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… 1840 at Tokomaru Bay. His mother was Mākere Te Materonea, a woman of mana in Te Aitanga a Hauiti. Hēnare emerged as the … a son named Wiremu Hēnare and a daughter named Keriana, who first married Karauria, the son of Hirini Te Kani , and then …
Type: Biography
… the rubble three days later. The earthquake struck on the first day of school after the summer holidays. Most pupils … administered a lethal overdose of morphine to an injured woman trapped in the ruins of St John’s Cathedral before …
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Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… and O'Meagher, but he worked hard and by the end of his first year he was put on a wage of £2 per week. For the next … – validly this time – to the Supreme Court. He was the first judge to have been educated wholly in New Zealand. … 'Justice is not blind', showing Edwards leering at the woman, and 'Experience', in which he boasts of his own …
Type: Biography
… whaler Captain John Agar Love and Mere Rure Te Hikanui, a woman of rank of Taranaki. Hapi Love's mother was Te Amo … mothers on maternity and domestic problems. When the First World War commenced, she threw herself into patriotic … second son, Colonel Edward Te Whiti Love , who became the first Māori commander of the 28th New Zealand (Māori) …
Type: Biography
… matakite, those who possess visionary powers. Taimania, a woman famous for these powers, appears variously in the … powers. Papahurihia had at least two wives: he and his first wife had one son; the second wife, Kikihu, with … Kikihu), he had a daughter, Whakarongohau. Papahurihia first appears in the written historical record in the early …
Type: Biography
… mother, Maraea Te Hungatai, also known as Reikura, was a woman of rank descended from both Kahungunu and Rangitāne. … The elders arranged Nireaha's marriage to a high-ranking woman of Hāmua and Muaūpoko; this was Rihipeti. Their … and commemorated his major hapū. The township of Nireaha, first established in 1886 on land he had sold, was called …
Type: Biography
… best known for her ballads based on Scottish legends. Her first volume of poetry, The spirit of the rangatira , … history of New Zealand poetry. Jessie Mackay saw herself first and foremost as a poet. She cared about her literary … years ago, I had to take on a double sort of life – half woman's, half man's work. It is hard for even the most …
Type: Biography
… Morrieson was involved in a car accident in which a young woman was injured. He was convicted for failure to stop and … extramurally at Victoria University College: like his first brush with academia, this was a failure. By 1953 he … by 1959 had given up playing in dance bands. Morrieson’s first published novel was The scarecrow (1963), although …
Type: Biography
… layer of the swamp. Pinepine was said to have been the first woman to climb the sacred mountain and to see the diamond of … in July and Pinepine's younger children were among its first pupils. Rua Kēnana moved his immediate family to Maai, …
Type: Biography
… As late as 1965 the Department of Health advised the first national venereologists’ conference not to use the … had served him. He had been too embarrassed to ask a woman for condoms, and had bought tubes of toothpaste … was a combination of antiretroviral drugs, which were first available in 1987. Antiretroviral drugs have meant an …
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Part of story: Sexual health
… affairs involving land. In 1912 Mere Rikiriki , a local woman of mana, predicted the advent of an important new … mana and showed aspirations for a leadership role: he first stood for the Western Māori seat in the 1914 election, … for the Western Māori seat. On 20 December he organised the first official gathering between Māori and Labour. Held at …
Type: Biography
… On 21 December 1840 they began operations as Auckland's first merchant firm, Brown and Campbell, when Campbell … small bay, at the foot of present day Queen Street. At the first Crown land auction held in the capital, on 19 April … steamer from Sydney to Galle (in Sri Lanka), Campbell met a woman much younger than himself, Emma Wilson, daughter of …
Type: Biography
… on sika deer. She made several notable ascents, leading the first all-women ascent of Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1953, at a … Club. She had very little tramping experience – her first weekend tramp was in the southern Tararua Range in … in the Tararua Tramping Club. In 1942, she became the first woman to lead a club working party – clearing tracks to …
Type: Biography
… She left nursing to start a family, giving birth to her first child in 1942 and her fifth and last in 1957. The … boat out of Pender Harbour, with Joan becoming one of the first women in British Columbia licensed for hand-lining … unless a medical practitioner took responsibility for the woman during childbirth. Some doctors continued to support …
Type: Biography
… attending South Wellington School and then, during the First World War, Wellington Girls’ College. Her … Wellington Housewives’ Union. She became the second woman to serve on a New Zealand jury (1946) and was involved …
Type: Biography
… and emigrated to Auckland, probably in 1925. Their first child, a son, was born there in early 1926, but died … Ponsonby, in an attempt to prevent the eviction of a woman and her five children. He was arrested, convicted of …
Type: Biography
… a large amount (six standard drinks for a man or four for a woman) on at least one occasion during the year and 12.6% … organisation Alcoholics Anonymous and two years later the first group began in Devonport, Auckland. In 2012 there were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Alcohol
… Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. The tenets of these ‘first-wave’ feminists – that the mother’s role in the home … She was remembered as a ‘sympathetic and deeply sincere woman’, who ‘could not abide injustice and never spared …
Type: Biography
… including United Airways, with whom he graduated as a first-class navigator in 1938. Further training resulted in … During this period he met Greta Norlén, a Swedish woman, whom he married at Epsom, Surrey, on 11 December …
Type: Biography
… said to have also had four sons and a daughter with a Maori woman, Riria, of Motukaraka in Hokianga. The details of … years later New Zealand occupied the German colony as its first act in the war of 1914–18. Returning to New Zealand …
Type: Biography