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… writing is a simple form of public protest. A letter to a newspaper editor or a politician is an easy way for an … Shand wrote to a local newspaper protesting about the New Zealand Company’s land sales process, sparking letters for … against the alienation of their land and the withdrawal of fishing and other customary rights. From 1882, …
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Part of story: Public protest
… in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, on 4 August 1942. A fourth-generation New Zealander, he was the son of Eric Roy Lange, a medical … leading figures in the group that became known as ‘the fish and chips brigade’ when they were photographed sharing …
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… David took over on his father's death. He moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, in the early 1860s. In 1865 he took up the contract … Robert Stout, James Macandrew, William Larnach, Henry Smith Fish and Henry Driver. Despite his success, however, his …
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… McKenna and his wife, Margaret Wallace, who farmed in Newpark, Kilmaganny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. John is said … McKenna was ordained in 1883 and volunteered for the New Zealand mission. For a time he assisted at St Mary's … he acquired the large Chapel Street property known as The Fish Ponds, which had originally been used for raising …
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… to the Waitangi Tribunal and in Moriori organisations. New beginnings Moriori are engaged in a vigorous cultural revival which began with a New Zealand television documentary in 1980. In dispelling some … from 1988, Moriori finally won a proportion of the rich fishing grounds around Rēkohu and Rangihaute (Pitt Island), …
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Part of story: Moriori
… Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 14 September 1868, the sixth child and youngest … its history, flora, fauna, geology & inhabitants, will be fish for my net, from as early a date as possible until …
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… a temple, school of sacred knowledge, gymnasium and New Zealand’s longest miniature train track. Phillips became … shirts and spades, newspapers, magazines, fruit and fishing flies. Its literature ranges from The g uns of …
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Part of story: King Country places
… twentieth-century cultural and gender politics and forge new pathways for Māori women. She dedicated her life to te … Petricevich was a Dalmatian immigrant who had come to New Zealand in the hope of profiting from Northland’s kauri-gum … all of her adult life. It was time for her to ‘go fishing’. But she remained politically active. In 1993, she …
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… Cruickshank became the second woman doctor to graduate in New Zealand. She established a practice in Waimate. During the … for waterfowl, migratory birds, coastal birds and native fish. It is also a popular game-bird hunting area. …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places
… provided him with her jawbone, to enable him to fish up the North Island and slow down the sun. Māui’s … Āraiteuru guided the voyaging waka Māmari from Polynesia to New Zealand. It is said she still occupies a cave on the south …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… from Russell, which is the base for many of the big-game fishing charter boats. The town is also the headquarters of … 1990s it was restored as a printery. It is under Heritage New Zealand care. Okiato Locality behind Okiato Point, 7 km …
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Part of story: Northland places
… of Saturday shopping In the 1970s, perhaps because more New Zealanders travelled and experienced life overseas, there … petrol, but it was illegal for someone to sell you a goldfish. For attempting as much, in 1974, Wayne Plank’s …
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Part of story: Weekends
… After spending several days in Tasmania he set sail for New Zealand. Marion du Fresne sighted Mt Taranaki on 25 March … and his men to visit quite distant pa, to trade and to fish. They set up camps ashore, one for the sick on Moturua, …
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… wood was gathered, rabbits shot, blackberries picked and fish caught. Outside tasks were more likely to be performed … the place where children played in sandpits and on swings. New technology introduced over the 20th century – power … flowers, and to sit and play. Repairs and maintenance New Zealanders’ approach to home repairs and maintenance varied …
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Part of story: Household management
… them very human and engaging, with humour never far away. New world of writing Te Ao Hou (meaning ‘the new world’) … the ‘good news of successful Māori initiatives around New Zealand’. 1 Tribal magazines One collection of independent … on health, finance, education, business, farming and fishing. There is creative writing and articles about the …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… Woodhouse was a distinguished judge and the architect of New Zealand’s no-fault accident compensation system. After naval … and procedure, the interpretation of legislation, and Māori fishing rights. Woodhouse later expressed disappointment …
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… Auckland’s settlers with food. Their waka (canoes) brought fish, vegetables and fruit from the Firth of Thames and the … Tararū to Kauaeranga in 1849 In his journal G. S. Cooper, New Zealand’s first treasurer and collector of customs, wrote of …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… of Kenley, Shropshire. At the age of 15 he had emigrated to New Zealand, working as a farm cadet in Canterbury until his … first book, Mary Anne Barker writes of the pleasures of eel-fishing, pig-stalking, skating and toboganning in …
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… the British battle fleet, as it adjusted to the demands of new technology and the threat posed by the growing German … dominion governments on naval policy. Conveyed by the New Zealand , first to India and Australia, he reached New … participating in sports such as cricket, golf, fishing and shooting. He was especially active in yachting, …
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… innovation, and his inquisitive mind developed more than 40 new devices. His most influential design, the disposable … Award in 1975. Murdoch then consulted until 1978 for a New Zealand company, Merck, Sharp, and Dohme, where he developed … for it by taking the family on regular hunting, camping and fishing holidays. Later life By the late 1970s Murdoch was …
Type: Biography