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… had no immediate senior male relatives to pass on family history and provide training in tribal lore. He attended St …
Type: Biography
… during which she had been a major figure in the turbulent history of her people in the disturbed first half of the …
Type: Biography
… father died and Pat left to serve overseas with the 28 (Maori) Battalion. Marie was 22 and already caring for her … 2012, aged 90, she was working on yet another project, a history of her attempt to deliver her liberal educational …
Type: Biography
… and less sugar, fat and meat, was ongoing. Despite a long history of publicity about good nutrition, unhealthy diets …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public health
… Wellington, O’Shea combined study for a Master’s degree in History with research work at the War History Branch of Internal Affairs. The prospects of …
Type: Biography
… journal is a rich source of ethnographic as well as natural history detail and formed the basis for his Observations …
Type: Biography
… and reading everything he could about land law and Scottish history. In 1865 he was elected to the Bushey Road Board as …
Type: Biography
… on 26 December 1917. Nicholas Chevalier's place in the art history of New Zealand is assured. He worked in the English …
Type: Biography
… of the 1870s was the most significant in New Zealand history. In 1871 the non-Māori population was just over a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History of immigration
… was appointed the first intendant of the Imperial Natural History Museum. In 1881 he resigned from teaching duties. He became interested in archaeology and prehistory, and in 1884 was granted a hereditary knighthood by …
Type: Biography
… as adviser to the union secretary. In 1910 she set up the Maoriland Worker with the New Zealand Shearers' Union, of … mentioned in dispatches and in the Australian official war history. By June 1917, having realised the venereal disease … a vegetarian cookbook, and a largely inaccurate book on Maori culture entitled Maori symbolism (which extolled the …
Type: Biography
… short but seminal books, Essays in jurisprudence and legal history (1891) and The first principles of jurisprudence … confused and sometimes contradictory statutes relating to Maori land. The Cook Islands Act 1915 created a complete … and representing it in litigation on issues arising from Maori claims to land, rivers and other resources including …
Type: Biography
… House), the University of Canterbury, and Te Waipounamu Maori Culture Centre. The trust was wound up in 1994 with a … in a comprehensive photographic record of his company’s history. Ernest Adams retired as chairman of the company in …
Type: Biography
… collections of high quality. As well as maintaining natural history collections he saw the need to preserve and exhibit …
Type: Biography
… of media Government censorship of the news media has a long history in New Zealand. It began in the early 1840s, when …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Media and politics
… and there was diversity across practitioners. Over the history of New Zealand craft, this tradition evolved from a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… were lobbying for zero sea lion deaths. Whales Despite its history of whale exploitation, New Zealand has led the way …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marine conservation
… historical writing, however, he characterised traditional Maori religion as 'a chaos of dark superstitions'. Pratt was a prolific writer. Missionary history was his major interest, but he also maintained a … significant publication, The pioneering days in southern Maoriland , published in 1932, was the basis for his …
Type: Biography
… Island Motuihe, 15 kilometres from Auckland, has a long history of Māori settlement and conquest. Europeans …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… was similarly informed by a deep interest in New Zealand history and society. Her 1955 abridgement of Edward … a devotee of large-print books. She had learnt to read Maori and was immersed in learning Italian from tapes when, …
Type: Biography