Search
… on the Omrah to visit her brothers. Another passenger, Robert Laing, returning to New Zealand, boarded the ship at … for three more summers, visiting other areas, then with Robert Laing set out to produce a book, Plants of New … Institute of Canterbury. In July 1906 a clergyman, T. F. Robertson, defended Blackwell in the New Zealand Herald and …
Type: Biography
… with C. E. Button and W. S. Reid; then in 1867 he joined Robert Hart. Eventually he helped to found the law firm of …
Type: Biography
… Laurel Doyle began her career as private trainer for Alec Roberts, a notable figure in racing history. He was the … many prominent owners, including her brother Bill, after Roberts gave up his racing interests. She was regarded as …
Type: Biography
… Te Kōhanga mission schools, which were run by the Reverend Robert Maunsell ; two sons became respected Māori …
Type: Biography
… or replacement, and even small towns had a shoe shop. Robert Hannah opened his first shoe shop at Charleston in … Following his 1945 radio talk about petrels, biologist Robert Falla was contacted by pupils from the Barrytown …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: West Coast places
… born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 17 June 1882, the son of Robert Gillies, a surveyor, and his wife, Emily Street, a … of Edward Lear, the nonsense writer and landscape painter. Robert Gillies was a member of the House of Representatives …
Type: Biography
… he fell out with the Alliance, whose president, Jim Roberts, ensured his removal in 1926. That year Hunter … undignified end to his public career, which, according to Roberts, had been characterised by equivocation and …
Type: Biography
… Kūkūtai was converted to Christianity by the CMS missionary Robert Maunsell , who had set up a mission station at …
Type: Biography
… principles of the 1974 immigration policy review before Robert Muldoon became the head of a National government …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History of immigration
… Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand. He was the son of Robert McIntyre, a labourer, and his wife, Eliza Ann … skills, and his love of literature, especially the poems of Robert Burns and Duncan McIntyre. He died at Inglewood on 11 …
Type: Biography
… and from 1976 it was used as a prime minister’s residence. Robert Muldoon liked it, but David Lange found it too far … Keith Holyoake, Norman Kirk, William Massey, Julius Vogel, Robert Muldoon and Edward Stafford. ‘Progressives’ only …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… John Court Limited in Queen Street, Auckland. She married Robert Caldwell Wilkie, a farmer from Walton, near Matamata, … Hall of Fame in 1990. She was survived by her husband, Robert, and three daughters. …
Type: Biography
… the Morning Herald , but resigned when the paper attacked Robert Stout . In 1885, together with John Bathgate and … by his support for George Grey and his acquaintance with Robert Stout, as well as his strong concern for the …
Type: Biography
… on his nascent career was the Southland pioneer W. H. S. Roberts. He assisted Beattie's 'chronicling apprenticeship' …
Type: Biography
… on the coast.’ 1 Determining sites In 1873 captains Robert Johnson and Robert Edwin drew up what would become the blueprint for New …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Lighthouses
… Scotland, on 21 June 1836, the son of Janet Roberts and her husband, Robert Carruthers, editor and proprietor of the Inverness …
Type: Biography
… England. English poets such as Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning told them what a poem should feel like, but, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Poetry
… and Walter Buller; politicians such as Richard Seddon , Robert Stout , Julius Vogel and Joseph Ward ; and government …
Type: Biography
… positions of organist and choirmaster, Mowbray retired in Robert Parker's favour in 1878 but continued to sing in the … he conducted for 14 years. In 1875 Mowbray bought from Robert Park a section adjacent to the cemetery in Bolton …
Type: Biography
… Alice Parkinson had received. The judge, Chief Justice Sir Robert Stout , sentenced her to imprisonment with hard …
Type: Biography