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Sports. List of New Zealand sportspeople. List of New Zealand double-international sportspeople. New Zealand Olympic medallists. List of New Zealand Twenty20 International cricketers. List of New Zealand ODI cricketers. List of New Zealand Test cricketers. List of New Zealand international footballers. List of New Zealand Kiwis representatives.
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) – writer. Thomas Brydone (1837–1904) and William Soltau Davidson (1846–1924) – refrigeration pioneers. Richard Pearse (1877–1953) – aviation pioneer. Te Whiti o Rongomai (c.1830–1907) – pacifist Māori leader. Richard Seddon (1845–1906) – Premier and Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
List of New Zealand inventors. The following is a list of New Zealand inventors and inventions. Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique [1] John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle [2] Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers [3] Morton Coutts – invented the ...
At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. [53] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
Kate Sheppard. Katherine Wilson Sheppard (née Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1868. There she became an active member of ...
For the mountain in Cameroon, see Mount Kupe. For the NZ oil and gas field, see Kupe field. Kupe was a legendary [ 1 ] Polynesian explorer who, according to Māori oral history, was the first person to discover New Zealand. [ 2 ] It is likely that Kupe existed historically, but this is difficult to confirm.
25 September: Rev Marsden plants 100 vines, the first grapes grown in New Zealand. 4 November: Chiefs Hongi Hika and Rewa sell 13,000 acres (5260 hectares) at Kerikeri to the Church Missionary Society for 48 felling axes. 1820. 3 May: At Kerikeri, Reverend John Butler uses a plough for the first time in the country.