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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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TURKEY

Since 1955 N. A. Wright, of Dunedin, has been a tutor and lecturer in political science at the University of Ankara where he is the only New Zealander known to be permanently resident. Dr David Tombs (Wellington) works for the United Nations Special Fund and, recently, has been teaching electrical engineering at the new Middle East Technical University near Ankara.

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Michael Wordsworth Standish, M.A. (1920–62), late Dominion Chief Archivist, Wellington.Bernard John Foster, M.A., Research Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington and Heather Margaret Reid, B.A., Housewife, Dunedin.