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… Dunedin. Her brother John, born in 1881, also worked there, first as an errand boy and later in senior positions. In … the earnestness and honesty of this hard-working businesswoman: 'Success means Effort…Every day we strive to reach … Her death was a serious blow to the business, for she was a woman of outstanding ability, astute and energetic and with …
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… were keenly sought by writers and dramatists. In the first scene of the New Zealand feature film Constance … In the 1990s Amanda Rees celebrated Freda’s life in her one-woman play Stark , the Peter Wells and Stewart Mains …
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… the firm’s secretary. In 1904 Jean Stevenson became the first secretary of the Otago district of the New Zealand … and bobbing their hair. ‘I should be sorry to think that a woman’s ‘‘most precious quality – her womanliness’’ depended either upon the length of her hair or …
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… Bedford, England, the daughter of a farmer. Elizabeth was a woman of vision, determination and some financial means. … Track. Forty people visited the Sutherland Falls during the first season in 1888–89; the next year 70. Donald began …
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… was opened in early 1879 with William Hosking as its first surgeon. In January 1879 Selina Sutherland was … provoking opposition. A memorial in Melbourne praises the woman who had 'rescued 3,000 waifs from its streets and …
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… Arawa canoe and from Hoturoa of the Tainui canoe, she was a woman of mana, who belonged to Ngāti Rangiwewehi and Tapuika … considered to be most sacred tohunga. Te Ao-kapurangi's first husband was Rauru of Tapuika. They had two sons: the …
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… Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara Āporo, a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana. Teoti, commonly known as George, grew up in … for which he had not been prepared as a youth. After the First World War he received training from his mother and her …
Type: Biography
… women's guilds existed in some churches from the 1880s. The first woman to be ordained a Methodist minister in New Zealand was …
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Part of story: Methodist Church
… 2013 Lorde (Ella Yelich-O’Connor), aged just 16, became the first woman to top the American Billboard Alternative Songs Chart …
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Part of story: Popular music
… overseas. Arrival in New Zealand In 1882 a devout Dunedin woman named Arabella Valpy wrote to ‘General’ William Booth, … with three helpers they had recruited on the voyage. The first Salvation Army meeting in New Zealand was held in …
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Part of story: Salvation Army
… involvement was limited to bringing in the tea. The first playcentre was opened in St Mary’s Church hall, … of her four children survived her. A strong and determined woman, Joan Wood made a major contribution to the …
Type: Biography
… His mother, Raiha Ratete (Eliza Rogers), a high-born woman of Ngāti Whakaue section of Te Arawa , gave to her … Nelson College where he was a prefect and member of the First XV. He sang in the Nelson cathedral choir, taught … they accepted a call to Bell Block in Taranaki. Bennett's first task was to raise funds, through concerts, for the …
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… father had acquired. Tāreha had been from 1868 to 1870 the first MHR for Eastern Māori. He supported the colonial … in horseracing, owning four horses, and drove one of the first Wolseley motor cars seen in Hawke's Bay. Throughout … Kurupō formed a liaison with one of them, a copper-haired woman named Hinewera. The sea people agreed to help Kurupō, …
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… arrived at her new home, Mount Algidus Station, for the first time. Ron managed the 100,000-acre sheep station, … activities, helping out in the cookhouse, providing basic first aid to farm workers, managing the household and … among Reeds’ most popular, and the company hoped to add a woman’s perspective on high-country life to their list (Mona …
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… by Rākei. He took great delight in recounting that his first and most attentive audiences were sheep and cows. Ruka … years old and at the instigation of Rākei, he delivered his first whaikōrero (oration) at Ngāruawāhia, much to the … Mary Mereiwa Whakaruru of Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Kahungunu, a woman who had been trained in karanga (welcoming) and …
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… mother, Annie Burnell Dyer, was a fastidious and delicate woman. Her husband, Harold Beauchamp , was an ambitious … School in central Wellington. Soon afterwards, Kathleen's first published piece, 'Enna Blake', appeared in the High … 'waste – destruction too'. Little was published at first; she sold her cello, and supplemented her allowance by …
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… were active in what is sometimes referred to as the first general strike in New Zealand, participating at … spectrum. Rhoda Bloodworth became a consummate committee woman, known for her wise guidance, ability to bring unruly … speaker, capable of thinking on her feet. However, at first she had not been so confident. Under her presidency …
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… Hetet, a trader of French descent, and Te Rangituatahi, a woman of noble rank within Ngāti Maniapoto. The couple had two children before Tūheka left to serve in the First World War in 1914. He spent almost five years in the … invitations to exhibit nationally and internationally. She first exhibited in 1965 at An Exhibition of Crafts at the …
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… story, 'Summer Idylle', written in 1906. This was the first of several stories in which Maata appears. Mansfield's … described her as a charming, cultured and sophisticated woman. Maata Mahupuku Asher died in Palmerston North of … on 15 January 1952, aged 61. A son and daughter from her first marriage and two daughters from her second marriage …
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… with a young officer, Thomas Gordon McNab, whom she had first met on a troop ship in the Mediterranean. She returned … the Otago–Southland division of the National Party, the first woman to hold such a position. Politics in the late 1970s …
Type: Biography