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… 1921–22 studying at Auckland Training College, passing papers for his BA degree at Auckland University College at …
Type: Biography
… Blair, a miner. John entered the office of a large Glasgow paper merchant before emigrating in 1860 to Melbourne, …
Type: Biography
… was invaded on 10 May 1940 he destroyed his official papers and drove to Ostend. The ferry he boarded was bombed …
Type: Biography
… international economic discussions; he prepared background papers for the International Chamber of Commerce congress in …
Type: Biography
… helped facilitate the establishment of the Tasman Pulp and Paper Company to process the maturing radiata plantations. …
Type: Biography
… and this was the most popular option in a New Zealand newspaper poll. The government decided on dollars and cents. … Drawings of those sent to the Royal Mint were leaked to newspapers, and public response was very unfavourable. The … 1999 banknotes were made of polymer (plastic) instead of paper. In 2006 the 5-cent coin was withdrawn and the 10, 20 …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes
… the next 24 hours to each station and to the principal newspapers. If high winds were predicted, storm warnings were … were being sent to over 90 towns as well as to the newspapers and to selected lighthouses. Principally a forecaster … aspects of meteorology, publishing a number of scientific papers on his forecasting methods and on atmospheric …
Type: Biography
… his interest in palaeontology and helped with his first paper on fossil Mollusca, completed when he was 20. He …
Type: Biography
… seed company, became common in New Zealand households. Newspaper gardening columns appeared from the beginning of the … act of Parliament was needed to authorise the use of scarce paper for printing a magazine. But the government believed …
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Part of story: Unpaid domestic work
… He was thought to be so near to death in 1862 that a Nelson paper actually published his obituary. By the early 1860s …
Type: Biography
… with regard to bum fodder are simply barbarous – old newspapers and government gazettes. Suggest that Kempthorne Prosser paper manufactured for the purpose be substituted.’ 3 … or reading room, which usually offered copies of newspapers and the best international periodicals a card room, …
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Part of story: Men’s clubs
… board. While he was film censor he continued to write papers about the content of films and their role in …
Type: Biography
… as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you’. 4 Use your imagination …
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Part of story: Physics, chemistry and mathematics
… 1881 when they appeared regularly in the Otago Witness newspaper. In the 1980s the Shuker family of Wellington began … supplied crosswords and other puzzles to every daily paper in New Zealand and to more than 20 other countries. …
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Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… in New Zealand Peren had collaborated on writing scientific papers and he wrote extensively for the Perendale Sheep …
Type: Biography
… Soviet Union (New Zealand Section), wrote regularly for its paper, Soviet News , and became a member of its national …
Type: Biography
… he was the better bird-watcher and naturalist. His four papers in the Transactions and Proceedings of the New …
Type: Biography
… Blatchford, a journalist who edited the socialist newspaper the Clarion , published a book of articles from his newspaper called Merrie England. Shortly after reading this … Blatchford and gave him a cheque for £250 to finance the paper. This gift prevented the Clarion from folding. At …
Type: Biography
… write, publishing some 44 books and numerous pamphlets and papers between 1943 and 1974. Many of the books were based …
Type: Biography
… Salmond frequently wrote for the Presbyterian paper the Outlook , and for the secular press, as well as …
Type: Biography