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… Kauroa and Te Uku emerged. Raglan supports a commercial fishing industry. A seaside resort for Hamiltonians, it has … Reserve. Further on, Manu Bay and Whale Bay are among New Zealand’s premier surf locations, with unusual left-hand …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… significance agreements to change the official place names of certain sites, to reflect their original names; for … to carry out customary activities on the river such as fishing for eels and whitebait, launching ceremonial waka … whose tribal areas covered the bulk of the land area of New Zealand. …
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… cabinet-maker. On 21 May 1854 he married Elizabeth Ann Fish at South Shields; they were to have three daughters. A … In the mid 1860s the family travelled to Wellington, New Zealand. Here Bragge established a photographic business to …
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… May Thurling. Between 1918 and 1920 Williams served in the New Zealand Medical Corps in England. In 1920 he returned to … cereals and wholemeal bread, dairy products, nuts and fish. If the cause of the disease was removed, he argued, …
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… workforce was employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing, a high figure for an urban centre, and 13.3% in … plane, the Southern Cross , on the first-ever flight from New Zealand to Sydney. He landed in Australia 22 hours and 51 …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… Harriet's early life. She travelled with her family to New Zealand in 1874, and became a tailoress; through her … public campaign which helped prevent anti-suffragist H. S. Fish, member of the House of Representatives, from winning …
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… 22 January 1877, at Dublin, he married Kathleen Maud Ashton Newman. They were to have two children, a son who died in … He sailed with his young wife to Lyttelton, New Zealand, on the Piako , arriving in May 1877. After a short … New Zealand writers. Despite illness he continued to hunt, fish and enjoy golf. He died in Dunedin on 16 April 1932, …
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… in Ramsgate, Kent, England, on 19 May 1879, the son of a fisherman, William Jordan, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Catt. … the financial position of his parents. Jordan emigrated to New Zealand in 1904. By the time of his death 55 years later, he …
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… the Slains Castle with his uncle, James Mackay, for Nelson, New Zealand, arriving in January 1845. During the next 19 years … no compensation had been paid for the loss of hunting and fishing rights, which had been among their principal means …
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… the All Blacks in test matches, Fred Allen was arguably New Zealand’s best rugby coach of the amateur era. He was … to save the Manly Sailing Club in 1998 and helping to ban fishing nets from the swimming area in 2002. Fred Allen …
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… of Wellington nightlife and both entertained and outraged New Zealanders during the 1960s and 1970s. The most visible … of what they needed, along with locally hunted meat and fish. The old farmhouse had no electricity, no refrigeration …
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… villages, increasingly the population lived elsewhere. New leaders A new generation of leaders ensured the tribe’s … Blacks. His nephew Manahi Paewai played rugby for the New Zealand Māoris in 1950–51 and was also a doctor. Eddie … for Māori language and media, health and education, fishing, economic growth, marae development and …
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Part of story: Rangitāne
… New voices In the years after the Second World War, in … the angel , 2000) and his popular Penguin History of New Zealand (2003). An updated edition of Ranginui Walker’s 1990 … A Book of the Year prizewinner from 2010, Al Brown’s Go fish (2009), reminds us that those perennial themes of …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… James Malcolm Mason was born in the Scottish fishing port of Arbroath, Forfarshire, on 22 August 1864, … parish magazine, and wrote medical articles for the local newspaper. A handsome, dark-haired and intense-looking man, … a more congenial climate. The search brought him to New Zealand in 1895. He set up in general practice in Ōtaki, and …
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… today In 2013 there were over 40,000 Muriwhenua Māori in New Zealand. As a result of huge land losses and marginalisation … lodging multiple claims since 1994. The Muriwhenua fishing report (1988) was instrumental in the 1992 …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… At 425 km, the Waikato is the longest river in New Zealand. It begins on the slopes of Mt Ruapehu, draining … this. However, pollution has hastened the decline in native fish numbers over the past 100 years, and one species, the …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… 1907 and Wahine of 1913, the first purpose-built ships, set new standards. They were large (3,400 and 4,400 tons) and … stormy crossings, the ferries remain a linchpin of New Zealand’s transport system. They offer sports teams, … brought clear economic benefits for the islanders. The fishing industry expanded to include boats too small to …
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Part of story: Ferries
… Delivery services A variety of delivery services operated in New Zealand cities and towns up until the mid-20th century. … regularly in some places, and hawkers selling rabbit, fish or whitebait arrived intermittently. Training on the …
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Part of story: Household services
… for reading, and taught himself shorthand. A branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union (NZFU) was formed at Darfield and in … the mill. Yet he found time to teach Sunday school, and for fishing and photography. In 1918 he had become a Darfield …
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… Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister, its … local government planning, and seeking protection for Māori fishing grounds. She also served for many years on the Māori …
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