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… newspapers, and was an indefatigable writer of provocative letters to the editor on a variety of subjects. Austin's … of a new work as a failure if it did not provoke an angry letter from LDA. Although regarded by some as a 'trenchant …
Type: Biography
… case usually bills, papers, various goods and occasional letters from English relatives). Once a month or so, he rode … man Ayton had a significant role in the community, writing letters for less literate neighbours, and also performing …
Type: Biography
… show at local churches and youth groups. He received a letter of encouragement from the great magician Chung Ling … toured South Africa and went on to England with a letter of recommendation from Harry Lauder. Edgar staged a …
Type: Biography
… Saunders attacked him as 'a chartist ringleader' in a letter to the Nelson Examiner. Binns replied indignantly: … involved. His name, on the other hand, appeared on a joint letter in July of the same year concerning the Wairau …
Type: Biography
… (made an entirely New Zealand one) in 1983 with new ‘letters patent’, issued in the Queen’s name but signed by the New Zealand prime minister, not the monarch. Letters patent set out the governor-general’s powers. Plumed …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Governors and governors-general
… he described as an ‘Afghan rabbit’. Sam Cusack was a man of letters, particularly to newspaper editors. These were … a score of old typewriters stashed at various haunts. The letters reflected the writer. Some were concise, lucid, …
Type: Biography
… migrant took out ‘likenesses’ of her family, read their letters, and had a good cry. 3 But in 1858 a woman who felt … relieved by passing ships. People waved handkerchiefs, and letters were sometimes passed to home-bound vessels – the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: The voyage out
… writing has never been equalled. Collections, journals and letters Mansfield published three collections of stories in … her long story ‘ Prelude’ (1918). More stories, as well as letters and journals, were published by Mansfield’s husband …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fiction
… unusual way of marking and dating her work. Using the nine letters of 'Elizabeth' to represent the numbers one to nine, she applied the first and last letters, EH (representing the number 19), to prefix each …
Type: Biography
… faster. In 1938–39 aeroplanes carried two million letters between New Zealand centres. Air transport has … after the end of the Second World War. Aerogrammes, or air letters (light sheets of paper that were folded to form …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Mail and couriers
… spent a year at St Martin’s School of Art, London. In a letter to a friend in 1924 he enclosed two drawings of … cartoons was the amount of fan mail he received – 15 to 50 letters a week. Two books of his Dominion cartoons, Nothing …
Type: Biography
… of frustration in his extensive overwriting, word by word, letter by letter, often as much as three times over, of the notes …
Type: Biography
… sent back meticulous reports, and wrote over 100 letters as she cajoled relatives or local communities into … Soldiers' Association and was still writing imploring letters to the government in 1941. Edith Statham's …
Type: Biography
… president of the museum's board of trustees. In her many letters to newspapers, Frances Stewart is revealed as a … herself first and foremost as a mother, often signing her letters 'A Mother' or 'Indignant Mother', and had a keen …
Type: Biography
… of designs also expanded to include playing-card symbols, letters of the alphabet and other innovations. From the … include motifs such as stars, fern leaves and alphabet letters. New materials such as half-round wooden slats, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori weaving and tukutuku – te raranga me te whatu
… enrolled with the nursing service, in 1918 she received a letter from the board indicating that the length of time she had been away had adversely affected the hospital. The letter also implied that the acting matron had turned down …
Type: Biography
… in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In a 1929 letter, Taranaki elder Ōriwa Haddon wrote about a visit he …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawaiki
… Abraham, Joel Samuel, Rebecca and Elizabeth. Art and letters were to play an important part in the life of J. S. … to the authorities about past grievances. These letters lie in obscurity in the country's archives, but …
Type: Biography
… resisted pressure to support prohibition, and a pastoral letter of 1911 urging Catholics to vote against prohibition … of diocesan funds. He published frequent pastoral letters, and his considerable oratorical ability meant that …
Type: Biography
… The Māori alphabet The Maori alphabet consists of 15 letters: eight consonants: h, k, m, n, p, r, t, w two …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language