Helen McRae Stace (née Mowat, 26 October 1850 – 19 January 1926) was a notable New Zealand homemaker and school matron. She was born in Awatere valley, Marlborough, New Zealand, in 1850. [1]
The Marlborough Region, commonly known simply as Marlborough, is one of the regions of New Zealand, located in the northeast of the South Island. Marlborough is a unitary authority, both a region and a district, and its council is located at Blenheim. It has a population of 46,600.
Colin Steele McRae, was a rally driver from Scotland, born in Lanark. The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin McRae was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion and, in 1995 became the first British person and the youngest to win the World Rally Championship Drivers' title, a record he still holds.
Graham McRae is a former racing driver from New Zealand. He achieved considerable success in Formula 5000 racing, winning the Tasman Series each year from 1971 to 1973, and also the 1972 L&M Continental 5000 Championship in the United States.
Shaun McRae is a rugby league coach, who is a former director of rugby at Hull F.C. after a spell with the Salford City Reds.
Pauatahanui is a village in New Zealand's North Island. It is at the far eastern end of the Pauatahanui Inlet, an arm of the Porirua Harbour, northeast of Wellington. In local government terms, Pauatahanui is part of the Northern Ward of Porirua City.
The 2005 Women's Hockey Champions Challenge is the third edition of the field hockey championship for women. It was held in Virginia Beach, United States from July 8–16, 2005.
The following lists events that happened during 1926 in New Zealand.
IHC New Zealand is a New Zealand organisation providing support and care for people of all ages with intellectual disabilities. It began as the Society for Intellectually Handicapped Children, hence the IHC acronym. IHC advocates for the rights, inclusion and welfare of all people with an intellectual disability and supports them to live satisfying lives in the community. There are 13,000 young families who struggle with the pressures of raising a child with an intellectual disability, and 29,000 adults with an intellectual disability across New Zealand. IHC is New Zealand’s largest provider of services to people with intellectual disabilities and their families, supporting more than 6000 people. Its history reaches back over 60 years to a group of families who set up an association to lobby for a better deal for their children.
Elizabeth Helen McRae is a New Zealand actress, best known for her portrayal of Marjorie Brasch in the television soap opera Shortland Street.
Helen Elizabeth Clark is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, and was the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017. She was New Zealand's fifth-longest-serving prime minister, and the second woman to hold that office.
Stace as surname or given name may refer to many different people.
Macraes, formerly known as Macraes Flat, and known in Māori as Ōtī, is a town in the Waitaki District in Otago, New Zealand. It is known as a mining town, with a long history of gold extraction. The town sits 55 km north of Dunedin in New Zealand's South Island.
Marjorie "Marj" Brasch is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. Being part of the original cast, she was portrayed by Elizabeth McRae from the show's first season in 1992 up until 1996. She returned as a guest character in 1998, 2002, as part of the show's 20th anniversary in May 2012 and again for the show's 25th anniversary in 2017.
Jenny Harrison is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. She was portrayed by Maggie Harper as part of the show's original cast, making her first appearance in the second episode. Harper quit the role in 1998 but reprised the character briefly 4 years later.
State Highway 90 is a New Zealand State Highway connecting the town of Gore on State Highway 1 to the locality of Raes Junction on State Highway 8 via Tapanui, servicing the agricultural areas of eastern Southland and West Otago. It is mostly hilly and is just under 60 kilometres long.
Esmond Allen Gibson, CBE was a New Zealand civil engineer and aviation administrator. He was born in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand on 7 August 1896. Always known as ‘Gibby’, he obtained his commercial pilots licence in 1934 and joined the NZ Territorial Air Force in 1937 and commanded 2 Squadron until he transferred to the Director of Works, HQ RNZAF from 4 September 1939 attaining the rank of Wing Commander. He was responsible for the development of airfields in New Zealand and a number of Pacific Islands. On his retirement from the RNZAF in 1947, he was appointed the first Director of Civil of Aviation in NZ and among other things actively supported the development of aerial topdressing in New Zealand until he retired in 1957.
Taylor-Stace Cottage, built in 1847, is the oldest surviving house of European origin in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The cottage is classified as a Category I historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Taylor-Stace Cottage was built by immigrants William and Anne Taylor, who had come to New Zealand in 1840.
The 1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Great Britain, France and Canada was a tour undertaken by the New Zealand national rugby union team. The series consisted of 17 matches, four of Test status against international opposition. The New Zealand team finished the tour undefeated, the first time they had achieved this in the Northern hemisphere since the 1924–25 Invincible team.
Mary Helen Rae was a New Zealand nurse who served in World War I and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.
Ryan Paul Stace is a New Zealand actor and model. Since the 1990s, Ryan has performed in local New Zealand shows including Shortland Street, Power Rangers and Jackson's Wharf, Street Legal, and local NZ films. Ryan at this present day continues to work on short films.
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