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… Flats’ cartoon strip, which appeared in more than 120 newspapers worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s and spawned … vision of a laid-back, laconic, do-it-yourself rural New Zealand which appealed to both local and international … rotting sheep carcasses, clawing blackberry vines, and fish and chips after rugby matches. It traced the cycles of …
Type: Biography
… Leonard Cockayne, New Zealand's greatest botanist and a founder of modern science … he was a lonely child who spent much time observing birds, fish and flowers in the wood near his home, Thorpe House. …
Type: Biography
… and a variety of other indigenous rights causes both in New Zealand and overseas. She also acted in films and ran … for her actions, she would always respond that ‘only dead fish swim with the current’. 2 Tuaiwa died peacefully at …
Type: Biography
… and burial sites of bones knowledge and evidence of eeling, fishing, hunting and gathering sites ātete – evidence of … what is now Auckland; an Australian who had never been to New Zealand who claimed 8.1 million hectares in the South …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… to 15 years. Foods are aquatic invertebrates, molluscs and fish. After breeding, kakī do not generally join the … 1800) from Australia, the pied stilt has flourished in its new home – a favourable food supply was released when … Pied stilts breed on South Island riverbeds and around New Zealand’s coast. They breed in colonies of up to 100 nests, …
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Part of story: Wading birds
… Monro , speaker of the House of Representatives, in Nelson, New Zealand, on 30 December 1868; they had three sons and three … Colonial Museum. Between 1871 and 1881 these covered birds, fishes, echinoderms, mollusca, crustacea, beetles, flies, …
Type: Biography
… shows that tropical Polynesian art styles introduced to New Zealand were modified gradually into regional variations. … established by successive migrations. Birds, birdmen, fish, dogs and other animals are often depicted in South …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori rock art – ngā toi ana
… toys from the era: ‘My cricket bat. My football boots./My fishing rod. My hula hoop./My cowboy chaps. My … became available at lower prices. In the 1930s and 1940s New Zealand toy manufacturers had an impact on the local market. …
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Part of story: Children’s play
… 1862 and 1865 about 3,000 English immigrants sailed to New Zealand to establish Albertland, a nonconformist religious … to their homeland, others settled and turned to farming, fishing and winemaking. Their descendants, some of whom …
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Part of story: Northland region
… taxpaying businesses such as nightclubs, massage parlours, fishing operations and retail outlets. Police believe that … Transnational gangs have a relatively small presence in New Zealand. By the late 1980s police had identified Asian …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gangs
… influence on the future of her people. Her father was a fisherman and her parents lived at Koukourarata (Port Levy), … involved in conservation issues, particularly through the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, and campaigned successfully …
Type: Biography
… through books such as Ka whawhai tonu mātou and his New Zealand Listener columns. He was a convincing and engaging … State-owned Enterprises Act 1986, and the newly introduced fisheries management and ownership system. By the late …
Type: Biography
… used the Māori vocabulary compiled by Cook to request fish, which was bought in large quantities. Trading took … Islands and Antarctica. His account of his brief visit to New Zealand is a unique and valuable description of Māori life …
Type: Biography
… was quarried at Grays Hills. Rock art South Canterbury has New Zealand’s largest amount of Māori rock art. Images and … in charcoal and red ochre. The motifs include moa, dogs, fish and some recognisably human figures, while others are …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… James Teer was born in Newcastle, County Down, Ireland, probably in 1826 or 1827. His father was Thomas Teer, a fisherman; his mother's name is not known. The family earned … environment and for 20 years worked in Australia and New Zealand as a goldminer and mariner in isolated situations. …
Type: Biography
… to have six children. Mōnita served in Egypt with the 28th New Zealand (Māori) Battalion. After Mōnita’s return in October … schools. He was a member during hearings of the Muriwhenua (fishing and land), Te Roroa, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… become an important series of paintings on the lives of the fishing people of Marken. In manner and subject these works … what motivated van der Velden and his family to emigrate to New Zealand. However, dissatisfaction at the outcome of an art …
Type: Biography
… The two Bulstrode sisters were Englishwomen who came to New Zealand to take charge of Hukarere Native Girls' School in … them could sing, play football moderately well, swim like fish, and ride any horse. In October 1911 the school burned …
Type: Biography
… unmarried. When the mother refused to accompany him to New Zealand he publicly accepted responsibility for the child, … McKenzie wanted all New Zealanders to be able to fish the rivers, lakes and coasts and to enjoy unrestricted …
Type: Biography
… Tai as he was generally known, had a younger brother, James Zealand (Tīreni) Niramona. Henry Mitchell senior had arrived … latter trip he accompanied the ashes of Māui Pōmare back to New Zealand. Mitchell accepted leadership roles in both the … and Te Arawa leaders over compensation for the loss of fishing and burial rights in the Rotorua lakes district. The …
Type: Biography