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… from parents and teachers and continued suspicion of a woman doctor, Baker's vitality and good-humoured pragmatism … children's health camps movement. In 1923 she hosted the first annual meeting of the New Zealand Medical Women's Association , becoming one of its first three vice presidents. While little is known of …
Type: Biography
… at the New Zealand Geological Survey, Fleming devised the first comprehensive idea of New Zealand’s biogeography. In … science. Otago University established the country’s first marine laboratory at Portobello, directed by marine … Among them was Kathleen Curtis, the first New Zealand woman to gain a doctor of science degree. In the 1980s …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… Bridget (Delia) Megley. By November 1864 he had risen to first class detective, equivalent in rank to first class sergeant. Farrell conducted surveillance over … himself while in uniform to be beaten by an old woman with a decayed fowl'. At last required to resign, he …
Type: Biography
… 1871, Invercargill property owners elected the town’s first council. In 1876, the provinces were abolished, and … from Southland. 699 Southlanders lost their lives in the First World War, 638 in the Second World War and two each in … as Invercargill’s mayor from 1983 to 1992. She is the only woman to have held the office, and the city’s only Jewish …
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Part of story: Southland region
… voted to accept women in church government, and the first women elders attended the 1957 general assembly. In 1964 women were admitted into the ministry and the first woman minister, Margaret Martin, was ordained the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Presbyterian Church
… Bill met Margery (Peggy) Lampkin Wills, a spirited young woman who had worked in a munitions factory during the First World War and completed a training course in the dairy … of motor races in his 1914 Sunbeam and in 1925 became the first driver in Australasia to exceed 100 miles per hour; in …
Type: Biography
… university years. His legal studies were cut short by the First World War, which he thoroughly enjoyed. He led a … Leary mounted a successful defence of automatism for the first time in New Zealand, or in any common law … Bayly and Edward Te Whiu, who brutally murdered an elderly woman in her home, were the only two people defended by …
Type: Biography
… she was 12 she was out working to assist her family. Her first job was in the office of Stone, Son and Company in … , she and her family moved to Gisborne shortly before the First World War. Beeban and her sister Lillian were the main … at Ohingaiti, aptly named Beverly Hills. Still a glamorous woman, tall and straight-backed, she maintained her lifelong …
Type: Biography
… Columbia, the University of Tennessee appointed her its first professor of home economics. In addition to her … Otago University Home Science Alumnae and was elected its first vice president. With Helen Rawson and a home science … for her efforts to bring home science education to every woman, and was largely responsible for the home science …
Type: Biography
… profession. Catherine Mann had qualified as New Zealand's first female joiner in 1985, three years after she began her … joined Naylor Love’s Wood Joinery Division, becoming the first female employee in its 75-year history. In 2005 … the Waikato regional final, Jess Nielsen became the first woman to place in the two-decade history of the Registered …
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Part of story: Building and construction industry
… achieved in such isolated conditions. Blanche Baughan The first European New Zealander to write a poem of genuine … was Blanche Baughan . A well-educated, adventurous woman with a degree in Greek and an interest in mysticism, … Cashmere became the setting for her best-known poems. These first appeared (under the pseudonym Evelyn Hayes) in From a …
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Part of story: Poetry
… her mother or brothers read, Maria read also. As a young woman Maria was reserved, her affections centred on her … which in terms of equality was unusual for the age. At first the whole party lived at close quarters on the small … established. Setting to rights engaged Maria's attention at first. She worked with an explosive energy, cooking …
Type: Biography
… physiology from 1923 to 1927, thereby becoming one of the first women academics to work at Otago Medical School. … experimental pharmacology at Otago Medical School. When the first Labour government established the Medical Research … children on the Board of Health, of which she was the sole woman member, from 1937 to 1965. The nutrition committee …
Type: Biography
… His mother was Peti Hurene or Elizabeth Brown, also a woman of high rank. The marriage, celebrated in the Tauranga … 15 June 1896, was regarded as momentous. It was one of the first important marriages between high-ranking families from … and added another huia feather to her toque. During the First World War Te Rongokahira again became involved in …
Type: Biography
… with the Canterbury Society of Arts, and in 1932 she first exhibited with The Group. These remained the primary … diary, documenting the inner life of this very private woman. In 1951 Angus returned to Christchurch, where she … rest of her life. In 1957, at the age of 49, Angus had her first solo exhibition, at Wellington’s Architectural Centre …
Type: Biography
… to the Girls' Provincial School. The high standards of womanly propriety and service set by the first headmistress, Margaret Burn, gave Anna ideals by which … Family and domestic responsibilities, which Anna put first, limited what she could do for herself and for the …
Type: Biography
… were still living in a Christchurch boarding house, their first son, Hopton Napier, was born. Soon after, they moved … in 1873. Here, in the same entertaining style as in her first book, Mary Anne Barker writes of the pleasures of … from the point of view of an upper middle class Englishwoman, whose experience was in some ways atypical, Station …
Type: Biography
… the cause of peace and arbitration during the council's first years from 1896 to 1906. She consistently articulated … until she died there aged 95 on 26 January 1944. A tiny woman, 'perfect in her speech', her public profile was low …
Type: Biography
… 1911 coat of arms In 1911 New Zealand was for the first time granted its own coat of arms, an act recognising … flanked by a Māori warrior on one side and a European woman on the other. While the contemporary shield has a more …
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Part of story: Coat of arms
… whaling community in the south. He formed a liaison with a woman called Puna, a close relative of Taiaroa . The … of the legendary figure's squaring up to the arrival of the first policeman and 'inviting him to a friendly trial on the …
Type: Biography