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… 20 November 1840 at St Paul's Anglican Church. Fanny, the first of their seven children, was born on 21 January 1842. … as a clerk in Wellington. In 1852 he was appointed the first keeper of the light at Pencarrow Head, at the entrance … of a permanent lighthouse in New Zealand, and the only woman to hold the position of lighthouse keeper. Her …
Type: Biography
… in 1933 and a law degree in 1938, and was often the only woman at her lectures. On 18 December 1937, in New Plymouth, … Park kindergarten association, which established the first free kindergarten for the region the following year, … Old Girls’ Association. From 1955 to 1965 she was the first woman on the Council of Victoria University of …
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… of women telegraphists declined. By 1933 she was the only woman among about 40 men in the office. The work environment … onto telegrams. In 1925, however, she became the first woman in Dunedin to operate the new Murray multiplex … four messages each way at up to 40 words per minute; it was first used in New Zealand in December 1921. The Murray …
Type: Biography
… of California in 1891 and then reputedly became the first woman teacher in a Californian high school. She met her first husband, Frederick Ehrenfried Baume, a leading …
Type: Biography
… Revans Chapman, a barrister, who in 1903 was to become the first New Zealand-born Supreme Court judge. She was educated … she was a strong driving force. In 1923 she became the first woman to represent the New Zealand Federation of University …
Type: Biography
… parties In the 1890s, when the Liberals established the first formal political party, political power shifted from … Parliament until 1919, and it was not until 1933 that the first woman, Elizabeth McCombs, was elected. Mabel Howard became …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Parliament
… at the Hermitage, Mt Cook. The two south Westland families first became acquainted when Peter's father, David, was … In 1905, with Peter Graham, he guided Annie Lindon, the first woman to make a double crossing of Barron Saddle at the head …
Type: Biography
… Christchurch Teachers’ Training College in 1935. In her first year she was elected to the student executive and the … outdoor basketball, and finding enough teams to begin the first competitions in 1932. She also formed the local Old … 18 community groups and organisations. She was the first woman president of the local branch of the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… lawyers, had her own law practice, and became New Zealand’s first female district court judge in 1975. Despite her … age with this in mind. She grew up believing that ‘being a woman was not a barrier to any undertaking’, an assumption … Zealand, Augusta Wallace gained wide experience during her first 20 years of practice, ranging from court work to …
Type: Biography
… missionaries had sexual relationships with Māori. When Cook first arrived in New Zealand sexual activity between his … and had paid them to have sexual relations with a young woman. The ‘young woman’ who retired with him turned out to be a boy. He …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hōkakatanga – Māori sexualities
… had personal and financial independence unusual for a woman of her generation. In 1925 she joined a New Zealand … interest dated from the time when, as a young woman at her first ball, she had danced with a man who had very poor … conducted hearing tests (15 years before the opening of the first audiology clinic in a public hospital) and arranged …
Type: Biography
… the Hokianga Harbour. She was the great-grandchild of the woman of mana, Ngākahuwhero . Her father, Rē Te Tai, was an … Te Tai was her second; three children had been born of her first marriage, to a member of the Parore family. Meri was … nurse and midwife, and is thought to have been the first Māori to gain the postgraduate diploma in public …
Type: Biography
… Barbara Angus was one of New Zealand’s earliest woman diplomats, and its first female ambassador to head a bilateral post. Initially … department at the same time as her. Even when posted to her first position overseas, as an information officer at the …
Type: Biography
… with requirements of home inspections and reports on the woman's ability to run a home. Happily deserted A wife or … available for division during divorce has also changed. At first it was the family home; then family home and chattels; … future earnings were considered. In the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, the division of property was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Divorce and separation
… down in 1932, but in March the following year New Zealand's first commercial radio station, 3ZM, began broadcasting. … following week, Grace Green joined 3ZB. She was the only woman announcer among 12 men and by the outbreak of war in … 'The Girl with the Dark Brown Voice'. She chalked up many firsts as a woman radio announcer and was always popular …
Type: Biography
… to qualify as an optometrist, she registered in 1924: the first woman in the country to do so, and the only one in practice … the New Zealand Family Planning Association) in 1936. The first president, she conducted the meetings in her …
Type: Biography
… character'. She arrived in Dunedin early in 1863. A single woman of limited means, she made a living as a prostitute. … to the Hokitika coach, with a one-way ticket. She made her first appearance in the Hokitika Resident Magistrate's Court … suicide and, on at least one occasion, soliciting. The first three charges, laid under the Vagrant Act 1866, were …
Type: Biography
… Lawn Tennis Club. In December 1895 she took part in her first New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association tournament. On … won 13 national singles titles – more than any other man or woman in the history of New Zealand tennis – in an unbroken … in 1909. By the time she visited England at the end of the First World War Nunneley had given up top-level competition, …
Type: Biography
… to fix their position and calculate distance and speed. First lights In the 1850s coastal lights were haphazardly … the bay window of a cottage at Pencarrow Head. At the very first session of the House of Representatives in 1854 a … (the keeper of the cottage beacon) and New Zealand’s only woman lighthouse keeper. Provincial lights In 1862 the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Lighthouses
… herself by working in bookshops. Sonja had felt the ‘first stirrings of a social conscience’ when she saw her … was born in Te Kūiti in 1944, Sonja had already shown the first signs of tuberculosis contracted from patients. The … Davies rapidly became active – often as the first or sole woman – in all the linked fields which were to define her …
Type: Biography