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… was set down for February 1905, but after an exchange of letters between Taylor and the premier, the matter was …
Type: Biography
… religion. After leaving home in 1928 he wrote her copious letters, and her replies encouraged him to clarify his …
Type: Biography
… followed. Poets in our youth (2002) consisted of four verse letters to celebrated literary comrades of 1950s Wellington. …
Type: Biography
… but bluntly stated that the formal systems for teaching ‘letters, sounds and words’ were ‘not teaching reading’. 5 …
Type: Biography
… proprietary rights to the island by writing pamphlets and letters to the press. This agitation brought him into …
Type: Biography
… and Billy Apple. He was a thorough and serious teacher from lettering at Elam in the 1950s through to design at a local …
Type: Biography
… Cowan in recognition of their contribution to New Zealand letters. Of Jessie Mackay he wrote: 'In addition to being a …
Type: Biography
… with her patients, and many sent gifts or wrote letters of thanks following the birth. She was particularly …
Type: Biography
… Fraser just as he had to previous prime ministers. He wrote letters to Bob Semple and Bill Parry reminding them of their …
Type: Biography
… illness of his wife, McDonnell wrote bitter, recriminatory letters to the government. As a consequence he was dismissed …
Type: Biography
… no longer come to Wellington to 'grub through the original letters…The papers will be available in libraries …
Type: Biography
… Here he continued to preach his gospel of peace, and wrote letters of a pacific kind to Pākehā, including the resident …
Type: Biography
… length in his departmental annual reports and his monthly letters to his close friend Peter Buck . His native land … the young Pākehā anthropologist, Raymond Firth, and recent letters from Buck. Despite a lack of formal training in …
Type: Biography
… He left a remarkable record of reports, dispatches and letters, all in beautiful, clear handwriting, which his …
Type: Biography
… gift', he followed New Zealand events through his friends' letters. 'We are New Zealanders in heart & soul', he wrote …
Type: Biography
… he offered the most sustained and public criticism, in open letters to the minister of forests, in articles in New …
Type: Biography
… chiefly of fiction. He developed a close friendship by letter with the expatriate South African writer William …
Type: Biography
… He was well read, and had the reputation of being a lettered wit. His Journal , written as a newsletter for …
Type: Biography
… Shadbolt received the NZ Literary Fund’s Scholarship in Letters four times (1960, 1970, 1982 and 1990) and in 1963 …
Type: Biography