Enga Margaret Washbourn (1 March 1908 – 8 July 1988) was a New Zealand artist and writer. She was born in Collingwood, New Zealand, in 1908. [1] Richard Washbourn was her younger brother. [1]
The Gutnius Lutheran Church, formerly the Wabag Lutheran Church, is a Lutheran body existing in Papua New Guinea. Gutnius means "Good News" in Tok Pisin. It was established by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in 1948, shortly after the Australian administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea permitted missionary activity to spread into the western highlands. The church counts 125.000 parishioners, largely confined to Enga Province in the western highlands. It operates Immanuel Lutheran Hospital and St. Paul's Lutheran Secondary School (Pausa) at Wapenamanda, Enga Province. The church has other health and educational institutions as well.
Enga is a language of the East New Guinea Highlands spoken by a quarter-million people in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. It has the largest number of speakers of any Trans–New Guinea language, as well as any native language in New Guinea, and is second over all after Papuan Malay.
The following lists events that happened during 1988 in New Zealand.
Ngiri is a Bantu language closely related to Lingala.
Onekaka is a rural district on the coast of Golden Bay.
The New Zealand men's national tennis team represents New Zealand in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by Tennis New Zealand.
The Engan, or more precisely Enga – Southern Highland, languages are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches of the family are rather distantly related, but were connected by Franklin and Voorhoeve (1973).
Leslie Edward Pithie was a New Zealand rower who won a bronze medal for his country at the 1938 British Empire Games.
Hagahai, also known as Pinai, is one of two languages of the Piawi family of New Guinea.
David Blackwood Paul (1908–1965) was a New Zealand bookseller and publisher. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1908. He was married to Janet Paul and they had a publishing business together specialising in New Zealand poetry. Their publishing firm was sold to Longman in 1967, and continued publishing as Longman Paul until 1972. Janet and Blackwood Paul had four daughters, one of whom, Joanna Margaret Paul, became a well-known New Zealand artist, poet, publisher and film-maker.
William Thomas Young was a New Zealand seaman and trade unionist.
Ipili is an Engan language of the East New Guinea Highlands in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea.
Kyaka (Enga-Kyaka) is an Engan language of the East New Guinea Highlands in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea.
David Gomia is a Papua New Guinean former professional rugby league footballer who represented Papua New Guinea at the 1995 World Cup.
Enga Sign Language is an apparent village sign language among the Tato Enga people in Enga province, Papua New Guinea. It was reported in 1980 in three articles by Adam Kendon, based on ethnographic films of three signers in the upper valley of the Lagaip River, but with reports of wider use in the surrounding region. Its current status is unknown, as no more recent information is available.
Collingwood Area School is an area school in the Golden Bay / Mohua town of Collingwood in New Zealand. The school dates back to 1859, when it was founded as Collingwood School.
The 1959 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 13 June 1959.
Rear Admiral Richard Everley Washbourn was a senior officer of the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) from the 1940s to the 1960s. He served as the New Zealand Chief of Naval Staff between 1963 and 1965.