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… owner of a chain of picture theatres in New Zealand. Her first show, Bathie Stuart and her musical maids , was part … reasons she had to make a brief return to New Zealand first. In May 1928 she tried to persuade the Department of … near Laguna Beach, California. A short, youthful-looking woman, she never remarried, although she stated she was 'not …
Type: Biography
… that he was born about 1791 to Jens Hansen Falk and his first wife, Giertrud Homand, who died in 1798. His father married Maria Dorothea Esmann in 1801. He joined his first English ship in about 1809. The whaling trade brought … wife Hine-i-tūrama (Hineatūrama) Ngātiki , a high-ranking woman of Ngāti Whakaue of Te Arawa. They were to have six …
Type: Biography
… espoused liberal positions. The Methodist Church was the first New Zealand church to ordain women as ministers, in … and the Anglicans in 1977. Penelope Jamieson became the first Anglican woman bishop in the world to head a diocese in 1990. Liberal …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… Public anxieties about sex work intensified during the First World War as reports circulated about soldiers’ use of … ‘brothel’ or ‘prostitution’. She once said: ‘Isn’t every woman a prostitute? Married men pay their wives, don’t … provided sexual services from their own homes. These one-woman brothels became increasingly popular with workers …
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Part of story: Sex work
… as a voice that was both mature and fresh. Identified at first with the 1970s upsurge of poetry by women, she was … University College. Student life in Wellington provided her first period of enlightenment, through the stimulus of … later. ‘Sunday night’, from that era, already questions the woman’s obligation to ‘wake and sleep in other people’s …
Type: Biography
… large gatherings in the City Hall theatre. A stern-looking woman with a high collar and hair swept up severely under a … before the November 1893 election she urged every woman to record her vote: 'Let not babies, the wash-tub, or … the Auckland branch of the Women's Political League at the first convention of the National Council of Women of New …
Type: Biography
… little encouragement from his immediate family. He sold his first cartoon to the Observer , an Auckland-based weekly, … Usually known by its original name, the paper was the first of a lively new breed of illustrated weeklies that … , who had been showing obvious bias towards a pretty woman witness, peering slyly from under a blindfold at the …
Type: Biography
… authority over their clergy and lay followers, at first greatly limited the direct national influence of the … you to make the religious interests of the country the first question by voting only for Members of Parliament who … Cunnington in Christchurch was exceptional as an Anglican woman social reformer. When the Education Act 1877 …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… seemed to qualify him, and he was appointed the first pastor. He imagined that the new settlement could … the shape of the church but the journey out with the first group of emigrants rudely awakened him; his shipboard … today for his remarkable daughter, Kate , who was the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university; but he …
Type: Biography
… brothers wanted to marry the capable and attractive young woman. She chose Bendix and returned to her English home for … London. With a partner, J. W. Robertson, he opened Otago's first inland flour mill in 1867 at Kawarau Falls. About the … had entered public life. His partner, Robertson, was the first mayor of Queenstown and Hallenstein followed from 1869 …
Type: Biography
… why he ended up getting kicked by the system. During the First World War he wrote: 'Henry, you Dubb, you are the … while enabling him to extend his propaganda. In his first column, 'Uncle Ted' encouraged children to 'love one … Parliament and achieved distinction as the country's first woman cabinet minister. …
Type: Biography
… and placing a premium on accurate passing. New Zealand’s first artificial surface, eventually known as the National … evolved, hockey equipment became more specialised. It was first played with rough-hewn, wide-hooked wooden sticks and … between 1971 and 1985, was probably New Zealand’s best woman hockey player. …
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Part of story: Hockey
… according to family information on 8 August 1881, the first of two children of Tuta Ngārimu, a sheepfarmer, and … By 1899 she was a beautiful and very accomplished young woman being courted unsuccessfully by Peter Buck , a future … church, and a supporter of the United Party. During the First World War she was a leader of the Eastern Māori …
Type: Biography
… at Dunedin Training College in 1898, graduated MA with first-class honours in mental science in 1899 and entered … at Prince Albert College, Auckland, and two years as first assistant at Southland Girls' High School. In each … and patronising, they treated her as 'a penniless woman with a very sick husband and two small sons' whom they …
Type: Biography
… of the Federation of Labour (FoL). Joyce Hawe, the first Māori woman, followed in 1981. In 1986 a large hui (meeting) of … general election of 1984, restructuring speeded up. For the first time in a century, many unions were suddenly on the …
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Part of story: Unions and employee organisations
… about what they believed to be right. Schooling Having first attended Kelburn Normal School and been home-taught by … for Civil Liberties. In 1976 she was made the Council’s first life member. In 1952 Shirley began studying law at … teach Roman law and constitutional law, she was the first woman appointed to a law faculty in New Zealand. Shirley and …
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… 1885 and 1888. Hikawera recognised Niniwa as the leading woman of her hapū, and entrusted the hapū's treasures, two … and the east coast, usually called Ngā-waka-a-Kupe. It was first adjudicated in the Native Land Court in 1890. Ngāti … women's committees in Wairarapa. Niniwa was a member of the first of these, Te Komiti Wāhine a Hinehauone (or …
Type: Biography
… Mananui considered making peace. Te Rohu, as a high-ranking woman, was able to negotiate a peace acceptable to both … attack Mananui at Waitahanui on the north-eastern shore. At first Mananui thought he would not resist such a … dropped by one of them, stood and defied the enemy. At first she was attacked, but when the leaders of Te Pareihe's …
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… work. In 1885 Mary Leavitt, an evangelist delegate from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the United States of … criminals. The franchise department of the WCTU took the first of three major petitions to Parliament in 1891. The … per cent of all New Zealand women over 21 voted in the first election. New Zealand had become the first country in …
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… strong moral base and pride in herself as a Māori Catholic woman with a social conscience, integrity and an ethical … met American marine Charles Turner at a dance. He was her first love, and Betty relished every moment with him and the … from the daily drudgery of her work. She shifted first to Waipukurau and then to Wellington to be near him. …
Type: Biography