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… achieved in the field. They include Dot Simons, the pioneer woman sports writer who described women’s cricket, hockey … and netball; and Margot Butcher, a cricket writer and the first woman to win the Sports Journalist of the Year award. … or statistical perspective. They include: Arthur Swan, the first noted rugby historian, who, with A. H. Carman, …
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Part of story: Sports reporting and commentating
… while touring Europe in 1892. The committee oversaw the first modern, international Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, … Greek work to revive the games as a local tournament. At first the modern Olympic Games were held in summer only, … team contained four members, including the country’s first woman Olympian, swimmer Violet Walrond. She came fifth in …
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Part of story: Olympic and Commonwealth games
… weaver. Mary and Thomas Cuddie had 11 children. Their first child, Thomas Alexander, was baptised in November 1845 … as compassionate and gentle, if somewhat severe. A slight woman with a resolute expression, Mary Cuddie was strong in … and care for her sons. She proved an excellent businesswoman, buying properties to bequeath to each of her …
Type: Biography
… Zealand. The employment of women horrified him: a working woman, he wrote, 'loses her divinity and becomes only an … policy. A prominent Presbyterian, he was deacon of First Church, Invercargill, until his death. He was a member …
Type: Biography
… reminiscences, she was unable to read or write. She mined first at Bendigo and Ballarat in Australia and then sailed … children has been discovered. Bridget Goodwin was a small woman, about four feet in height and of slight build. …
Type: Biography
… tribes began to venture south in search of resources. The first large-scale migration to Te Whanganui-a-Tara took … Toa people, but conflict became inevitable after a Muaūpoko woman was killed. Muaūpoko sought revenge by killing several …
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Part of story: Muaūpoko
… wore a wide-brimmed hat and hobnailed boots. A large-boned woman with a striking if heavy-featured face and a cultured … in 1917. In its preface she emphasised the authority of first-hand accounts from the pioneer settlers. She was also …
Type: Biography
… recreation. In 1944 Dorothy Campbell of Hastings set up the first pony club, and two years later the New Zealand … were private, not community affairs. Who’s who? One woman who had grown up in the Waikākahi district was …
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Part of story: Rural recreation
… and possibly already Punjabis, but these two were the first identifiable immigrants from the Punjab. Soon after … herbalist in the Whanganui area and married a Māori woman. Phomen spent time in Auckland learning from a Muslim …
Type: Biography
… conditions In the early days of European settlement, the first roads were often muddy tracks among long ferns and … The lack of refined manners attracted criticism. Colonial woman Margaret Herring wrote to her sister despairing of the …
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Part of story: Rural clothing
… transported to New South Wales as a convict, was one of the first European women to visit New Zealand. Her sojourn was … in Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania). The only other woman on board was another former convict, Irishwoman … (variously spelled), who shared the bunk of the American first mate, Benjamin Kelly. The reason for Charlotte’s …
Type: Biography
… for use in secondary and technical schools. During the First World War Penlington served as a company commander in … began to put his stamp on the school. In his view, the first need was esprit de corps , 'the uplifting spirit in a … on education. While they were appreciated by the first woman inspector of secondary schools, Jessie Hetherington , …
Type: Biography
… Hariata, a Ngāpuhi woman from Te Ahuahu, near Ōhaeawai, was the daughter of … cramped and unpleasant conditions, while Jenkins travelled first class. They were provided with no fresh food but were … The party arrived in London on 18 May 1863 and were at first successful. They were presented to the Prince and …
Type: Biography
… in 1996. Weight training in the 1930s Laurie Hogan, the first New Zealander to hold a weightlifting world record, … television. Perhaps the most spectacular scene was his first attempt at a clean and jerk lift of 187.5 kilograms. … Sydney Olympics is the best performance by a New Zealand woman. At 2013 the highest placed New Zealand competitor at …
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Part of story: Bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting
… This surreal, black-and-white rural fairytale was made by first recording the soundtrack, then shooting the story of a rubbish dump worker ordered to take a beautiful woman to meet her future husband. At the Melbourne Film … filmed movies as part of his ‘no-budget’ film scheme. The first of these were Magi k and Rose (1999), directed by …
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Part of story: Feature film
… other claimants, although it was not customary to allow a woman to appear in such a role. She argued her case … Bay south of Cape Kidnappers. The Waimārama property had first been leased by the owners to Frederick Meinertzhagen … Airini Donnelly has claims to being the most outstanding woman in the history of Hawke's Bay. She was renowned for …
Type: Biography
… freedom of movement than men. During the 19th century a woman walking unaccompanied at night could be considered a … sides of the hall. Men would cross the floor and ask a woman to dance, and the couple then flaunted their moves on … stranger could still lead to romance, the stranger might be first glimpsed over the internet rather than on city streets. …
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Part of story: Men and women in the city
… of YWCA, NCW and the SPWC representatives. A workless woman Political activist Miriam Soljak helped set up the … section of the Unemployed Workers’ Movement. ‘A workless woman’, she wrote, ‘cannot sleep out in parks; she must … The committees held conferences in 1934 and 1936. The first conference set up the Working Women’s Movement, and …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… from shore-based stations. Despite the common view that the first station was John Guard’s at Te Awaiti in the … whaling stations employed up to 30 men and the occasional woman. Initially the whalers stayed only for the May to … nearly always male, lived within Māori communities in the first half of the 19th century. Largely adopting Māori ways …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… contests started in the United States in the 1850s and were first held in New Zealand not long after. Contestants did … of their district they deemed the most beautiful and the woman with the most nominations won. Kaiapoi’s ‘beauty … from the early 1900s. In 1911 C. Clifford Jennings won the first national competition and for this reason has been …
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Part of story: Beauty contests