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… the Lyttelton Times for £5,000. They wrote most of the paper themselves. An employee later recalled that when Ward … and James Edward FitzGerald through their two rival newspapers, the Lyttelton Times and the Press . As a politician …
Type: Biography
… accident compensation legislation. In 1964 he contributed a paper on ‘Social progress and the legal process’ for the New …
Type: Biography
… initially by a syndicate of Canterbury runholders, the paper prospered and on St Patrick's Day 1863 became the … incurred large debts in his successful development of the paper. By 1868 he had to relinquish control to a company. …
Type: Biography
… Industrial Unionist , New Zealand's first and only Wobbly paper, and encouraging the general strike. He was arrested …
Type: Biography
… but a year later Black reappeared as editor of a new weekly paper, the Voice of Labour , ostensibly owned by his wife. …
Type: Biography
… Royal Aeronautical Society gave him its Wigram Award for a paper on the early flights of Richard Pearse . As well as an …
Type: Biography
… to spend the rest of his life. He also published several papers and pamphlets on aspects of civil engineering. …
Type: Biography
… outfit: a jacket – its pockets bulging with pens and paper – and riding breeches, leather chaps and boots with …
Type: Biography
… rolling stone with virtually no possessions apart from her papers. She was always on the move; as she tired of one …
Type: Biography
… attending relevant conferences and publishing numerous papers. In 1946 she was appointed lecturer in preventive …
Type: Biography
… Chinese in this period. His three surviving diaries, loose papers, numerous articles and reports of his annual tours …
Type: Biography
… expected to contribute to the family’s income. He became a paper-boy selling Auckland’s evening newspaper at a lucrative site, an intersection with a hotel on … and Welfare Service and edited Kiwi News , the newspaper of the 3rd New Zealand Division, published in New …
Type: Biography
… liking: he was a keen naturalist, who could deliver learned papers on seals, but his views on theistic evolution … work of religious education. A frequent writer for newspapers, Fraser was for a time leader writer of the Lyttelton …
Type: Biography
… was a confusion of styles, with a mix of types of chair, papered walls covered in pictures, floral fabrics and an …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Furniture
… editors of the Lyttelton Times , the Oamaru Mail and other papers on such subjects as the often squalid working … gritty language of shearers, while her letters to the newspapers gave her a wider audience. The Hauroto episode in …
Type: Biography
… putting up with battered second-hand furniture, walls papered with newspaper, and blankets for curtains. However, …
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Part of story: Home décor and furnishings
… Wilson called on Macdonald to collect the Clifford family papers. The visitors mentioned the need for a biographical …
Type: Biography
… column, 'Wāhine', in the Maoriland Worker , the weekly paper of the labour movement. Later she was to describe … Kaitāia editing the Northlander , a progressive weekly newspaper published by Allen Bell between 1922 and 1933. Alfred … Margaret claimed that she was the only woman newspaper editor in New Zealand at this time. Despite finding …
Type: Biography
… covered cultural activities and the performing arts. Newspaper tūpuna The East Coast’s Turanganui-a-Kiwa … takes its name from an ancestor, the Māori-language newspaper Te Pipiwh arauroa He Kupu Whakamarama (1899–1913), … at the Te Rau Printing Works in Gisborne. The contemporary paper acknowledges this genealogical connection by …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… continued working as a foreign correspondent for American papers, covering the civil war in China, the Korean War, the …
Type: Biography