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… and work distribution was different from those of Pākehā workers. Agriculture Before the Second World War, … was little difference between the proportions of Māori and Pākehā working in agriculture (Māori 13%, non-Māori 11%), … women worked in services, compared with just over 40% of Pākehā women. The largest groups were public hospital staff, …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… In 1914, heeding Apirana Ngata 's call for Māori to acquire Pākehā skills for the benefit of their people, and … that in order to improve conditions for her people Pākehā had to be more accurately informed, she attempted to … and was able to mediate the differences between Māori and Pākehā tactfully. Guide Rangi had a remarkable ability to …
Type: Biography
… households is usually a matter of personal choice for Pākehā. However, keeping what you earn for your immediate … for household expenses. This is more likely to occur in Pākehā families, especially those with two full-time earners. Support from grandparents In Pākehā families, as well as households with other cultural …
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Part of story: Diverse families
… population of 51,303. New Plymouth was the region’s first Pākehā settlement and has always been the largest. The city … in central New Plymouth. After the arrival of the first Pākehā settlers it was renamed Mt Eliot and became the … home to Puke Ariki library, museum and information centre. Pākehā traders set up a trading station at Ngāmotu in 1828, …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… Since the beginning of European settlement in New Zealand, Pākehā men have enjoyed spending time with their mates. … a degree of secret ritual. The clubs were overwhelmingly Pākehā, with few Māori members. They provided significant …
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Part of story: Men’s clubs
… and several ground-breaking works of memoir exploring Pākehā identity. His acclaimed general history of New … and the broader cultural context. Finding no help at the Pākehā-dominated historical and archaeological societies, he … but for ‘curious and intelligent general readers, Maori and Pakeha, who are not historians’. 12 The book was a skilful …
Type: Biography
… . Declining birth rates, 1870s to 1930s From the 1870s the Pākehā birth rate declined. It reached a low point in the … birth rate was 4.15 per woman. The baby boom was mainly a Pākehā phenomenon. Māori women's fertility rates remained … of children per woman. Baby bust Boom turned to bust for Pākehā women by the early 1970s. By this time the …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… of connectedness to others. Fertility The size of Māori and Pākehā families has changed since the 19th century, but the … in the late 19th century. After the Second World War Pākehā age at marriage fell. Marriage rates then dropped … consisted of a couple and their children. However, some Pākehā households expanded to include elderly parents, other …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… be an adult, but could also be a child. Who and how many In Pākehā households the presence of young children, the … roles From early settlement to the later 20th century, Pākehā men and boys were responsible for outdoor tasks, … dictate other patterns of behaviour. Learning to keep house Pākehā spent a great deal of energy persuading Māori to …
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Part of story: Household management
… in a Māori Christian community which had accepted the Pākehā way but sought to adapt it to Māori custom. She … of mana arising from widespread land sales and organised Pākehā settlement, the social effects on Māori of the liquor … Mārama expressly disclaimed any ability to deal with mate Pākehā. Patients suffering mate Māori frequently were …
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… and wished their children to be prepared for success in the Pākehā world. Beyond basic reading, writing and arithmetic, … and initially most were untrained. Initially most were Pākehā, although some schools had Māori junior assistants. Local mixed-race and Pākehā children, including the children of teachers, also …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… and tuberculosis, and viruses such as influenza, affected Pākehā and Māori alike. Their spread was aided by poor … all paid for by Māori. ‘The order of the day is the “whare pakeha”’, proclaimed one inspector. 2 A critic acknowledged … fashionable English cottage-style state houses built for Pākehā. The small size of dwellings did not suit the …
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Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… but the state effectively recognises only the dominant Pākehā culture and the indigenous Māori culture. Some people … culture, language and rights of multiple cultures, not just Pākehā and Māori. However, people who support biculturalism … Ranginui Walker (Whakatōhea) once remarked, ‘Māori remind Pākehā that becoming bicultural enough to be at ease in the …
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Part of story: Biculturalism
… because Māori were living in communities separate from Pākehā. In other cases, Māori teams were formed because … example, Māori cyclists, while allowed to ride alongside Pākehā in the North Island at the turn of the 20th century, … that, although it was generally a sport of the upper-class Pākehā, Māori were beginning to play tennis. Many marae …
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Part of story: Māori and sport – hākinakina
… Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa (the New Zealand Wars) and Te riri Pākehā (the white man’s anger). 1840s The first series of … when Māori were a majority of the population, although Pākehā dominated the towns. A precursor to the wars was the … wars the Kīngitanga established an aukati which prevented Pākehā crossing into the King Country. The King Country was …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… and gourds that scattered when the Ārai-te-uru capsized. Pākehā too arrived on the beach, and some of their landing … has the distinction of being a place where both Māori and Pākehā landed. The Horouta and Ikaroa-a-Rauru canoes are … along the beach from Taranaki southwards to Pukerua Bay. Pākehā also used the beach for travel, walking, and more …
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Part of story: Beach culture
… relationships. During one in particular – with a Pākehā, Roy Seccombe – she cut herself off from her people. … a hospital. They had also to overcome the attitudes of the Pākehā citizens of Ngāruawāhia, who initially tried to have … 'This is an occasion for rejoicing on the part of the Pākehās and those tribes who have not suffered any …
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… ‘all go back to the pā in the long run’ was pervasive in Pākehā novels until at least the 1930s. Traces of polygenism … be found in the ‘comic Māori’ stereotype, a stock figure in Pākehā folk humour. The comic Māori was capable of low …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… to the reader and therefore renders his criticisms of Pākehā relatively harmless. This book nevertheless hooks some quite sharp barbs into Pākehā ways. When Māori are accused of laziness and … when it comes to official matters 't'e taihoa belonga t'e Pakeha.' It is hard to identify Grace's own attitude here, …
Type: Biography
… both families was reflected in the large party of Māori and Pākehā dignitaries who attended the wedding ceremony in … after her. While these events brought Hūria Mātenga to Pākehā attention, she was a notable woman in her own … and comfort. The land was stocked with sheep and leased to Pākehā farmers. Her prosperity at a time when the Māori …
Type: Biography