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… allowance. His initial reports were contained in chatty letters to the minister of external affairs, Prime Minister …
Type: Biography
… In 1863 a British man called William Banting published Letter on c orpulence , one of the first low-carbohydrate, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Body shape and dieting
… of goods from the coast and intensified Anne's isolation. Letter-writing, fitted in at rushed moments during long, …
Type: Biography
… Anglican Church supported the bill and its bishops sent a letter to all members of their church encouraging them to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Anglican Church
… that this was ‘very uncolonial’. 2 Colonial insolence In a letter to the Auckland Herald in 1879 ‘Head of Family’ …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Class
… From December 1907 through 1908 he was a cadet and letter carrier, spending time at the department's training …
Type: Biography
… Acting Prime Minister Walter Nash then released a personal letter and Holmes’s Communist Party membership card to the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Documentary film
… farming and flax- and sawmilling. He also wrote innumerable letters to cabinet ministers asking them to back …
Type: Biography
… release from his contract and a return fare to Britain. His letter of resignation, and an accompanying catalogue of …
Type: Biography
… having to take on paid work. CARP’s initial response was a letter-writing campaign to politicians, and a boycott of …
Type: Biography
… the Post Office to refuse to deliver – and to destroy – letters or packages suspected of containing references to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… arguments. They also paid enough for men and women ‘of letters’ to earn a comfortable living. The expatriate …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Intellectuals
… take Māori dictation in English shorthand, then type up the letters in Māori. In 1936 Lena became a junior teaching …
Type: Biography
… of the Carnegie fellows, discovered this, he wrote an angry letter to the Carnegie Corporation. The corporation made …
Type: Biography
… matters, engaged in debate on contemporary issues in the letters columns of the local newspapers, and retained his …
Type: Biography
… intertribal meeting at Manawapou in May 1854 he signed the letter which outlined their boundaries. Three years later he …
Type: Biography
… school to procuring adequate supplies of rice and censoring letters. During 1943 the government made arrangements to …
Type: Biography
… earthwork of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero 's Ngāruawāhia tomb. A letter, reporting that Searancke had buried his dog in the …
Type: Biography
… Unlike O'Brien, however, he defended his work in published letters which outline his aesthetic credo, and reveal a keen …
Type: Biography
… readable social history, 'winnowed from a mass of diaries, letters and reminiscences'. The first of the Otago …
Type: Biography