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… a nightmare for her, desperately seasick and pregnant; the first of her nine children (five daughters and four sons) … proposed a vote of thanks to its advocates in parliament. Woman, she said, has 'a right to equality with man in the … to an elaborate garden party for 500 guests. She was a woman of great intelligence as well as wide humanity, and …
Type: Biography
… and was often referred to as Mrs Caughey Smith. As a woman of Christian conviction as well as considerable means … Marianne also gave two parks to the people of Auckland. The first, named Quinton Park after Quinton Castle in … her rather elusive character. She was regarded as a frugal woman who was shrewd with money. She was very devout and …
Type: Biography
… outlined a four-step strategy for architectural success: firstly, find out what the client wants; secondly, give it … and Patricia Grace. Eve (1966–75). In the tradition of Woman To-day , the monthly focused on topical social issues … at a different market than popular magazines such as the Woman’s Weekly , and ran national Businesswoman of the Year …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… attention was paid to the flapper, the young, unchaperoned woman who wore her hair short, swallowed illegal liquor, … income shrank. However, the wealthier patronised the first ‘nightclubs’: private entertainment clubs with a … the patrons being members of the club’. 3 Wellington’s first nightclub, the Crow’s Nest in Island Bay, opened its …
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Part of story: Nightclubs
… in 1912 to continue her studies in London. She found her first few months touring and painting in Britain truly … in London she exhibited mainly at women's art venues; her first positive review came from the 1917 Society of Women … and artistically incapacitated. A reserved and modest woman, Edith Collier produced less and less as she got …
Type: Biography
… the school and its masters'. Janet Firth, an imposing woman almost six feet tall, was a tower of strength in the … of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial Committee. The First World War took a heavy toll of his strength; more than … Wellington College Old Boys' War Memorial Hall which he had first proposed a decade earlier. He died at Wellington on 13 …
Type: Biography
… pregnancy was announced. However, many were not, as one woman’s recollection encapsulates: ‘I know now my son’s … Even their ethnicity was sometimes recorded incorrectly. At first the Māori Land Court continued to register Māori … within their family group, and this was in fact their first mokopuna [grandchild]. They pleaded, then they went to …
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Part of story: Adoption
… then described in the context of imaginative writing. Her first book, The Sun's babies , was published in 1910 to … set up to inquire into the education of girls had only one woman on it, she remarked that 'the astounding egoism of the … philosophy. This book was based on articles which first appeared in the New Zealand Herald. In The great …
Type: Biography
… activities. In special cases a promising young man or woman would be taken aside for private tuition. Pei Te … It was also traditional for grandparents to raise the first grandchild, whose first-born status meant it was important for the child to be …
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Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… the family cemetery at the Bay of Islands. Maketū was the first person hanged by legal process in New Zealand. … justice to convict and execute the European murderer of a woman, Rangihoua Kuika, at Wairau in April 1843, despite … Maketū's surrender, trial and execution were the first major test of the application of British law to a …
Type: Biography
… – the automatic minimum non-parole period is 17 years. First and last executions The first person judicially executed in New Zealand was Maketū … hanged before it was finally abolished in 1961. Only one woman was executed in New Zealand – Williamina (Minnie) Dean …
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Part of story: Violent crime
… Pieri Nerli, and his wife Henrietta Medwin, an Englishwoman whose father was a minor literary figure in Byron's … Joel and, notably, Frances Hodgkins. In Australia Nerli at first studied and exhibited in Melbourne, but making little … Dr D. M. Stuart' (chancellor of the University of Otago and first minister of Knox Church), which was presented to Otago …
Type: Biography
… Although phonographs were still rare, he received his first record when he was six. He attended Wellington … his anonymity. From early 1938 he added a theme tune, ‘Woman on my weary mind’, recorded by Bob Crosby. Pearce had … and prescient; even as a 75-year-old, he acclaimed the first LP by the American punk band the Ramones. He retained …
Type: Biography
… later to be known as Huntly. The family moved there and at first lived in a raupo hut; after a time they established … She had been born at Auckland in 1857 and as a young woman had entered a convent. She moved north, it seems, to … known as the most astute member of the family. One of her first actions was to look into the affairs of the coalmining …
Type: Biography
… Roroa , a magistrate's court assessor and a member of the first Hokianga County Council. Her mother, Mere Hira, was a … Russell, and the nephew of Frederick Nene Russell, the first MHR for Northern Māori. Initially living on Mārama's … medium build, with thick wavy hair, Mārama was a handsome woman whose natural dignity was clearly displayed by her …
Type: Biography
… A particularly fine takapau might be woven for a high-born woman to give birth on. Coarse tāpaki mats were placed over … vital to traditional Māori society. Rourou were often the first production of a novice weaver. They were made of … (kete whakairo) was woven by a skilled weaver expecting her first child. A special chant was used to invoke the help of …
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Part of story: Māori weaving and tukutuku – te raranga me te whatu
… one of his father’s assistants in organising surveys, first dealing with objections from within the tribe and … to create social, economic and political alliances. His first wife was Kiha, a daughter of Tūroa Pekatū, a prominent … Takurua’s next wife was Te Hererīpine Peene (Biddle), a woman of rank of Te Māhurehure hapū in Rūātoki and Te …
Type: Biography
… others in the Colonial Reform Society, of which he became first secretary in 1850. He also toyed briefly with the idea … reached Lyttelton on 16 December 1850, FitzGerald was the first to leap ashore. On arrival FitzGerald was appointed … and various other charities. She was a well-educated woman, spoke several languages and was a competent painter …
Type: Biography
… Carmen Rupe was a trailblazing transgender woman and entertainer, a larger-than-life personality, sex … the Mosgiel Woollen Mills, near Dunedin. There she had her first relationship with a man, and enjoyed performing the … at the 1989 Auckland Mardi Gras and attending New Zealand’s first transgender conference in the early 2000s. She …
Type: Biography
… in many families wives assisted husbands with their work. First marriage The first European marriage celebrated in New Zealand was … with breach of promise by the abandoned party (invariably a woman), and often had to pay financial compensation. Breach …
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Part of story: Marriage and partnering