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… Esther Marion Pretoria James was remarkable for the diversity … Thomas Joseph James and his wife, Eliza Jane Whitmore. Her great-grandfather was the soldier, politician and landowner … promote New Zealand-made goods and improve trade during the depression by a sponsored walk, using only food and clothing …
Type: Biography
… Between the first and second world wars yachting progressed at a … He had a boat, Iron Duke , built to the design, and took a great interest in the class. The response around the country … Ten years later, as New Zealand recovered from the economic depression, the numbers surged. Many fine yachts were …
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Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… Daniel (Dan) Reese was one of the most prominent cricketers in New Zealand in the early … modest fortune. The business almost failed during the 1880s depression and he died in 1891 when Dan was 12. Reese … wife, three daughters and one son. He was one of the first great New Zealand cricketers and one of New Zealand's …
Type: Biography
… It is to Henry Shaw that Auckland City Library owes the distinction of holding more incunabula (books printed … At one point during the 1880s, perhaps hurt by the economic depression, he established his own shop in the city from … poet. Books on artists and paintings tie in with Shaw's great interest in book illustration: there are many …
Type: Biography
… impact on dunes It is not known how much Māori influenced the active dune lands, but their fires may have opened up … not well funded. Planting the dunes During the economic depression of the 1930s, the Public Works Department took … of marram grass and radiata pine ( Pinus radiata ), greatly increasing the areas they could cover. By the 1970s, …
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Part of story: Dune lands
… is said to have been born in 1814, in Belfast, Ireland, the son of Ann Gardiner and her husband, Thomas Williamson, … waterfront. Williamson and Crummer quickly prospered. The greatest coup of the partners was acquiring, for a song, … company was insolvent, unable, in the midst of a deep rural depression, to meet interest repayments due to its chief …
Type: Biography
… Remote in the Southern Seas New Zealand lies about 1,600 km from both … of land, whatever its size on the map, giving a sense of great distance where herds of grazing animals might roam, … mountains. In the south, a series of large lakes formed in depressions that were scoured out by huge glaciers. Stewart …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… With the new century, New Zealand’s fortunes changed and the … 10,000. New Zealand’s recovery coincided with drought and depression in Australia, especially in the wheat belt of … out in this way. Home help wanted Domestic servants were in great demand in the early 1900s. In Wellington, middle-class …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… Kenneth Stuart Williams was the youngest of a remarkable quartet of second-generation … a balding head and a large moustache. His reputation for great courtesy and hospitality, his gentle manner and calm … New Zealand. The Williamses' philanthropy continued in the depression of the early 1930s. Many farmers, including a …
Type: Biography
… on 21 April 1829 at Condé-sur-Noireau, Calvados, France, the eldest son of John Alexander Wilson, a naval officer, … for trade purposes before. However, handicapped by the depression and an unrealistic contract with Wilson the … to prosper. Wilson's directors complained that they found great difficulty in acting cordially with him, and he showed …
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… was a well-known figure in Masterton for 55 years and was the oldest priest in New Zealand when he died in 1985 at the … His first years in Masterton coincided with the depression. He was aware of its effect on his parishioners, … Moore wore them only on special occasions.) Moore placed great importance on visiting the sick or bereaved, people in …
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… a 2007 survey respondents identified family and whānau as their most important source of advice and support. People … In 2018it had 120 staff and 585 volunteers nationwide. Great Fathers Great Fathers focuses on delivering … feeding, sleeping, brain development and post-natal depression. It also operates a blog on which parents can …
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Part of story: Parenting
… at Burley Park, Hampshire, England, on 18 December 1838, the son of Mary Warner and her husband, George Rooke … on land and taxation issues, and sought, without great success, to increase public works expenditure on the … the Watchman , from 1884 to 1886, and wrote The industrial depression in New Zealand (1890), a polemic against land …
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… in Kirkintilloch, Strathclyde, Scotland, on 29 March 1886, the sixth of thirteen children of John Shearer Fletcher, a … of Napier and Hastings after the 1931 earthquake. The depression brought a slow-down in the building industry. … and, once again, Fletcher’s political connections helped greatly. Although Fletcher Holdings had only a minority …
Type: Biography
… his wife, Margaret Watson. George Binns senior, a member of the Society of Friends, was a well-to-do draper and George Binns junior worked in the family business until about 1837, when he opened a … meetings in support of the Chartist cause, and Binns made a great impression as a forceful orator. 'Williams and Binns', …
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… Boosterism attempts to ‘boost’ the reputation and perceptions of a place. The term, which … and industries, and to encourage investment. Economic depressions often led to increased boosterism because towns … that they developed quickly and reliably, and that a great future awaited them and their inhabitants. Too much …
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Part of story: City boosters and promoters
… 28 July 1825, at East Retford in Nottinghamshire, England, the son of William Bury, an Anglican clergyman, and his … training. He probably visited Birmingham, as the great Jacobean house Aston Hall, near Birmingham, is thought … frustrating months in Melbourne, where the economy was in depression, they continued on to New Zealand, arriving at …
Type: Biography
… 1797, probably at Marwell Hall, Hampshire, England. He was the fifth son of Julia Hall and her husband, George Dacre. … his baby daughter Julia, dandled by Patuone , seized the great chief's topknot. This was a grave affront to Patuone's … Australia and the Sydney Alliance Assurance Company. In the depression of 1842–44 Dacre became insolvent, losing much of …
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… contribution to public sculpture in New Zealand between the wars. He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, … studio. As communities looked for a way to commemorate the Great War, opportunities arose for public sculptures in war … Wellington cenotaph was unveiled in 1932, and despite the depression Gross continued to attract commissions for public …
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… Hazel Lissaman was born in Blenheim on 11 October 1901, the second of six children of Helen Eva Bligh and her … they had gained by hard work, trial and error. She learnt a great deal about clay preparation, choice of clays, potters' … her work helped ease the financial hardship caused by the depression. However, their lives improved when the family …
Type: Biography