The OBHS house history

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  1. 5. Saxton was a talented sportsman who was an All Black player and manager, rugby coach, NZRFU President, Otago representative cricket player, and New Zealand Army major in the 19th Armoured Regiment during WW2.
  2. 7. John Aspinall was a farmer, conservationist and keen tramper, fisherman and hunter, who gave land to the government to help form Mt Aspiring National Park in 1963. Aspinall donated to OBHS the land for our school lodge - Mt Aspiring.
  3. 8. Sir Keith Park was in the cadets at OBHS and went on to become a famous soldier and military aviator. In WW2 he became a Royal Air Force commander while living in England. He was in command of two significant air battles in WW2, helping the Allies to win the Battle of Britain and the Battle of Malta.
  4. 11. a large American wild cat with a plain tawny to greyish coat, found from Canada to Patagonia; a puma.
  5. 13. Sir Archibald McIndoe was a surgeon who worked in England for the Royal Air Force during WW2. He greatly improved the treatment and rehabilitation of badly burned aircrew, who became known as members of the ‘Guinea Pig Club’. He was a pioneer and leader in the field of plastic surgery.
  6. 14. an intensive or sudden military attack.
  7. 15. A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence.
  8. 16. Tapu is the strongest force in Māori life. It has numerous meanings and references. Tapu can be interpreted as 'sacred', or defined as 'spiritual restriction
  9. 18. A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.
  10. 19. Polynesia. Group of islands in the central and southern Pacific Ocean
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  1. 1. a surprise visit at dawn, especially by police searching for criminals or illicit goods.
  2. 2. The precise origin of the composite term “Aotearoa” is not known. But if we translate “Ao” as world, “tea” as bright or white, and “roa” as long, we have the common translation of “long bright world” or “long white cloud”.
  3. 3. Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong,
  4. 4. Kaitiakitanga is a New Zealand Māori term used for the concept of guardianship of the sky, the sea, and the land.
  5. 6. to exert force upon so as to cause or tend to cause motion toward the force
  6. 8. to move forcefully, especially in order to cause someone or something that is in your way to move, so that you can go through or past them
  7. 9. mana is a supernatural force in a person, place or object. Mana goes hand in hand with tapu, one affecting the other.
  8. 10. treaty, a binding formal agreement, contract, or other written instrument that establishes obligations between two or more subjects of international law
  9. 12. to prohibit or forbid especially by legal means (as by statute or order)
  10. 13. The movement of a person or people from one country, locality, place of residence,
  11. 17. a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.