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… maintenance On the effects of tourism, Tainui leader Robert Mahuta commented: ‘Perhaps one might say that what …
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Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… by her six remaining children: Mary, Beth, William, James, Robert and Alex. …
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… Māori declined in the early 20th century. However, Major Robert Prowse ran a mission on the East Coast for more than …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… Māui gas field. The plant was part of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon’s ‘Think Big’ policy of industrial …
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Part of story: Fertiliser industry
… Australia, the group included two New Zealanders, scientist Robert Falla and meteorologist Richard Simmers. The New …
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Part of story: Antarctica and New Zealand
… Auckland. The full name, Waiwerawera, means very hot water. Robert Graham developed New Zealand’s first tourist spa here …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… out that the whitebait are running. Acknowledgements to Robert M. McDowall …
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Part of story: Whitebait and whitebaiting
… found that considerable misunderstanding prevailed. John Robert Godley (the co-founder and first agent) had left for …
Type: Biography
… mediator between Māori and settlers and adviser to Governor Robert FitzRoy interfering with his 'proper work'. Constant …
Type: Biography
… general election he stood as a Christian pacifist against Robert Semple in the New Zealand Labour Party stronghold of …
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… for finance (from early 1964) and future prime minister Robert Muldoon . Fern, tūī, zeal, Muldoon In his 1974 autobiography, The rise and fall of a young Turk , Robert Muldoon recorded some of the different name …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes
… to have three sons, but were divorced in 1953. He succeeded Robert Falla as director of the museum in 1948. His first …
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… 1898, the eldest son of a Māori Methodist minister, Robert Tahupōtiki Haddon of Ngāti Ruanui, and his wife, …
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… In 1886 he would have nothing to do with suggestions by Robert Stout and Julius Vogel for a dissolution of …
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… The first internationally prominent New Zealand player was Robert Wade, who was national champion three times in the … matches in 1972 and 1992. Estonian-born Ortvin Sarapu met Robert Wade at a tournament in Germany in 1949 and was …
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Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… ideas and enabled him to support labour causes. In 1894 Robert Blatchford, a journalist who edited the socialist … conveyed in articles published in the Clarion. He wrote to Robert Blatchford: 'If you really knew, you and your 100,000 …
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… work, was founded in 1973 by Nonnita Rees, Judy Russell and Robert Lord. In 1980 Playmarket ran its first playwrights’ … the 1980s (though he made a bold return in 2010 with Me and Robert McKee ). Feminist theatre Another writer to emerge …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… flax mill and on public works, and became acquainted with Robert Parris and Percy Smith while engaged in road-making …
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… of Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke prevented fighting and Robert Parris , the district land purchase commissioner, …
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… was enhanced by the zealous efforts of individuals such as Robert Parker, who trained several church choirs and formed … impact on choirs during the First World War. In 1918 Robert Parker, at that time conductor of the Wellington …
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Part of story: Choral music and choirs