit to a church in Nelson and never returned, but …
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… these shells would fall near my crater, possibly on it’ 2 . First World War non-fiction Of the First World War memoirs, Alexander Aitken’s Gallipoli to the … important book about that war was written by a 30-year-old woman who had had no obvious experience of it: Robin Hyde ’s …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… under Robert Field at Avondale College. She held her first exhibition in 1948, and the following year returned to … a young Barry Brickell was one of her students. Perrin’s first kiln was a coke-fired, updraught muffle kiln, in which … Studio Potters Centre at Onehunga. A warm, passionate woman with a great sense of humour, Pat Perrin was a free …
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… of the availability of local stone for building. The first masons working with Ōamaru stone were not used to it – … of brick which made it much quicker to build walls. The first machine-made New Zealand concrete blocks were produced … there were 760 bricklayers in New Zealand – just one was a woman. A 2003 estimate put the number of bricklayers …
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Part of story: Building trades
… Margaret Paul was born in Hamilton on 14 December 1945, the first child of pioneering booksellers and publishers Janet … Hellyar, Marté Szirmay and Leon Narbey. She held her first exhibition while she was still at art school, a show … In 1975 she participated in the landmark exhibition Woman’s Art, curated by Alison Mitchell (Allie Eagle) at the …
Type: Biography