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… attempts to make paper, which was needed for newspapers and letters – both essential in the days before telephone, …
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Part of story: Pulp and paper, aluminium and steel industries
… in a grant of probate, while administrators are granted letters of administration. Executors and administrators pay …
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Part of story: Inheritance
… been a congenial position for Robertson, whose surviving letters and gardening diary show a thoughtful man, …
Type: Biography
… Astronomers call the Southern Cross the Crux and attach a letter of the Greek alphabet to the main stars in their …
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Part of story: Southern Cross
… Mangateretere destroyed his huge collection of artefacts, letters and papers, including his memoirs. He died at West …
Type: Biography
… variations of take whenua (principles of land rights) in a letter to the ethnographer Elsdon Best in the 1890s. …
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Part of story: Take whenua – Māori land tenure
… his position as an important European among Te Hikutū, letters to his Tasmanian family in the mid 1840s reveal … Grey's Kawau Island home. One consequence was a series of letters in which Maning mocked the governor with outlandish … and attitudes and to whom he wrote witty, spirited letters. He also corresponded with Donald McLean . …
Type: Biography
… first secretary, preparing a hand-duplicated pacifist newsletter. He and Burton and other members of the society … issues, making speeches, and sending a flow of well-argued letters to newspapers. In 1970 he published Trials of a …
Type: Biography
… left as soon as she could for bohemian London; her letters and journals are among the masterpieces of New … of government-funded surveys , of which E. H. McCormick ’s Letters and art in New Zealand (1940) was a landmark. Allen …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… being done, they retire home, and answer the different letters by writing to the editor.’ 2 First newspaper New … were received. Every word was made up of individual lead letters set into columns that were then locked in a metal …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… in demoralising the small Pākehā community. Te Mamaku's letters to other Whanganui chiefs requesting that they join … The Whanganui missionary Richard Taylor passed one such letter on to the government, and this information is said to …
Type: Biography
… with the Pai Mārire movement. He is alleged to have sent letters to Ngāi Te Rangi on 23 December 1864, calling on … declaration of loyalty to the Queen. He denied sending the letters. When assessors were appointed for Tauranga in 1862 …
Type: Biography
… distinctly named position and wears a bib with the initial letters of that position: GS – goal shoot GA – goal attack …
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Part of story: Netball
… quoted observations about ‘our boys’ and reprinted letters from soldiers comparing themselves with others. …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… but had no luck. The Otago RFU did no more than note a letter had been received and then ignore it. Background …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… to speak before Congress. Rachel Don gave talks, wrote letters and articles and produced cartoons in the campaign …
Type: Biography
… her of a scribe, she learned to write, writing her first letter to a daughter at the age of 74. In her 83rd year she …
Type: Biography
… under authority of the sovereign, Queen Victoria. The Letters Patent of 16 November 1840 (the Royal Charter) …
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Part of story: Judicial system
… strongly influenced rural vocabulary. Adopting words The letters, diaries and published accounts of early British …
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Part of story: Rural language
… is closely related to other Polynesian languages, some letters used in Māori are slightly different in those …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places