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… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Charles Ernest Statham was born in Dunedin on 10 May … the eldest son of Charles Hadfield Statham, who retired after a long career as an accountant and at 70 was ordained an Anglican priest. Statham was educated privately and at the Otago Boys' High School. He entered …
… and runholder. Very little is known of Robert Stokes' antecedents and early life. He was born in England about 1810 … a building surveyor. For some years he practised as an architect in Cheltenham and London. On 10 April 1839 he approached the New …
… Dunedin and neighbouring areas of east Otago were the sites of eruptions of basaltic and alkaline volcanic rocks from the Miocene until the late Pliocene; Dunedin stands upon the deeply eroded remnants … in the Pleistocene and erosion has since breached two craters and carved them into enormous erosion calderas which …
… Maori, the sounds of the vowels, a, e, i, o, u, must be mastered. Probably the best way to learn the vowel sounds is to … Another method is to pronounce the following three letters successively with the Maori vowel a, thus: ka, ga, nga, and practise till the letter is mastered. Wh : There is some difference of opinion in …
… Waihi is situated on the Ohinemuri River, an east-bank tributary of the … gently undulating land. To the north and north-west are the terminal hills of the Coromandel Range, and to the … appliances, footwear, furniture and joinery, and concrete products. General engineering, sawmilling, and timber …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Bowen was born in Ireland on 2 November 1821, the eldest son of the Rev. Edward Bowen. He was educated at Charterhouse, obtaining a scholarship at Trinity College, …
… (1838–1906). Ornithologist. A new biography of Buller, Walter Lawry appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Walter Lawry Buller was born at the Bay of Islands on 9 October … BULLER, Sir Walter Lawry, N.Z.C., K.C.M.G., F.R.S. …
… The Bay of Islands is a drowned-river system on the east coast of North Auckland between Whangarei … Inlet, Waikare, Mangonui, and Purenua. The Bay was visited by Kupe and Ngahue in the tenth century and Toi called there some 200 years later. In …
… After the outbreak of the war in 1860 the Government decided … were paying an annual capitation of £40. Reliance would instead be placed on local forces and on Maori auxiliaries. This policy was gradually accepted by the Government, though not without serious …
… Verne, G. A. Henty and others exploiting adventure were intended for younger as well as older readers; titles such as … appear in the early lists. First to be well known as a writer for children was Edith Howes, a teacher whose stories served the double purpose of …