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… missionaries. In the 19th century Māori wrote numerous letters – either themselves, or using missionaries or other … Māori letter-writing and newspapers …
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… Letter writing Letter writing is a simple form of public protest. A letter … the New Zealand Company’s land sales process, sparking letters for and against his view. Protest groups sometimes … Letter writing, petitions, meetings and rallies …
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Part of story: Public protest
… Beginning with letters written to politicians and Māori newspapers in the …
Type: Story Front
… side of the world, but in the 1800s it took months for a letter from New Zealand to reach Britain. In the early 20th …
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… two examples of public protests, which can be as small as a letter to a newspaper or as large as a mass march along city …
Type: Story Front
… some girls were looking after him; ‘they scribbled letters on the sand to teach me how to draw letters, the … at Wellington Technical College, where he excelled at lettering; the College’s annual Review featured a cover he …
Type: Biography
… from other forms of street art by its sustained focus on letters. Words (usually a name adopted by the artist) are … themselves, the colours and patterns used to embellish letters, and the cartoon-like characters that sometimes …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hip hop
… to be proper standards of behaviour. More important, her letters to her mother, later published, give an invaluable … settlement. Charlotte Godley's technique of writing letters was 'to tell what you are doing, and the little … and so on, at Dunedin as I ever saw anywhere at home'. Her letters show her powers of observation and good sense, as …
Type: Biography
… the major costs of postage were associated with processing letters rather than the distance of delivery and came up … The one-penny universal, introduced in 1901, meant that letters could be sent to the UK and 70 other countries for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Postage stamps
… for their own viewpoints, but they also carried editorials, letters, articles, national, provincial and international … (shining cuckoo) and mātuhi (fernbird). Māori often began letters to the newspapers with ‘O bird, greetings to you’. … oral arts into the press in the rhetoric of articles, in letters prefaced by customary greetings and concluding with …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… early German immigrant in Nelson described New Zealand in a letter home, in 1846: ‘At first we had to fight a bitter … made from wheat here, and have lots of it.’ 1 In an 1844 letter home, Fedor Kelling wrote that New Zealand was a land …
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Part of story: Germans
… go-between for Māori and foreign visitors. Cross-cultural letter In 1814 Samuel Marsden sent a letter to Ruatara from Sydney, saying: ‘I have sent the Brig … his Ngāpuhi relatives and Pākehā. Eruera wrote a number of letters for rangatira wanting to communicate with …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… Writers write home Shortly before her death, in a 1922 letter to her father, expatriate writer Katherine Mansfield … and, ‘New Zealand is in my very bones’. 2 In a 1932 letter to fellow poet R. A. K. Mason, Rex Fairburn also … opportunity overseas, exile had its downsides. Although letters and news from the antipodes alleviated homesickness, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kiwis overseas
… taking lessons from Robert Procter. In 1923–24 she learned lettering and illuminating from John Ash at Seddon Memorial … Minna Mantis gives a party , with illustrations and hand-lettered text. Lettering also featured in her illuminated …
Type: Biography
… Sarah Greenwood recorded in letters and drawings her experience of pioneer life in the … free passage for his family. One of Sarah Greenwood's letters written during the journey includes a laconic …
Type: Biography
… and Australian settlements. The earliest known New Zealand letter to pass through the British postal system dates from … postmaster despatched it to Britain with a note that the letter was ‘the first Mail or Public Conveyance from this … which showed the name of the post office where the letter was posted, and cancelled the stamp so it could not …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… in 1866, the scheme reduced the time it took to send a letter to Britain from more than four months to around two … coach. In 1860, 107 post offices handled nearly one million letters a year, and raised £10,000 in revenue. Mail routes …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… that there were almost as many dogs as people present. In a letter of April 1888 she described her situation: 'I would … regularly to family and friends in Banffshire. At first her letters coaxed her family to join her in New Zealand. When …
Type: Biography
… of land in Māori memories of the same places and times. Letters and diaries Ancestors who could read and write often wrote letters to kinsfolk and kept diaries, and these ‘time …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… of her own work. Regular features included a personal letter to her readers (sometimes with a poem), answers to correspondents' letters, and her own serials. At first she included the …
Type: Biography