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… named Te Pou o Mangatāwhiri. Its name commemorates the pou (post) erected by the Kīngitanga at Mangatāwhiri beyond which …
Type: Biography
… all in a weekend. Hillary qualified as a navigator and was posted in 1945 to Fiji and then the Solomon Islands, where …
Type: Biography
… the more advanced ideas encountered. Impressionism and post-impressionism were the immediate influences on her own …
Type: Biography
… up. Football, haka and poi dancing teams were organised; apostles (Rātana ministers) had been appointed and sent to … Māngai's seal while he was away, and lists of authorised apostles were published in Te Whetū Mārama. The Rātana church … made it difficult to improve matters. In 1926 the Rātana Post Office was authorised and opened, and money was …
Type: Biography
… on New Zealand society, and was soon active in the emerging post-war literary scene. In 1947 pacifist friends introduced … accessible in 2003. Dissatisfied with the cuts made to his posthumously published memoir Indirections (1978), she …
Type: Biography
… to introduce responsible government, so he resigned the post. Later in the year he was prepared to accept the less …
Type: Biography
… war and in the political decisions that would shape the post-war world. Recognising the key role that would be …
Type: Biography
… is my place’. 6 King moved to Auckland in 1979 to take up a post-doctoral fellowship, and to be closer to his children. …
Type: Biography
… his war he normally directed operations from a safe command post, but often led parties in emergencies. At the first … these leaders should be belittled, but it must be said that posterity has erred in this judgement. It exists because …
Type: Biography
… the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In March 1917 he was posted as second in command of the 15th (North Auckland) …
Type: Biography
… and up to a year at a regional radio station. He was posted to 3ZM in Christchurch, a commercial music station, …
Type: Biography
… representing the native race and was given a minor cabinet post in charge of Māori councils. He lost these positions … force. Another Ngāti Porou, Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu , was posthumously awarded a Victoria Cross and in 1943 Ngata … of the Polynesian Society (later they were published posthumously as further volumes of Ngā mōteatea by his …
Type: Biography
… – te raranga me te whatu Media art Painting Photography Post-object and conceptual art Public and street art … anthems New Zealand identity Ngā haki – Māori and flags Postage stamps Public buildings Public holidays Royal family …
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