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… three major difficulties during his 10 years as director. First, the wooden museum building erected in 1865 was by … staff in 1907 to care for the collection of insects – the first entomologist in a New Zealand museum and the first woman appointed in a professional role. She held the …
Type: Biography
… person. In 2004 the most read magazine was the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly . Computer and video games are popular, and … range from multinational chains such as McDonald’s (the first outlet opened in Porirua in June 1976) to a huge array … considerably over time. For half a century after the First World War, the six o’clock closing of pubs restricted …
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Part of story: Sports and leisure
… concerns. In Dunedin in 1889 Harriet Morison became the first vice president of the Tailoresses' Union of New … employees and home-workers in Dunedin. The union was the first organisation to represent female workers in New … manage ambulance classes for women. She edited the 'Working woman's corner' in the Globe newspaper from January to March …
Type: Biography
… age of 17. During his apprenticeship he formed and led the first brass band in Samoa. Returning to Safune, he had a daughter by a woman named Leata, but on 21 July 1909 married Rosabel Edith … business. He profited from the high copra prices during the First World War and in 1920, when New Zealand expelled …
Type: Biography
… to the crisis. The result was the organisation of the first Rugby World Cup, in New Zealand and Australia, in 1987 … they defeated both England and Australia in tests for the first time, and in the 1980s they won series against … British Opens. She became in 1998 the youngest New Zealand woman to become a dame. Also in 1986, Ross Norman won the …
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Part of story: Sport and the nation
… and some farmers left to fight overseas during the First World War. The government bought town sections to … Te Kūiti on the western slopes of the Rangitoto Range. The first European settlers arrived in 1904. Rangitoto School … to the Waitomo Caves had to be made of stern stuff. A woman who visited the Glow-worm Cave in 1902 wrote: ‘Most of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country places
… prospect of their own organisation. Within seven months the first 10 branches of the New Zealand Women’s Christian … Temperance Union (WCTU) were formed. It was the country’s first national women’s organisation. Women’s zeal Many men … your own destiny, in faith and love, in earnest zeal and womanly tenderness,’ wrote the Temperance Herald . Delighted …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… reading was taught around the world. 1 One of New Zealand’s first echelon of senior female professors, her career … the mid-to-late twentieth century was that of a scholarly woman and mother ‘sailing’ against the tide of societal … of children learning to read and write during their first year of school. Marie found that by the age of six …
Type: Biography
… baptism register he was the father of a child born to a woman called Harakoi in 1834, but nothing else is known of the woman or child. In 1837 Maning sold Kohukohu, a transaction … to European colonisation and government was ambivalent at first. He spoke against the Treaty of Waitangi when …
Type: Biography
… men to register their preparedness to serve in the First World War – he was committed to rejecting the war both … Canterbury College, and her mother, Helen Connon , was the first woman in the British Empire to take a degree with honours. …
Type: Biography
… smelt of rum, and the very tea smelt of rum; and the woman who brought the things into the room smelt of rum, and … like sherry and port which had more powerful effects. At first most alcohol was imported and had to be carried … four times the UK level. Beer consumption was under half. First brews The very first beer made in New Zealand was …
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Part of story: Alcohol
… Croydon, Surrey, England, the son of Louisa Jane Harton, a woman of force and character, and her husband, William … Fiordland. He was awarded a Senior Scholarship and in 1899 first-class honours in mental and moral philosophy. After … council to provide an additional £50 to establish the first psychological laboratory in Australasia. Later, …
Type: Biography
… the Auckland Regional Botanical Gardens. She was among the first women employed in the scientific public service. Early … build up his scientific staff he was prepared to appoint a woman as a temporary employee in the place of a man of … a lot longer to break into this male bastion. Dingley’s first task, in collaboration with mycologist Raymond M. …
Type: Biography
… Forrest from further mountaineering, and she became the first woman member of the newly formed New Zealand Alpine Club. A … shortly afterwards. Malcolm was, however, part of the first traverse (and fourth ascent) of the mountain in 1906. …
Type: Biography
… of educational films in the 1950s and 1960s, and one of the first western film-makers to visit Communist China. Some of … and highlighted discrimination against Māori. As a Māori woman, she was a doubly unique figure in an industry … an international sale to the United Kingdom, Rudall’s first. A review compared Ramai to Hollywood star Dorothy …
Type: Biography
… gain a higher salary. Canadian John Davy was appointed the first head of Māori Television before he was exposed as a … Marry me New Zealand’s most infamous con artist was a woman. Tasmanian Amy Bock settled in Auckland and engaged in … 1890s. In Dunedin in 1909 she even managed to marry a young woman by pretending to be a wealthy man before being charged …
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Part of story: Dishonesty crime
… index A – I K – P R – T U –W A – I ariki first-born male or female of a family of senior rank aroha … invocation; Christian prayers kaumātua elder, senior man or woman, community leader kawa tribal protocol followed on a … piupiu waist-to-knees garment made of flax puhi young woman of rank reserved for arranged marriage; virgin pūkana …
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… of Werawera, the father of Te Rauparaha , and his first wife, Waitāoro. Her father was Rāniera of Ngāti Tama. … headband. Later Waitāoro settled at Pukearuhe. As a mature woman she became a respected elder of her people, sometimes … She was unable to read or write, but was a very shrewd woman in business. She was looked after in her declining …
Type: Biography
… 18 Emery had managed to save enough money to marry a young woman from Rotoiti, Kataraina Te Urumahue Kātene, the … his in-laws in establishing the house Rākeiao, and where he first became interested in the systematic development of … the beginning of the Emery Transport Company, was the first regular bus service to run between Rotoiti and …
Type: Biography
… social institutions which had been established before the First World War remained central to the country town. When … ‘The village settlers have got rid of a nuisance at last. A woman who has been living in the Short Road left yesterday …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Country towns