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… battle of Pukerangiora. In 1833 or 1834 Te Awa-i-taia was introduced to Christianity. As a result of his conversion he …
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… message of the Pai Mārire faith. When this new religion was introduced into the territory of Ngāti Awa in 1865 by Pātara …
Type: Biography
… mythology (1855). Grey did not acknowledge his debt, and introduced alterations, combinations and omissions, …
Type: Biography
… and Hēmi (James, his baptismal name). He was possibly introduced to Christianity by the freed Ngāpuhi slave …
Type: Biography
… to higher education. A fluent speaker of te reo Māori, he introduced his daughter to the Māori language. Although she …
Type: Biography
… wealthy James Leonard Thompson in 1924. Davina’s stepfather introduced her family to Christian Science, and though …
Type: Biography
… of the attempt made by his locum, T. S. Grace , to introduce European trading practices. As a steady, …
Type: Biography
… Violence Campaign. Denis had taken Ian into prisons and introduced him to members of Black Power. It was there that … family had sparked his interest in the arts and had first introduced him to painters, dramatists, writers, composers, …
Type: Biography
… the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1894, which introduced compulsory arbitration in industrial disputes, … for other reforms, notably the reforms in land legislation introduced by John McKenzie . The principal aim of these …
Type: Biography
… emerging post-war literary scene. In 1947 pacifist friends introduced him to poet, critic and editor Charles Brasch, … , Bill Pearson and Eric Lee-Johnson . In 1947 friends introduced Harry to second-year university student Margaret …
Type: Biography
… to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, the government introduced conscription in 1916. That the new system …
Type: Biography
… treated in Wellington by a neurologist, Donald Allen, who introduced her to psychoanalytic theory and encouraged her …
Type: Biography
… child family (1983), explored the effect of the recently introduced one-child policy on the Chinese people. Others, …
Type: Biography
… awards were incorporated in new lines of dinnerware. He introduced factory tours in 1961, and encouraged inventive …
Type: Biography
… in their natural habitats than in collecting specimens, and introduced to New Zealand botany the idea that plants showed …
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… sidekick ‘Scotty’ (Lloyd Scott). These advertisements introduced him to a new generation and Crump's song, ‘Side …
Type: Biography
… she submitted a proposal to study sika deer, a pest species introduced in 1905. She would research sika for the rest of …
Type: Biography
… separate facilities for epileptics and 'inebriates'. King introduced training and lectures for the staff and produced …
Type: Biography
… to recommend in their two reports that procedures should be introduced which produced in New Zealand highly technical …
Type: Biography
… scepticism of waterside workers – Roberts fought hard to introduce a labour bureau in each port, operated jointly by …
Type: Biography