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Ettie Rout

“To no woman has it been permitted to do the same amount of good, and to save more misery and suffering, both during and after the war, than to…

Te Rangi Hiroa / Peter Buck

Te Rangi Hiroa/Sir Peter Buck’s achievements are astonishing for their diversity, reading more like a list of possible careers than a biography – a pioneering and internationally renowned anthropologist,…

Rewi Alley Postscript

In November of 2002 a book on Rewi Alley, Friend of China – The Myth of Rewi Alley, by Anne-Marie Brady (Routledge Curzon, $102.95) was published. A series of reviews followed,…

Rewi Alley

Student Resource: study ideas, questions and activities (pdf)

Rewi Alley; social reformer, educator, fireman, writer, poet, translator, great internationalist, industrialist, revered citizen, potter, soldier, a hero and a…

Harold Williams

New Zealander Harold Williams was listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s greatest linguist. He is said to have spoken over 58 languages fluently, as well…

Kate Sheppard

Student Resource: study ideas, questions and activities (pdf)

The leader and main figurehead of the suffragist movement in New Zealand – the first country in the…