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… Pre-war migration With returning prosperity at the turn of the century and the revival of government-assisted migration, the English once more boarded the ships heading … the term Prisoners of Mother England, nor a version of the French word for potatoes (pommes de terre), which English …
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Part of story: English
… was a Dutchman, Jacob Roggeveen, in 1722. Later, the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville called Samoa’s … Samoan leaders and stripping them of their chiefly titles. Migration to New Zealand Although Samoans travelled to New … communities which were impacted by the way in which immigration laws were enforced in New Zealand in the 1970s in …
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Part of story: Samoans
… Papua New Guineans, Solomon Islanders, Vanuatuans and French Polynesians. The total number of other Pacific … country, we don't even have street lights in Tuvalu’. 1 French Polynesia The Polynesian ancestors of Māori settled … visit New Zealand since the era of Polynesian settlement. French Polynesia is vast. It takes in the Society Islands …
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Part of story: South Pacific peoples
… much as possible. Also, they rest and feed at sea, so their migration flights are less demanding than waders’. Terns, … (Micronesia) across to the Marquesas and Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia. On their return to New Zealand, their …
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Part of story: Bird migration
… by the British government in 1922 to subsidise family emigration, and by the New Zealand government to allow New … recruit industrial workers. The last major wave of English migration, in the 30 years to 1975, came mostly from … and many of their residents would have spoken a French patois before coming to New Zealand. …
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Part of story: English
… emergence as a leader is recorded a few years before the migration. About 1815 a strong Waikato war party assembled … arms between the tribes on this coast. In the 1840s George French Angas , the visiting artist and author, prevailed on … by Te Rauparaha during the troubled times of the southward migration and the resettlement that followed it. …
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… migrating Ngāti Toa and the Waikato tribes. In successive migrations after the defeat of Waikato at Motunui about … and Ngāti Mutunga were wrongly blamed for the taking of the French whaling ship Jean Bart , and their village and canoes were bombarded by the French warship Cécille. The loss of the Jean Bart had …
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… They migrate mainly to islands east of Fiji, including French Polynesia, but also further west into Micronesia. …
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Part of story: Small forest birds
… New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia and many smaller groups. Parts of the … and includes the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Niue and French Polynesia. Melanesia (‘islands of black-skinned … Their main economic links were not trade but labour migration, aid and remittances (money sent home by migrants …
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Part of story: South Pacific economic relations
… Pōmare , also known as Pōmare Ngātata, the leader of the migration of Ngāti Mutunga to the Chatham Islands. When a … Āti Awa who accompanied the second stage of Te Rauparaha's migration to Waikanae and Kapiti, known as Te Heke … there by the government. His portrait was painted by George French Angas . …
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… west as Yap in Micronesia and as far east as Mangareva in French Polynesia, east of Tahiti. About 4,000 years old, … were taken from island to island over centuries of migration. Māui’s fish The most common tradition tells how … that the name was given to many islands and places during migrations across the Pacific. The earliest Polynesian name …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… from the 1970s to the 1990s. Controversy arose over French nuclear testing in the Pacific from 1963 to 1996 and the French bombing of the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow …
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Part of story: Britain, Europe and New Zealand
… British settlement. But organised settlement began when a French captain founded the Nanto-Bordelaise Company, which sent out French (and German) settlers who arrived in August 1840. … British sovereignty had been proclaimed by this time, the French settlers stayed to found Akaroa. From a Banks …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… whalers and traders. Some of the American, Norwegian and French whalers taught the local people how to catch whales. …
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Part of story: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
… measles epidemics in 1838 and 1840. A bloody encounter The French whaling ship Jean Bart was at the Chathams in March … boats but were never seen again. Some months later the French warship Héroïne bombarded settlements on the island, …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… were British. There were two exceptions. First, the French Nanto-Bordelaise Company had grand ideas of a colony … enthusiastic support from home, and only a small group of French and German people – between 50 and 60 – settled in … as assisted migrants, sponsored by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners in Britain. Among them were 514 who …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… and the school opened in 1864. Instruction in Classics, French and other subjects was provided. Three years later …
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… in Queen Charlotte Sound and Cook Strait, and in 1827 the French explorer Dumont d'Urville spent time in Tasman Bay, …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… of Albertland on the Kaipara Harbour dispersed, but the French Catholic and English Anglican missionaries based at …
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Part of story: Northland region
… The points system of entry led to increased and diverse immigration. Between 1971 and 1991 the number of foreign-born … came to take up professional opportunities. The number of French increased to 2,500, and there were now almost 5,000 … women marrying Kiwi men. There were substantial migrations from South Asia – in the 15 years to 2006, the …
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Part of story: History of immigration