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… relative obscurity. Nevertheless, at the arrival of Colonel William Wakefield and the New Zealand Company officials on … as having signed on 29 April 1840 in the presence of Henry Williams and Thomas Clayton. Ngātata (sometimes known as Makoare or …
Type: Biography
… included return runs between Invercargill and Dunedin by Thomas Stone and R. M. Murie. Their 1908 challenge for a £50 … ran into a load of hay. First car races in New Zealand William McLean of Wellington imported the first cars in …
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Part of story: Motor sport
… on the John Wickliffe in 1848 with his two eldest sons, William Henry and John Robert Monson. Ann Monson remained in … his son John Monson, of Port Chalmers, and family friend Thomas Blatch, at whose farm in West Taieri he died on 9 …
Type: Biography
… the son of Scottish-born Jeanie Hutchison and her husband, William Saunders, a Congregationalist minister from Wales. … health revealed by the wartime inspection of recruits. When Thomas Hunter retired as director in 1930, Saunders took …
Type: Biography
… was Parliament House (1922). Campbell had completed Thomas Turnbull’s Gothic Parliamentary Library (1898) but … was Auckland’s Guardian Trust Building (1918), designed by William Gummer in the stripped classical style, where forms … and the Spanish mission Criterion Hotel (1932), by E. A. Williams, well illustrate the two styles. Prouse also …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… Company settlers were to make on their lives. As Colonel William Wakefield, the company's chief agent, toured their … of the Treaty of Waitangi brought by the missionary Henry Williams . By this time another missionary, Octavius … on the south bank of the Waitara, this time to Governor Thomas Gore Browne in person. Doubtless this move was not …
Type: Biography
… in a civil law suit disputing his lease of land from Thomas Hawkings. On 31 May Hawkings was found stabbed and …
Type: Biography
… they abandoned the venture. But in 1843 brothers John and William Deans returned to the same site to found the first … a settlement in New Zealand. They sent out Captain Joseph Thomas, who was not deterred by the swamps lack of timber, …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… a carpenter. In 1901 Mary, then a domestic servant, married William Simpson McArthur, a marine fireman. Little is known …
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… house he built in 1875. A good example was Scotsman William Smith. He was apprenticed at 13 and worked his way … as a teenager to Canterbury’s leading nurseryman, Thomas Abbott. Buxton later went on to open his own …
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Part of story: Household services
… school sewed the wedding dress of missionary Mary Ann Williams, which she wore when she married fellow missionary … in the mid-1850s they were rare and thus a novelty. In 1855 Thomas Chapman, a commission agent and proprietor of a …
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Part of story: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts
… of marriage between Māori and non-Māori. Reverend Henry Williams refused to formalise such marriages, particularly … the woman was unbaptised. Reverend Samuel Marsden opposed Thomas Kendall’s decision to marry Phillip Tapsell and Maria …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… two successors had been unable to rectify the situation. Thomas William Croke, although he restored the diocese's finances, …
Type: Biography
… on 19 April 1903, the son of Helen Molloy and her husband, William Thomas James Morton, a grocer. He was educated at South …
Type: Biography
… a sheep run, so the company’s New Zealand superintendent, Thomas Brydone, suggested it be turned over to dairying. William Davidson, the general manager, supported Brydone and …
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Part of story: Farming in the economy
… but there were some exceptions. In Auckland architect William Mason designed the town’s first courthouse (1841, … regarded as his best work. Battle of the styles Governor Thomas Gore Browne was the first to occupy the new …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… guide to New Zealand, The New Zealand tourist (1879), Thomas Bracken described New Zealand as ‘a land of … was some nostalgia. In 1898, the politician and writer William Pember Reeves mourned the passing of the forest. Ten …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… also known as the Wellington Cenotaph. W. T. Trethewey William Thomas Trethewey was the first sculptor born and trained in …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… house, adjacent to Pepara, which had been built in 1925 by Thomas Chadwick and Tiaki Waitokia. In the 1930s Lord … dominant and outspoken woman break their rules. Canon W. G. Williams from Pūtiki smoothed the way towards letting her …
Type: Biography
… beds. Taylor was influenced, too, by C. E. Mallows and Thomas Mawson, the English landscape architects, …
Type: Biography