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… Museum in Wellington, the Otago Museum in Dunedin, the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch and the …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… Some 60 couples were present.’ 1 Bob Kerridge (later Sir Robert), founder of the nationwide cinema chain Kerridge …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… printing ventures such as Denis Glover’s Caxton Press and Robert Lowry’s Unicorn Press. From 1934 to 1940 there was …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… and sometimes witty insults between parties. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon once described Labour leader Bill Rowling as …
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Part of story: Parliament
… painters represent cities in sometimes confronting ways. Robert Ellis’s ‘Motorway/city’ (1969) places the viewer high …
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Part of story: City images
… absence, and in particular by the reluctance of Governor Robert FitzRoy to pursue those whom they considered to be …
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Part of story: Colonial and provincial government
… Pole. Scott’s first expedition British Royal Navy officer Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery expedition, named after the …
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Part of story: Antarctica and New Zealand
… number of owners increased over succeeding generations. MP Robert Bruce declared that ‘we could not devise a more …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… Singapore. Fish for beef In the late 1970s Prime Minister Robert Muldoon attempted to force Japan to lift its …
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Part of story: Asia and New Zealand
… Zealand in 1912. He was then accepted as the geologist with Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the Antarctic, but …
Type: Biography
… CER, an achievement of the conservative governments of Robert Muldoon and Malcolm Fraser, provided for a phased …
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Part of story: Australia and New Zealand
… In 1874 George Troup won a place at the prestigious Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. In 1879 he took up an …
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… images'. Fred had received his training in photography with Robert Clifford in Dunedin, having previously trained as a …
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… example, English poets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning opted to live in …
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Part of story: Creative and intellectual expatriates
… Dunedin, on 11 October 1922, the third of five children of Robert Moffat Wilson, a motorman, and his wife, Louisa …
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… 4 May 1869, the eldest of three children of Emma Brignell Roberts and her husband, William Henry Ostler, a runholder. …
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… as more than a match for the tiring prime minister, Robert Muldoon . He was also seen as a potential successor … the position. Prime Minister In June 1984, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon called a snap election. National’s vote was …
Type: Biography
… of Taranaki land. At the meeting he convened for Governor Robert FitzRoy he would first have heard the vehement … in Wellington married Susan Douglas Strang, daughter of Robert Strang, the registrar of the Supreme Court in …
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… example, he borrowed from a little-known work on Canada, by Robert Gourlay, the notion that excessive land supply … the Old World. Wakefield's ideas secured the backing of Robert Rintoul, the editor of the Spectator , and it was …
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… literature and art. A friendship with fellow student Colin Roberts led him into an area of interest which both … somewhat austere appearance. The establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago was …
Type: Biography