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… the versatility of practical men. And they marched into history.’ 1 Backblocks hero The secret of New Zealanders’ …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… centre. Spurdle developed a keen interest in Whanganui’s history and in Māori culture and lore, and became well known …
Type: Biography
… $20 banknote and many stamp issues. New Zealand’s reforming history found expression in the portrait of Kate Sheppard, …
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Part of story: New Zealand identity
… of the current member for Western Māori, he related the history of the confiscation grievances of Waikato and …
Type: Biography
… established: New Zealand, Pacific exploration, Scottish history, English literature, John Ruskin, and the fine arts. … Zealand: 'Anything whatever relating to this Colony, on its history, flora, fauna, geology & inhabitants, will be fish … the 1890s with commitments to ocean voyages and naval history in 1896; James Cook in 1896; and the 'Australasian …
Type: Biography
… immigration, or works on Māori or New Zealand’s natural history. As magazines and books began to be published in New …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… the largest number of industrial disputes in New Zealand’s history. Women and Māori A growing number of New Zealanders …
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Part of story: Unions and employee organisations
… mission in the northern island. The earliest published history of the mission, it went through two editions in …
Type: Biography
… from the Huata family, their careers spanning most of the history of Christianity in New Zealand. His father, Hēmi , …
Type: Biography
… Mary Martin began a hospital and dispensary service for Maori patients at Taurarua. The hospital first consisted of … to establish a network of training institutions for young Maori men and women. She believed that even if 'Mission … girls came to her regularly for tuition, particularly in history. Mary Martin was avid for experience and made three …
Type: Biography
… of librarianship, but rather a branch of the science of history.' Between parliamentary sessions he travelled … and culture' in the New Zealand volume of the Cambridge history of the British Empire (1933), Captain William Hobson … in the country's political and military history, including Maori leaders, and in its economic and intellectual …
Type: Biography
… to a wide variety of beliefs and practices that reflect the history of the many regional and local traditions of India. … 185 Sanskrit and other Indian language words similar to the Maori language. For example, “tama” means boy, “e tu” means …
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Part of story: Diverse religions
… this period encompasses all of humanity’s recorded history. New Zealand was one of the last land areas in the …
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Part of story: Geology – overview
… is the site of many important events in Tūwharetoa tribal history. Waitahanui is also renowned for its trout fishing, …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… At one of the most poignant events in Auckland’s recent history, over 15,000 people gathered at Ōkahu Bay at dawn on …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… founded as the New Zealand Film Archive in 1981. Méliès in Maoriland During his travels through the Pacific and Asia, … with Méliès. Later, a US member of Méliès’ team said, ‘The Maoris are born actors. In this respect they knock all the … Reynolds, which featured significant moments in New Zealand history. Coubray went on to shoot Dane Gustav Pauli’s Under …
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Part of story: Feature film
… and lectured keenly on New Zealand’s early European settler history. Hodgkins established the Otago Arts Society in …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life
… 66 19th-century New Zealand novels, John White ’s Ancient history of the Maori , over 20 volumes on the discovery and exploration of …
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Part of story: Publishing
… averted armed conflict altogether, is to ignore the entire history of colonial settlement. There is abundant testimony …
Type: Biography
… the complete guide to New Zealand’s peoples, environment, history, culture and society, include: Current events Te Ara … volumes reprinted the biographies of the nearly 500 Maori subjects in te reo Maori, which together with the te reo sections of Te Ara …
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