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… “by the assent of the whole nation”. This was the first problem which the Governor had to face, for such … re-enacted. This continued until 1866, when the first Aliens Act was passed. This allowed aliens to be … very definite. A British Act of 1844 stated that an alien woman marrying a British subject was deemed to be …
… Hawke's Bay in April 1938, when many thousands of acres of first-class farming land became a desolate waste as a result … Wairoa in Poverty Bay. Twenty-one persons, 20 men and one woman, were drowned in a brief night of terror when the …
… between Cook Strait and the Waikato. They were the first resident missionaries in Taranaki, and Mrs Creed was the first European woman to settle there. Transferred to Otago in 1844 to …
… resulted in the formation of a tailoresses' union, the first women's trade union in the country, with Harriet … women workers was continued after 1906, when she became the first woman inspector of factories and, from 1908 to 1921, …
… Observer until 1933. During this period she wrote her first book of verse The Desolate Star (1929) and her first … and fantasy, but the central character and situation – a woman of warm sympathies living on an island in Auckland …
… boards maintain their own lights and fog signals. The first light to be established in New Zealand was on … on 1 January 1859. It is of interest to note that the first lightkeeper was a woman, Mrs M. J. Bennett, widow of the lightkeeper of a …
… Hamilton, on 13 January 1962. John Beck was twice married: first, on 24 September 1913, at Columba Church, Oamaru, to … at St. Kilda, Dunedin, to Doris Mary Catherine Muir, the first woman to be a Child Welfare Inspector in New Zealand. …
… was to make a report on the country. He was said to be the first to explore the upper Waimakariri where Lake Pearson … a sister of T. H. Parkinson, of Kaituna; she was a tiny woman to whom he was devoted. A favourite saying of his was: …
… of the Order of the British Empire in 1926, she became the first New Zealand woman to receive this honour. Dame Christina died in …
… exploration of South Canterbury. He was probably the first European to visit and describe the Geraldine district. … on the outskirts of the present town and he thus became the first district resident. Samuel Hewlings, a surveyor, built … in late 1854 or early 1855. He married a North Island Maori woman and became the first permanent resident. Thomas Cass …