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… Wales, and his wife, Agnes Amelia Hays, an intelligent woman of strong character. The young Agnes enjoyed a happy … the children for England in February 1878. They settled first in Cheltenham, where Agnes attended Cheltenham Ladies' … BSc with honours in geology and biology. Reputed to be the first woman to gain a science degree with honours at the …
Type: Biography
… a natural state, because bearing children was seen as a woman’s primary role in life. This attitude persisted … the baby Pregnancy was a time to participate in woman-centred rituals. Making clothes or shopping were … of Health guidebook, The expectant mother, and baby’s first month , written by Frederic Truby King and published …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… Wood's poems alludes to an event which occurred within the first year of her marriage, possibly the loss of a pastoral … on the staff at the Bendigo goldfield, in Victoria. Their first daughter was baptised at Emerald Hill in 1857. In mid … conditions on the goldfields were not easy for a married woman raising a family. Winters were extreme, housing …
Type: Biography
… decided that they could not cope with another baby, and the woman went to a local abortionist. When abortionists were … men, sought her help. Mona Hamon barely survived. Quinn’s first three attempts to provoke miscarriage by inserting an … white people’. 2 Abortion panic: 1920s–1930s After the First World War abortion became a public issue, debated by …
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Part of story: Abortion
… A. G. Allan. She was dux of the school in 1866 and its first pupil-teacher from 1868 to 1872. Early on she showed … university study. In 1878 Caroline Freeman became the first matriculated woman to enrol at the University of Otago. She continued to …
Type: Biography
… Kate Milligan Edger, the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree, was born … Kate Edger was awarded the degree of bachelor of arts, the first woman in the British Empire to earn this degree. At …
Type: Biography
… future. That is the symbol for us.’ 1 The warrior and the woman The two figures at either side of the shield were … – and redesigned, the Māori made more decorous, the woman more decorative. They no longer stood on an elaborate … was redesigned, Attorney General John Marshall wrote, ‘The first redraft of the design showed the woman … still with …
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Part of story: Coat of arms
… only the men who called at the hotel. When her oldest child first saw a woman alighting from a dray outside the hotel he at once ran … St Patrick's Church was opened in 1872. In 1868 the first post office at Burke Pass opened. John Burgess was …
Type: Biography
… and pathologist at Auckland Hospital, the second woman doctor to hold this position; the first had been Alice Horsley in 1902. Frost remained on the … carried certain risks and was difficult to fill. When first appointed she upgraded the poorly equipped laboratory …
Type: Biography
… in zoology in 1959 and a reader in 1967, becoming the first woman to hold such a position in the science faculty at … and in 1962 she received the rarely given DSc; she was the first woman on the staff of Victoria to receive the degree. …
Type: Biography
… National Council of Churches in New Zealand and she was the first woman to preach in the chapel at Christ’s College, … and in 1958, by then a lieutenant colonel, she became the first Salvation Army woman to be elected dominion president …
Type: Biography
… with St Michael and All Angels. In 1929 she became the first woman to be elected to the vestry, serving until 1955. She … mothers classed as 'moral degenerates'. Cardale was the first delegate from the Canterbury branch of the society to …
Type: Biography
… she married Thomas Caesar Colclough, a farmer of 54 or 55, first in St Peter's Anglican Church then in the Catholic … Ngāruawāhia and Hamilton – an extraordinary activity for a woman at that time. She advocated temperance and improved … minister and father of Kate Edger , the colony's first woman university graduate, was among her strongest …
Type: Biography
… and social concerns. When the Salvation Army held its first meeting in Wellington on 17 June 1883 she was one of the first converts, and she became the first soldier on the roll of the Army's Wellington corps. A stout, motherly woman, always meticulous about wearing her uniform, she is …
Type: Biography
… High School, where she was a founding pupil in 1922. Her first job was in the Agricultural High School’s office, and in 1923 she convened and became first secretary-treasurer of its Old Pupils’ Association. … she was to serve for 21 years – the first 12 as its only woman councillor. Always polite, but forthright and …
Type: Biography
… BA with a Senior Scholarship in botany, and in 1915 MA with first-class honours in botany. Her academic excellence led to her becoming the first New Zealand woman to receive the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship. She also …
Type: Biography
… male players in the 1950s. Evelyn Attwood was the first New Zealand woman to compete at Wimbledon in 1951. Ruia Morrison was the … local players Judy Burke and Sonya Cox. Morrison was the first Māori woman to play at Wimbledon and reached the last …
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Part of story: Tennis
… classes. In December 1906 she became the second New Zealand woman to be admitted to the Bar and, three years later, the second to establish herself in sole practice; the first had been Ethel Benjamin . With her professional career … at which the NCW was formally reconstituted. She became the first president and was nine times president of the Auckland …
Type: Biography
… the 1840s to the 1870s there were seven live births per woman – which meant almost nine for married women. These … and therefore had lower fertility – about two births per woman fewer. Declining fertility Pākehā fertility rates … in the 19th century. Pākehā women in New Zealand were the first group in the world to achieve a life expectancy of 55 …
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Part of story: Population change
… the songs so as to discover the nature of the spirit of womankind (as expressed) in the songs they composed.’ 1 … of mana wahine is the customary practice of karanga, the first cry of welcome on the marae. Dr Tutere Wi Repa, in an … te wahine e powhiri te manuwhiri, ka maru’ 3 (the mana of woman’s voice is ancient ... the woman welcomes visitors, …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women