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… many domestic and commercial buildings in partnership with Robert Talboys. More recently, Bruce Dickson has designed …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui region
… Ireland, probably some time between 1827 and 1831, to Ann Roberts and her husband, Patrick Gleeson, a farmer. The …
Type: Biography
… 1832 and 1840, the daughter of Ann Regan and her husband, Robert Clive, a railway inspector. Eschewing a life of …
Type: Biography
… from a planned career in public health to work with Sir Robert Jones, the founder of British orthopaedics, at the …
Type: Biography
… ancient history of the Maori . Government also supported Robert McNab to produce two volumes of Historical records of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public history
… of Friends in Nelson. In 1853 two Friends from Yorkshire, Robert Lindsay and Frederick Mackie, arrived in Nelson in …
Type: Biography
… called after National MP Marilyn Waring told Prime Minister Robert Muldoon that she would not vote with the government …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Parliament
… rival bills appeared in Parliament. One was introduced by Robert Stout, the young attorney-general in George Grey’s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Voting rights
… held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, and the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch. …
Type: Biography
… was changed from Campbelltown (after one of its founders, Robert Campbell) in 1887. Rongotea was at the centre of an …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… acted as guardian and tutor to two young children, Jane and Robert Colquist. From her arrival she supported her brother …
Type: Biography
… leading lights in the temperance or prohibition movements. Robert Stout, too, was an ardent prohibitionist. The …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Scots
… Young Māori were quick to make their mark as shearers. Robert Tūtaki, from Hawke’s Bay, was a gun shearer and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Shearing
… the daughter of Margaret Mitchell, a jute spinner, and Robert Coupar. Her mother claimed to be related to Dame …
Type: Biography
… While performing at the Shamrock Hotel she met Charles Robert Thatcher, a singer, entertainer and songwriter, whom …
Type: Biography
… Dockray (later Mary Ann Lake Dockery) was the daughter of Robert Thornton Dockray, a gardener, and his wife, Marianne …
Type: Biography
… of the Rātana Church Īnia te Wīata , a famous opera singer Robert Te Kotahitanga Mahuta, the whāngai brother of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… she enrolled at the Elam School of Art, taking lessons from Robert Procter. In 1923–24 she learned lettering and …
Type: Biography
… among them was Tāmati Wāka Nene . In Auckland Governor Robert FitzRoy asked for military aid from New South Wales. … impenetrable defences of his pā. He received the Reverend Robert Burrows on at least two occasions. Burrows hoped to …
Type: Biography
… to those of fellow freethought Liberals John Ballance, Robert Stout and William Pember Reeves . He strongly …
Type: Biography