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… and career of Elizabeth Yates , Onehunga’s mayor and the first woman to serve in that office in the British Empire. Gant …
Type: Biography
… the Political Labour League of New Zealand – the country's first independent labour party – was formed. Jim Thorn was … England. An engagement in England was ended by the young woman concerned, who wanted someone slightly less utopian in …
Type: Biography
… theirs. Probably in the 1870s, Mahuta married Te Marae, a woman of strong, independent character who became a King … the plans of Te Kauhanganui were being formalised for the first time and mana motuhake (local autonomy) was being … the Waikato District Māori Land Council held its first sitting on 15 April 1903 at his settlement at Waahi. …
Type: Biography
… comment into the society or shopping columns. Her first collection of poetry, The desolate star , was … vividness and insight. While she regarded herself as a poet first, during her lifetime she made more impact as a … feminist and socialist, writing for Tomorrow and Woman To-day . Against all advice Hyde resolved to travel to …
Type: Biography
… was probably here that Hauraki captured a Ngāti Rangiwewehi woman, Te Ao-kapurangi . He took her to the Bay of Islands … calling to his side Te Hihiko, Te Ao-kapurangi's son by her first husband, and referring to him as 'my child'. 'Behold! …
Type: Biography
… Puea was thus born into the kāhui ariki, the family of the first Māori King, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero , in the difficult … she persevered with courage against the odds. She had her first test as a leader in 1911. Mahuta had decided to … across cultures, and she was hailed as 'the greatest Māori woman of our time'. There was little recognition, though, of …
Type: Biography
… reporter. At around this time he met Tui Tunnicliffe, a woman one year his junior, at a party, and on 3 March 1952 they were married in Wellington. Their first child, the eldest of four boys, was born the following … the British publisher André Deutsch began to arrive. It was first published in New Zealand in 1972. Cross quickly wrote …
Type: Biography
… intelligence in Yamaguchi prefecture until late 1948. First marriage, teaching and business Potter spent 1949 as a … at Esalen from late 1971 to experience the therapy at first hand; he was impressed by the ‘totally accepting … and commune member Margaret Lydia Maxwell (Margie) Smith, a woman 25 years his junior, in Takapuna on 25 July 1980. They …
Type: Biography
… in January 1891, Ballance was ready to form the country's first Liberal government. Surrounding himself with a cabinet … Ballance established the Liberal Federation. This was the first attempt in New Zealand to form a nationwide party … A thoughtful, intelligent and politically astute woman, Ellen shared fully her husband's political interests. …
Type: Biography
… it is recorded that he was the grandson of Tapuhara, the woman after whom his hapū, Ngāi Tapuhara, was named, and of … and had them dragged across into the lake. Te Momo was the first man killed before either pā was taken; he was outside … peace, an end to cannibalism and an end to fighting. The first teachers were from Te Arawa, but Pāora Pōmare of …
Type: Biography
… known in his early years in New Zealand, found employment first as a labourer and on the wharves in Auckland. He … was one of the labour leaders strongly opposed to the First World War, seen by the militants as an 'imperialist … a son from her previous marriage to Frederick Kemp. An able woman, Janet Fraser was herself politically active and added …
Type: Biography
… strongest influence on young John. She was renowned as a woman of 'unostentatious benefactions and … great kindliness … best maiden speeches ever delivered in the House. As the first native-born Pākehā parliamentarian, Sheehan began by … permanent interest in the country', while he was the first true colonial who would take his place in Parliament. …
Type: Biography
… was with Ngāti Maru in the Hauraki Gulf and was given his first musket. He also visited Ngāti Whātua at Kaipara, where … of Nohorua, Te Rauparaha's older half-brother, and a woman of Ngāti Rāhiri, turned to disaster when the canoes of … pā. As part of the peacemaking, muskets were fired for the first time in Taranaki. Later, Te Rauparaha joined Te …
Type: Biography
… spent his adolescence under the apartheid regime, living first in Johannesburg and later Durban, where he established … helping on a relative’s farm at Aorangi, near Feilding, his first taste of New Zealand rural life. He was selected for … Soon afterwards he met Pamela Maureen Bennett, a young woman who had recently emigrated from Britain. Within three …
Type: Biography
… 10 March 1794 with his wife and new-born daughter, Ann, the first of their eight children. He took up residence at … In June 1822 he suspended Kendall for adultery with a Māori woman. He also found himself obliged to report the … accompanied by Te Morenga. He also wished to examine at first hand Māori economy, institutions and religious …
Type: Biography
… Leah (Peggy) Thorp in Napier on 24 June 1940, and the first of their six children was born the following year. … council of the Hawke’s Bay Law Society. Woodhouse made his first foray onto the national stage in 1956–7, when he … conscience fully aware of the needs of the common man and woman’, and which reflected ‘his vision of a more humane, …
Type: Biography
… their lands to Waikato and depart for the south. They went first to Te Kaweka in northern Taranaki. Te Wherowhero led a … moving back down the Waipā River when he met an old woman who had escaped. He sent her back to tell the women …
Type: Biography
… and Gone up north for a while (1972), about an unwed young woman falling pregnant. Joining the film society Jonathan … devil’s pit (1929), and she eventually became the archive’s first kaumatua. Harris, who became a personal friend and … vindicated Jonathan’s stumbling prescience back in the first years of the archive, and showed, at least in film …
Type: Biography
… of Joseph Carroll and his Ngāti Kahungunu wife, Tapuke, a woman of mana. His father, a Sydney-born Irishman, had come … among Tapuke's kin in inland communities. Māori was his first language, and he referred also to whare wānanga … friend Samuel Locke in Hawke's Bay. This gave Carroll his first experience of land transactions on the East Coast. He …
Type: Biography
… at the Vauxhall Gardens; but when a contributor libelled a woman, he was horsewhipped in the street by a defender of … of his essay he invariably added after his name: 'First Rector of the High School of Otago, and Founder of the …
Type: Biography