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… Kawerau. Baby boomers From the beginning of the 1950s the post-war baby-boom generation started school, and there was … Post-war investment, 1940 to 1980 …
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Part of story: Investment
… First-past-the-post The first-past-the-post voting system – plurality voting in single-member … without success – replacing New Zealand’s first-past-the-post voting system with a two-round electoral system, also … First-past-the-post and two-round elections …
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Part of story: Electoral systems
… elsewhere. An urban proletariat A third major change in the post-war period was the transformation of the Māori labour … Post-war changes, 1945–1970 …
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Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… also sold 35-millimetre slides for the tourist market, postcards and especially records. They were the first … Post-war publishing, 1945 to 1965 …
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Part of story: Publishing
… of government services in the mid-1980s. It considered the Post Office was losing money, failing to meet the needs of … and numerous responsibilities. The government split the Post Office into three independent state-owned enterprises …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… Post Early postal services The New Zealand Post Office was set up in the 1840s, but until the 1860s …
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Part of story: Rural services
… Exhibitions In the late 1990s interest in post-object art re-ignited. In 1998 Action Replay, Post-object Art (1998), a series of exhibitions curated by …
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Part of story: Post-object and conceptual art
… stock prevented from wandering. Fencing language Strainer post: Fences are built in sections called strains. A fencer marks out the line for the fence, then puts strainer posts at each end of the section. Strainers are heavier and …
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Part of story: Farm fencing
… New Zealand government centralised the various provincial postal systems. It contracted the Intercolonial Royal Mail … for domestic mail – meant that mail no longer needed to be posted and received at the post office. Pillar boxes were …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… known New Zealand letter to pass through the British postal system dates from September 1815. It was carried by … by the end of the 1850s. Postage stamps introduced Mail was posted at post offices, and recipients had to go there to … Beginning of the postal system, 1810s–1850s …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… first issue of what is loosely known as Wise's New Zealand Post Office directory. Like Kelly's London Post Office directory , on which it was modelled, Wise's was not an official publication. His use of the term 'Post Office', however, was officially sanctioned in 1881. …
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… had its name on a stamp issue. Initially, the department’s postal correspondence was free. Later, it was assessed at … were written upon and stamps affixed – these were posted and dubbed ‘Stewart Island postcards’. The stamps of …
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Part of story: Postage stamps
… of five plain wires and two runs of barbed wire, with five posts and 25 wooden battens every 20 metres. Fixing wooden battens closely together between the posts helped make a fence rigid and stock-proof even after … consisted of six plain wires and a barbed top wire, with posts every 20 metres and 10 light metal battens or three …
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Part of story: Farm fencing
… to their work. Some sent staff to New Zealand diplomatic posts or as expert members of New Zealand negotiating teams. … these inter-agency efforts, in Wellington and at overseas posts. Unified overseas service In the late 1970s a ‘unified …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation
… Zealand and Television New Zealand. What happened to the Post Office? Until the 1980s, post offices were at the centre of life in New Zealand towns …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… From horses to motors The post office began to use motor vehicles for transporting … the 20th century. Motor lorries were initially used by the Post Office in Wellington in 1909, and by 1913 all horses …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… also the same: hull, gunwales, thwarts, bow piece and stern post. The gunwales were generally not decorated, and the bow piece and stern post were less intricately carved. The bow piece typically … very similar to waka tētē, with uncarved gunwales and stern posts of simple ornamentation. They are free from the …
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Part of story: Waka – canoes
… moved to New Plymouth, he began working there with the Post and Telegraph Department as a telegraph messenger boy. By April 1925 Mullon was a cadet at the General Post Office, Wellington. He achieved very high marks in the … worker in the signals section at Waiouru, his talks were posted home and read over the air by his wife. When his …
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… Blundell and Curle published the first issue of the Evening Post , Wellington's first daily newspaper. They were … Blundell daughters were never associated with the Evening Post . The first four-page issue of the Evening Post had been produced on a hand-operated press that could …
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