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… She became an expert swordswoman and was awarded the Sir George Grey Scholarship and the Haydon Prize in chemistry. She …
Type: Biography
… offered the post to Luckie at a salary of £800, but Premier George Grey considered £200 sufficient. The issue involved the …
Type: Biography
… initial opposition of Fox, Vogel and former governor Sir George Grey. Provincial governments were abolished under Vogel’s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… in their social following. Hunting began when Governor George Grey imported beagles for hunting rabbits. The sight and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural recreation
… married in London on 22 November 1950. They had one son, George (Geordie). Various other appointments followed, … his genuine efforts to master their language; not since George Grey in the nineteenth century had a governor spoken Māori …
Type: Biography
… Office. Later in 1853 he served as secretary to Governor George Grey on a voyage with Bishop G. A. Selwyn to the New …
Type: Biography
… Hōri Kerei about 1858 or 1859 after former governor Sir George Grey . Older Ngāi Tahu continued to call him Huriwhenua. … of Kemp's purchase of 1848, and had sought a revision of Grey's Wairau purchase of 1847 which had recognised Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… object was of a small rewarewa work box made by Henry George Watkins Waru in 1834 as a gift to the rector of St … demands or tastes could be catered for. In 1846 Governor George Grey’s wife, Eliza, living in Auckland, complained that she …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Furniture
… the first six months of 1857 he was provincial treasurer in George Cutfield's administration but resigned when appointed … sacrificed to save the government's face after Governor George Grey's abandonment of the Waitara purchase, Parris went on …
Type: Biography
… and Macfarlane, a firm with close connections to Sir George Grey which pursued dreams of empire in the south seas. … Lundon thereafter aligned his political activities with the Grey faction, and in 1879 was elected to Parliament for the …
Type: Biography
… an altar frontal carved by Īnia Te Wīata and gifted by King George VI. Pāora Temuera retired from his post at Rangiātea …
Type: Biography
… Australian nurse who on her way ‘Home’ had met and married George Edward Wilkinson, an Englishman working on the … ward of Auckland Hospital for six weeks, then entered the Grey Lodge at Auckland Mental Hospital as a voluntary … in Dunedin ‘on leave’, always returning to the security of Grey Lodge. She associated with A. R. D. Fairburn , Rosalie …
Type: Biography
… friend Alfred Domett ’s ministry because disliked Governor George Grey ’s Māori policies, deplored Domett’s own political … difficult. He solved those difficulties by arranging with Grey for a dissolution, whether or not he could get Supply …
Type: Biography
… Auckland journal. Philo-Maori and supporting Governor George Grey, it advocated the liberal land settlement schemes and … rode out most storms. Yet although sharing many of Grey's beliefs, he was much more than the pliant territorial …
Type: Biography
… of three children of Isabella Anderson and her husband, George Ritchie, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. … leading to a partnership, in Dunedin, New Zealand, by George Gray Russell, a merchant some years his senior. He … was survived by his wife, six sons and a daughter. His son George succeeded him as general manager of NMA. Ritchie's …
Type: Biography
… Hīpango travelled to Wellington in 1862 to invite Governor George Grey to visit the settlement. Grey accepted their invitation, but gave offence to the …
Type: Biography
… The land fund George Grey, who became premier in 1877, did not restore the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Colonial and provincial government
… major pests. Some importations were bizarre. Governor George Grey built up a menagerie at his Kawau Island home which …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Acclimatisation
… including zebras (released on Kawau Island in 1870 by George Grey), long-nosed potoroos, marsupial cats, bandicoots, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Exotic farm animals
… politics he was described as 'a pronounced Liberal and anti-Greyite'. Levin was opposed to Sir George Grey because he considered him to be a poor administrator …
Type: Biography