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… found a role as a journalist. He acted as editor of the Maoriland Worker in 1919 when that paper was adopted as the … his eyes, and he had a wide knowledge of literature and history. His informal meetings, over a cup of tea, with J. …
Type: Biography
… mature married women. Her place in Wellington’s cultural history is memorialised by an excerpt from ‘The active …
Type: Biography
… has been described as the outstanding lawyer in New Zealand history, yet he also held high office in an astonishing …
Type: Biography
… streets after men whom he admired in British Indian history. When his list of Indian names was exhausted, Domett …
Type: Biography
… Higgs’s work at STP was reintroduced to Australian design history, where it had been overshadowed by the later …
Type: Biography
… several fiction and non-fiction collections. Her 1985 history of New Plymouth Girls’ High School, Springboard for …
Type: Biography
… in power coincided with the worst years of the depression. History tends to remember premiers and treasurers who spend …
Type: Biography
… he had led the strongest executive in Canterbury provincial history, and acquired an unrivalled reputation as an …
Type: Biography
… with two of the major industrial disputes in New Zealand's history: the 1912 Waihī miners' strike and the 1913 … a world war and the worst epidemic in the country's history. A three-party splitting of the vote resulted in …
Type: Biography
… and eclectic: adult fantasy, science fiction, folk tales, history, mythology, science and increasingly, children’s …
Type: Biography
… costly and attractive election promises in New Zealand’s history. Labour countered with a ‘Citizens for Rowling’ …
Type: Biography
… of books, can be traced to this time. Geography and history were his favourite subjects. Sundays were special …
Type: Biography