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Te Kōhanga Reo NZHistory, New Zealand history online

'When the child is born, take it, put it to the breast and begin speaking Māori to it at that point'. Government Review Team, 1988, p. 18. Tāwhiwhirangi, 1991, … See more

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Ngā Rōpū Wāhine Māori – Māori Women's Organisations

WEBThis essay written by Tania Rei, Geraldine McDonald and Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku was first published in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in …

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Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

WEBWow its amazing how maori is really similar to hawaiian. I speak an older dialect hawaiian and the hawaiian we hear now in hawaii is a more modern version but …

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Māori and the flu, 1918–19

WEBWhen the influenza pandemic hit, Emma and Mereana became leaders in the fight to help people – Emma nursing Pākehā at the Te Kuiti Temporary Hospital, and …

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The 1918 flu pandemic

WEBIn the early 21st century, anxiety over the danger of Influenza A virus subtypes H5N1 (avian flu) and H1N1 (swine flu), and the COVID-19 coronavirus, has revived interest in New …

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Home Birth Associations NZHistory, New Zealand history …

WEB1978 – 1993. The twentieth century home birth resurgence arose in the early 1970s, as a reaction against the increasing medicalisation of childbirth. In New Zealand, a policy of …

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World’s first state-run maternity hospital opens

WEBIn three weeks, Neill sourced equipment, found and leased a 24-room building in Rintoul St, Wellington, and engaged two very experienced women as matron …

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Truby King NZHistory, New Zealand history online

WEBTruby King’s legacy, widespread in New Zealand, Australia and Britain, was the doctrine of feeding by the clock. When he died in 1938 he became the country’s first …

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New Zealand Nurses’ Organisation NZHistory, New …

WEBThe name change to New Zealand Nurses' Association in 1971 reflected its now wide coverage, and associate membership was abandoned in 1974. In 1973 the association …

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Inhalation chamber during the 1918 influenza pandemic

WEBThis Sound file Appears In 1 Article: The 1918 influenza pandemic. influenza pandemic. health. epidemic. In what looks more like a cowshed than a medical facility, …

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The 1918 influenza pandemic

WEBThe official Health Department report on the 1918 pandemic, compiled by Dr Robert Makgill in 1919, provided evidence that the Niagara carried nothing more than ‘ordinary …

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End of free school milk NZHistory, New Zealand history online

WEBNew Zealand schoolchildren received free milk between 1937 and 1967. The first Labour government introduced the scheme – a world first – to improve the health of …

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Plunket Society formed NZHistory, New Zealand history online

WEB14 May 1907. Dr Frederic Truby King helped form the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children at a meeting in Dunedin Town Hall. The society, soon …

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The pandemic begins abroad

WEBThe first New Zealanders affected by the second wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic were soldiers of the 40th Reinforcement on board the troopship Tahiti. On 22 August their …

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Uneven rates of death

WEBWhile the First World War claimed the lives of more than 18,000 New Zealand soldiers over four years, the second wave of the 1918 influenza epidemic killed about 9000 people in …

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Economic, social and political impact

WEBPage 5 – Economic, social and political impact. The First World War opened the Pacific Islands to the world more than they ever had been before. The Cook Islands and Niue …

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Soldiers' experience

WEBLife for the New Zealand soldier on Gallipoli was tough. Packed inside the tiny Anzac perimeter, they endured extreme weather and primitive living conditions during their …

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Royal New Zealand Plunket Society

WEBKnown as: The Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children. 1907 – 1914. The Plunket Society. 1914 – 1980. Royal New Zealand Plunket Society. 1980 –. …

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February 2011 Christchurch earthquake

WEBAt 12.51 p.m. on 22 February 2011, the Canterbury region was struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. At the time it was still recovering from the effects of a 7.1 …

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