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… of an imminent assault on Wellington. The new governor, George Grey , decided that Te Rauparaha could not be trusted and … Ōtaki in 1848. He was accompanied on the return voyage by George and Eliza Grey, and by numerous Maori, including …
Type: Biography
… report The commissioners were appointed by Governor George Grey, following a resolution from the Legislative Council …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Capital city
… dinner for 180 held by Hutt settlers in honour of Sir George Grey in 1851. The meal included three rounds of beef, six …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… settlement 22 kilometres north-west of Ōtorohanga. Governor George Grey travelled to the district in 1878 to meet King Tāwhiao …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country places
… After the 1877 election he joined the ministry led by Sir George Grey as minister of public works, and continued to borrow …
Type: Biography
… pacification had Russell's unqualified support. Governor George Grey , who by 1864 had become deeply uneasy at the scale of …
Type: Biography
… Bennett returned to Auckland and spoke regularly at Sir George Grey's statue outside the Auckland Town Hall. 'You would …
Type: Biography
… under the Native Land Purchase Ordinance 1846 Governor George Grey stopped such direct sales and Native Land Purchase …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… to allow European settlement in Te Rohe Pōtae. Premier George Grey and Native Minister John Sheehan both met with King …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country region
… and cannabis in the 19th century. In New Zealand Governor George Grey took opium, but the practice was not widespread. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Drugs
… and later, at the University of Otago, was awarded a Sir George Grey Scholarship and was senior scholar in physics. He …
Type: Biography
… dyeing. In 1902 or 1903, at Temuka, Hīria married Francis George Te Hau Barrett (Pareti), a grandson of the whaler …
Type: Biography
… to the sale of large blocks of Murihiku to John Jones and George Green in Sydney in 1838, and of further extensive … owned a cutter, the Levin (which sank in 1847), the Lady Grey and the Deveron . From 1856 Pātuki was often in …
Type: Biography
… in the interwar years. McLagan found work as a miner in the Grey valley coal town of Blackball, on the West Coast. He … In the Workers' Vanguard and the miners' page of the Grey River Argus , they hammered out a persistent refrain: … jobs, then worked in the mine at Brunnerton. He lived in Greymouth from 1938 and Rangiora from 1940. The rift between …
Type: Biography
… ‘What do you think of New Zealand?’. When Irish author George Bernard Shaw visited in 1934, a book of his comments … with a particular focus – American author and angler Zane Grey wrote extensively about his deep-sea fishing exploits, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand
… end of 1853 Harry and Arthur had purchased 200 acres on the Grey block for 10s. an acre and were busy clearing it. … When he joined the provincial council representing the Grey and Bell constituency in January 1857 he told C. W. … a member of the House of Representatives, representing Grey and Bell, in 1861. On 24 November 1864 he became …
Type: Biography
… born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on 8 September 1822, the son of George Bannerman and his wife, Ann Gray. It was Jane who …
Type: Biography
… and was appointed to the Privy Council. He was sworn in by George VI when the O'Learys visited Britain in 1951. In his …
Type: Biography
… with such men as Robert Stout. He strongly supported Sir George Grey in the elections of 1879 and 1881. By the end of the …
Type: Biography
… to go. Te Rata, Taingākawa, Mita Karaka and Hori T. Paora (George G. Paul), the latter two acting as secretaries and … correctly in frock coats, the group was received by King George V and Queen Mary. Compliments and gifts were … occasion shows Taingākawa looking very distinguished, with grey hair and a dark moustache, the obvious leader of the …
Type: Biography