The history of Parihaka, and Tuhoe arrests in the Urewera may be a mystery to many older pakeha for whom history lessons at school comprised the kings of England and the European wars, but in Māori oratory tradition each detail would have been discussed at length on marae up and down the country.
St Josephs School Upper Hutt celebrated Parihaka Day on 5 November with a number of events on the theme of peace including an enactment of the Parihaka encounter when government troops arrested the leaders of an ongoing nonviolent protest against land confiscations in 1881.
Children employed as employees were considerably better off (than self-employed contractors). They received holiday and sick pay, age-appropriate relief workers, clothing and bike allowances, the most effective information and oversight of health and safety conditions, and the most direct contact with employers. In contracting situations, these employment rights were mostly absent,’ Lisa Beech said.
Schools 4 December 2007 Luana Larsen, Jesse-Lee Morrison, Ina Devine, Kieran Tankersly, Ria Goble, Sinead Namana, Shannon Burgess and Alex Goodin are the enviro group at St Mary’s, Carterton. The group was formed as a way St Mary’s can contribute towards the environment by planting fruit and vegetables, feeding scrap food to the tiger worms […]
Bishop Viard College’s barbershop chorus, One Voice, is to sing in San Antonio in Texas from 22 to 29 January 2008.
The presentation took place on 15 November at 1.11pm with 111 school children representing the 111 Māori’s dolphins now estimated to be left in the world.
Sr Catherine joined the Board when it changed from being an advisory body to one of governance, with ability to appoint the director and approve budgets.
After a round of sharing on Friday night, hui organiser, Pa Hemi Hekiera, said he felt the Waka had had a sign in one of the contributions to the korero of the previous night. Mandy Scanlan had told of how there had been just two Māori in her parish for a long time but recently the numbers had swelled to 10.
Pakipaki is a small village south of Hastings and during the years that Suzanne Aubert lived in Hawke’s Bay (1871-1883) she was first a regular visitor and later lived there. She was fluent in the Māori language and at ease within Māori culture and she went to Pakipaki to nurse and dispense medicines, to catechise and teach.
Sister Marie Benedicte Ollivier who lives just outside Lyon in France travelled to Napier in November to launch the biography she wrote on one of the founding sisters of Sacred Heart College, Euphrasie Barbier.