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View of Dunedin looking south over the Octagon c. 1914 Newly Completed Dunedin Town Hall 1929. Relative to the rest of the country Dunedin was in decline, however, merchants like Edward Theomin built his grand town house Olveston and the Dunedin Railway Station was an opulent building, both completed in 1906.
The release of Moriori from slavery in 1863 occurred via a proclamation by the resident magistrate of the Chatham Islands. [6] In 1870, a Native Land Court was established to adjudicate competing land claims; by this time most Māori had returned to Taranaki. The court ruled in favour of the Māori, awarding them 97% of the land. [6]
Anderson, Atholl (1983), When All the Moa-Ovens Grew Cold: nine centuries of changing fortune for the southern Maori, Dunedin, NZ: Otago Heritage Books; Anderson, Atholl (1998), The Welcome of Strangers: an ethnohistory of southern Maori A.D. 1650–1850, Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago Press with Dunedin City Council, ISBN 1-877133-41-8
The first the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in 1889–90 was a high point of Dunedin economic and cultural importance. The large scale tourist potential of Otago had been acknowledged since at least the 1870s in McKay's Otago Almanac. [50] With the building of the Dunedin to Kingston railway in the late 1870s this potential could be ...
Lodge Maori [201] Ravensbourne Road Ravensbourne: Masonic Lodge Logan Park Grandstand [202] Logan Park Drive Logan Park, Dunedin North: 1930 Sport grandstand (in use) Manor Place Conveniences [203] Intersection of Manor Place, Hope Street, Princes Street, Dunedin Dunedin City: 1912 Public conveniences (men only) Marinoto [204] Newington Avenue ...
Infanticide in 19th-century New Zealand was difficult to assess, especially for newborn indigenous Māori infants. Resultantly, many New Zealand women who might otherwise have been sentenced to penal servitude or capital punishment had their sentences commuted to the lesser charge of "concealment of birth" under the Offences Against the Person Act 1867.
Hongi Hika was born near Kaikohe into a powerful family of the Te Uri o Hua hapū (subtribe) of Ngāpuhi. [1] [2] His mother was Tuhikura, a Ngāti Rēhia woman.She was the second wife of his father Te Hōtete, son of Auha, who with his brother Whakaaria had expanded Ngāpuhi's territory from the Kaikohe area into the Bay of Islands area. [3]
Wakari, Dunedin/Ōtepoti [3] Huirapa / Puketeraki: Huirapa: Ngāi Tahu (Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka Ki Puketeraki) Karitāne: Ōtākou Marae: Tamatea: Ngāi Tahu (Te ...