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… that acknowledges the British strand of New Zealand’s history, and that they are widely recognised as marks of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Royal honours system
… 5 Pastimes at hākari Arthur Saunders Thomson, in his 1859 history of New Zealand, wrote that pastimes included …
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Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia
… as Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific History of the Australian National University in Canberra …
Type: Biography
… of the house. Te Hau-ki-Tūranga had a complex subsequent history. It was dismantled and removed under the …
Type: Biography
… Bowden prepared other reading books focusing on New Zealand history, but these were never published. By 1868 funds were …
Type: Biography
… languages, Māori, religious studies, poetry, drama, music, history, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, …
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Part of story: Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism
… where he bred kiwi, wrote on horticultural and natural history topics, and encouraged conservation. Professional …
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Part of story: Household services
… known as the Mill Hill fathers, for work among the Maori people, who, except for the mission of James McDonald, … report to Rome, published in 1888 under the title Early history of the Catholic church in Oceania to mark the 50th …
Type: Biography
… of mosquito. The reason may be New Zealand’s evolutionary history – there were no land mammals apart from a few bat …
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Part of story: Sandflies and mosquitoes
… Auckland Islands, the largest group, with the longest human history, about 460 kilometres due south of Fiordland …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… in his honour. Underlining his broad interests in natural history and keen observational skills, Philpott published … 253 of his names are accepted today. He preferred Maori-derived names for the few genera he created, with …
Type: Biography
… manage the sale of East Coast lands for the benefit of the Maori owners and the promoters. In the early 1880s Reed … barbarities which make up a great part of British history'. An outburst by Judge T. B. Gillies during a …
Type: Biography
… tried to provide for the spiritual and educational needs of Maori in the diocese, despite the low priority the Church … president, to devote itself particularly to the natural history of the Nelson area. Concern for conservation led him …
Type: Biography
… Mine became the most productive gold mine in New Zealand’s history. Milling companies cut a swathe through the forests …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… that New Zealand is an independent nation with its own history and tradition … At long last New Zealand will be in …
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Part of story: Self-government and independence
… The Tāwhiti Museum, outside Hāwera, documents local history using life-sized figures and scale panoramas. South …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… top prize at the national children’s book awards. Natural history books were particularly successful – Andrew Crowe …
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Part of story: Children’s and young adult literature
… and innate justice against brute strength and cunning.’ 1 ‘Maoriland’ plays In the 19th century melodrama, burlesque … l ady e b irds, by ‘Grif’, described as ‘a new grand Semi-Maori Christmas pantomime’, premiered at the Academy of … drama) are examples of the ‘Maoriland’ period of cultural history. This celebrated a romanticised and backward-looking …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… from Cowan. As he later explained: ‘I have always gone to history for material, as it is the richest source’. In 1928 … Devonport photographer who had starred as Ariana, the Maori heroine in the second Rewi's last stand , where she … Rudall Hayward's seventh and last feature was To love a Maori (1972), a love story about racial discrimination. A …
Type: Biography