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… War Foreign flags were burned in New Zealand during the First World War (1914–18). German flags hoisted by a … Sir Bernard Fergusson had just arrived to open. The woman’s protest was political – she was objecting to New … and Australian flags at Parliament in 2003. He was the first (and to date only) person prosecuted under the Flags, …
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Part of story: Flags
… to further the temperance cause by establishing the first lodge of the Good Templars there. It is not known when … Marion and Joseph Hatton arrived in New Zealand, but Marion first publicly identified herself with the campaign for the … furtherance of all those claims by which we seek to place woman in her rightful position amongst men.' There was also …
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… better than that of Māori. Health transitions The 19th and first half of the 20th centuries saw a major improvement in … for Māori women. It followed earlier transitions. The first, during the 19th century, was from relatively good … Before European arrival, life expectancy for a Māori woman at birth was about 28 to 30 years – this matched life …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… Drama League and the English-Speaking Union. During the First World War Amy Kane was active in, and wrote about, … them faithfully for another 20 years and in 1963 was the first New Zealand woman to complete 100,000 flying miles. Amy Kane developed …
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… of the founders of literary modernism during and after the First World War. Mansfield’s place in literary history is … in the avant-garde magazine Rhythm , including ‘ The woman at the store ’ and ‘ How Pearl Button was kidnapped ’. … after the death of her brother Leslie in 1915 during the First World War, as a deliberate act of homage. They form …
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Part of story: Fiction
… (her husband often stayed away in the city), she wrote her first novel, The pea pickers. It won the 1940 Australian S. … Italian cobber that she is really Oscar Wilde reborn as a woman. That year Langley claimed that she had changed her … arrival in New Zealand. They are, like The pea pickers , first-person narratives beginning with Eve/Steve’s arrival …
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… at Drummoyne, Sydney, before returning to Dunedin. Their first son was born in December that year. Within the … Corps later in the war. It was unusual enough for a married woman to be working under these circumstances, let alone the … children's health camp. Prior to the opening of the first camp in January 1933 she badgered a variety of …
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… for the Auckland Weekly News. She claimed to be the first woman on the staff of Wilson and Horton, who also published … was now working for the Auckland Weekly News . During the First World War Katrine Mackay ran a tea kiosk in Parnell, …
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… reflects Pākehā conceptions of the ideal love story. The first feature film ever made in New Zealand was Hinemoa … love nonetheless.) Wiremu Maihi Te Rangikāheke produced the first written version of this story in 1849, which includes … love as their theme. This is the lament of an East Coast woman for the husband who had deserted her: Kāore hoki e te …
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Part of story: Love and romance
… south Invercargill. In 1909 Annie Cleland Millar bought her first motor vehicle, a Cadillac, for deliveries and family … Millar died in 1913. Three of Annie's sons served in the First World War, and the youngest was killed. During the war … of Annie in old age shows a kindly, plain-looking woman, a little bowed as she takes support from a carved …
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… a Waikato chief, and Heke-i-te-rangi, a Ngāti Maniapoto woman, eloped. When their tribes were reconciled at a great … an important Māori settlement for centuries. In 1858 the first Māori king, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, was crowned there, … freezing works further south, or commute to Hamilton. The first annual Ngāruawāhia Regatta, featuring Māori cultural …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… organised European settlement began. Supply problems The first Pākehā settlers encountered a few vexing, and probably … was taken over by the New Zealand Company in 1843. The first two ships arrived on Ngāmotu beach, Port Taranaki, … and dairy entrepreneur Chew Chong, married a European woman, Elizabeth Whatton, in 1875 – a time when such an …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… which had been established by Caroline Freeman, the first woman student from the University of Otago to graduate. … graduating BA in 1890. In 1891 she returned to Girton as first assistant, eventually becoming co-principal. She …
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… had became Christian. Te Kakapi herself, now a young woman, was baptised there about this time, taking the name … negotiated with Pehi Tūtepākihirangi, who declined the first offer of a greenstone mere. He would agree to restore … to a Wairarapa man, Īhaka Ngāhiwi of Ngāti Kōmuka, and at first lived at Ngāpuke, east of Lake Wairarapa. She died on …
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… women’s rights valued differences between women and men. Woman’s place was seen as domestic: she was mother and … in charge of home and family, and sometimes of business. First moves: 1860s and early 1870s ‘Femmina’ and ‘Polly … Union (WCTU). 1890s In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women (both Pākehā and …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… on 11 January 1865, and ordained in May. He then became the first Presbyterian minister to the goldfields town of … singing of the psalms in worship, was, most unusually, a woman; after failing to 'adhere to tunes more familiar to … Chinese. In 1871 Copland left the goldfields to become the first Presbyterian minister at North Dunedin. His …
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… sent for his fiancée, Mary Augusta Franklin, an Irish-born woman whom he had first met in Auckland. They were married at Onehunga on 19 … to build the brewery and start it operating. Mary and the first three of their six children accompanied him. The first …
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… until her retirement from teaching in 1912. She became first assistant in 1889 and was acting lady principal for a … Latin and English, established the school magazine and was first president of the debating club. An active cyclist and … in equal pay for equal work. 'It is quite true that a woman manages to live on less than a man because her wants …
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… of it was produced by Roger Hall, who made New Zealand’s first television comedy show, In view of the c ircumstances, … successful plays such as Glide t ime (1976), which was first adapted for radio and then for television as the … featuring other comedians including Annie Whittle, the only woman on the show, screened from 1977 to 1979. With further …
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Part of story: Humour
… vessel in the Orient trade by the age of 19 and gaining his first command, part-owned, in 1831. He sailed first to South America, Africa and India, and then in May … Rhodes had one daughter, Mary Ann, with an unknown Maori woman. Rhodes's pastoral empire eventually extended far …
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