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… Island) sent almost 100,000 messages. During the prosperous Liberal government years, traffic had grown from 1.96 …
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Part of story: Telecommunications
… Girls' High School she had established a tradition of sound liberal scholarship and conduct based on Christian …
Type: Biography
… Evans and Donna Awatere, were influenced by the women's liberation movement, which critiqued the perceived …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… supported Superintendent John Perry Robinson's programme of liberalising land purchase, while Monro, widely regarded as …
Type: Biography
… lateralis ) both became established in Tahiti after being liberated there by aviculturalists. …
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Part of story: New Zealand species overseas
… minister at St Andrew’s in Dunedin from 1879, was a strong liberalising influence on the Presbyterian church of the …
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Part of story: Otago region
… contested the New Plymouth electorate for the Liberals in 1884 and in 1887, and was finally returned as …
Type: Biography
… Zealand has had an annual Children’s Day since 2000. Child liberation and participation From the 1970s there was a new … their authority. Age restrictions in law were a focus for liberation advocates. UNCROC balanced protection and liberation rights but did not tackle age restrictions. …
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Part of story: Childhood
… himself to be an independent thinker who generally favoured Liberal policies, and he was invited to join the Liberal party of John Ballance . After the success of … House, speaking as an independent but always supporting the Liberal government of Richard Seddon in a no-confidence …
Type: Biography
… McNab entered national politics in 1893 when, as a Liberal, he won the Mataura seat from G. F. Richardson, a … campaign, at his own expense and without the support of the Liberals, for the introduction of compulsory military …
Type: Biography
… two years after Reeves had left his ministerial role in the Liberal government to become agent general in London, was in … Wakefield and the New Zealand Company and a belief that the liberal experiments of the 1890s represented a pragmatic …
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Part of story: History and historians
… in the sanctity of life led her to publicly oppose the liberalisation of abortion laws during the heated abortion … abortion. Though her opinion on sex and contraception was liberal for the time – she prescribed contraceptives to …
Type: Biography
… the court. There was also growing discontent with the Liberal–Labour alliance. Slater was a Liberal, McCullough a socialist who tried to make the CTLC a … power base. Even the CTLC was closely allied with the Liberals. In 1909, however, the independent labour faction …
Type: Biography
… Māori preference for leasing. Following the formation of a Liberal government in 1891 Carroll's standing on land … portfolio in 1893, Carroll had to concur publicly in the Liberals' drive to purchase Māori land. Crown pre-emption …
Type: Biography
… but unoriginal mind which yoked a concern for sound and liberal education to evangelical Protestantism. He published … combining considerable scholarship and concern for liberal education with moral, social and theological …
Type: Biography
… court. He was in many ways a judicial conservative with a liberal personal philosophy; his colleagues had more … reconciled, his judgements could appear idiosyncratic; very liberal and enlightened dissenting views on censorship or in …
Type: Biography
… During this period Maata was an enthusiastic supporter of Liberal politics, as her great uncle Tamahau had been, and was seen driving the Liberal candidate J. T. M. Hornsby around the Wairarapa …
Type: Biography
… He cautioned, however, that he was 'no wild dreamer' but a 'Liberal and a Democrat'. He also renewed his involvement … Labour member of Parliament, McLaren attended the Liberal caucus but took an independent stand. He was a …
Type: Biography
… 1904 he had been president of the Southland branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation of New Zealand and a national vice president, but he soon quit the Liberals for independent labour politics. He was an …
Type: Biography
… speeches reveal him to have been a man of moderate liberal views on electoral and social matters and not a … him of being a one-man band who had gone far into the liberal field and returned 'with something for every …
Type: Biography