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… near-empty for much of the year. Freda Du Faur Australian woman Freda Du Faur shocked other tourists by refusing to … with mountain guide Peter Graham. In 1910 she became the first woman to climb Aoraki/Mt Cook, making the ascent and … to give alpine landscapes more charm. The outbreak of the First World War saw visitor numbers slump and hopes of …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… By 1960 there were four births on average per adult woman. Fertility rates increased steadily for women at … Rethinking sex and domesticity During the late 1960s, the first set of children born during the baby boom became … heterosexuality. Feminist challenges In 1973 the first United Women’s Convention was held in Auckland and …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… was made possible by significant funding from Sport NZ. The first head coach, Welsh-born Gemma Lewis, was assisted by … coach, assisted by New Zealand-born Callum Holmes. In its first season the team was based in Wollongong, New South … for Millwall Lionesses and TSV Siegen respectively. The 21-woman Football Ferns squad for the 2011 FIFA Women’s World …
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Part of story: Football
… standards in umpiring. She was also a pioneer as an early woman veterinarian. Pearl was born on 29 April 1887 in … playing with boys at primary school. When she was given her first hockey stick, she was so entranced she took it to bed. … until 1949 she was its chairwoman. She was also one of the first women hockey umpires in New Zealand, and at different …
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… There she opened a maternity home, which became the first registered in the area. Adelaide became known as … of her daughters. Despite being a diminutive, refined woman, Adelaide Hicks was known for her ability to deal with … May 1930 at the age of 85. She was celebrated as a pioneer woman whose courage in emigrating alone to New Zealand as a …
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… Port Hills to an abandoned cob cottage at Governors Bay. At first they had to live off the land; but by good fortune the … She was remembered by her grandchildren as a small woman with curly auburn hair, fond of trinkets and lace. She … a wealth of commonsense expressions. In times when a lone woman with dependent children had to find her own way in the …
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… colonies? In 1889 Julius Vogel ’s Anno domini 2000 , or, Woman’s destiny was published in London by Hutchinson and … George Chapman , an Auckland bookseller, produced the first publishing list in the early 1860s full of such books. H. Wise and Company published its first directory of Dunedin in 1865 and in 1872 produced a …
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Part of story: Publishing
… motoring enthusiast, and, in 1909, when she attended the first English flying meeting at Blackpool, she yearned to … the Hewlett and Blondeau flying school, one of Britain's first, at Brooklands, Surrey, in 1910. In August 1911 Hilda Hewlett became the first British woman to obtain a pilot's certificate, No 122. Soon after, …
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… Although British monarchs had long used favourites and first or chief ministers to conduct government business, the … business, the idea of anyone being ‘primus inter pares’ (first among equals) was insulting. But, as the power of the … 38 of them men. In 1997 New Zealand gained its first woman prime minister when a National Party caucus coup …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… large temporary isolation hospital. On the outbreak of the First World War Jessie Scott was approached by her friend … Rout, of the New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood, to lead the first band of volunteers to help nurse the sick and wounded … Hospitals for Foreign Service. Elsie Inglis, an early woman medical graduate of Edinburgh University, had …
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… was also very attractive: Alfred Domett described her as 'a woman out of a Book of Beauty…ample white muslin flounces … he does nothing and writes nothing without consulting her first.' C. R. Carter, MHR for Wairarapa in 1860, later … Harold, Wilfrid and Francis – were born in New Zealand. Her first child, Mabyl Helena, was born at St Helena, and Ethel …
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… her retirement in 1961, and in all that time was the only woman on the professorial board. Although she was said to … G. Wilson of a book, Good nutrition: principles and menus , first published in 1939 or 1940, which was widely used by … 1962 and awarded the honorary degree of LLD in 1967 – the first New Zealand woman graduate to be so honoured. A member …
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… Little is known of Jeanie Collier's early life. As a young woman she lived with the rest of her family at Ardock … Collier took up land in South Canterbury, becoming the first recorded woman runholder in New Zealand. In November … Once at Otaio, Jeanie Collier slept in a tent until the first permanent house, a small slab hut thatched with …
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… University of Otago Medical School and became the second woman in New Zealand to complete a medical course. She … of Waimate, South Canterbury. On 3 May 1897 she became the first New Zealand woman to register as a doctor and … in a queen carnival held to raise money during the First World War. An eyewitness described her as 'tall and …
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… Kidson flourished at university. She became an expert swordswoman and was awarded the Sir George Grey Scholarship and … to make a study tour of the United States. She was the first woman fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry … fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry in 1944 – the first New Zealand woman to achieve that honour. In 1963 she …
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… of years and rose to become vice president in 1940 – the first time a woman had achieved such a 'responsible position' in the … union activism had spanned the depression, the term of the first Labour government, the introduction of compulsory …
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… and spare parts rose by about one-third. Women drivers The first woman driver of long-distance buses, in the 1930s, may have … to wave, [then] turn their heads away. Wouldn’t recognise a woman! People in motor cars would look up and Oh my gosh! …
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Part of story: Coaches and long-distance buses
… Carey, a farmer. Although she painted from a young age, her first formal training was in music and she initially became … family shifted to Tuhikaramea, near Hamilton. During the First World War Ida moved to Te Aroha, and by 1921 she was … start a new project: to find and paint every living Māori woman who had a moko. Although now in her 70s and unable to …
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… an English mother and French father who married a Maniapoto woman. He first visited New Zealand around 1835 on a whaling ship, and …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… baskets of cooked food were prohibited. If a menstruating woman gathered molluscs, they would only be successful on the day that the molluscs were first seen. At dawn the next day, no molluscs would be seen …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation