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… Imperial Military Nursing Service, working during the First World War in Egypt and Palestine. She spent 13 months … districts. Small and dynamic, she was known as 'the little woman in the Model T Ford'. When necessary, she travelled by …
Type: Biography
… Cherrington (Keretene), who, in 1903, became probably the first member of Ngāti Hine to be ordained an Anglican … on others in land, marital and religious matters. A big woman in later life, she laid down the law to her family, …
Type: Biography
… greenstone and other taonga (treasures). During the First World War she opened her homes to Māori troops. In … Maori , an account of the customs of Te Arawa tribe from a woman’s point of view, was published posthumously in 1938. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori overseas
… of the whalers present were Māori. Sex trade At the time of first European contact, a trade in sex began. Apart from the case of a puhi (a woman required to remain chaste for a diplomatic marriage), …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… Agricultural and Pastoral Association published the first farming paper, the New Zealand Country Journal , from … independence and home help. The N ew Zealand Countrywoman ran from 1933 to 1991. It was succeeded by Rural Woman , from 1991 to 2002, and Rural Women New Zealand , …
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Part of story: Rural media
… cloth from a tailor in Bingham, Nottinghamshire. Rouse was first incarcerated on Norfolk Island, then from 1847 in the … including 'Napoleonism', 'Evolution', 'Kremation' and 'Womans Riets or Mision'. Some of his articles were published …
Type: Biography
… Although Harper was innovative with technology (she was the first Auckland photographer to use fluorescent lighting), … and attractive, Amy Harper was an extraordinary, energetic woman. For much of her career she worked 16- to 18-hour … aged 98. A successful professional photographer and businesswoman, she was distinctive for her skill in formal …
Type: Biography
… she was an accomplished public speaker and debater and a woman of considerable intellectual bearing. She was widely … during 1916 and resigned from St Mary's at the end of the first term in 1917 to set up Bishopscourt, Christchurch, as …
Type: Biography
… the emergence of a marketing approach to selling goods. The first courses in marketing in universities and polytechnics … One energy drink manufacturer paid an attractive young woman to walk around Wellington sipping their product, with …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Advertising
… 1830 in Cockfield, Durham, England, Hannah White was the first daughter, after four sons, of Jane Angus and her … The impression gained from her memoir is one of a young woman of deep spirituality, humour and resourcefulness. …
Type: Biography
… Mary Lambie, director of the Division of Nursing. When the first state examinations were held in 1942, only Wellington … House, Waikanae, on 5 December 1988. A dignified, modest woman with a quiet sense of humour, Monica McKenzie was …
Type: Biography
… Auckland’s Northern Club, established in 1869, admitted its first woman member in 1990. Men and sport Men’s sport also ensured …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Men and women in the city
… in the Women's Debating Society, of which she was chairwoman in 1912 and 1913. In the latter year she became the first woman to enter the oratory contest for the Plunket Medal and …
Type: Biography
… returned to Stewart Island. Olga, an energetic woman, who considered ‘A certain amount of tension is good … gained international attention when she was included in the first edition of The world who’s who of women. Her services …
Type: Biography
… Probably in 1855 or 1856 Seuffert married Anna Piltz, a woman of Austrian birth, in London. Two children were born … which brought him much praise, and placed him in the first rank of New Zealand cabinet-makers. It was a writing …
Type: Biography
… Māori greet visitors is the custom which usually makes the first and strongest impression on non-Māori. This practice … life into it through the nose to create Hineahuone, the ‘woman formed of earth’. Low-key occasions Large and …
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Part of story: Māori manners and social behaviour – Ngā mahi tika
… through his mother. She was a loving and capable woman who tempered her husband’s stern, Victorian attitudes. … time there he boarded with Tipi Tainui Rōpiha (later the first Māori under-secretary for Māori Affairs) and his wife, … the Tīmaru Herald. Thomas became the godfather of their first child. At the time of their second daughter’s birth in …
Type: Biography
… He chose Winifred Boys-Smith. She took up her position as first professor of home science and domestic arts at the … on Sea, Hampshire. She had never married. As New Zealand's first woman professor, Winifred Boys-Smith made a unique …
Type: Biography
… Banting published Letter on c orpulence , one of the first low-carbohydrate, low-sugar diets. Within a few months … 47 days. Fasting also appealed to some women: a Whanganui woman fasted for 40 days and lost almost 10 kilograms. Diet … people thin; no special dieting required’. 4 Before the First World War there were products such as Marmola, a ‘find …
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Part of story: Body shape and dieting
… ready access to these had to make do with alternatives. One woman in Canterbury used wheat straw, while another living … station used whale blubber. Early settlers’ cooking The first European missionaries and settlers of the early 19th … tinned pineapple in instant beef stock. Microwave ovens The first microwave ovens appeared in New Zealand in the early …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cooking