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… sanction of marriage) has been the norm throughout recorded history. Since the late 1960s most New Zealanders have had …
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Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… one of the most well-known incidents in New Zealand rugby history. According to Wallace’s own account, with Wales … team in Australia, and co-managed the 1935 New Zealand Maori team in New South Wales. He served on the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… re-named Te Tokanganui-a-noho. In the original decorations, history was told in figurative painting, a style to be … He also composed a body of waiata, which tell the people's history. From the later 1870s these teachings began to …
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… because Tītokowaru's War is a dark secret of New Zealand history, forgotten by the Pākehā as a child forgets a …
Type: Biography
… Company’s debt. His wide knowledge of constitutional history and contemporary government gave him an unmatched …
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… He was raised in the small West Coast town of Maori Creek until the age of four, when the family moved to … surveys – which included J. C. Beaglehole’s essay on the Maori voyagers and the European discovery of New Zealand, F. … in charge, and Beaglehole recruited some of his brightest history graduates. Later Heenan arranged the government …
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… 1946 Kippenberger was appointed editor in chief of the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. It … 1949 rugby tour of South Africa because of the exclusion of Maori players. After he publicly expressed his views in the … the issues involved in this dispute were very clear. If Maori were good enough to represent New Zealand on the …
Type: Biography
… began a collection of books on Māori customs, legends and history. While convalescing at his parents' farm in the …
Type: Biography
… result in the granting of state aid to Catholic schools. History has proved him right, although it would appear that … Christian Family Movement. In 1944 he ordained the first Maori priest, Wiremu Te Awhitu. With the post-war drift to the city by Maori, he encouraged the Mill Hill fathers to establish two …
Type: Biography
… Pacific worlds, Campbell offered a personal and communal history of the problems of belonging and displacement in his …
Type: Biography
… to two years in prison. He later became professor of history and economics at Auckland University College, until …
Type: Biography
… early 1923 and spent two years studying Chinese language, history and culture in Peking (Beijing), before working in …
Type: Biography
… holding summer schools and annual balls. The title of their history – Sociable, carefree, delightful – reflected the …
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Part of story: Dancing
… Geological history The oldest rock on the Chatham Islands is the schist …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… the armed expedition against Rua Kenana, during which two Maori were killed by police. Despite his notoriety outside … although less well known, also made his mark in policing history. After leaving school he worked on a farm, before …
Type: Biography
… and other Crown entities. Throughout New Zealand’s history, the number and function of public buildings have …
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Part of story: Public buildings
… Ūpokoiri alight on their lands, and instructed Pāora in the history and customs of the tribe. Tareahi had several …
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… a sharp eye for the significant. He developed a geological history of the West Coast region, helped to clarify the … between 1958 and 1990 included work on loess in Manawatu, Maori coastal occupation layers, Antarctic geology, …
Type: Biography
… Football Union during the most turbulent period of its history. He was born in Hastings on 21 July 1909, youngest …
Type: Biography