Index
249
Vercoe, Bishop Wharehuia, xxxii,
160-61
Victoria (Australia), 7, 8
Victorian gold miners, 61-63
Vietnam war, xviii; protests, 141
Vigil, 149
Village Settlement scheme, xx
Vogel, Sir Julius, xix, 67-68, 207-8
Volcanoes, 3-4
Volkner, Carl Sylvanius, xix
Von Tempsky, Major Gustavus, 58
Waddell, Reverend Rutherford, 76
Wages, 69, 76
Wahawaha, Ropata, 57
Wahine disaster, xxix
Waihi, 64
Waihi gold miners' strike, xxiii
Wai Kapohe, Deborah,
175
Waikato, xviii, 8
Waikato Raupatu Claims Settle-
ment Act (1995), xxxiii
Waikato Wars, 55-57
Waipa River, 56
Wairau affray, xvii
Waitangi, xxi
Waitangi day, xxxiii
Waitangi Tribunal, xxx, xxxi, 10,
147,
150, 160
Waitara, xviii, 54
Wakatohea, xxxiv
Wakefield, Colonel William, xvi
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon,
37-38,
43-50, 208-9
Wakefield, Jerningham, 38
Wakefield, Priscilla, 45
Wall Street crash (1929), 113
Walsh, Patrick Fintan, 135-36
Wanganui, xvi, xxxiii, 45, 46
Wanganui River, 36
Ward, Alan, 56
Ward, Joe, xxi, xxiii, xxv, xxvi, 80,
93-94,
105, 107, 113
Ward, Vincent, 149
War memorials, 97, 103
Waterfront strike (1951), xxviii,
135-37
Watersiders' strike, xxiv
Web sites, xiii
Welfare state: creation, xxvii,
89-90,
119-25;
dismantling,
154,158,
164
Wellington, xvi, 3, 45-46
Wesleyan Methodist Mission
Society (WMMS), xvi, 35, 56
West Coast of the South Island
gold rushes, 63
Western Australia, 8, 114
Western Front, 101-3
Western Samoa, 6, 98
Western Samoan immigrants, 138
Wetlands/swamps, 5
Whakapapa (genealogy), 16-17
Whaling, 2, 27-30
Whanau (family), 14
Wheat, 44, 51
White, Lois, 116
White, Richard,
111
White, Robin, 142
White blouse revolution,
110
Whiting,
Cliff,
142
Whitmore,
Colonel George, 58
Widows' pensions, xxiii, 89
Wild, Fran, xxxiii, 153, 160
Wildlife Service,
159
Williams, Henry, 34-35, 37-38,
209
Williams, William, 39
Wilson, Margaret, xxxi, 160
Wisconsin Central Transport
Company, 167
Wollaston, Toss,
116
Women cyclists, 86
Women ratepayers, xix
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
(WAACs), 131-32
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
(WAAFs), 130-31