June Jackson
Dame Temuranga Batley-Jackson (née Batley; 24 August 1939 – 28 March 2022), known as June Jackson, was a New Zealand Māori activist and public servant. Biography She was born Temuranga Batley to Barney and Huinga Batley and grew up in Mahoenui in the King Country. She was a member of the Ngāti Maniapoto tribe. She moved to Wellington in her late teens. There, in 1959, she married Robert "Bob" Jackson, a son of Everard Jackson. Together they had three children, including the politician and broadcaster Willie Jackson. In 1971 they moved from Porirua, in the Wellington region, to Māngere in Auckland. She was chief executive officer of the Manukau Urban Māori Authority from 1986 to 2009, and a member of the New Zealand Parole Board from 1991 until her death. In the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours, Jackson was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services. In the 2010 Birthday Honours, she was appointed Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Mer ...
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June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the second of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. June contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases). June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern Hemisphere, the beginning of the traditional astronomical summer is 21 June (meteorological summer begins on 1 June). In the Southern Hemisphere, meteorological winter begins on 1 June. At the start of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Taurus; at the end of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Gemini. However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign of G ...
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