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… Bureau (SSRB) in 1937 . The SSRB, headed by economist William Torrance Doig, researched the standards of living of … were universally popular. Social-science education In 1907 Thomas Hunter set up New Zealand’s first psychology …
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Part of story: Social sciences
… 3 March 1867, the son of Barbara Wilkinson and her husband, Thomas Mack, who farmed in the Ohariu Valley. About two …
Type: Biography
… Wellington (1938). Rendered by Government Architect Thomas Mair, it bridged the art deco and modernist styles, … modernist buildings. This included the 1969 demolition of William Mason’s Exchange Building in Dunedin and its …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… and prophet Tītokowaru . Bent heard about another Pākehā, William Moffatt, who manufactured low-grade gunpowder on the … and July 1868, or in the two defences of the pā against Thomas McDonnell 's troops in August and September. During …
Type: Biography
… history of New Zealand , edited by W. H. Oliver and B. R. Williams, was hailed as the new standard reference work when …
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Part of story: History and historians
… reported that the new owner of the Sir George Murray , Thomas McDonnell, sailed into Sydney Harbour from New … a colour of importance to Māori. He asked missionary Henry Williams to design a flag. Williams submitted three options, which were considered by a …
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Part of story: Flags
… Wellington, New Zealand, on 23 September 1900, the son of Thomas John Cory Warren, a merchant, and his wife, Lucy Frances Williams. Doreen Eda Laws was born at Portswood, near … Alwyn’s maternal grandfather was Archdeacon Samuel Williams of Hawke’s Bay. Alwyn was educated at Huntley …
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… government was so short of funds that the first governor, William Hobson , had drawn unauthorised bills on the British … and money'. Grey pursued a long vendetta against Henry Williams and other missionaries. It has never been clear … and he began criticising the New Zealand governor, Thomas Gore Browne , before he had left Cape Town. …
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… Brown at Tauranga. He was given the name Wiremu Tāmihana (William Thompson), and embarked on a life of teaching and … between wall posts made of smooth slabs of totara. In 1842 William Colenso considered it 'the largest native built … 1861 and arranged a truce. He refused to meet Governor Thomas Gore Browne in Auckland, fearing the same fate as Te …
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… The officiating minister was the host of the programme, Thomas Garland, known as ‘Uncle Tom’. A week after the … careful detective work, spearheaded by Detective Sergeant William Fell. His investigation in the ‘missing bride’ case …
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… Christchurch, New Zealand, on 11 August 1862. Her parents, Thomas William Maude and his wife, Emily Catherine Brown, were of …
Type: Biography
… 1921, the daughter of Violet Lloyd Curtis and her husband, William John Lamason, a draughtsman. Her parents had strong … hospital Dot renewed an acquaintance with a young officer, Thomas Gordon McNab, whom she had first met on a troop ship …
Type: Biography
… by the National Council of Churches. Catholic Archbishop Thomas Williams and Presbyterian minister John Murray were …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… her ancestors were several notable botanists including Sir Thomas Gage, after whom the bulb Gagea was named, and Sir William Gage, who introduced the greengage plum into …
Type: Biography
… he held until his death. In 1915 he reluctantly entered William Massey 's wartime National ministry as minister of …
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… 1871, accompanied by 10 Dominican nuns and a priest, William Coleman. They were enthusiastically welcomed by … secularism he professed to abhor. In 1873, after engaging Thomas Bracken to raise funds for the venture, Moran founded … voting power and in 1883 even stood for Parliament against William Larnach. He was soundly defeated, yet claimed …
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… corresponded to reality. These doubts were pursued by Thomas Kuhn and led him to a relativism which never gained … increasing public eminence. He was invited to deliver the William James lectures at Harvard University in 1950 and … during its centenary celebrations. That year, he held a William Evans fellowship at the University of Otago. He …
Type: Biography