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… Hawke’s Bay’s wine country. Locals call it ‘the village’. History Havelock North was founded by the government in the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… One of the more important of these articles is Downes's 'History of the Ngati Kahu-ngunu', published in sections in …
Type: Biography
… society an old house for the temporary display of local history exhibits, and Mina and Bruce McKenzie were among the …
Type: Biography
… of Education to produce stories on Māori life and history, and on his own childhood. The Māori historical …
Type: Biography
… the first subdivision into quarter acre lots in New Zealand history. The post-Treaty of Waitangi era in New Zealand, …
Type: Biography
… remained important to how New Zealanders understand their history. Second World War The experience of New Zealand …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand identity
… purple’ (1949), now held at the Waikato Museum of Art and History. Copeland also painted landscapes wherever she lived …
Type: Biography
… them for their humanity to friends and kin. As with natural history, New Zealand was an important site for Enlightenment …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… While at Akitio Hamilton visited the interior with local Maori, and recognised that several large clearings in the … would be excellent sheep country. With the approval of the Maori concerned, he occupied an area of about 13,000 acres … and 'one of the worst blots in connection with the history of banking'. Hamilton, who had been appointed …
Type: Biography
… of the NIMT was a major landmark in New Zealand’s history. It fostered economic and population growth in the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Railways
… Whāngai Whāngai is a child adoption tradition in Maori society that continues to be practised. It emphasises …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… stay, inset in larger images of the entire group, as the ‘Maori belle’ who was ‘wowing’ Hippodrome audiences. 4 One … sights. When they visited the American Museum of Natural History to evaluate Māori artefacts, Maata’s stepfather …
Type: Biography
… and was a Matua Whāngai co-ordinator for the Tainui Maori Trust Board. She secured funding for programmes to … and forced both Māori and Pākehā to confront their shared history. She was a visionary with the courage to see a …
Type: Biography
… author William Greenwood for his book The upraised hand , a history of the Ringatū church, and provided its whakapapa …
Type: Biography
… McColl, for the Presbyterian ministry. Donald studied history, literature and divinity until 1838 when he sailed …
Type: Biography
… of Wairarapa and Nelson are of real significance in the art history of the country. They are striking, romantic … Fox, Featherston and their friends were labelled 'philo-Maori' – that is, Māori-lovers – by their critics, and were … to politics. Fox's greatest contribution to New Zealand history after the struggle for self-government in the 1850s …
Type: Biography
… Hikawera became dedicated to this work. He learned Tūhoe history from Paitini Wī Tāpeka, and Haniko Te Ao and others … of the principal speakers. Those he nurtured on traditional history, ancient waiata, chants and powerful incantations … erupted between Te Urewera hapū and the Tūhoe–Waikaremoana Maori Trust Board over the board’s proposal to amalgamate …
Type: Biography