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… means ‘the army that brings life’. Salvation Army officers first arrived in New Zealand from the UK in 1883, at a time … with mainstream Christian churches. The Salvation Army at first concentrated its efforts in towns and cities, and as … of Kaiapoi and Maraea Morris, a high-born East Coast woman who became colour-sergeant of the Gisborne corps. …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… to other parties. Many went to the populist New Zealand First party, led by Winston Peters, whom Bolger had sacked … retained power in 1996, in a coalition with New Zealand First. But he was ousted as leader on 8 December 1997 by … Minister Jenny Shipley, who became New Zealand’s first woman prime minister. Shipley led the party to defeat in …
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Part of story: National Party
… (Māori) people in 1769 (when British navigator James Cook first visited New Zealand) to over four million by 2013 – a … just above replacement level (which is 2.1 births per woman). Fertility increased during the post-Second World War … to the early 1970s), when there were about four births per woman. Fertility dropped again after the baby boom because a …
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Part of story: Population change
… Tautahi of Te Uri-o-Hua section of Ngāpuhi at Kaikohe. His first wife was Mata (Martha) Rawa, of Te Arawa, and they had … one of Hongi Hika 's warriors Taiwhanga participated in the first Ngāpuhi expedition to the Bay of Plenty in 1818. … Whātua as far as Rotorua, where Taiwhanga took captive a woman of Te Arawa, after killing her husband and two …
Type: Biography
… at Otipua, near Timaru. Dolce was educated privately at first and is reputed to have read French and German by the … October 1907. Her appointment is said to have been the first of any woman to the staff of a New Zealand newspaper. Dolce Cabot …
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… became political issues. Mrs Joe Bloggs Until the 1970s a woman’s marital status, made obvious by the title ‘Miss’ or … was a good alternative to Miss and Mrs. From 1970 when the first Women’s Liberation groups were established, through to … Shifting patterns Augusta Wallace’s appointment as the first woman judge (1975), Linda Jones’s long struggle to …
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Part of story: Women and men
… became president of the branch and in 1890 attended her first national convention. Under her leadership the … in the organisational side of the New Zealand WCTU, first as corresponding secretary and later as recording … to England to attend the biennial convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She also attended the …
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… Subotica when it became part of Yugoslavia after the First World War. During the war she made bandages and helped … was treated ‘with all the respect a high ranking business woman would expect’. Then in 1944 the German army occupied … an army camp at Pahiatua they settled in New Plymouth. At first, to earn a living, Eleonora sewed (although prior to …
Type: Biography
… a potent form of whakanoa (to remove tapu, or make normal). First-born females who had ceased menstruation were known as … for houses women took the integral role of being the first to enter – usually a puhi selected by the hapū would … te whakahe, ki te takahia kua he’ 1 (in times past ... if a woman went to mediate a conflict, she would not be touched …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… there each day by train from Edendale. During the First World War new employment opportunities opened up for … women with shorthand, typing and business skills and her first position was with the Invercargill Post Office. Both … was promoted to the rank of minister, the first New Zealand woman to hold a position of such seniority in the Overseas …
Type: Biography
… to Georgetown, south Invercargill, that Bertha had her first contact with the Salvation Army. In November 1889, as … train as an officer. She left in December that year for her first appointment as a corps officer, or minister, at … officer for Invercargill in November 1934, the first woman to hold this position in Invercargill and among the …
Type: Biography
… and men as well as women were eligible for parental leave. Woman’s destiny In 1889 former colonial treasurer and politician Sir Julius Vogel predicted a woman would be ruler of a United Greater Britain in his … to women playing rugby union and rugby league for the first time. Popular culture In popular culture old meanings …
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Part of story: Women and men
… song about the marriage of a Chinese gold miner to a white woman. To look at her, ’twas hard to say Exactly where her … (the language of the Dalmatian migrants) ‘Mate’ is a common first name, held by many men of Dalmatian descent in … was the Dalmatian gum diggers of the Far North. As with the first Chinese and Indians, these migrants from Dalmatia (now …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… Elizabeth Ayerst Bishop, a strongly religious but liberal woman. The fourth of five children, Elsie had four brothers. … lectures at Auckland University College in 1906. Her first articles as Elsie Morton were published in 1907 in the … stories to the Herald and Australian journals. With the First World War came sorrow and success. Her brother Alfred …
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… throughout the rest of her life. Hilda and Harry moved first to Cambridge, and then settled in Hamilton, where … of children, women, the needy and the disadvantaged – first manifested itself during the influenza epidemic of … and to the Hamilton Borough Council in 1944 – the first woman to hold a council seat. Her connection with the …
Type: Biography
… (who were entitled to attend the meeting), she was the only woman member. However, claims that she was the first woman to be licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist …
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… living under their care. Agnes Harrold was an intrepid woman of forceful character, with a hawk-like nose and a … 'Send for Granny Harrold' was the cry when basic first aid was not enough. Where boat transport was … included raspberry leaves and tansy. She would keep the woman up, and have her kneel on the floor for the delivery. …
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… and vigorous mining and timber-milling town of Thames. At first the new school attracted mainly children of poorer … Frances for her treatment of her pupil and fined the woman. Although the Auckland Education Board covered an … the discrimination and difficulties that beset the woman teacher in late nineteeth century New Zealand. …
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… staff inspector in Wellington, thereby becoming the first woman primary school inspector in New Zealand. In 1955 she … in 30 schools in 1960, and after final revision were first issued in 1963. Basic to Simpson’s approach was the …
Type: Biography
… group stopped twice to raise and harvest food crops; the first major stop was at Kaweka. During their stay there they … described her at this time as a 'strong well proportioned woman of great muscular strength and endurance'. She was … Brown; Hōne, who married Amīria; and Mere Hautonga, who first married Īnia Tūhata, and then Wiremu Naera …
Type: Biography