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… Victoria School for Māori Girls in Auckland. As a young woman, Mere embarked on her musical career, guided by F. A. … superintendent of the Māori mission at Rotorua (later first bishop of Aotearoa), who for many years organised …
Type: Biography
… Later she visited London, and was a reporter on the first turbo-jet passenger plane to cross the English Channel … These books led to a radio documentary on Gordon, ‘Woman with a sword’. Produced by Blake for both the New …
Type: Biography
… earliest successes was a trotter named Star, which won the first race at the inaugural meeting of the Ashburton … 7 February 1921. This tall, thin, rather stately woman was widely respected for her extraordinary equestrian …
Type: Biography
… She died on 18 May 1977 in Christchurch. She was the first New Zealand woman academic staff member to have a distinctive influence …
Type: Biography
… 25 miles around the coast with the baby on her back. The first night was spent in a shepherd's hut and the second … Anglican and read her Bible every night. A small, robust woman, she kept alert in mind and remained vigorous into her …
Type: Biography
… homeland British. One such term was the ‘colonial’ – at first this meant simply a person living in the British … A stereotype was emerging of the white colonial man or woman who was adaptable and physically strong, but lacked …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: The New Zealanders
… in Auckland to cater for all classes of women. She was first speaker in a deputation from the NZSPWC to Peter … its proposals were carried out, giving every pregnant woman a doctor and hospital service under the newly enacted …
Type: Biography
… a disappointed man, and died in Paris three years later. First Irish Bishops The Vatican authorities soon recognised … to selling tribal land. The Shan van Vocht, or the ‘old woman’, is a symbol of Ireland. Hurrah for Tawhiao Says the …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… James Joseph Kelly regarded himself as first an Irishman, then a Catholic, then a Christian. He … he described Queen Victoria as a 'certain fat old German woman'. Kelly's strident advocacy was one factor in the rise …
Type: Biography
… of King George VI; and attended as an observer her first International Council of Nurses meeting. On the way … to high standards of nursing and behaviour. A short, plump woman, she had a commanding presence as she 'bustled with …
Type: Biography
… through whakapapa. Tāne, the god of the forest, shaped the first woman, Hineahuone, from soil and took her as his wife. They …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… were faced with the long haul of the dead whale tail-first back to land, perhaps in rough wintry weather. As a … ‘spuds’ for potatoes, ‘weed’ for tobacco, a ‘heifer’ for a woman, a ‘titter’ for a girl, and a ‘squeaker’ for a child. …
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Part of story: Whaling
… turned to Christianity and was baptised by Don in 1896, the first and possibly the sole convert Don had made on his … next year. Returning to Canton in 1906 he married a young woman named P'oon Saam Koo on 17 February. Both joined the …
Type: Biography
… Sydenham in Parliament, Mabel Howard, was the country’s first woman cabinet minister. Many historic commercial buildings, …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… emerged in Rangitīkei. In the early 1900s a Ngāti Apa woman, Mere Rikiriki, established a spiritual centre at … $20 million, this settlement included a right of first refusal to buy RNZAF Base Ohakea, the Bulls Police …
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Part of story: Ngāti Apa
… children lessons in Māori poi and stick games. She was the first national housekeeping secretary of the Women’s … notebooks now housed in the Whanganui Regional Museum. A woman of ‘strong and independent character’, she was …
Type: Biography
… Trunks full of trinkets In the 1890s and early 1900s many first- and second-generation Lebanese men were hawkers and … back roads of rural Otago, Southland and Canterbury. As a woman hawker, Saada Bacos stood out. She plied Central …
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Part of story: Middle Eastern peoples
… The first department stores Department stores developed in Great … in 1898 witnessed the store’s most dramatic moment. A woman stood up, drew a revolver from under her cloak and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Department stores and shopping malls
… an active interest in many organisations. She was the first woman member of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… In December he was chosen by Hobson to become the first chief constable at Auckland, which was to be the new … warrant, he accidentally injured with his sword Kohu, a woman of rank from Kawiti's hapu. Her brother, Hori Kingi …
Type: Biography