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… mother's name, was born in July 1931. They adopted a son, Robert Te Kotahi Mahuta, in 1939. Korokī and his family … promise had been made to Ngāti Maniapoto in 1885 by Premier Robert Stout , whereby liquor was banned from the King …
Type: Biography
… His influence at this meeting impressed on Governor Robert FitzRoy the fact that Auckland's security depended on …
Type: Biography
… in Auckland on 23 December 1843 on the Bangalore. Captain Robert FitzRoy was on the same ship on his way to take up …
Type: Biography
… life. He acquired further surveying skills and helped G. J. Roberts to establish trig points for the triangulation of … from becoming better known in his own lifetime. Mueller and Roberts in the Survey Department certainly recognised his …
Type: Biography
… civilisation. The engineering school’s founding director, Robert Scott , was hugely successful, but he so dominated …
Type: Biography
… in the New Zealand Labour Party. As an orator, he rivalled Robert Semple and John A. Lee. He contributed to the …
Type: Biography
… Heads, and then at Te Kōhanga, under the Reverend Dr Robert Maunsell , who supervised his continuing studies. He …
Type: Biography
… the 1880s. In 1867 Te Matakātea met the government agent Robert Parris at Umuroa and negotiated the transfer of some …
Type: Biography
… himself published writings on early history. Politician Robert McNab compiled several editions of Murihiku: a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History and historians
… the second oil shock of 1978, the National government of Robert Muldoon tried to keep New Zealand prosperous by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History
… Wanganui in 1840. Here his behaviour earned, from Governor Robert FitzRoy , the reproach that he was the 'devil's …
Type: Biography
… Her mother, Jessy, was the youngest daughter of Charles Robert Bidwill of Pihautea in Wairarapa. Her father was Robert Heaton Rhodes of Blue Cliffs station, South …
Type: Biography
… of Labour in 1935, and sided with Walsh against Jim Roberts when the Alliance split the following year. When the … a position he held until 1942. Together with Walsh, Roberts and other leading unionists, Young played a …
Type: Biography
… of devout Presbyterians Isabella Tudehope and her husband, Robert Aitken, a farmer. John was educated at the grammar …
Type: Biography
… In 1914 at Invercargill, on her 66th birthday, Bain married Robert Archibald Elliot, a widower and general merchant from …
Type: Biography
… activities, she was on hand to capture 'scoop' pictures of Robert Falcon Scott's vessel, the Terra Nova , when it made …
Type: Biography
… Burns, desperate for money, murdered a naval lieutenant, Robert Snow, his wife and daughter, for the sake of £12 in …
Type: Biography
… and Ellerslie racecourse were developed on farmland sold by Robert Graham to the Auckland Racing Club in 1873. Hospitals …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Auckland places
… 1875 to 1877 he was chief assistant in the London office of Robert Jewell Withers. Clere emigrated with his family to …
Type: Biography
… in August, Cousins worked there as an engraver for Robert Burrett for 18 months, and for Lyon and Blair for 6½ …
Type: Biography