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… a large number of future New Zealand leaders, among them Robert Stout , Downie Stewart , T. W. Hislop and John … stage in 1886. Benefiting from the patronage of Premier Robert Stout, MacGregor was that year appointed inspector of …
Type: Biography
… Christianity, imbued with a knowledge of the Pākehā world. Robert Stout , writing of Te Whiti in 1883, observed that he … native affairs and defence, and Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Roberts , invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881. They were met …
Type: Biography
… the leadership of Te Atairangikaahu and her stepbrother, Robert Mahuta, the matter of the raupatu (land …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… Wynyard, was, according to one oral tradition, the son of Robert Henry Wynyard , acting governor of New Zealand in … tradition ascribes this to a feeling of antipathy towards Robert Wynyard's role at Ruapekapeka in 1846 when fighting …
Type: Biography
… she was 18. To teach music and the arts her staff included Robert Parker and Dorothy Richmond . As well as high ideals …
Type: Biography
… only in their ingratiating dedications to George Grey and Robert Stout , and in their determination to entertain. …
Type: Biography
… 4 June 1851 at St Quivox, Ayrshire, Harriet married Thomas Robert Gore Browne , who was some 20 years her senior. …
Type: Biography
… the small group of New Zealand-born historians, including Robert McNab , James Cowan and Elsdon Best , writing in the …
Type: Biography
… Campbell, and in 1914 he was defeated by the Liberal Robert McNab on a magisterial recount. When McNab died …
Type: Biography
… Smith’s Royal Jazz Band, were influential. Walter Smith and Robert Adams Two Auckland band leaders can claim that their … Jazz Band was regularly performing at Auckland cabarets. Robert Adams played percussion in pit orchestras …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Jazz and dance bands
… areas. Out, damn Scott! In October 1980 Prime Minister Robert Muldoon refused to answer a question from journalist … the media’s power to influence public opinion intensified. Robert Muldoon’s rise to power as National Party finance …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Media and politics
… reserve 30 km north of Kaikōura. Visual feast T. E. L. Roberts cycled from Waikari, Canterbury, to Blenheim to take … locomotion’, he arrived in Kaikōura as the sun went down. Roberts wrote that the scenery was ‘a feast for Canterbury …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough places
… New Zealand, they had taken in two youngsters, Marjory and Robert Black. Marjory returned from Glasgow to live with … Levys became as grandparents to her growing family, and to Robert Black’s after he emigrated as well. Bruce and Phyl …
Type: Biography
… by the reappearance of Julius Vogel in association with Robert Stout . In the first Stout–Vogel ministry of August …
Type: Biography
… Robert William Lane, better known as the international … extrasensory perception demonstrations. Under the name Dr Robert Morton he opened a clinic in Toronto which earned an …
Type: Biography
… and in 1892 visited Samoa where he painted the portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson which is now in the Scottish National … reveal elusive states of mind. Foremost is the portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, which shows us the sickness of the …
Type: Biography
… Ryburn was born in Gisborne on 19 April 1897, the son of Robert Middleton Ryburn and his wife, Anna Jane Steadman. … The Hamlins’ eldest daughter, Sophia Middleton, married Robert McNair Ryburn, a Presbyterian, and two of their sons …
Type: Biography
… she met Susan Pigott, the future wife of the CMS missionary Robert Maunsell . In 1841, hearing of Susan Maunsell's …
Type: Biography
… Southland date back to early-20th-century compilations by Robert McNab and James Herries Beattie. Frederick Hall-Jones … reputations away from home. Expatriates include playwright Robert Lord, poet Bill Manhire, rock musician Chris Knox, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Southland region
… known to be members of subversive groups’ to Prime Minister Robert Muldoon. He published the list in an attempt to … the military during the Vietnam War. In 1977 Prime Minister Robert Muldoon replaced the NZCSO with the Government …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Intelligence services