2020

Julius Charles Eberhard Matthies

(1830-1875) migrated to New Zealand in August 1862 aboard of Ring Dove, settled at Hokitika where he set up business as Cabinet Maker. He was more renowned for his work

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski

(1860 – 1941) was a Polish pianist and composer who became a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the new nation’s Prime Minister and foreign minister during which he signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I

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Pahiatua Children

On 1 November 1944, 733 children, mostly orphans and half orphans, arrived in Wellington Harbour. They had lost their homes and family members following the 1939 German invasion of Poland and its subsequent occupation by the USSR

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