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… Trading posts New Zealand’s first shops were trading posts. From the 1830s traders sold goods to whalers through outposts at places like Kororāreka (later called Russell) in …
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Part of story: Shops
… Immigration Auckland’s population growth was fuelled by the post-war baby boom and immigration. Jet flights and the … 2 Urban sprawl Auckland’s landscape was transformed in the post-war years. Factories moved out to rural land in …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… school in Blenheim and Greytown. Fildes entered the Post and Telegraph Department in Wellington in February 1893. He rose through the ranks to become chief postmaster in Westport (1924–25), assistant chief postmaster in Christchurch (1925–26) and assistant chief …
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… days. In 1878 NZR introduced the first Railway Travelling Post Office (RTPO) between Christchurch and Dunedin. They … to the train’s rocking, swaying motion. People could post letters through slots on the side, and guards’ vans …
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Part of story: Railways
… a few months after Arthur had been appointed to the same post on the Wellington–Waikanae section. The brothers worked … line soon after Arthur's death in 1889. He remained in this post until 1897. The line, although only 83 miles long, was …
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… matrimonial ventures. Around 1831 he took over a trading post at Nukutaurua on the Mahia peninsula, and lived there … he had moved to Poverty Bay, where he opened a trading post at Matawhero. He did a brisk trade mainly in muskets, …
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… with her father's firm until taking up a teaching post at the Bedford Moravian School. A series of financial … NCW in 1918, and became the national treasurer in 1919, a post she held until 1929. In both the branch and national …
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… enlistment in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Posted to the Divisional Ammunition Company, he left New … remained there for several years. His hopes of obtaining a post as a United Nations truce superviser came to nothing, …
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… the obvious choice as first commissioner, and he held the post from 1947 until his retirement in 1963. He was a … the institution of apprenticeship and in meeting the post-war upsurge in demand for trade training. In 1949 …
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… mean time should be imposed in all offices. In many cases post offices shared the same building with telegraph … to the Wellington telegraph office, which transmitted it to post offices and railway stations by Morse code at 9 a.m. …
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Part of story: Timekeeping
… skipping the usual grade of associate member. His post at the time was described as assistant engineer. Based … (of which he was chairman in 1943), and remained in the post until his resignation in 1965. In his 40 years’ …
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… League, in 1951. The league tackled issues arising from post-war urbanisation of Māori, including substandard … and health and education challenges. New organisations Post-war years saw the formation of new organisations …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… were also known by their initials: first-past-the-post became FPP, preferential voting was called PV and the … of them, while 46.1% voted for the existing first-past-the-post system. The results of the 1993 referendum meant that …
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Part of story: Electoral systems
… most of the 20th century New Zealand had a ‘first-past-the-post’ electoral system . Candidates who gained a simple … Under MMP it is less likely than under ‘first-past-the-post’ that a single party will have a majority. Coalition or …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… (the red sun). Midday was Te Poupoutanga-o-te-rā (the post of the sun) or Te Pou-tū-a-tamanui-te-rā (the standing post of the sun). Dawn and sunset were called Te …
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Part of story: Ranginui – the sky
… By the 1940s, many were being removed and replaced with post-and-wire fences and tree shelter belts. Still, in 1993 …
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Part of story: Shelter on farms
… The wartime demand for industrial labour, and the post-war move of Māori to cities, changed this way of life. …
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Part of story: Occupational structure
… there forever. Lizards were also sometimes buried under a post supporting the ridge pole in a whare wānanga (house of …
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Part of story: Ngārara – reptiles
… provided horticultural education, available to post-doctoral levels. Other institutions also provide …
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Part of story: Market gardens and production nurseries
… in 1877, but late in 1880 successfully applied for the post of second master at the newly established Christchurch … under Department of Education control. In 1888 his own post of inspector was threatened by expenditure cuts, but in … of the Reverend William Habens created a vacancy in the post of inspector general of schools and secretary for …
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