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… New Zealand by ‘old boys’ of English public schools, it was first played in an organised way in 1870 in Nelson. By the … themselves on their middle-distance running prowess. The first woman to win gold in track and field was Yvette Williams in …
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Part of story: Sports and leisure
… Ngāi Tahu. At Waikākahi pā, near Wairewa (Lake Forsyth), a woman named Murihaka put on a dogskin cloak which belonged … be led by two men with guns. It is said that this was the first time firearms had been used in the Canterbury area. As … to return, assuring them that the war was over. He returned first, raised a war party, and lay in wait for the refugees. …
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… from neglected children and adult offenders. In 1900 the first reformatories for delinquent and criminal children … adult cases. A romp in the mayoral hay In 1930 young Ōamaru woman Ethel Crouch was charged with ‘being illegally in a … own interests to be placed under restraint.’ 2 In 1925 the first Children’s Court was established to emphasise care …
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Part of story: Youth offenders
… Maata Horomona was New Zealand’s first movie star, as the leading lady in films by French … As was customary at the time, Maata took Horomona, the first name of her matua whāngai, as her surname. Maata’s … titled ‘Maata Horomona (Méliès), The native leading woman in “Hinemoa”‘, appears between those of Eleanor …
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… Te Arikinui, Dame Te Atairangikaahu was the first woman chosen to lead the Kīngitanga (the Māori king … Duke of Edinburgh were welcomed at Tūrangawaewae on their first visit to New Zealand. The government consented to a …
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… revolver shots and shouting were heard. They watched as a woman with a revolver in each hand chased a man around the crowded tents outside. The woman, Mrs Jarvis, came up to the trio and began to threaten … this, and as I am the only bachelor of the party I will try first.' He addressed Mrs Jarvis and offered to listen to her …
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… down. She later settled in London, where she published her first novel, A d aughter of the k ing (1894). Like her … and Edith Searle Grossmann , Baker was part of the ‘new woman’ movement in literature, and believed that raising … and temperance. It was largely autobiographical, about a woman who marries a businessman who turns out to be an …
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Part of story: Fiction
… in 1871 or 1872 near Ōtaki. His grandmother, Te Rerehau, a woman of chiefly rank of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, married Te Tomo … land titles. The Manutūkē Kotahitanga was not Te Tāite's first introduction to politics. From 1909 he campaigned on … hui called to discuss their stance on involvement in the First World War. In spite of Te Tāite's opposition to Ngata …
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… New Zealand in Wellington on 11 September 1903. He was the first native-born New Zealander to reach the Bench. During … 1920 when evidence from fingerprints was admitted for the first time in New Zealand. During his judicial career … died on 15 April 1940. Their daughter Sylvia was the first woman to serve on the Senate of the University of New …
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… games Women settlers began to play sport in the 1870s. First croquet, then lawn tennis, swimming, golf, cycling, … amongst less privileged working girls and women after the First World War . Often organised by the YWCA (Young Women’s … a former captain of the national team, became the first woman elected to the board of New Zealand Rugby. A 2007 …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… discipline and the religious instruction, becoming the first president of the school's Christian Union. He was a … When military training was introduced, he was one of the first officers of the college's cadet corp. While still a … Gisborne that Wī Repa married Merewhati Pitt, an attractive woman of gentle disposition with a distinctive moko on her …
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… that New Zealand soldiers had access to condoms during the First World War. Women’s rights to sexual pleasure were … use what is called 'the wingman strategy' to pick up a woman when they are at a pub or a party with their friends. …
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Part of story: Sexualities
… to the National Art Gallery. The works of New Zealand's first major woman sculptor, they are now recognised as sensitively …
Type: Biography
… Hotel fell asleep while sitting next to an elderly Māori woman, also asleep. The pair woke to find themselves … but today is a quiet farming village. New Zealand’s first civic Anzac Day ceremony, commemorating the Australian …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… about the size of her large Samoan family in the 1950s. A woman across the road would ask: ‘How many people live in … form another relationship (marriage or cohabitation) in the first year of separation, children of separated parents …
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Part of story: Diverse families
… which originated in England, was one such group. The first New Zealand Mothers’ Union started in Christchurch in … of goods. All were united in their view that it was a woman’s job to run a household, and that the job was vital. …
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Part of story: Women’s networks and clubs
… for women, she became a prostitute. In 1855 she made her first recorded appearance before the Auckland courts, … maintaining 'common bawdy houses'. In November 1866 a young woman known variously as Jeanie, Jenny and Jane Finney was …
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… 25 January 1888 he married Mary Smith, a muslin warehouse woman, at Glasgow. Robert and Mary Hogg, together with three … editor of the Maoriland Worker , but its treatment of the First World War was inhibited by censorship regulations. In …
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… Dr William Purdie, who settled in Dunedin in 1849, was the first known homeopathic doctor to practise in the colony. … boost in 1854 when he saved the life of an injured woman. Jane Graham, the wife of a prominent Auckland …
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Part of story: Alternative health therapies
… and later opened stores in Te Puke and Whakatāne. For the first few years of their marriage he continued to oversee … one day with only a treadle machine. A strong and elegant woman, Bessie Jaram became involved with many community …
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