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… leaders who warned the district land purchase commissioner, Robert Parris , in October 1857 of the consequences of …
Type: Biography
… 2 July 1876, the third child and only son of Emma Brignell Roberts and her husband, William Henry Ostler, the station … after the farm had been leased, but on the advice of Sir Robert Stout, a fellow worker for prohibition with Ostler's …
Type: Biography
… and like herself a lifelong Quaker. They had two sons, Robert Owen (Robin) and Alfred William (Fred), and lived in …
Type: Biography
… between 1884 and 1887 was ranked third in cabinet below Robert Stout and Vogel. He was called to the Legislative …
Type: Biography
… Here is New Zealand. The film was shot and produced by Robert Steele, an Auckland film-maker, and included … that she began filming in other South Pacific locations. Robert Steele shot Away to the South Seas , which looked at …
Type: Biography
… In June 1865 Hōne Pīhama met the civil commissioner, Robert Parris , at the Waingongoro River and later submitted …
Type: Biography
… been New Zealand’s most commercially successful playwright. Robert Lord Robert Lord was one of the more formally inventive 1970s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… He gave up this intention after talking with Governor Robert FitzRoy in Auckland in June, and attending a service …
Type: Biography
… Winchester and Christchurch. The last was a tribute to John Robert Godley – the name recalled his college at Oxford. …
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Part of story: English
… potential of hot springs. One was Scottish businessman Robert Graham, who purchased land at Waiwera, 48 kilometres …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… McDonald were both Kāpiti Island whalers, and Alexander Robert Fyffe established a whaling station at Kaikōura. …
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Part of story: Scots
… Begg and their two children sailed from Glasgow in the Robert Henderson , reaching Dunedin on 6 October. Within 24 …
Type: Biography
… Birmingham, England, on 19 March 1845, the daughter of Robert Bellamy, a cordwainer, and his wife, Ann White. She …
Type: Biography
… Phoenix, Reynolds and Zealandia Bicycle manufacturer Robert Murie started making his own Phoenix brand bikes in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Shops
… turned into art. Early examples in New Zealand include Robert Hutchinson’s Spatial State of A and B (1996) and the …
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Part of story: Media art
… who achieved national prominence, notably Julius Vogel and Robert Stout, as well as the lesser-known James Allen and …
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Part of story: Otago region
… political issue – the leading prohibitionist Sir Robert Stout attacked the role of the public trustee in …
Type: Biography
… over 2,000 metres. Avalanches are common in winter. Mt Robert (1,421 m), in the Travers Range overlooking St …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… the Official Information Act was passed, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon dismissed it as ‘a nine day wonder’. 1 Later …
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Part of story: Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament
… the movement and he was supported by two politicians: Henry Robert Russell and John Sheehan. Karaitiana Takamoana was …
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Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements