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… December 1859 and March 1862, in the company of Clements Robert Markham. He married Markham's sister, Georgina … of KCMG in 1914. Bowen was the local host and supporter of Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole. His …
Type: Biography
… Māori law and custom. For example, in 1844 Governor Robert FitzRoy introduced the Native Exemption Ordinance. … the symbol of British kāwanatanga, the Union Jack. Governor Robert FitzRoy eventually employed armed force to quell Heke …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kāwanatanga – Māori engagement with the state
… for most of this period, but abuses during Prime Minister Robert Muldoon’s 1975–84 administration led to a reaction. … a currency crisis. However, the outgoing prime minister, Robert Muldoon, was reluctant to do this. This caused a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Constitution
… on 4 October 1856, the sixth of twelve children of Robert George Gibbons, a shipbuilder, and his wife, Sarah … a coastal freighter. At 16 he went to help in his brother Robert's brewery at Onehunga. When the brewery failed he …
Type: Biography
… Hodgkins’s painting ‘The pleasure garden’ to Christchurch’s Robert McDougall Art Gallery in 1949. The returned … Several of these immigrants made a substantial impact. Robert Field arrived in New Zealand in 1925 to teach at the … Park in 1927, and new galleries were established – the Robert McDougall in Christchurch (1932) and a new National …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Painting
… advocating the cause of various land claimants and Governor Robert FitzRoy 's grantees. His powerful, over-literary … was superintendent, and again from 1864 to 1866 under Robert Graham and Frederick Whitaker . He represented the …
Type: Biography
… was pursued faithfully: in the view of the politician Robert Stout , the Evening Post was the slave of no party; …
Type: Biography
… Scotland, one of a family of seven children. Her father, Robert Collier, was a soldier, who had served in Holland … Elliot, aged 16; and Andrew, aged 14. The eldest brother, Robert James, aged 21, was excluded from the emigration plan …
Type: Biography
… opened the new Mount Cook Infants' School in Tory Street. Robert Lee , the Wellington Education Board inspector, …
Type: Biography
… one of the country’s most influential firms. John Ross and Robert Glendining founded a company that dominated the … was born in New Zealand of Scottish parents. In retailing, Robert Laidlaw set up the Farmers’ Union Trading Company and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Scots
… at Te Wakaru, supported by a pension negotiated through Robert Hart, their family solicitor in Wellington. Alexander … of [the islands'] now nearly extinct inhabitants'. Sir Robert Stout found time to call on Shand while the latter …
Type: Biography
… acknowledged, was written with the help of 'my friend' Sir Robert Stout . Suisted made a considerable contribution to …
Type: Biography
… bushman, he developed a friendship with the surveyors G. J. Roberts and Gerhard Mueller. He helped Roberts with triangulation and surveys, which took him into …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: European exploration
… in response to an appeal for assistance by Governor Robert FitzRoy after Hōne Heke 's attack on Kororāreka … how strong Ōhaeawai's defences were, but the missionary Robert Burrows, who often spoke with Despard, had a good …
Type: Biography
… November 1922 and grew up on the North Shore. His father, Robert Harbron Duggan, emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand … the family, later explored in Duggan’s fiction. In 1935 Robert Duggan left George Court’s and moved his family to … in 1954. In 1960 Maurice became the second recipient of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. During …
Type: Biography
… on 10 June 1869, serving first with Major John Roberts's column and later under Lieutenant Colonel John St … At Cambridge on 12 March 1872, Newall married Georgina Roberts, the younger sister of his close friend and fellow …
Type: Biography
… and Matrimonial Causes Act , 1908 (1910) and, with Sir Robert Stout , The practice of the Supreme Court & Court of … unswerving religious convictions. He governed himself by Robert Browning’s description of the man who ‘never turned …
Type: Biography
… Tāmati Tīraurau and five other men. Īhāia admitted to Robert Parris , the district land purchase commissioner, … this and requested aid from allies in Wanganui and Waikato. Robert Parris and the Reverend John Whiteley acted as …
Type: Biography
… bombing On the night of 18 November 1982, 22-year-old Neil Roberts was killed while attempting to blow up the police computer at the Wanganui Computer Centre. Roberts, an anarchist with a long involvement in the … which targeted the computer rather than police personnel. Roberts’s attack was aimed as a blow against what he saw as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Terrorism and counter-terrorism
… stood as opposition candidate for the Mataura seat against Robert McNab , minister of lands and minister for …
Type: Biography