It's our last meeting and almost the end of the 2024 school year, so let's celebrate! We'll toast your successes and achievements from the year, have some fun and wrap up with our last kōrero about ...

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The Polynesian ancestors of Māori successfully reached and settled New Zealand around 200 years before Columbus ventured across the Atlantic. They sailed thousands of kilometres to get here and all ...

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Dr Jennifer Ashton will discuss two former convicts, Charlotte Badger and George Bruce, who arrived at the Bay of Islands in ...

Description: Programme of events, with speakers E R C Gilmour (Mayor New Plymouth), and Mr P Thomson (Mayor of Stratford). Mrs John Gillions was to sing "God speed the shipP, the song of the 'Amelia ...

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Provides the story of Bret de Their, starting from his childhood in Christchurch, building and sailing model yachts and living two doors down from the Mander brothers, who built and modified their ...

Description: Contains letters from Maori to Colenso with reports of deaths and illnesses, requests for books and medicines, and comments about a dispute between Colenso and some Maori Quantity: 1 ...

Twin screw motor vessel built in 1929 by John Brown & Co. Clydebank, for the NZ Shipping Co. In 1940 she was converted to a troopship; re-engined and reconditioned in 1948, resuming passenger services ...