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… the Crown, Ngāpuhi leader Hōne Heke Pōkai wrote to Governor Robert FitzRoy , asking, ‘What has become of the kind policy …
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… left at the age of 14 to become apprenticed to bookseller Robert Somerville of Stockbridge. In 1888 he moved on to … home for the fine 4,000-item New Zealand collection of Dr Robert McNab; what became known as the McNab collection was …
Type: Biography
… government led him, in 1854, to turn down acting governor Robert Wynyard 's invitation to join the Executive Council; …
Type: Biography
… for Heston to play with John Souter against Peter Snell and Robert Clarke on Mercer Street in central Wellington. Two … Central Park. Then National Party opposition leader Robert Muldoon umpired the match, which Pryde won. The first …
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Part of story: Tennis
… on 9 September 1908. He believed his father was Robert Julian Scott, a Canterbury College professor. He was … National Bank of New Zealand from 1927. Sailing yachts with Robert Scott having sparked his interest in the sea, he …
Type: Biography
… and took the name Te Mānihera, from the CMS missionary Robert Maunsell , although William Woon claimed that Te …
Type: Biography
… or many? In opening the first Parliament in 1854 Colonel Robert Wynyard proclaimed ‘it will rest with the General … of responsible government. The acting governor, Colonel Robert Wynyard, felt bound to refer this request to London, …
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Part of story: Self-government and independence
… the daughter of Constance Gertrude Malcolm and her husband, Robert Warren Roche. Robert Roche had a varied career as a journalist, …
Type: Biography
… in 1867, with the first of several major commissions for Robert Heaton Rhodes; this was possibly Rhodes's … of the homestead which had been designed in London by Robert ('Bungalow') Briggs for Sir John Hall's Riccarton …
Type: Biography
… land had been set aside for the purpose, and was advised by Robert Stout that the delays were due to local disputes. He …
Type: Biography
… district. While he was based at New Plymouth, 19-year-old Robert Wallath , known as 'The New Plymouth Highwayman', …
Type: Biography
… between 1927 and 1959. After Joseph Ward's death Sir Robert Stout was moved to write: 'I know no man in the …
Type: Biography
… she was the PEN New Zealand Centre representative on the Robert Burns Fellowship committee of the University of … Order. Widowed in 1967, Dorothy married a Dunedin doctor, Robert Edmund Ballantyne, on 27 December 1968. She died in …
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… was the eldest child of Elizabeth Ormiston and her husband, Robert Mackay, a shepherd who managed successively the … Their mother had died in 1897 and the following year Robert Mackay's business partner was declared bankrupt, …
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… Later, the English polar explorers Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott sailed south from Lyttelton and Port …
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Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… and Missionary Journal and The Mission Field. When Robert Wynyard , the acting governor, asked Selwyn to go and …
Type: Biography
… on 26 December 1850, the son of Celia Hay and her husband, Robert Dinnie, a wealthy contractor, who was also a local … of grievances as long as your arm'. The chief justice, Sir Robert Stout , decided that he had no jurisdiction to …
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… in Vienna, Austria, on 3 March 1919, one of two sons of Robert Lang, a hardware manufacturer, and his wife, Anna … of the Treasury Lang served three ministers of finance: Robert Muldoon (twice), Wallace (Bill) Rowling, and Robert Tizard. Muldoon exercised a singular dominance over …
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… his sister, Joanna (later Lady Leigh-Wood) and his brother, Robert Thorburn Turnbull, founder of the firm Turnbull and … of indigenous scholars, his colleagues and friends Robert McNab , S. Percy Smith , John Macmillan Brown , W. …
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… at the mouth of the river, where the CMS missionary Robert Maunsell had his mission station. Fenton, as an … the Reverend Thomas Buddle of the Wesleyan mission; and by Robert Maunsell, John Morgan and Benjamin Ashwell, the three …
Type: Biography