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… In 1897–98 he took a trip to Great Britain armed with letters of introduction and a camera. On his return he gave …
Type: Biography
… secretary for the Maketū Welfare League she wrote numerous letters to ministers and officials in an effort to draw …
Type: Biography
… of his own. Demonstrating political astuteness, he wrote letters to newspapers with the intention of rousing settler …
Type: Biography
… visits but Pīhama failed to persuade Te Whiti to receive a letter from the governor. When troops marched on the village …
Type: Biography
… members and other women engaged in vigorous lobbying, wrote letters to newspapers, published pamphlets, and held or …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women’s movement
… Supreme Court in Wellington and a lowland Scot. McLean's letters to her show the usual stiff formality of the … But at no time did McLean admit error over Waitara. His letters in 1860 reveal smugness about compliments from … off to England in 1864 or welcoming him back in 1870. His letters are rich in practical detail about business matters, …
Type: Biography
… officials and with friends and relatives, and many of these letters survive. In his will he left an account of events … the Treaty of Waitangi, which his father had signed. In a letter to the chief surveyor of the Auckland provincial …
Type: Biography
… and 1882, offering prophetic guidance for the cause. These letters were published as He whakaaro nā Āperahama Taonui … of death as 23 September 1883, but his obituary and two letters, one written by his wife, Kereihi (Grace), to George …
Type: Biography
… passage, became hugely important. Company immigrants sent letters back home which encouraged others to come out over …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History of immigration
… the full. His philosophy on leadership was expressed in a letter to a former student lecturing in another institution: …
Type: Biography
… them by phone, visited, took them out, read to them, wrote letters and shared leisure activities, like playing cards. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Midlife adults
… movement, and the resulting difficulties are reflected in letters exchanged with Lady Baden-Powell in 1919 and 1920. …
Type: Biography
… which, combined with his non-British background, make his letters and diaries fascinating reading. Gottfried Lindauer …
Type: Biography
… and it was here that the young Coupland began to learn his letters, helped by his schoolteacher, the Reverend C. H. S. …
Type: Biography
… the war he was employed as a censor, working on the private letters of servicemen and -women. In 1942 the Christchurch …
Type: Biography
… like it.' Te Hāpuku listed those in whose name the letter was sent and Hine-i-paketia's name headed the list. …
Type: Biography
… Methodist community in the adjacent rural settlements. In a letter to the Barnsley Chronicle Lomas warned miners …
Type: Biography
… the ‘feminine-mimsy’ school of poets; and after receiving a letter from Robin Hyde (Iris Wilkinson) Glover wrote: ‘Our …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Arts and the nation
… have coloured identifiers. As their names often form three-letter acronyms or abbreviations, they are referred to by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gangs
… up and come over straight.' In response to these articles, letters of enquiry poured in from hopeful working-class … but maintained contact through regular meetings and newsletters. Ranstead had settled in Christchurch and travelled …
Type: Biography