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… and finding substitutes from animal tissue for cartridge paper. Bent denied ever being allowed by his captors to bear …
Type: Biography
… 'head and front'. The capital's first stable newspaper, the Southern Cross , was launched in April 1843 as a … by defeat, Brown turned on the New-Zealander , the pro-Grey paper which had vilified him, and sued its proprietors for …
Type: Biography
… wrote to a friend on some purloined letterhead writing-paper: ‘As you will see I have arrived at last. True, I am …
Type: Biography
… Frederic Carrington left frustrated and disappointed. His papers include a lifelong daily diary which shows him to …
Type: Biography
… of the trivial concerns of ladies' columns in most newspapers and she urged women 'to educate themselves for the … in 1900 and at Whanganui in 1901. She did, however, send a paper to Whanganui in which she expressed her opinion that …
Type: Biography
… be particularly alert for. She published more than 50 papers based on her research, particularly on the …
Type: Biography
… carrying out important field work, publishing a series of papers on birds – especially a major work based on the …
Type: Biography
… person under threat, a protection order is ‘just a piece of paper’. 1 Used wisely, however, protection orders can be …
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Part of story: Family violence
… nurse and the children supplemented her income: Alex had a paper run and was a cleaner at Picton School, which he …
Type: Biography
… very few oils, but has left some 900 watercolours on smooth paper, often mounted on linen. He was happiest depicting …
Type: Biography
… and other resources available. He wrote 45 scientific papers, which were published in the Transactions of the New …
Type: Biography
… the study of earthquakes. He read his first seismological paper to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury in August …
Type: Biography
… in the Bulletin and other Australian magazines and newspapers. After leaving Mort’s Dock early in 1924, he had an … failing Christchurch Weekly Press as sub-editor, but the paper folded in October 1928. With another novel ready for …
Type: Biography
… Bishop Henry Cleary, whom he assisted with the diocesan newspaper the Month. After Cleary’s death in December 1929 his … year. In June 1937 McKeefry also became manager of the paper. After playing an important role in organising the …
Type: Biography
… of his earlier published works. The bulk of his surviving papers is in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. …
Type: Biography
… also made their own toys, like dolls from clothespegs and paper. Schoolyard crazes included marbles, knucklebones, …
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Part of story: Childhood
… of the early gold discoveries in Otago . He also produced a paper on the extinction of the moa. From 1883 to 1893 Pyke …
Type: Biography
… he still contributed leading articles to a variety of papers, and gave innumerable public lectures – always …
Type: Biography
… London. Forrest became a parliamentary reporter for several papers and was appointed the first lady editor of the …
Type: Biography
… deceased unionists to save their husbands’ dusty old papers from the incinerator. The collection grew rapidly, …
Type: Biography