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Ngā Manu Kōrero
Ngā Manu Kōrero is a speech competition for secondary students that encourages fluency in te reo Māori and English. History The contest began in 1965 as the Korimako Speech Contest. Sir Bernard Fergusson donated a trophy to encourage greater English fluency in Māori students. School and regional competitions were organised by the Post Primary Teachers' Association and Māori Education Foundation (now Māori Education Trust) with a national final in August 1965.Rāwiri Tinirau and Annemarie Gillies'Ngā Manu Kōrero: Revitalizing Communication, Customs and Cultural Competencies Amongst Māori Students, Teachers, Whānau and Communities' ''Educational Perspectives'', Volume 45, Numbers 1 and 2, pages 47-81 In 1977, the Pei Te Hurinui Jones Contest was added for senior Māori oratory. Three years later, a junior English section was introduced, with a taonga for the section provided by Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Tairoa in memory of Sir Turi Carroll, and three years after that, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
Brigadier Bernard Edward Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, (6 May 1911 – 28 November 1980) was a British Army officer and military historian. He became the last British-born Governor-General of New Zealand. Early life and family Fergusson was the third son and fourth child of Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet, and his wife Lady Alice Mary Boyle, a daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow. His older brother was Sir James Fergusson, 8th Baronet, of Kilkerran. Both of his grandfathers had previously served as Governors of New Zealand and his father had served as Governor-General. On 22 November 1950 Fergusson married Laura Margaret Grenfell (14 April 1920−1979), daughter of Arthur Morton Grenfell and sister of Dame Frances Campbell-Preston. Laura was accidentally killed in 1979 when gales blew a tree onto the car in which she was travelling. She and Bernard had one child, the Hon. George Duncan Raukawa Fergusson (b. 30 September 1955), who served as British High Commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post Primary Teachers' Association
The New Zealand Post-Primary Teachers' Association Incorporated (PPTA) is a trade union in New Zealand and professional association. It represents about 20,000 teachers employed in state and integrated secondary schools, area schools, technology centres and community education centres. The PPTA is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and Education International Education International (EI) is a global union federation (GUF) of teachers' trade unions consisting of 401 member organizations in 172 countries and territories that represents over 30 million education personnel from pre-school through universi .... Notes and references External links * New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Education International Trade unions in New Zealand Education trade unions Trade unions established in 1952 {{NewZealand-trade-union-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annemarie Gillies
Annemarie Gillies is a New Zealand Māori academic, and is Professor of Māori Research at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke's Bay. She was formerly a professor at Massey University. Academic career Gillies is Māori, and affiliates to Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Awa, Te Whanau-a-Apanui and Te Arawa iwi. She worked in the freezing works at Whakatu until they were closed in 1986, and then studied business administration at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT). She worked first in accounts, and later completed a National Certificate of Business Studies. Gillies went on to gain a Bachelor of Business Studies majoring in Accountancy from Massey University. She then managed the Te Pūmanawa Hauora Māori Health Research Programme at Massey. In 2006, Gillies completed a PhD titled ''Kia taupunga te ngā kau Māori: anchoring Māori health workforce potential'' at Massey University, supervised by Mason Durie. Gillies was Director of Te Au Rangahau, the Māori Busines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pei Te Hurinui Jones
Pei Te Hurinui Jones (9 September 1898 – 7 May 1976) was a Māori people, Māori political leader, writer, genealogist, and historian. He identified with the Ngāti Maniapoto iwi. As a leader of the Tainui confederation of iwi and of the Kingitanga movement, he participated in negotiations with the New Zealand government seeking compensation for land seizures, served on several boards, and authored a number of works in Māori language, Māori and English language, English, including the first history of the Tainui people. Early life Pei's mother, Pare Te Kōrae was descended from the Ngati Maniapoto iwi. His father, David Lewis, was a Pakeha storekeeper at Poro-O-Tarao railway station, Poro-o-Tarāo of Jewish descent. They had two sons, Michael Rotohiko Jones ('Mick'), born 1895, and Pei, who was born in Harataunga, Thames/Coromandel, on 9 September 1898. Lewis did not return to New Zealand after the Second Boer War. Pare Te Kōrae remarried to David Jones, of Nga Puhi, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictionary Of New Zealand Biography
The ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'' (DNZB) is an encyclopedia or biographical dictionary containing biographies of over 3,000 deceased New Zealanders. It was first published as a series of print volumes from 1990 to 2000, went online in 2002, and is now a part of '' Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand''. The dictionary superseded ''An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand'' of 1966, which had 900 biographies. The dictionary is managed by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage of the New Zealand Government. An earlier work of the same name in two volumes containing 2,250 entries, published in 1940 by Guy Scholefield with government assistance, is unrelated. Overview Work on the current version of the DNZB was started in 1983 under the editorship of W. H. Oliver. The first volume covered the period 1769–1869 and was published in 1990. The four subsequent volumes were all edited by Claudia Orange, and they were published in 1993 (1879–1900), 1996 (1901–1920), 1998 (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turi Carroll
Sir Alfred Thomas "Turi" Carroll (24 August 1890 – 11 November 1975) was a New Zealand tribal leader, farmer and local politician. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi and was a nephew of Sir James Carroll. He was born in Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand on 24 August 1890. He was educated at Wanganui, Te Aute College and Lincoln Agricultural College, then he farmed at Wairoa. He was a Rotarian and prominent in the Anglican Church, and was chairman of the Wairoa County Council. He served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I from 1917 to 1919. He was Maori vice-president of the National Party between 1948 and 1952, and unsuccessfully contested the Eastern Maori electorate for National in the and elections and the Southern Maori electorate for National in the election. In the 1952 Queen's Birthday Honours, Carroll was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the Māori race. In 1953, he was awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
