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… burning and land clearance to develop new grasslands. In a letter to the London Times in 1882, the New Zealand agent …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pastures
… the topic. It comprised extracts from journals, diaries and letters of women pioneers in the 1840s and 1850s. Drummond …
Type: Biography
… as secretary he wrote to himself as engineer, then sent letters to himself in return. With energy, skill and …
Type: Biography
… roaming their estates or kept in cages. Leopards’ lunch A letter to the Colonist newspaper in 1873 suggested that its …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Acclimatisation
… where he grew loquats and persimmons. He enjoyed writing letters to the editor of the Waikato Times about topical …
Type: Biography
… the New Zealand Women’s Army Corps. Jowett signed the letter to the Queen that led to approval being given for its …
Type: Biography
… the children's page of the Otago Witness , writing vivid letters describing kindergarten activities. She was …
Type: Biography
… recognised his services to the sport in a special letter of thanks on his retirement. On 30 November 1929, at …
Type: Biography
… at Tunuru, often late at night, he had written hundreds of letters (up to 60 every six weeks, when the steamer called …
Type: Biography
… concern for those in need was particularly evident in his letters and in his care of his students. …
Type: Biography
… Horizons (Manawatū–Whanganui) regional council. What's in a letter? Wanganui has long been a spelling of Whanganui, …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… ionosphere. In 1952 a post office was opened to postmark letters for stamp collectors. The base was decommissioned in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… childless, died in 1899, after sending a last despairing letter to him to return home. But he had been unable to save …
Type: Biography
… of the Swiss Family Robinson and is probably based on letters from a family member, as Aylmer never visited New …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fiction
… of adult nationhood’. 2 Art in New Zealand McCormick’s Letters and art in New Zealand (1940) and A. H. McLintock’s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Criticism and the arts
… for his drama, Take me over the sea. It was inspired by letters from First World War veteran Bert Hart, troubled at …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… months' leave to make his last visit to Japan. Armed with a letter of reference from Prime Minister Michael Joseph …
Type: Biography
… wait until March 1922 before she could officially use the letters MPS after her name. On 24 October 1923, in …
Type: Biography
… three-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s collected letters; McCormick had recommended her for the role. … Turnbull Library in 1973 to work fulltime on the Mansfield letters, funded in part by an annuity from Brasch’s estate. …
Type: Biography
… local unions: she prepared and distributed pamphlets, wrote letters to the press and stimulated debate within the WCTU, … demand as a public speaker. Although she wrote a number of letters to the editors of national newspapers on the debate … of reconvening the National Council of Women. Personal letters were sent to women in the various centres; local …
Type: Biography