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… of a farmer. His father was the brother of the poet Robert Burns. His mother, and his paternal grandmother, …
Type: Biography
… An admirer of his prime minister, Couch declared that Robert Muldoon had taught him ‘never to seek popularity. We …
Type: Biography
… to personality and religious differences with Archdeacon Robert Maunsell and the college board of governors. As at …
Type: Biography
… Mackenzie became increasingly irritated by some of Robert Stout 's actions. When Stout backed a tariff in 1886, …
Type: Biography
… in June 1980, found that it had been caused by pilot error. Robert Muldoon ’s National government established a royal …
Type: Biography
… Onslow was the first New Zealand governor since Robert FitzRoy in 1843 to have had no previous experience in …
Type: Biography
… general; Rees deferred to the more politically experienced Robert Stout . He then determined to find a solution to the …
Type: Biography
… had already, in 1885, presented an address to the premier, Robert Stout , asking for self-government for Māori. He now …
Type: Biography
… Earlier that day Taonui had declared in front of Premier Robert Stout , 'It is our land; the sod shall be turned, and …
Type: Biography
… were Te Pōkiha and Pētera Te Pukuatua. After mediation by Robert Graham in June, the Great Committee of Rotorua (Te …
Type: Biography
… Peter Fraser, Harry Holland , Michael Joseph Savage , Robert Semple and other contemporaries, he did not become a …
Type: Biography
… who came to New Zealand were Michael Joseph Savage, Robert Semple, William Parry, Patrick Webb and Mark Fagan. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Australians
… photographs of surveyors such as Edward Sealy and George Roberts inspired those who, a few years later, ventured into …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Mountaineering
… be reconciled. The politician and staunch free-thinker Robert Stout agreed with Salmond that Christianity and …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… and sheep farmers. Most drove themselves. An exception was Robert Heaton Rhodes, a Canterbury landowner and member of …
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Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… taking a post at Parnell School in Auckland. Her brother Robert was also teaching in Auckland, and around 1907 their …
Type: Biography
… 1896. Attracted to the University of Edinburgh by Professor Robert Flint, Dickie began theological studies in 1897, …
Type: Biography
… Scotland, and raised in the home of his great-uncle, Sir Robert Pollok, a member of the Scottish Episcopal church. …
Type: Biography