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… early death his widow, Margaret Scott, built a career first as a librarian and later as a literary editor and … district, where Thomas’s family lived. Harry attended first Glen Oroua School then Palmerston North Boys’ High … intended meanings. Margaret believed that being both a woman and a New Zealander gave her an advantage over Murry …
Type: Biography
… 1833, the son of Archibald Clark, a merchant, and his first wife, Margaret McCosh, whose father was a wealthy coal … for the town hall were initiated during his term, and the first site of the public library (now the art gallery) … as an excellent musician, 'an accomplished painter and a woman of rare good sense', she was a generous patron of …
Type: Biography
… Pacific peoples (mainly Fijians and Tongans). The first European to sight the islands was a Dutchman, Jacob … New Zealand occupied Western Samoa on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and administered the islands until … as the result of a case taken by Falema‘i Lesa, a Samoan woman living in New Zealand, the Privy Council ruled that …
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Part of story: Samoans
… seat for as long as he wished. In late 1940 the party’s first leader, Adam Hamilton , was replaced by Sidney Holland … was he formally designated deputy prime minister, the first to receive the title. When in 1957 Holland decided to … elections: having given a man a task (he never appointed a woman minister) he might leave him to it over a number of …
Type: Biography
… milieux with which he was most familiar, and confirmed him firstly in left-wing, even communist, sympathies, which in … century New Zealand. In 1927 Fairburn published his first poem. It had been jointly written with Geoffrey de … in the disenchanted view of women informing 'The woman problem', unpublished in his lifetime. An increasing …
Type: Biography
… In December 1843, while assisting the Marists in their first attempt to establish a mission in New Caledonia, he … Māori catechists, two male schoolteachers, and one Māori woman. His Māori helpers seem to have returned to Auckland … to Catholic education. In 1860 Viard was appointed first bishop of Wellington. Practical questions continued to …
Type: Biography
… 1859 that Hirawanu Tapu had been betrothed to a Moriori woman, Rohana (also known as Tini Waihe), who had been a … licensed native interpreter Alexander Shand (son of the first resident magistrate) to collect Moriori history, … he remained a leader and a celebrity until his death. The first governor to visit the Chathams, Lord Glasgow, made a …
Type: Biography
… The next year he accompanied Bishop G. A. Selwyn on his first overland trek in the South Island, which began with the first church service in South Canterbury, at Te Wai-a-Te … my account – for only by Goodwill is the salvation of Man, Woman and Child.' Tāmihana took this message to Ōtaki, where …
Type: Biography
… about sex and reproduction, let alone contraception. The first Family Planning clinic opened in 1953, but until the … made to leave their homes before the baby was born. One woman recalled, ‘I remember my parents saying, “We’ve made a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Adoption
… Hotel in Wellington, and Kararaina Hinehou, a Ngāi Tahu woman from Kaiapoi. Bill Barrett attended Kaiapoi Native … Ngāi Tahu trust board had been passed in 1928, and when the first members were gazetted in 1929 Barrett became …
Type: Biography
… daughters of Joseph Carroll and Tapuke, Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana. This familial connection and bicultural … appointed to the bench of the Native Land Court. He was the first person of Māori descent to attain such a position. A …
Type: Biography
… had more than 10 per cent women delegates, ignored the first Labour Women's Conference held in 1927. Cassie became … women but denying them relief was 'simply demoralising the Womanhood of this country'. Its one small victory at this … and 1930s. A formidable, strong-willed and physically large woman, Alice Cassie retained her independence in later life, …
Type: Biography
… and in June 1959 she defeated J. H. Collins to become the first woman secretary of the WTC, a position she held until 1964. …
Type: Biography
… his group Upper Hutt Posse released ‘E tū’, New Zealand’s first rap song. This described the detrimental effects of … ‘Christine in the pantry’ (1973) she depicted a young woman surrounded by kitchen clutter as a critique of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Arts and social engagement
… British subject and married Mary Jane Evans, a Devonshire woman. Edward John von Dadelszen (known as John) passed the … to provide a basis for all social policy implementation: first for charity schemes, then for health and compulsory …
Type: Biography
… setting bones and stitching wounds. In 1881 she was the first woman listed on the Dentists’ Register in New Zealand. She …
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Part of story: Dental care
… infamous incident occurred in 1988 when a young woman was kidnapped and taken to a Mongrel Mob convention in … a few motorcycle gangs were importing methamphetamine. At first the market was small, but it grew exponentially during …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gangs
… was a decorative artist. She was an attractive, assured woman, whose social skills were to be an asset to Kelliher … of the firm depended. By extending its market area first through the North Island, and then, in the 1960s and …
Type: Biography
… located commercial gallery in Wellington and one of the first to be run by artists in residence. Initially it … recognition from important institutions. The etching ‘Maori woman’, for example, was bought by the Ashmolean Museum, …
Type: Biography
… and expected their dates to pay their own way. One woman later remarked that American men 'gave us the gentle, … – became entrenched. Outlawing this practice during the First World War, in an attempt to curb alcohol consumption, …
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Part of story: Manners and social behaviour