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According to his obituary in The Northern Advocate newspaper [2] Henry Holman helped defend the city of Whangārei during the uprising involving Māori leader Hōne Heke. Elizabeth Holman wrote a journal of pioneer life in New Zealand, which has subsequently been published, [3] along with extracts from her letters to Holman. [4]
The Whangarei Comet and Northern Advertiser was founded in 1875 as a weekly paper by George Alderton and, despite a small population which led to a prediction the paper "would go up like a comet, and come down like a stick", [3] the paper flourished and within two years had expanded to 12 pages and become the Northern Advocate and General Advertiser, with a small section printed in Māori. [3]
In the 1993 election, he stood for the newly formed New Zealand First in the Whangarei electorate, but was unsuccessful. Donnelly stood again for New Zealand First in Whangarei in the 1996 election and, with the advent of the MMP system, was ranked sixth on the party list. Through the election campaign he was regarded as "an impressive speaker ...
Noel Edward Hilliam (1936 or 1937 – 10 September 2017) [2] was a New Zealand dairy farmer, [3] [4] shipwreck hunter, and amateur historian. [2] [5] [6]Three-masted barque Anglo-Norman aground on Kaipara Bar, New Zealand, one of the many shipwrecks Hilliam researched
A total of 85 people were executed under New Zealand's capital punishment system while it was in force. An additional five New Zealand soldiers were executed under military regulations in France during World War I, though they subsequently received posthumous pardons under the Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000.
Urlich on 26 August 2015, after her investiture as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Jerry Mateparae. Colleen Elizabeth Waata-Urlich ONZM (1939 – 10 September 2015) was a New Zealand ceramicist.
Whangārei (Māori: [faŋaːˈɾɛi]) [4] is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the largest settlement of the Northland region.It is part of the Whangarei District, created in 1989 from the former Whangarei City, Whangarei County and Hikurangi Town councils to administer both the city and its hinterland.
Ngāwini Yates' house and store at Pārengarenga Harbour, 1910 The gravestone of Ngāwini Yates, at Pārengarenga Harbour. Ngāwini Yates (1852–1853 – 19 July 1910) was a part-Māori New Zealander, who was a storekeeper, farmer and businesswoman in the far north of New Zealand in the later part of the 19th century.