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… were regular features. Each issue also contained ‘Tui’s letter’ to ‘Mrs B.’, the generic reader, and contributions from readers to essay- and letter-writing competitions. In 1942, when the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… Zealand. For about 40 years Mehetabel Newman wrote regular letters home to her brother and sister-in-law, William and Sarah Newman, who lived at Louth, Lincolnshire. These letters give insights into life on an inland mission station …
Type: Biography
… House of Representatives for Southern Māori in 1871, Tini's letters kept him up to date with details of the family's … mana in her own right. Her correspondence includes letters on political, business and family matters and she …
Type: Biography
… she gave to her patients and friends is reflected in the letter of one young woman, Jessie Campbell, to her mother: … and Governor George Grey. She addressed McLean in her letters as 'My dear Son', and their close relationship is …
Type: Biography
… they only did so once a year. Customary conservation In a letter in 1895, Tāmati Ranapiri of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… literature through the mail. The Post Office said the letter was obscene as it contained the word ‘contraception’. … hold public meetings, contact the press or send circular letters. It answered individual letters – 2,317 between 1941 …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… Newspapers would not accept their advertisements, and letters to the editor suggested that nudists were … Association, Percy W. Cousins, sent out hundreds of letters to newspaper editors, civil servants and …
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Part of story: Naturism
… changed. Bolder typography was used, with large black lettering and a profusion of capitals and exclamation marks. … products became associated with a distinctive style of lettering or a trademark. Slogans also appeared – Hudson’s …
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Part of story: Advertising
… timber until well after the Second World War. Mail by rail Letters and parcels were carried on trains from the earliest … to the train’s rocking, swaying motion. People could post letters through slots on the side, and guards’ vans also …
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Part of story: Railways
… bronze medals at the Panama Pacific Exhibition, prompting a letter of congratulation from the Department of Agriculture, … Board and several local committees, and wrote booklets and letters to newspapers on farming matters. He was an …
Type: Biography
… and on Saturdays to keep pace with the vast numbers of letters that had to be sent to pupils and the heavy load of … corrections and words of encouragement, as well as letters to parents, were written by hand. With her …
Type: Biography
… reputation as a writer of short stories, poetry, letters, journals and reviews. Her work has been translated … but corresponded faithfully. As well as writing hundreds of letters, partly as a substitute for conversation, Mansfield …
Type: Biography
… had learned to read and write in Māori, and was writing letters on behalf of his father. The fighting in 1836 led to … Ngāruawāhia to discuss the situation. Tāmihana wrote more letters to the governor, reiterating that the Māori were not …
Type: Biography
… ‘No, not I.’ Wellsford is reputedly an acronym of the first letters of early settler surnames. Other countries There is …
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Part of story: Place names
… Īhāia became involved in land issues and politics. He wrote letters to Te Wānanga , the newspaper published from 1874 to … Tomoana as the instrument of the Repudiation movement. His letters show him to be deeply religious (he was an Anglican) …
Type: Biography
… to the war to the Bay of Plenty tribes. He also carried a letter from Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi , the contents of … He later denied any knowledge of the contents of the letter. Garavel's departure for Sydney on 1 August 1864 may …
Type: Biography
… to Auckland to look after her property interests. Her letters of this time express regret that she had missed the … accompanied him on most of his expeditions. Her journals, letters and autobiography, through their clear observation …
Type: Biography
… humour he made light of privations, clearly evident in his letters to his wife, Bannie, during their 11 months' … of the kotuku (white heron) nesting ground at Okarito. His letters to his wife from the West Coast in 1865 and 1866, …
Type: Biography
… it. Protests can take the form of an individual writing a letter to a newspaper – or a march of thousands along city … marches and rallies – some communicate grievances through letters, petitions and the arts – paintings, sculpture, and …
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Part of story: Public protest
… unable to attend the official opening. Instead he sent a letter that was read out. He wrote: ‘This work has been to … gifted his collection of early New Zealand manuscripts, letters, books, photographs and paintings to the University …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Libraries