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… in 1884 she was appointed, ahead of 12 other applicants, first mistress of the newly completed girls' department at … Her own amusingly written account of these years reveals a woman of tolerant understanding and advanced opinions. On 2 …
Type: Biography
… offering her own daughter Rākapa Kahoki and another young woman as additional wives, but Pōmare rejected them all. The … to land. They were granted occupation under the mana of the first comers. No consideration was given to the rights of …
Type: Biography
… ancestor of Ngāti Toa. His mother was Waipunāhau, a woman of the Ngāti Hinetuhi section of Ngāti Mutunga in … their ancestral homeland at Kāwhia and withdrew south, first to Taranaki and later to Horowhenua. During the …
Type: Biography
… James Cook and botanist Joseph Banks were among the first English speakers to give names to New Zealand … ‘weed.’ A chief was called a ‘nob’; a slave, a ‘doctor’; a woman, a ‘heifer’; a girl, a ‘titter’; and a child, a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: English language in New Zealand
… Brown . Archie had been a conscientious objector during the First World War. Millicent had successfully studied … relationship was enduring and highly successful. For the first five years of his life James thrived on the family’s … also published a selection of 20 years’ verse in The rock woman (1969), but poetry was not his main focus. By August …
Type: Biography
… only daughter to travel to New Zealand alone as a single woman. To satisfy their sense of propriety, she was married … and literature. In 1933 Henderson exhibited for the first time with the short-lived New Zealand Society of … leaving her little time to paint. However, she staged her first solo exhibition at Wellington Public Library in 1948, …
Type: Biography
… born at Horsell, Surrey, England, on 6 October 1874, the first of three children of Isabella Anne Lillie and her … retreat for Christian workers. Effie Pollen, another single woman newly arrived from New Zealand, helped her run the … Evelyn Hayes. This was the name on the title page of her first collection, From a garden in the antipodes , published …
Type: Biography
… brothers were taught at school, and soon after began her first piano lessons. David and Martha Davies encouraged the … an enthusiastic welcome. Davies was a strong, handsome woman, with great energy. She had been convinced that she … piece. In 1966 Reuel Lochore was appointed New Zealand's first ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. They …
Type: Biography
… became universally free and available from 1877. The first girls’ secondary school opened in Dunedin in 1871, 15 years after the first boys’ secondary school. While access to primary school … to them. Arts and humanities subjects were regarded as more womanly. In 1911, as part of the drive to encourage …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… G. A. Preece with 47 Te Aowera, including Nihoniho. The first attack failed, but after the arrival of fresh Te … for much of the rest of his life. It is not known when his first wife died; in later life he married a Ngāi Tahu woman, Ria (or Rea) Horomona, and lived at her home at …
Type: Biography
… Pākiri, at Ōmaha and on Little Barrier Island. As a young woman she married Te Rua (Roa), the son of Pōhuehue of Ngāti … end once European interest in the island became serious. At first interested in the island for defence purposes, Crown … commissioner of Crown lands for the Auckland district, at first concluded that Tenetahi's accusations sprang from ill …
Type: Biography
… taught her barefoot children to waltz. German was Doreen’s first language, and she learned English only when she … Fraser visited Doreen at Waterloo School at the end of her first year, and asked her to develop the school's programme … at Wellington Teachers’ College. It was rare for a woman to hold such a position of responsibility, and she …
Type: Biography
… closely related was Muriwai. His life extends across the first century of contact between Māori and Pākehā. When he … hegemony over the other Bay of Islands peoples. Patuone first made his mark as a warrior and a leader in the wars … Te Waharoa of Ngāti Haua. He married a young Ngāti Pāoa woman, Takarangi, the sister of the chief Te Kupenga, of …
Type: Biography
… even revered by those who came into contact with her. A big woman, forthright but good humoured, she was never daunted … later was appointed a justice of the peace. She worked first for the YWCA in Hamilton and then as a CORSO organiser …
Type: Biography
… having sex, New Zealand’s criminal law was amended. For the first time it became an offence for a woman over the age of 21 to have sexual relations with a …
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Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… research by food historian Helen Leach established that the first known recipe for pavlova as we now understand it … in Katikati in the late 1870s, was a very resourceful woman and was able to produce large quantities of food with …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cooking
… of which were serialised. Alan McBretney was one of the first New Zealand novels to attempt to cross the boundary … a hopeful philosophy, voiced while she was still a young woman: 'Life may starve one on many sides, but who shall say …
Type: Biography
… Domestic Protection Act 1982 The first law to address family violence specifically was the … exposed women to potential abuse and intimidation. One woman was killed by her former partner as she left …
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Part of story: Family violence
… Flickering flames According to Douglas Sinclair: ‘If a woman left her fireside to marry outside the tribe it was … rights included: tūāhu – sacred mounds or stones erected on first settlement tohu – signs marking human occupation, such …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… achievements in the Māori and Pākehā worlds. During the First World War Ngāti Porou leaders encouraged their young … with grace and confidence. She was described as 'a tiny woman, shy and very gentle', and her tactful and sympathetic …
Type: Biography