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… with the branch ended abruptly. Soljak had written a letter protesting against the searching of homes of Samoan … in the Samoa Guardian in May 1930. She had signed the letter using her official title, and had made other public … she broke with the Catholic church and wrote a series of letters under the pseudonym 'Zealandia' to the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… loyalty to her husband was unshakeable. She wrote numerous letters to people in England and New Zealand defending his … good girls', and her weekly music practices. However, her letters to friends in New Zealand were nostalgic in tone: …
Type: Biography
… personal relationship with his solicitor, William Rout. His letters combined detailed instructions regarding investments … have died down before I return'. He detested begging letters but was generous to causes he believed in. He died …
Type: Biography
… made her champion civic causes. In precise and articulate letters written to the Press during the 1960s, she advanced … short stories, reviewed for the Listener , had numerous letters and historical articles published in the Press , …
Type: Biography
… but the potential for racial upheaval, together with letters from Jamieson's New Zealand friends, convinced them … illegal for doctors to charge patients directly. In an open letter from the profession Jamieson described the move as …
Type: Biography
… the contingent in haka. During his journey he wrote many letters home relating experiences on board ship and at the … of a visit to the estate of the duke of Westminster. These letters were published in Te Pīpīwharauroa , the newspaper …
Type: Biography
… Marris is characterised as the ‘arbiter of all our art and letters / presenting rotten apples to his betters’. Marris’s … to sue Glover. The ensuing feud polarised New Zealand letters. Marris’s critical reputation has remained low. …
Type: Biography
… and trading. While resident in St Ann's he wrote long letters of spiritual guidance to adherents who had remained … inhabitants to starvation. Late in 1848 McLeod received a letter from his son, Donald, who was living in Australia. …
Type: Biography
… companion and as a nurse, when required, to her family. Her letters from this period, when she was in her 20s, reveal a … poetry in 1898, 1903 and 1942. She was a prolific writer of letters, articles and sermons, and of songs, plays and …
Type: Biography
… chiefs, assisted by missionary William Yate, sent a letter to King William IV requesting his protection. As a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: He Whakaputanga – Declaration of Independence
… at Ōtāhuhu, which began to meet at their house in 1878. Letters to the parent church in Auckland, written by Andrew …
Type: Biography
… In the 1870s, Mohi Tūrei, an elder of Ngāti Porou, sent a letter in to the Māori language newspaper Te Waka Maori o …
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Part of story: Taniwha
… Īhāia Hūtana referred to Kupe separating the islands in a letter to the Māori-language newspaper, Te Toa Takitini : E …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whenua – how the land was shaped
… for which she is known today. She often enclosed poems in letters to friends, and published some in the Australian … died suddenly, leaving Ursula feeling utterly bereft. Letters to friends tell of her emotional pain and crisis of …
Type: Biography
… was discovered attempting to engineer her escape by forging letters from an affectionate but alas fictitious aunt. In … delaying pursuit by creating a complex scenario through letters from Miss Vallance's concerned 'friend', Charlotte … of wealth by a succession of deceptions involving letters to lawyers, postal orders and small personal loans. …
Type: Biography
… through quotations from her intimately conversational letters to her mother. Marriage and motherhood The Second … Charles Edmond. The romance developed, partly through letters, while she was studying speech therapy in …
Type: Biography
… his later work. After completing his apprenticeship he did lettering and window display work for Godfrey Phillips (New … in New York. The International Institute of Arts and Letters in Lindau, East Germany, made him a fellow in 1953. …
Type: Biography
… Christchurch was the first, becoming a city in 1856 by letters patent – a practice under British law whereby the … Victoria constituted Nelson a bishop’s seat and city by letters patent, even though its population was barely 3,000. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City history and people
… for the love of it rather than for financial gain. In a letter of 1877 he described the cut-throat competition that …
Type: Biography
… sympathy and support for her cause. She included with the letter My own story , a pamphlet based on her diaries and …
Type: Biography