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… Salaman began manufacturing aniline dyes and during the First World War was contracted to provide the khaki dye used … him publicity and infamy. In December 1924 a 30-year-old woman, Agnes Wright Stewart, sued Salaman for negligence and …
Type: Biography
… 20th centuries the poorer the family the more likely the woman was to control the money. Pay packets were brought … work was all the training Nigel Cook needed to build his first home in central Wellington in 1951. ‘I’d been working …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Household management
… of the 1870s. His mother, Hīria Kōpū, was the daughter of a woman of supreme rank in the Wairoa district, Mere Karaka, … the restoration of their land rights. In 1920 he was the first of 131 signatories to a petition to Parliament for an …
Type: Biography
… increases in prices and net wages. An old-age pension was first introduced in 1898, for those over 60 and below a … mechanisms were not enough. New Zealand was one of the first countries in the world to provide a pension for older … man could expect to live another 19 years, and a woman 21 years. Uncertainty about how long they will live is …
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Part of story: Older people
… Rōpiha became under-secretary for Māori Affairs. He was the first Māori to head the department and was to hold the … lessons. His daughter, Rina, was to become (reputedly) the first Māori woman doctor. In July 1955 he attended a meeting of Māori …
Type: Biography
… from a former marriage. Taiwhanga claimed that this was the first legal marriage of a Māori to a European woman. Hirini and Sarah were to have three children, … was elected MHR for Northern Māori in 1887. One of the first Māori members with a reasonable fluency in English, in …
Type: Biography
… son of Te Rangitopeora , the sister of Te Rangihaeata , a woman who held a foremost place among Ngāti Toa and Ngāti … the Cook Strait region. He is said to have travelled on the first section of the migration, Te Heke Tahutahu-ahi, about … is the preservation of peace for his own people. Te Whiwhi first appears in the historical record in 1839, when he and …
Type: Biography
… the senior Ngāti Maru chiefs. He had many wives. With his first wife, Irihāpeti Puakanga, of Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare, … Ngāti Maru, both of whom would be struck by illness. If the first born, the child of Te Tūruki, died, and the younger, … arm. He was accompanied by Hēni Kumekume, probably another woman, and six men. Te Kooti sought sanctuary at …
Type: Biography
… Albany Street, Dunedin, teaching mathematics. Later he was first assistant at the North Dunedin District School. He was … branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. He was its first secretary and was responsible for branch organisation. … women, and in 1878 introduced the Electoral Bill which made woman ratepayers eligible to vote and to stand for …
Type: Biography
… major influence on his upbringing was that of his mother, a woman of wide interests and reading, for his father died … just before his marriage that he thought her 'a remarkable woman of singular intellectual power, moral earnestness and … Appeal and sat with his brother judges when the Court was first convened in Christchurch in 1863. He regarded his …
Type: Biography
… Tōia, was Hōne Tōia's father; his mother was Maraea, a woman of Te Māhurehure hapū, of Waimā. Hīmi Riiwi Tōia also … to everyone but the law, and said they would not fire first. On the advice of Gittos and Cochrane they then … guilty on the second count, proceedings were stayed on the first. Hōne Tōia and four others were sentenced to 18 …
Type: Biography
… Marie Henriette Suzanne Aubert (known first as Suzanne Aubert and later in religion as Mary Joseph … this time her work fell into three distinct phases. The first, shortest and least successful was spent in Auckland … denominations, was said to be the largest ever held for a woman in New Zealand. Mother Aubert's career in New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… role of interpreters, and digital technology. This is the first Te Ara entry accompanied by video of sign language, … wrote about Jean Wishart , editor of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly , the country’s best-selling women’s … has been central to the Dictionary project since the first print volume was published 30 years ago this year. The …
Type: Basic page
… church. Many lived in. Tyrannical mistresses A Wellington woman told the 1890 Sweating Commission (which investigated … as ‘miss’ or ‘mrs’. Other servants were called by their first names. Few families had governesses, though wealthy …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Household services
… Te Kiri Karamū, however, stayed, as she was recognised as a woman warrior, and refused to leave her brother Neri. She was nearly killed by the first shot of the bombardment but was saved by the tohunga …
Type: Biography
… 1910. He was the younger son of Kaipāoe, a high-ranking woman of Ngāti Rākairangi, and her husband, Tikawenga Te … Rules of Jehovah, including Taiāwhio, who was one of the first to sign the Rātana church covenant in 1925. He later …
Type: Biography
… more serious offending may occur in the future. During the first three years this legislation was in place, the police … against his or her will. Abduction is carrying away a woman or girl for the purpose of marrying her or having sex …
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Part of story: Violent crime
… account of his explorations and of the establishment of the first settlements at Wellington, Whanganui and New Plymouth, … Wakefield married, on 3 October 1863 in Christchurch, a woman nearly 20 years younger than he, Ellen Roe, the …
Type: Biography
… her grandmother Esther Lyons Caselberg, daughter of the first shopkeeper in Mangaweka, Eli Caselberg, and his wife … of further staff, McKenzie became Manawatū Museum’s first director in September 1978. She was the first Māori to … from all cultures. From 1985 to 1988 McKenzie was the only woman on the management committee of Te Māori, the major …
Type: Biography
… appearances throughout his early years in broadcasting. The first were as an actor, playing unreliable boyfriend Mike in … silence (both 1972). He also appeared as Reg Willis in the first season of Buck House (1974), New Zealand’s first … and other celebrities, was photographed exclusively by Woman’s Day , which outbid its competitors for the rights. …
Type: Biography