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… of her working life was to be spent within the service, first under the Department of Education, and then, from … Children were in awe of this dark-haired, deep-voiced woman, whose military bearing was occasionally reinforced by … was one of the more innovative school doctors. She was the first to formally invite parents to be present at school …
Type: Biography
… century. At the University of Auckland he developed the first university curriculum in the study of Māori language, … at other New Zealand universities. He initiated the first programme in modern linguistics at a New Zealand … Biggs (born 1945), with Laisa Siganisucu Drova, a Fijian woman from Nausori, who died in 1951. Mere was raised by her …
Type: Biography
… heights. In Auckland, Mira was subjected to racism for the first time in her life, which made her determined to prove … In 1945 she completed her BA and became one of the first Māori women to graduate with a university degree. … race and gender inequalities were parallel oppressions. Womanhood, whānau and work Mira was at once a glamorous, …
Type: Biography
… golden coast' won the Otago Witness Prize Competition, the first of numerous major prizes he was to capture. Aorangi and other verses , his first collection of poems, appeared in 1896, but was not … Wright identified country life with manly virtue and womanly purity, and town existence with industrial strife, …
Type: Biography
… 1855, and with Charles Tripp established at Mount Peel the first high country sheep station in the province. Jack … concern for the welfare of ‘the average man and for the woman in the home’, and for the family farm, which he said …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand verse was published in London in 1906, the first comprehensive anthology of New Zealand poetry. Alan … Fred Alexander married Frances Agnes Alfrey, a tall, lively woman of great good humour. Their only child, Frances …
Type: Biography
… Oxford, to study modern history. In 1896 she became the first New Zealand woman to complete the BA course at the University of Oxford. …
Type: Biography
… for everyone to be tactful and generous, but, from the first, disputes arose over rank. Nurses were given the … on 11 February 1962. Eva Brooke was a quiet, serious-minded woman, a patriotic nurse respected by both her staff and the …
Type: Biography
… student newspaper), which refused to publish cartoons by a woman. McLeod’s cartoons later gained mass circulation, … , the award attracted a field of strong entries in its first year, pointing towards a promising future for New …
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Part of story: Cartooning
… of Picton's leading citizens and in June 1882 was elected first president of the Marlborough District Law Society. He … protect the property rights of married women: 'Why should a woman when she marries lose her identity? Why should she …
Type: Biography
… and worked at the family's Chinese grocery store, located first in Wakefield Street, then in Victoria Street West. The … a bun. Photographs show her to have been a healthy looking woman, about five feet three inches in height, with a square …
Type: Biography
… from England to Australia in 1863. She was a forthright woman who saw to it that her daughters had an education … agreed to remain at the school under the new management. At first only her younger sister, Alice, and her mother helped …
Type: Biography
… and 1903 William and Leilah lived at Seacliff where their first daughter, Ngarita Inez, was born. In 1903 William … Leilah Gordon was a fair-haired, plump, motherly woman who prided herself on being self-reliant and helpful …
Type: Biography
… law reform groups Women’s liberation groups supported ‘a woman’s right to choose’. Three groups campaigned for a … New Zealand College of Midwives was nearly expelled at the first international meeting the New Zealanders attended. …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… taking over the business caused her hair to go white in the first few weeks. The day-to-day affairs were run by … round her shoulders. She was a courageous and independent woman and a natural leader. She would listen and learn from …
Type: Biography
… Grace Jane Joel, the sixth of nine children and first daughter of Kate Woolf and her husband, Maurice Joel, … wearing a hat' ( c. 1905–10), a determined professional woman artist, innovative within the New Zealand context but …
Type: Biography
… was not always easy to distinguish work from play – for a woman, knitting a jersey could be recreation or a necessity, … ‘the happy days in that old sitting room before the First World War. So much music. So much good literature, …
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Part of story: Rural recreation
… on the matter of his 'illicit relations' with a young woman, Emily Mills, and evidence was produced that the … 15 January 1921 Meikle married Emily Mills at Auckland; the first of their five children had been born in 1901. When …
Type: Biography
… Raureka’s packet Ngāti Wairangi people were the first to occupy the Poutini coast (on the West Coast of the … time from encroachments on their valued pounamu. However, a woman named Raureka discovered a way to the east coast. On …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… of the Waikato leader Wiremu Nēra Te Awa-i-taia and his first wife, Hinu. Toea's husband, Te Aroha Reihana Te … stand and address people on Waikato marae. She was the last woman of Te Wai-o-Hua to be tattooed in the traditional …
Type: Biography