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… town, of the New World as well as of the Old.” He was the first to explore the experience of the urban proletariat. … that might have occurred just anywhere in the world of man, woman and child”. In her short life Robin Hyde is important … The kind of mature interpretation of the world of “man, woman and child” without overt national self-consciousness …
… Fourth Olympiad, London, 1908 : For the first time New Zealanders competed in the Olympic Games, two … she repeated two years later, though by that time a Polish woman had recorded 10·8 sec). World records at this period …
… supercargo of the City of Edinburgh and leader of the first party to reach Whangaroa after the massacre. According … rescued four survivors – an apprentice named Davies, and a woman with two children. Davies, who was later to be lost at … that the deformity of a club foot might have saved him. The woman, Mrs Morley, had placed herself under the protection …
… importance, but is also favoured and commonly used. The first provision for common juries was made in 1841, the … be included in the roll in the same way as men, but gives a woman an absolute right to have her name withdrawn on …
… Christchurch Normal School and Training College. She taught first at Kakahu Bush school, near the Raincliff homestead … when an attack of pneumonia forced her resignation. Her first book of poems, The Spirit of the Rangatira , was … Mackay was a genuine humanitarian, a thin, grey, fragile woman, with intense eyes, low-toned speech, and a slow …
… Edgeworth David, an inspiring teacher of geology. Benson's first researches in Australian geology were undertaken from … in 1918. In spite of having to teach single handed for the first nine years of his professorship at Otago, Benson … later she married W. N. Benson. A charming and cultured woman, she had always had wide and varied interests and gave …
… boat and, after a trip of about 30 hours, during which a woman passenger died, it reached Houhora and brought the first news of the disaster. Doidge had worked on his … Cootamundra Liberal , and so took up journalism, working first on the Patea and Waverley Press and later on the …
… Infant Welfare in the Department of Health. Dr Gordon was a woman of immense energy and enthusiasm. She could be well … and a great gift of effective public speaking. Her first notable public service was the organisation of a …
… Co. (Pty.) Ltd. Major Lavinia Benson (Lower Hutt) is the first woman Principal of the Salvation Army Educational …
… of the New Zealand Free Kindergarten Union, and became its first honorary secretary and treasurer. In 1912 she secured … she was appointed to the Southland High School's Board, the first woman in New Zealand to hold such office. Susanna …