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… friend of leading Liberal politicians, and a supporter of George Grey. In 1892 Liberal premier John Ballance offered him a …
Type: Biography
… in 1878 he was called to the Legislative Council by Premier George Grey, the class-conscious editor of the New Zealand Times …
Type: Biography
… to New Zealand, and did not arrive on time. Governor George Grey, who was due to open it, was preoccupied with fighting …
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Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… team in 1911. He graduated BA in 1908 and was awarded a Sir George Grey Scholarship; he completed an MA (with honours in …
Type: Biography
… Those arguing against such attitudes were able to use George Grey’s collection of traditional Māori stories Nga mahi a …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… on Kawau Island, where it was probably introduced by Sir George Grey about 1870. Among important bird studies were two …
Type: Biography
… Wellington a month later where his offer to assist Governor George Grey to implement the New Zealand Constitution Act was … he helped initiate the abortive legal campaign against Grey's cheap land regulations. In August he was elected to …
Type: Biography
… Takamoana and Rēnata Kawepō. In March 1866 Governor George Grey visited Te Hāpuku, and induced him and his brother … Kahurānaki hill. He was visited on his deathbed by Sir George Grey. His funeral was attended by 400 Māori and …
Type: Biography
… was born in Auckland on 7 December 1884, the son of Thomas George Gummer, an accountant, and his wife, Jane Taylor …
Type: Biography
… had co-existed here. In 1866 Taylor returned with Governor George Grey to collect specimens. Ōhawe Coastal settlement 8 km …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki places
… The first four public hospitals, established by Governor George Grey , promised to provide free treatment for Māori. Later, …
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Part of story: Hospitals
… found that kākāpō made affectionate pets. Governor George Grey wrote to a friend about a pet kākāpō which acted more …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… career, he was a liberal and a strong supporter of Sir George Grey. He defended provincial interests against the central …
Type: Biography
… School of Economics in 1945. Plato and lipstick Dennis Grey, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Otago after … became a stand-alone department in 1952, and the logician George Hughes was appointed professor. Under Hughes, …
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Part of story: Philosophy
… The work was unveiled in Victoria Square in 1932. By then George Gould, a prominent citizen, was advancing his plans …
Type: Biography
… 1950 New Zealand hill-climb championship. The fair-haired, grey-eyed young woman provided a touch of glamour in the … garage she nicknamed ‘the cave’, when a meeting with Lionel George Archer, who had been a Jaguar engineer in England, …
Type: Biography
… for his gift of six acres of slum land lying between Grey Street (Greys Avenue) and Queen Street, which he bought and gifted …
Type: Biography
… Nearly all the male inhabitants petitioned Governor George Grey for a remission of sentence. None was granted, other … in court. Later in the year the Executive Council advised Grey not to confirm the death sentence. On 17 November it …
Type: Biography
… form in public archives, collected by the likes of George Grey , John White and S. Percy Smith in the nineteenth and …
Type: Biography
… and the Orient to Sydney, New South Wales. In Cape Town George Grey had encouraged the Novara 's commodore, Bernhard von … was accompanied on his North Island journey by Captain George Drummond Hay; Julius Haast; two settlers recruited in …
Type: Biography