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… Art Gallery in Lambton Quay. In June 1905 they painted Maori women in Rotorua, although Richmond may have painted … quality has given Richmond's work a valued place in the history of New Zealand painting. Her subject matter was of …
Type: Biography
… Richie McCaw, was the fastest-selling book in New Zealand history. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sport and the nation
… the first professor in Classics) it was only to substitute history and political economy. Rather short in stature with … (1903). His scholarly investigations into the flora, history, art and anthropology of the countries of the …
Type: Biography
… every honour & recompense for your share in the Natural History of your fair islands’. 2 The Glenmark swamp …
Type: Biography
… actively discouraged it, and explored te ao Māori through history, language and art. He regularly invited kaumātua to …
Type: Biography
… Justice Dame Sian Elias noted her special place in the history of the law in New Zealand and her importance as a …
Type: Biography
… criticism to make Christianity appear incredible, of history to depict the church as an enemy of freedom and …
Type: Biography
… fear into a campaign of military conquest against the Maori. McDonogh showed 'sound judgment' in preventing this, … the first strike by sworn police personnel in the colony's history, and McDonogh was humiliated, the more so when the …
Type: Biography
… Te Rangitāke: it acknowledged his importance in New Zealand history but described him as 'the turbulent chief to whom …
Type: Biography
… followed by the largest funeral cortège in Auckland's history. …
Type: Biography
… 42, Rowling became the youngest president in Labour Party history. He used his position to modernise the party … that might have changed the course of New Zealand political history by denying power to the rapidly-rising National …
Type: Biography
… an unlit alley. McKeefry’s lifelong interest in New Zealand history, and particularly the beginnings of the church in … as a strong supporter of its work. His concern for the Maori people was evident in, among other expressions, his …
Type: Biography
… viewed New Zealand as a new country despite its long Māori history, making the country itself ‘one of the important …
Type: Biography
… tone. Charles Heaphy has a secure place in New Zealand art history; in his extended career as a public official his …
Type: Biography
… same decade, in a number of works McCahon drew on Māori history and tradition, as in the ‘Parihaka triptych’, ‘The …
Type: Biography
… was one of the biggest public protests in New Zealand's history, but Nash refused to intervene and eventually …
Type: Biography
… Zealand Federation of Labour's influential newspaper, the Maoriland Worker , and in July the victory of the socialist … On the outbreak of war in August 1914 Holland swung the Maoriland Worker into an uncompromising international … world, failed to see that his position was being eroded by history. As parliamentary leader Harry Holland drove himself …
Type: Biography