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… grammar school, replacing a male teacher fighting in the First World War. She was offered a lecturership in geography … Girton College, Cambridge, but decided to travel overseas first, taking up a position at the Bishop Strachan School, … as the Bay of Plenty representative; she was the only woman councillor. She was president of the Tauranga branch …
Type: Biography
… was taught to read and write, but prospects for a young woman in north-east Scotland in the 1880s did not extend … members of the family would join them. Maggie Fraser stayed first with Alick in Sydenham, Christchurch, before going to … accepted the dissolution of his marriage, moving first to Masterton and later to Australia. Maggie remained …
Type: Biography
… appointed a sister at Guest Hospital, Dudley. As a young woman she was attractive, with beautiful chestnut hair, … established a medical practice. Kitty gave birth to her first child, Edward, in Suva in 1903. The Sevilles left Fiji … Katherine Margaret (Peggy), she opened Morrinsville's first hospital, which she named Loloma (Fijian for love). …
Type: Biography
… for the game from the beginning of her career and, in her first season, was one of the team which won the fours … Sportsman of the Year, the South Pacific Television Sportswoman of the Year, and the Rawhiti Bowler of the Year (which … In the winter months Elsie Wilkie played indoor bowls, first at Walton, where she was both president and secretary, …
Type: Biography
… Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister, its longest-serving woman MP, and a … Tahupotiki Wiremu Rātana 's political advisers, and the first Rātana (independent) MP elected to Parliament. He held …
Type: Biography
… office, and in 1934 launched the magazine Working Woman , which was financially supported by women’s … organised the National Conference of Working Women, the first of its kind in New Zealand. Elsie hitchhiked around … son Keith was born in Christchurch in 1944, and their first daughter, Maire, was born 18 months later. In 1946, …
Type: Biography
… the legal profession. Ethel Benjamin from Dunedin was the first woman to be admitted to the practice of law in New Zealand, … Senior Counsel replaced Queen’s Counsel in 2006, and the first appointments of Senior Counsel were made in 2008. The …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Law
… Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Hauiti) Ngati (1987) was the first feature made principally by Māori and the world’s first feature made by an indigenous culture living within a … was the first feature directed and written by a Māori woman and the first from an entirely Māori perspective. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Feature film
… by earlier climbers. Skiplanes and helicopters After the first successful skiplane landing on the Tasman Glacier in … be lifted out by helicopter. New high huts were built – the first on the Grand Plateau in 1963–64. Flying in to a … Doreen Urquhart and Sheila MacMurray made the first all-woman, guideless ascent of Aoraki/Mt Cook. Other important …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Mountaineering
… Violet Alberta (Berta) Jessie Watson, one of the first women to achieve high office in the New Zealand … born in Winchester, South Canterbury, on 12 March 1893, the first of two children of Agnes McCaig Baillie and her … moved to Wellington and she became involved in the journal Woman To-day , subtitled 'for peace, freedom and progress', …
Type: Biography
… ended shore whaling there in 1841. Early explorers The first Europeans to enter South Canterbury overland found … see the Mackenzie Pass from a distance. The sheep runs The first Europeans to settle permanently in South Canterbury … occupied the region’s second run, naming it Arowhenua. A woman of substance Scotswoman Jeanie Collier came to New …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… Ambulance Brigade nursing division in Hull and passed her first aid and nursing medallion examination in 1898. In … and from 1912 to 1930 superintendent. Gill headed the first aid instruction section, teaching classes of up to 30 … North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. She was the first woman to gain a seat and topped the poll when elected for …
Type: Biography
… nation’s supreme sporting achievement was won twice by a woman, Yvette Williams, in its first four years. Williams was the first woman to capture the country’s sporting imagination. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sport and the nation
… from the land include the fashioning of Hineahuone, the first woman, from the soil of Papatūānuku, and Tuputupu-whenua who …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… to the inspectorate and to the department of education. At first a conformist teacher who dutifully drilled her pupils … they were needed there: 'The world has two eyes, man's and woman's, and so long as man persists in keeping a shade over … on her life was the Pan-Pacific Women's Association. Her first trip overseas was as a member of the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… partners only. Family of friends In 2003 Jane Westaway, a first-generation New Zealander, wrote of the importance of … on the far side of the world in whose company I spent the first lonely eighteen years of my life; I think of my family … with other women. Women and the home The belief that a woman’s place was in the home was widespread from the 19th …
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Part of story: Women’s networks and clubs
… passion’ that comes ‘but once a life time to every man and woman, and sometimes not at all’. Readers were advised that … ‘should not be trifled with’ but also to beware the young woman whose sole aim ‘is to bring men to her feet and under … love at the dog-dosing strip at Dunsandel, and the romantic First World War Māori love song ‘Pōkarekare ana’. Poetry …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Love and romance
… and always kept their photographs near her. As the senior woman of her generation she sometimes used the name Te … and deer stalking. She grew to become a tall, imposing woman, and was regarded as friendly and outgoing but also … tobacco. Rona supervised the grading and buying for the first export leaf from Nelson province between 1935 and …
Type: Biography
… their sympathisers regularly picketed abortion clinics (the first of which opened in Auckland in 1974), praying, singing … kill their babies. Occasionally protesters would follow a woman home and tell her family that she had had an abortion. … members, and argued that abortion was a decision for a woman and her doctor. The more radical Women’s National …
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Part of story: Abortion
… Late-18th-century averages On his first visit to New Zealand, in 1769–70, British explorer … expect to reach 167–168 centimetres, while the average woman was 154–155 centimetres tall. Dietary factors Few … newly appointed school medical officers carried out the first of several major surveys. Children’s heights and …
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Part of story: Body shape and dieting