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… was of Te Rarawa and Taranaki descent. Whina was the first child of her father’s second marriage. Another … four half-brothers and three half-sisters from Heremia’s first family. Growing up at Te Karaka and, from 1904, the … In April 1947 she became (as far as is known) the first woman elected president of a rugby union branch. In 1949 she …
Type: Biography
… Bishop of Dunedin from 1990 to 2004, was the world’s first Anglican diocesan woman bishop the introduction of A New Zealand prayer b ook: …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… involved in the voluntary-aid nursing programme during the First World War, when she was sent to Rotorua to work at the … She became a councillor in December 1947 – the second woman to be elected in Hamilton. When she retired some 24 …
Type: Biography
… championship final alternates between the two islands. Fast woman One of New Zealand’s rare female motor sport champions … amongst owners’ of the British-made Jowett cars. A Jowett first arrived in New Zealand in 1916. From 1948 two-cylinder …
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Part of story: Motor sport
… Wakefield developed his ideas on colonisation and wrote his first essay on the subject while in prison for abducting a young woman. He had no personal experience of life in the colonies …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… support for the nurses were scarce, especially during the First World War. Consequently the Department of Public … nurses, wrote that it was 'an unequalled example of what a woman can accomplish if she so desires'. The district …
Type: Biography
… be relatives of the mantis. If either of these landed on a woman it signified she was pregnant, and which insect it was … story of Rātā, who cut down a tree to build a canoe without first paying respect to Tāne, the insects gathered each chip …
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Part of story: Stick insects
… of Colonel T. W. Porter and Herewaka Porourangi Potae, a woman of high rank in Te Whanau-a-Apanui. Isabelle's older … and through Buxton's arranged the distribution of the first commercial seed. He encouraged local farmers to grow …
Type: Biography
… in the area. She was also a descendant of the great woman Waimirirangi, who had a son, Tamatea, and a daughter, … of Te Rēinga. Just before Ngā-kahu-whero was to have their first child, she went north to Whāngāpē, accompanied by …
Type: Biography
… by the ASA between 1952 and 1956, and organised the first Australian contemporary art exhibition in Auckland. … for an international hotel group. Alison Pickmere was a woman of forthright good nature, with a quiet sense of …
Type: Biography
… in April 1952. The tall, thin, silver-haired German woman was 50 years old. Over the next decade Ilse von Randow … to establish the Handweavers’ Guild and was appointed its first vice president. She also began preparing for an …
Type: Biography
… In south Canterbury, Jeanie Collier was the country’s first recorded woman pastoralist. In the harsh Mackenzie Country, Scots …
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Part of story: Scots
… in Gisborne, 'where he is thought to have got a young woman into trouble', Savage travelled south, broke off all … and German trenches, mapping the German defences for the first New Zealand trench raids. In July 1916 he received …
Type: Biography
… the victim of ill will because she had been a puhi (a young woman of rank whose marriage was important to her people), … Taamorangi Tiahuia Taiuru Te Rango. After her birth, her first name was altered to Rangitaamo. She and her parents … at Pūtiki marae, and Rangitaamo also worked there. At first this was behind the scenes in the kitchen and dining …
Type: Biography
… built a successful practice at a time when there were few woman doctors. Her absolute belief in the sanctity of life … which her biological changes may bring about during the first trimester.’ 1 She came to believe that no abortion … for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC). She was first approached by the organisation in the early 1970s when …
Type: Biography
… Cook Islands. His mother, Teu Bosini, was a Rarotongan woman married to a Pākehā New Zealander, John Archibald (Jock) Campbell, who, haunted by his First World War experiences, had settled in the Pacific and … in Wellington intermittently from 1944 to 1952. He had first experimented with poetry at secondary school and began …
Type: Biography
… not strictly dramatic. Colonisation metaphor Allen Curnow’s first play, The axe – a verse tragedy , debuted in 1948 at … of New Zealand, and it has been described as the first significant full-length New Zealand play of the 20th … 1982) Vincent O’Sullivan ( Shuriken , 1985) Witi Ihimaera ( Woman far walking , 2000) Albert Wendt ( The songmaker’s …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… and women in marriage, the centrality of motherhood to a woman's concept of herself, female sexuality and women's … She helped to found the Writers' League (and was its first president in 1935), and became friends with prominent … in the existing order. A 'vivid, valiant and temerarious' woman, Jean Devanny overcame many of the obstacles to women …
Type: Biography
… the birth rate for Pākehā women had dropped to 3.5 per woman because women married later and were more likely to … sex. Family composition While the number of births per woman dropped in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, … money – she would always give it, always. But she was the first in the family and when her father died she took over. …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… were barely 100,000 Māori in New Zealand when James Cook first visited in 1769, and demographers estimate the … in the mid-19th century and rose from 4.5 births per woman in 1844 to 6.1 in 1886. They remained around this … the Māori rate hovered between 5.9 and 6.9 births per woman between 1901 and 1961. After this the rate steadily …
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Part of story: Population change