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… right and (after standing unsuccessfully as an independent Liberal candidate) was eventually elected to Parliament in … right-wing groups, such as the People’s Movement, the New Liberal Party and a proposed soldiers’ party, had emerged in …
Type: Biography
… to set up welfare services in Singapore for internees being liberated from Japanese camps. She immediately took over the …
Type: Biography
… whose father was Arthur Morrison, the labour-sympathising Liberal MHR for Caversham. They were to have two sons and …
Type: Biography
… throughout the board’s institutions, new ward routines, and liberalised visiting hours, especially for young children. …
Type: Biography
… economy (in which he made strong arguments for trade liberalisation), but the subsequent book received a mixed …
Type: Biography
… networks. Since the 1980s censorship has become more liberal, and education has focused increasingly on providing …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… in industrial affairs from her father, who was an ardent Liberal–Labour supporter. While she was apprenticed to Alf …
Type: Biography
… entered Parliament in 1875, and in 1891 became the first Liberal premier. In the 1970s both the Herald and Chronicle …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Newspapers
… under God, of the beautiful Kingdom of Peace and Love.' Liberally embellished with literary and religious allusions, …
Type: Biography
… to Paul's legacy in the 1920s, when Labour tried to end the Liberal Thomas Sidey ’s firm grip on Dunedin South and the …
Type: Biography
… a general electorate. He had great influence on the Liberal government’s land and ‘native’ policies. He firmly …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… the 'unblushing corruption and gross extravagance' of Liberal candidate J. T. M. Hornsby. Edward Riddiford died of …
Type: Biography
… political energies of the late 1960s: sexual and ‘chemical’ liberation, opposition to the Vietnam War, television, rock …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Poetry
… a 10-acre orchard. He then offered about 1,800 acres to the Liberal government for closer settlement. The government, …
Type: Biography
… greatest conservatism, Hall was in the forefront of a great liberal cause. He was approached by the female suffrage … organisation. Later he came to realise that the Liberal leader, R. J. Seddon , whom he had earlier …
Type: Biography
… the latter task, which greatly increased its workload. Of liberal bent, sympathetic and compassionate, and … Zealand’s drinking culture by introducing a simpler, more liberal regime. Later, he chaired a working committee that …
Type: Biography
… in the 1970s as contests became a target of the women’s liberation movement. Feminists viewed beauty contests as …
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Part of story: Beauty contests
… subdivision of Flaxbourne estate in Marlborough under the Liberal government's land settlement legislation. He soon …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand, before becoming proprietor of the Cootamundra Liberal newspaper. Educated to primary school level, Doidge …
Type: Biography
… and John in Awarua, where he defeated the long-serving Liberal member and former prime minister Sir Joseph Ward . …
Type: Biography