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… Owen Stanley at the flag-raising of 1840, and was the first Pakeha to travel up the river Avon in 1843. Abner's mother was Puai of Ngai Tahu, a 'powerful big woman' who lived at Akaroa. She was the young widow of Reka, …
Type: Biography
… in Marton and in 1948 earned the distinction of being the first woman appointed to the Ngā Tawa school board. In 1946 …
Type: Biography
… man is said to have jumped ship in 1810 to marry a Māori woman. One man was living with his Māori wife in the Bay of … possibilities. Occupations and destinations These first immigrants were often sojourners rather than settlers: …
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Part of story: Indians
… years. Magill, principal of Thorndon Normal School, was the first woman president of the New Zealand Educational Institute …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… January 1835. On 20 May 1835 Henry Williams baptised their first child, Joseph, and over the next 20 years they had 12 … already acquired. As for Faulkner, Ruawahine's status as a woman of mana and as a landowner gave him the protection and …
Type: Biography
… probably in 1862. Marianne Gittos was the only European woman in the district, and with her husband often absent on … skill as an apiarist, and is said to have been the first person to introduce the frame that made commercial …
Type: Biography
… Christchurch area, and was said to be living with another woman in the only known brothel in Kaiapoi. Her life was … Ellen Parkinson, who had come to Canterbury in one of the first four ships, were each convicted and fined 30s., plus …
Type: Biography
… widely believed that she had lived in the town since the First World War, and that her mind had been affected by her … and that she was simply a proud, independent and lonely woman, estranged from her family, who sought company at the …
Type: Biography
… done service as a hotel and then as a presbytery, was their first home and on the day after their arrival they answered … and in other parts of Otago and Southland. She was a woman of great faith, vision and courage. She died at the …
Type: Biography
… others heading for the field. As they trudged along, an old woman told them that they would never get their cart to the … Mary Elizabeth Coombe in St Mary's Church, Wallaroo. Their first child was born in 1874. Lawn soon crossed the Tasman …
Type: Biography
… was appointed national librarian. She was not only the first woman national librarian in New Zealand, but also in the …
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Part of story: Libraries
… do men die). Rise and distribution of pā Pā seem to have first appeared in New Zealand around the 1500s. There are … rongo wahine, he tatau pounamu’ (a peace secured by a woman is as lasting as a peace from tatau pounamu.) Peace on …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… port in the 1950s. An impatient patient A Northland woman was not happy with her treatment at Mangōnui hospital. … claimed as the site where the Polynesian explorer Kupe first landed. A monument at Taipā marks the spot of this …
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Part of story: Northland places
… and housekeeper to eight children. Catherine Ralfe's first holiday was taken in 1882 in Taranaki with her brother … the lives of colonial women: Catherine Ralfe's as a single woman and that of her sister-in-law as a wife and mother. …
Type: Biography
… these years they had eight more children. When the family first moved into the asylum in November 1863 they shared the … her dying son, Henry Edward, and took in a young unmarried woman during her pregnancy. Esther Seager died in …
Type: Biography
… Internet earthquake The Darfield earthquake was the first in New Zealand in which social media were used to … Damage There were few serious injuries, although one woman, Lillian Daniels-Witika, suffered a fatal heart attack …
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Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… of various plants. 18th-century Māori health When Europeans first visited New Zealand, the average age of death for … a handful of ‘green celery’ and covered with a mat, which a woman then squatted on. Cook believed it was probably meant …
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Part of story: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants
… January 1886 Mariano Vella married Mary Ida Furse, a young woman of English birth whose father was, like Mariano, a … Mariano sailed to and from the island on most days. At first he devoted his energy to stocking the island's 525 …
Type: Biography
… compleat angler , and edited an angling journal. William first went to school about 1866 in Highgate. From there he … one the angling journal edited by Thomas. The firm, first W. Satchell, Peyton and Company, later W. Satchell and … Maimed Man figure, he is restored to health by a woman who is a nurse before she is a lover. (She was, …
Type: Biography
… the event did signal a new confidence. Glittering gowns The first Gown of the Year contest in 1958 left watchers awed: … Auckland-based. These designers catered for the well-heeled woman and did not appeal to teenage baby-boomers who were … to an end in the 1980s. Textile designers William Mason’s first textiles appeared in the late 1940s, when he was an …
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Part of story: Fashion and textile design