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… was the only child of Lydia Elsie Stevens and her husband, Robert Ephraim Briggs, a labourer. Her father drowned in a … she was four, and 18 months later her mother married John Robertson, a farmer from Hāwera. By 1904 the family was … in Ōtaki, at first living with her half-brother Charlie Robertson and his wife, and later in a small cottage behind …
Type: Biography
… 10 sons of Margaret Kearney, a tailoress, and her husband, Robert Carroll, a mill worker. Both of his parents were born …
Type: Biography
… and compelling politics. Abrasive National Prime Minister Robert Muldoon tried to insulate the country from …
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Part of story: Cartooning
… collections. The painting was finally accepted into the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in 1951. Intellectual …
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Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… opened in 1892 and a public library in 1893. Christchurch’s Robert McDougall Art Gallery opened in 1932, and was …
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Part of story: Public buildings
… and Chris Slane’s Maui : l egends of the o utcast (with Robert Sullivan, 1996) and Nice day for a war (with Matt …
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Part of story: Comics and graphic novels
… 1953, which led to a commission of inquiry conducted by Sir Robert Kennedy. Kennedy reported that Compton had admitted …
Type: Biography
… spats. However, the British government sacked Governor Robert FitzRoy in 1845, and recalled Sir George Grey in 1868 …
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Part of story: Governors and governors-general
… work is concerned this is coincidental.’ 1 More recently, Robert Jahnke inverted this statement: ‘I am a Maori and it …
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Part of story: Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu
… the other way round. From 1982 to 1984 Minister of Finance Robert Muldoon imposed a freeze on all price and wage …
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Part of story: Prices and inflation
… brother, Edwin, the couple emigrated to New Zealand on the Robert Small , arriving in October that year. From …
Type: Biography
… to the West Indies, Australia and the Pacific islands for Robert Brooks of London. His first visits to New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… standardbred, named Berlin, was imported by Cantabrian Robert Wilkin. Berlin, a stallion who never raced in New …
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Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… in England, inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield and John Robert Godley, to start a settlement in New Zealand. They …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… known in Auckland musical circles. His father was Lewis Roberts Eady, a musician who tuned pianos and traded in …
Type: Biography
… in 1851 by the (already established) pastoralists William, Robert and George Rhodes. George and his wife Elizabeth …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… boulder.’ 1 The founder of the Canterbury settlement, John Robert Godley, ensured that pheasants were on the first four …
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Part of story: Game birds