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… Māori fluently and developed an enduring interest in Māori history and culture. Articled to the surveyor general in …
Type: Biography
… is at least 1,500 years old, rooted in Chinese myth and history. Duanwu Jie, the dragon boat festival, can be traced …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… the influence of Christianity, and the geology, natural history, productions and climate of the country. It also …
Type: Biography
… feature is the interpretative essays which discuss the history of Māori occupation of New Zealand in the light of …
Type: Biography
… The committee centennial James Rutherford, professor of history at the University of Auckland, wrote in March 1939, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Anniversaries
… from a burial cave. They ended up in the Imperial Natural History Museum in Vienna. Reischek knew he had offended …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country places
… for this series were sold internationally. Her interest in history led to the collection of taped reminiscences from …
Type: Biography
… including jet-boating, kayaking, rafting and fishing. History Travel through the upper Buller Gorge was difficult …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: West Coast places
… significant in this stage of New Zealand’s manufacturing history were: many industries set up in the mid-19th century …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Manufacturing – an overview
… farmer and lawyer, Malone was a student of military history, who introduced the ‘lemon-squeezer’ hat into the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: First World War
… for 19 years. During this period she taught English and history and led the school’s debating team. In 1944 Gardner …
Type: Biography
… is named after a Māori pā which was located nearby. History The town of Waipukurau was founded by pastoral …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… tradition and historical record. Fundamental to the tribe’s history is the godlike figure of Māui-tikitiki-a-taranga. … survivor was Paikea. The tragedy is known in Ngāti Porou history as Te Huripūreiata. Paikea was buoyed ashore by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… were a way for Pākehā to endow the landscape with its own history and embellish cities with statuary. Royalty The … the start of the 20th century the awakening interest in history encouraged efforts to remember the country’s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… in and valuing of New Zealand’s architectural and design history. The other was growing material expectations, … of a distinctive place in the world, and a sense of the history of that place. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Home décor and furnishings
… work on the group. A 1922 study on the morphology and life history of the primitive native frog Leiopelma hochstetteri …
Type: Biography
… claims sparked interest in serious works of New Zealand history and Māori topics. Above all, novels, traditionally …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Publishing
… a thorough grounding in the Classics, modern languages, history, geography, drawing and music. On leaving school in …
Type: Biography
… grandfather (with W. E. Bidwill) in 1927 and a parish history of Otaio and Blue Cliffs in 1930. The biography of … the late 1950s the Woodhouses had become interested in the Maori rock drawings found in South Canterbury, and with … its inception, and chair of the South Canterbury Centennial History Committee (1954–60). She continued her literary …
Type: Biography