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… of in a tapu hollow tree, or at the foot of a boundary post. A famous tree where numerous iho were buried is known …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… secretary. Violet Roche was the fifth appointment to the post. When she arrived at her Wellington headquarters, Dr …
Type: Biography
… overseas service or for the Territorials were called up and posted to units stationed near their homes. Māori also …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… sport, she approached the editor of Wellington’s Evening Post , who responded by offering her a job as a free-lance …
Type: Biography
… In 2013 the north had the lowest proportion of people with post-school qualifications, and the highest without any …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… its principals with the exception of Statham had accepted posts in cabinet by 1921. In 1919 Statham was re-elected as …
Type: Biography
… but remained as a YWCA worker. There were further posts in Burma, Calcutta, Delhi and Madras. She founded …
Type: Biography
… and his staff made up skins in nine-pound parcels and posted 8,000 of them to London. They fetched high prices in …
Type: Biography
… that Strachan's system should form the basis of the post-primary curriculum. Strachan was a notable amateur …
Type: Biography
… Regiment of the Waikato Militia in December 1863, and was posted to the water transport corps. In 1865 he received a …
Type: Biography
… the court room. He was next invited to sculpt heads for the post office building in Shortland Street, but now asked and … on the obverse. Teutenberg cut an octagonal halfpenny postal embossing die in 1900, and also made three horse-tram …
Type: Biography
… over as director of the Southland Museum, Invercargill, a post he held until he was 82. Throughout this period he …
Type: Biography
… areas. They were transferred frequently to new posts, on the policing principle that it was easier to order …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Police
… programming. These rules were closely monitored by the Post and Telegraph Department.. Racy radio In 1928 the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Radio
… broadcasting had great difficulty coping with post-war social changes. Popular artists such as Elvis …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Radio
… or support to families, whānau and released prisoners. Post-release hostels owned by the Department of Corrections …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Prisoner support and advocacy
… problems and relationship difficulties, and a few develop post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental injuries or …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Victims of crime
… November 1920. Meanwhile, Margaret’s mother had died in the post-war influenza epidemic. Hard times persisted through … and wrote her memoirs, ‘Stick out, keep left’, published posthumously in 1997. A proponent of family planning, she …
Type: Biography
… down offers of other jobs in her desire to remain in the post vacated by Thurston. The quality of Thurston's work …
Type: Biography
… township was established in 1875 on the Ūawa River, and a post office opened in 1877. It began as an area of 252 acres …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast places