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… who were connected with Taranaki ironsand smelting. A quiet woman, she and Chong had 11 children, four of whom died in … Butter factories were the key to higher quality, and the first one in Taranaki opened in 1885. A creamery was erected … a Hall's refrigerating machine, which was probably the first freezing machine in a New Zealand butter factory. At …
Type: Biography
… primary health care by doctors. In the decades prior to the First World War , doctors increasingly separated themselves … were available from the 1880s, and New Zealand became the first country to recognise the professional status of nurses … her as ‘the Sunbeam Sister’ and a ‘self-sacrificing woman, whose sole aim in life is to serve and help those who …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Primary health care
… She was to be associated with the school for over 50 years; first as a pupil, then as a pupil-teacher and finally as … had been in charge of the school since 1900. She was the first and only pupil of Hukarere to become principal of the school, and the first Māori woman principal of a major secondary girls’ school in New …
Type: Biography
… Wellington in the early years of European settlement. The first Jewish religious service was held in Auckland in 1841. … the ordination of women and gay rabbis. Wedding bells The first Jewish wedding in New Zealand was held on 31 October … for a Jewish New Zealander who had been married to a Māori woman. The service was strictly Jewish but the surrounding …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Diverse religions
… her ability to get the best out of even ordinary animals. First women riders Linda Jones was not the first woman to ride as a professional in New Zealand. That …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… several times before his departure for England. During the First World War she was busy with various fund-raising … to live in Wellington. Her father's will had given Airini first option on Blue Cliffs, but the trustees insisted she … after her in 1965 (Mt Airini). In 1969 she became the first woman in New Zealand to be granted registration as an …
Type: Biography
… children were born and Eveline experienced poverty for the first time. She was angered by the condition of the poor: … for unmarried women. The following year she attended the first meeting of the Canterbury Women's Institute , which … for prison reform, pointing out that 'From the moment a woman commits a crime, or is supposed to have committed one, …
Type: Biography
… College and put him to work in the family business, first in Thames, then in Auckland, where Ehrenfried had … man. In April 1903 Myers left for London to marry a woman whom he had met there two years earlier, Vera Anita … 1921 he was an avowed Liberal. Significantly, one of his first moves in Parliament was to promote what could be …
Type: Biography
… Her mother was Pia Ngarotū Te Rihi, a high-born Te Arawa woman of Ngāti Wāhiao hapū of Tūhourangi, who was descended … Māori , which Mākereti dedicated to the memory of her first teachers, Mārara Marotaua and Maihi Te Kakau Parāoa, … them in her text. The book has a unique place as the first extensive published ethnographic work by a Māori …
Type: Biography
… the order had lost sight of the missionary work which had first drawn her. She was removed from the position, perhaps … withdrawn and did not return in Barbier's lifetime. Barbier first visited New Zealand in 1872, at the beginning of a … to her authoritarianism and rigidity. Barbier was a woman of strong personality, determined to maintain her …
Type: Biography
… of the One Tree Hill Inn. The Forbes family were the first Presbyterian Scottish settlers to live in the area. A … by Ngāti Mahuta leader Pōtatau Te Wherowhero . This was the first licensed accommodation established in Onehunga. In … Margaret Forbes was a courageous, independent-minded woman, devoted to the welfare of her family. She was unusual …
Type: Biography
… T. H. A. Valintine (a relative), to set up the country’s first antenatal clinics at the St Helens hospitals and other … Services for women and children were much in demand from a woman doctor, including antenatal care and baby clinics. She … St John Ambulance Association as a lecturer and examiner in first aid and home nursing, becoming a life member in 1952 …
Type: Biography
… Union, and in 1976 a full-time organiser. She was the first Māori woman to become a national executive member of the … president of the Canterbury Clerical Workers’ Union, its first female president in 47 years. Schenkel had joined the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement
… by an illegitimate pregnancy, was desperate to marry. She first threatened West by letter, then, at a confrontation in … in Wellington and Auckland and three petitions (the first signed by more than 60,000 people) requesting her … as villain, heroine or victim. She appears now as a woman driven to solve her problems by violence, whose …
Type: Biography
… left the force. In August he became Canterbury province's first detective. Christchurch's Inspector Peter Pender soon … who spent a good deal of his time drinking, gambling and womanising rather than keeping unionists and other political … posted back to the Mackenzie Country. Ryan was promoted to first class constable in September 1867, but resigned from …
Type: Biography
… the cup for excellence in work and sport. She was also the first girl at the school to gain the Royal Life Saving … registrar in London and became an FRCS in 1947 – the first New Zealand woman to do so. Her presence, personality and femininity …
Type: Biography
… and Stout. William already had two daughters by his first marriage and the couple were to have one more. … name. Margaret Sievwright was a tall, fine-looking woman with a retiring, sensitive nature that made her averse … president from 1902 to 1904. The aims of this society were, first, to promote the further enfranchisement of women, and …
Type: Biography
… in 1890 with an art class teacher's certificate, the first person to complete this advanced training solely in … of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, having been the first woman appointed to the council in 1893. She was also …
Type: Biography
… success. In 1898, aged 26, he moved to Australia for the first time. For most of his life Sydney was to be his home. … in 1903 despite some inadequacies in the dialogue. His first volume of poems, Māoriland, and other verses , was … tortured by memories of the country and the young Māori woman he left behind. On returning to New Zealand he and …
Type: Biography
… vessels that plied the routes around Cape Horn. When the First World War broke out in 1914, he joined the Royal Navy … on sailing ships in the Pacific Ocean prior to the First World War. In the latter novel the narrator's romantic … also hoping to persuade Phyllis Symonds, a young Taranaki woman then in England (who had provided the basis of the …
Type: Biography