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… lead a ‘native’ contingent to South Africa. When Lord Roberts, the commander-in-chief of British troops in South …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… built on unstable ground – ruined the career of architect Robert Lawson. A replacement hospital, Cherry Farm, opened …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Otago places
… Otago. Named after the Scottish home town of estate owner Robert Campbell, it had a population of 87 in 2013. Rock …
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Part of story: Otago places
… fifth son of nine children of Captain (later Rear Admiral) Robert O'Brien and his wife, Anne O'Brien, who were first …
Type: Biography
… to office in New Zealand; colonial premiers Alfred Domett, Robert Stout and John Ballance were freethinkers. Governors …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… 1990s, the outlier tendencies can gain traction, as when Robert Muldoon (a populist) was prime minister or Ruth …
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Part of story: National Party
… Elam School of Art. After the war she studied pottery under Robert Field at Avondale College. She held her first …
Type: Biography
… kōkako numbers. Early birds When National Radio announcer Robert Taylor began greeting listeners with a mimicked …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… was born at Ashburton on 11 September 1918, the son of John Robert Scott, a shepherd from Aberdeenshire, and his wife, …
Type: Biography
… by a woman from Skye. Poetry, sports and knitting A love of Robert Burns’s poetry was brought to New Zealand. The first …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Scots
… important. Prominent scientists such as Charles Fleming, Robert Falla and E. G. Turbott were among the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… worked in India with the Hungarian–Australian violinist Robert Pikler during the 1930s. In 1946 she resumed teaching …
Type: Biography
… Donald John Stott, the son of Annie McKay and her husband, Robert Edward Stott, a butcher, was born in Birkenhead, …
Type: Biography
… Sydney store in 1861, he recognised one of his colleagues – Robert Stains, who had worked for a rival shop in London. …
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Part of story: Department stores and shopping malls
… 29 September 1854 with her lawyer husband, Charles Dudley Robert Ward (known as Dudley). They had married in …
Type: Biography
… the ship. The Watts Russells stayed with Charlotte and John Robert Godley at Lyttelton until their own house was built …
Type: Biography
… of Whanganui. Maxwell was laid out as a township in 1871 by Robert Pharazyn, a Wellington provincial councillor, and was …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… gave him (with a bad grace) a horse worth £10. Governor Robert FitzRoy commented, 'I wish the Constables had gone …
Type: Biography
… with two sons. On 12 February 1867 he married Harriet Myra Roberts at Christchurch; they were to have three daughters …
Type: Biography
… at Riverton, Southland, the youngest of nine children of Robert Acheson, a merchant, and his wife, Annie Sinclair … formalities led to a bitter feud with his registrar, J. H. Robertson. Their relationship became impossibly strained and …
Type: Biography