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… to Masterton, the centre of a growing community. Their first residence burnt down on 24 November 1892 and their … who was loyally supported by his wife, Ada, a warm-hearted woman who ensured that the family homes in Napier and …
Type: Biography
… Mīria was taught the conventional arts befitting a genteel woman of her time: French, literature, music and needlework. … the Wellington Women's Club (of which she was elected first president in 1924), Central National Māori War Fund, …
Type: Biography
… slipped out into the room. The same night the Maunsells' first daughter was born, and a fortnight later the family … grown up, and suddenly there was no place for an unmarried woman. Her financial position too was precarious; she had …
Type: Biography
… of the Kaituna River. The tohunga Ngātoroirangi was the first to step off, conducting rituals beneath a pōhutukawa … adventurer was Hatupatu, who defeated the gruesome bird-woman Kurangaituku at Whakarewarewa. On returning to Maketū …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… are observed. Dressing for dinner Sarah Selwyn, wife of the first Bishop of New Zealand, George Selwyn, paid great heed … method of her hosts Hannah and Richard Barton: ‘Mrs B. is a woman of tremendous energy and triumphs in the possession of …
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Part of story: Eating
… Tāmairangi was a high-ranking woman of strong character and great beauty, who lived in the … Porirua, and Ngāti Mutunga at Te Whanganui-a-Tara. For the first few years an uneasy peace prevailed, broken by …
Type: Biography
… his son Mehaka (or Mita) Hare, who had married an Ōpōtiki woman, had been killed by government forces while fighting … according to Mary Tautari, 'the girls are now over their first difficulties and promise to be not only well educated …
Type: Biography
… Lyttelton Times said this would lead to ‘the degradation of woman from the position of man’s equal to that of paid … not pick up the campaign for paid housework from feminism’s first wave. The Matrimonial Property Act 1976 legislated …
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Part of story: Unpaid domestic work
… government’s Committee on Women commissioned New Zealand’s first feminist documentary, Some of my best friends are … as Stephanie Beth’s I want to be Joan (1978), in which a woman talked about her mental breakdown. Off the edge The …
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Part of story: Documentary film
… this journey with an Italian stonemason. But it was not his first. In New Zealand he had been in love with a fellow … Hamilton Bible class member. And in London he had had his first sexually consummated relationship, with an interior … 1929. Although he had one story published in the Australian Woman's Mirror in 1933 and articles in the Auckland …
Type: Biography
… children. She was named after her mother, Maria Tuppen, a woman of Quaker descent, from Brighton, who had married … she wrote supporting the cause was published in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. She and other feminists who were … Canada as an emigrant destination. In 1868 she took her first party of working women across the Atlantic and on to …
Type: Biography
… at Victoria University College. He graduated MA with first-class honours in education in 1930. The educational … bronze plaque for distinguished service. He was the first non-American to receive this award. Campbell was … the NZEI had made him an honorary fellow. Nancy Campbell, a woman of notable verve, cared for him devotedly until his …
Type: Biography
… voice production. In December 1924 Minnie Kronfeld gave her first public recital, at the Meistersaal in Berlin. For the … of talks for the New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Maria's first production and performance in New Zealand was probably … splendid eyes'. Edith Campion, a former pupil, recalled 'a woman of particular beauty, and a voice of extraordinary …
Type: Biography
… and Te Whakatōhea of the eastern Bay of Plenty, was a tapu woman of rank. She and her sisters Ngārori and Mōkeke were … to have two daughters and a son. They established their first home at Kauae, later moving to Pūriritahi at Ōtūwhare … power of prescience, as well as the power to heal. He was first formally registered as a Ringatū minister, under the …
Type: Biography
… of the Waikanae River, where Parata spent his childhood. A woman of high standing within Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa, she … is said to have married twice. Nothing is known of his first wife. His second wife was Unaiki, of Ngāti Raukawa and … Parata and Wī Kātene (appointed a month earlier) were the first Māori to hold this position. Parata was an astute …
Type: Biography
… Christchurch. Kia Rīwai was an exceptionally talented sportswoman, excelling in cricket for the Mai Moa club, and … concert party to raise money for the patriotic fund. Her first overseas experience was in Caserta, Italy, nursing the … up branches of the Māori Women’s Welfare League. Among the first were Ōtautahi, Rāpaki and Taumutu. Eventually, there …
Type: Biography
… centuries. Psychological causes for social problems were first identified around the 1920s and attention turned to … from one generation to the next. Cycle of violence One woman described the maltreatment meted out to her as a child … Former Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand was the first chair of the inquiry. Its focus was the period from …
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Part of story: Child abuse
… skill was needed to accurately cut, piece and fit a woman’s dress and style a hat or a corset to match. Women’s … baby’s body to restrict its movement. 1900s to 1940s The first decade of the 20th century was a decade of unabashed … striking feature. Some women went without corsets. From the First World War necklines were cut lower and skirts became …
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Part of story: Clothes
… Erricson Moore in New York on 23 May 1868. This was the first of at least nine marriages, the rest of which were … a practice of marrying or forming a liaison with a wealthy woman, and then abandoning her and any children (he is known … through a widely publicised mock marriage. John Plunkett at first accepted the situation and parted amicably from his …
Type: Biography
… His oldest brother, Kaingaroa, born to their father's first wife, Waitohirangi, died in that year. Hongi eagerly … the missionary Thomas Kendall for his affair with a Māori woman. Nevertheless he continued to protect them. If they … the greater part of New Zealand over the next two decades. First, other Bay of Islands communities armed themselves …
Type: Biography