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… science in 1915 and DSc in 1919. The same year his doctoral thesis was published as The Pacific: its past and … edited a newspaper, the New Zealander , to give news from home to expatriates serving in Britain. For his services as … of parliamentary librarian. He was known simply as 'the Doctor' – the 'busy Doctor', as one obituary stated. His …
Type: Biography
… 20, and never contacted him. As a baby, she had four foster homes before her mother took her to her grandparents, … Arch Barrington resulted in a family quarrel, and she left home at 16 to support herself by working in bookshops. Sonja … In 1987, she officially retired and received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Victoria University of …
Type: Biography
… cells, and pushed for the appointment of women police, doctors, lawyers, jurors and government officials; the … for them, and sometimes took them into her own home. She wished to give them hope and another chance: 'It … activities, she was still sheltering 'prison birds' in her home and writing for the Māoriland Worker. She died at her …
Type: Biography
… hygiene that Turbott began his lengthy reign as the ‘Radio Doctor’. Throughout the early 1940s he and Muriel Bell , the … On 24 March 1984 the Evening Post reported that ‘The radio doctor, Dr Harold Turbott, tuned out this morning without … executive board in 1964–65. His principal contribution, at home and abroad, was in the field of health education, which …
Type: Biography
… decades. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, doctors debated whether water should be drunk with meals or … in New Zealand from the 1830s and were also made in the home. Coca-Cola, arguably the world’s best-known carbonated … manufacturers from the 1830s and also made by home cooks. In the days before refrigerators, fresh fruit …
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Part of story: Tea, coffee and soft drinks
… Thornton wanted boys to take this message back to their homes. In June 1889 Pōmare and two of his fellows, Rēweti … Parliament, but he felt he could do more for Māori as a doctor. In 1893 he left New Zealand for Michigan where, … This meant that the couple could afford to build a gracious home, Hiwiroa, on seven acres of land at Lower Hutt with …
Type: Biography
… the initiative of Nurse Sibylla Maude in providing home nursing care for the poor, and was later elected to … recipient of several honours, having been made an honorary doctor of divinity of Oxford University in 1912, a …
Type: Biography
… and his wife, Sophia Hull. Barraud wanted to become a doctor, but his father, a clerk in the Custom House, London, … 1849. Chapman lent the Barrauds a cottage near his house, Homewood, in the hills of Karori, while their home, Fernglen, was being built on The Terrace. Barraud …
Type: Biography
… Shoppee. Ebenezer was a prosperous solicitor and the family home had three acres of grounds. William had a secure … Benham was awarded a Coronation Medal, and an honorary doctorate of science from the University of New Zealand. He …
Type: Biography
… Wellington Hospital. He also became physician to Our Lady’s Home of Compassion in 1940. Despite his past history of … Luke and Saints Cosmas and Damian, the society of Catholic doctors in Wellington. Burns had married Margaret Muriel …
Type: Biography
… merchants, bankers and some professional people like doctors and lawyers. Then came more minor entrepreneurs, and … was harder to find work, and men often had to leave their homes and drift from one short-term labouring job to …
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Part of story: Class
… and then Auckland Girls’ Grammar School. Ambitions to be a doctor were quashed by her father, who would not allow her to leave home, so she was apprenticed in his central city chemist … her car with veterinary supplies and drove down to tend homeless pets. Dawson had learned about sport by playing …
Type: Biography
… to Ōtaki, north of Wellington. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature by Victoria University of Wellington … In 1998 the Royal New Zealand Ballet moved into its own home adjacent to the refurbished St James Theatre in …
Type: Biography
… days of European settlement. Children were also taught at home by parents or tutors, and some were sent out of the … services. People in need of care relied on independent doctors, and family and community support. The first public …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… became free in 1938. Most were small operations owned by doctors or midwives, and often they were little more than nursing homes for the middle class. Most were unable to compete with …
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Part of story: Hospitals
… papers and research reports. A prominent member and medical doctor, Alfred Kingcome Newman, campaigned in 1882 to … community in Sydney. Writer Katherine Mansfield found a home among the Bloomsbury intellectuals of London. Charles …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… closure of small country schools. Even the numbers of rural doctors dwindled, as they were among the first to acquire … popular with commuters, and beachside baches (holiday homes) proliferated. The compulsory car Dramatic increases …
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Part of story: Transport – overview
… institutions of Wellington and helped found a convalescent home in Oriental Bay. Alfred Newman died of heart failure in … by his son. Octavia Newman had died in 1912. 'The little Doctor', as the diminutive and popular Newman was called, …
Type: Biography
… Waihi mine. Nicholl took a job there and brought his sons home. In 1927 Nicholl was still prospecting; it was nearly … for three days and one night he awoke racked with pain. The doctor prescribed six months' rest, and although he remained …
Type: Biography
… never absolute division of work. Middle-class boys became doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, accountants and … the 1920s and 1930s strongly supported women as mothers and homemakers, and men as breadwinners supporting a family. … honorary man Not every family fit the pattern of mother at home and father at work. Unemployment or some other disaster …
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Part of story: Women and men