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  2. Moehanga - Wikipedia

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    Moehanga was the first Māori to visit the United Kingdom. In 1806, a whaler, formerly HMS Ferret, was in the region. Title page of John Savage's 'Some Account of New Zealand - Particularly the Bay of Islands, and Surrounding Country.' The account written by John Savage, who accompanied Moehanga to London, is instructive.

  3. History of New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    The Company resold the best tracts to British settlers; its profits were used to pay the travel of the immigrants from Britain. [93] [94] Because of the vast distances involved, the first settlers were self-sufficient farmers. By the 1840s, however, large scale sheep stations were exporting large quantities of wool to the textile mills of England.

  4. List of 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team matches

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    The New Zealand Natives before their match against Queensland in July 1889, in front of the United Tribes flag and the Union Jack The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team played 107 rugby union matches during their 14-month tour of the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand. The tour was the longest in rugby history, and the first by a New Zealand team to Europe. The team was ...

  5. Hongi Hika - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Māori history - Wikipedia

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    The Māori language was first written down by Thomas Kendall in 1815, in A korao no New Zealand. This was followed five years later by A Grammar and Vocabulary of the New Zealand Language, compiled by Professor Samuel Lee and aided by Kendall, and the chiefs Hongi Hika and Waikato, on a visit to England in 1820.

  7. History of the Otago Region - Wikipedia

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    These saw the first European women to visit New Zealand (in 1792) and to sojourn there (1795–1797), the sojourn of 244 people on an inhospitable shore for several years, and the building of the first European house and ship in New Zealand. Some of these ventures resulted from the pursuit of seals and constituted the first sealing boom. The ...

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