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… on other matters and in other literary forms. They included George Grey, a keen naturalist and scholar of Māori culture; Alfred …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… sale or hire. He also had a shirt factory and rope works in Grey Street and imported soft goods and saddlery. He … in dairy technology. In 1891 he and a Rongotea farmer, George Suisted, patented a hand-held mould for making butter …
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… of Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata, and in 1847 Governor George Grey ‘re’-purchased the Wairau from Ngāti Toa. The deed …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… in 1893. Social thinkers such as political economist Henry George and the Populist political movement (which sought … tourists, included the writer and big-game fisherman Zane Grey. …
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Part of story: United States and New Zealand
… An 1862 letter to New Zealand Governor George Grey, signed by 30 Moriori elders, sought the return of …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… called Queen’s Redoubt, was built. On 11 July 1863 Governor George Grey announced his intention to send troops into Waikato. He …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… of Crown lands. He sought right of choice, under Governor George Grey's 1853 regulations, over 40,000 acres of 5s. land. …
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… New Zealand around 1867 and is said to have worked for Sir George Grey on Kawau Island. After attending Whangaparapara School, …
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… the following month, he was appointed to St Columba Church, Grey Lynn. Faced by the demands of the depression, he … British Empire (1967–77) and the Order of St Michael and St George (1968–77), and chaplain and sub-prelate of the Order …
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… arrest. Armed Police Force, 1846–1853 Under a new governor, George Grey, policing strategy responded to Māori uprisings in the …
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Part of story: Police
… would be honoured was delivered to Māori by Governor George Grey. Irrevocably binding compact In his 1860 book …
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Part of story: Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi
… nurse in December 1904, and moved on to become matron of Grey River Hospital from 1906 to 1908. From there she went … to New Zealand to take up a position as matron at the King George V Military Hospital at Rotorua, it was publicly noted …
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… and Laura Knight, and probably also knew the Australian George Lambert in Penzance. She shared the Newlyn school's … such as that her work 'Dusk' 'catches the feeling of a dull grey evening very well', indicate a lack of appreciation of …
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… candidate having withdrawn, in being elected for the Grey and Bell constituency. The following year he was … and was elected to the House of Representatives for Grey and Bell. He joined the Stafford administration as, in … for its retention in New Zealand; at the time Sir George Grey and the Melbourne museum were also after it. The …
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… a government challenge, was regarded as a triumph for Sir George Grey and for the Repudiation movement. In June 1876 an … (Hans) Tapsell in this and the succeeding election. But as Grey and Sheehan's ministry progressed, Tomoana became …
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… movement had brought East Coast Māori into touch with George Grey 's parliamentary following, notably W. L. Rees , whom …
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… on 30 November 1884. He was one of nine children of George Webb, a miner, and his wife, Mary Ann McNamara. The … and he quickly moved on to the state mine at Rūnanga, near Greymouth. Opened in 1902 by the Liberal government to … In the post-war years Webb returned to mining. He joined George Hunter, a mate from the North Prentice days, in one …
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… too radical for the Colonial Office, which under Governor George Grey 's influence, produced the Constitution Act 1852. The …
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… matters was downplayed. He was mortified when Governor George Grey chose White as an officer in the Armed Police. After … of his friends and social peers he frequently petitioned Grey and other dignitaries. This, and the support of …
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… first issued in 1933 were designed by British artist George Kruger Gray. The penny and halfpenny, first issued in …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes