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… as a child he saw few Pākehā other than his teacher, the doctor and the district health nurse. In 1936 Kīngi and his … Tokerau Māori Land Board and was a sergeant in the Te Kao home guard. In 1943 he was transferred to Gisborne. There he …
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… Clarice Godfrey (who had worked as a maid in the Picton home of Katherine Mansfield ’s family, the Beauchamps), and … in 1931, the family settled in Ōamaru, Janet’s father’s home town, which Janet later called her ‘kingdom by the … she travelled to Otago University to be awarded an honorary Doctorate in Letters. Nine months later, after a long and …
Type: Biography
… of cinema, he regularly screened films in his Ngaio home to his children and assorted friends. This developed … Victoria University of Wellington conferred an honorary doctorate in Literature on him in 1977. Within six months of … new flavour. In 1979 he produced Sons for the return home (directed by Paul Maunder) but withdrew his credit …
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… The devastating 1931 earthquake damaged his family’s home, and his father lost his job shortly afterwards. On … highest honour, in February 2007. He received honorary doctorates in law from Victoria University of Wellington in … in Toronto in 1981. Sir Owen Woodhouse died at his Auckland home on 15 April 2014, aged 97; Lady Woodhouse had died in …
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… gave him his first experience of mountains. ‘I returned home in a glow of fiery enthusiasm for the sun and the cold … to meet his sister, June, who had married an English doctor and was living in London. They toured Europe with … year the couple married on 21 December at Hillary’s Remuera home. In 1987, Hillary was inducted into the Order of New …
Type: Biography
… the first few years after his appointment he was away from home for nearly half the year on circuit. The new rules, … Oxford University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law and the New Zealand Parliament enacted …
Type: Biography
… primary level because she would have had to board away from home. The Second World War opened up employment … Geological Society of New Zealand in 1986; by an honorary doctorate from Massey University in 1994; by the award of a …
Type: Biography
… was rejected on health grounds, and worked instead with the Home Guard. Perceiving the importance of education to young … thesis within two years to become the first Māori to gain a doctorate overseas. However, a greater sense of personal …
Type: Biography
… Zealand's best-known politician in Britain. Nash arrived home to find the social credit monetary reformers in the … Nash adopted a more aggressive stance towards the doctors and the British Medical Association than Fraser. He … Nash went back to New Zealand via Washington, arriving home on 1 September – two days before New Zealand declared …
Type: Biography
… over a free health system, issuing an ultimatum to the doctors and breaking their resistance, which a more cautious … postponed almost a year before. A week after he returned home from hospital, New Zealand, on 3 September, declared … 24 hours later, early on 27 March 1940, Savage died at his home in Wellington. It was four days after his 68th …
Type: Biography
… extensive archival research, simultaneously completing a doctoral thesis comparing oral and documentary sources on Te … worked in publishing. The pair married at King’s parents’ home in Kutarere, Bay of Plenty, on 17 October 1987; it was … rejected expatriation and forged successful careers from home, and both had already told their stories in three-part …
Type: Biography
… Grammar School. But it was religious instruction, at home and at Sunday school and Bible class, that had the … job at Whangarata, near Tūākau, and embarked on a doctoral thesis, ‘A study in creative history’. The work was …
Type: Biography
… of Michigan’s library school at Ann Arbor. On his way home he spent several months in the United Kingdom visiting … was appointed a CMG in 1957, and awarded an honorary doctorate of law by the University of Canterbury eight years …
Type: Biography
… where he built Te Rau Kahikatea, which became his family home from 1877 until 1894. It was also to be the nucleus of … for Māori boys recommenced in the refurbished Williams homestead at Waerenga-a-hika. Williams was consecrated … conference at Lambeth, he received the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Oxford university. As bishop he …
Type: Biography
… their close, interdependent life together, moving about the home counties from one secret address to another, while Jean … with few close friends. On Tenerife, which was to be her home for 16 years, she kept to herself, typing her memoirs, … She refused to let the staff of her small hotel call a doctor, and died quite needlessly of a pulmonary abscess. As …
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… Devastated, Jacquie’s father took her older sister Evadne home to be raised by his whānau. However, Moewaka insisted … Achievement Award, and in 2003 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature by Victoria University of Wellington. … dependent, Stephanie and her family moved into Jacquie’s home to care for her. Sadly, life dealt one final cruel blow …
Type: Biography
… Christchurch's social and political élite. The large family home, Risingholme, occupied extensive grounds at Ōpawa. In … toll. When Seddon died in 1906 Reeves contemplated going home, but his New Zealand friends advised against it. He … Saviour. The University of Athens awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1919, under pressure from Sidney Webb, Reeves …
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… Margaret and Harry married at her parents’ Christchurch home on 11 February 1950; they agreed they would raise their … the life of the mind. Montreal and Auckland Harry commenced doctoral research on the effects of isolation on the human … ill-equipped to manage by myself’. 10 She sold the family home in Titirangi and returned to Christchurch, where she …
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… Dagg in the 1970s marked the emergence of a distinctive home-grown style of New Zealand comedy. In 1977 Clarke moved … him an appreciation of the more egalitarian aspects of his homeland. Within weeks of his arrival he was cast in a small … and ‘complete stupidity’ of public figures and their spin doctors. 8 Clarke and Dawe adapted the format for television …
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… to New Zealand via Canada and the United States, arriving home just before Christmas. In April 1941 Marshall entered … lower-income earners could buy, build or renovate their own homes. State houses were also sold to their tenants on easy … recently had new heart disturbances that were causing his doctors and his family some concern. Marshall was knighted …
Type: Biography