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… lieutenant colonel. In response to his request that he be posted overseas, in July 1943 he was appointed to command … 1944 was appointed director of personal services. He was posted to the retired list with the rank of colonel in 1946. …
Type: Biography
… The newlyweds spent their honeymoon en route to China and a posting at a mission hospital in Kong Chuen (Jiangcun). The … the Lower Hutt City Council for 12 years. He resigned both posts in 1983, aged 84. He continued to enjoy gardening and …
Type: Biography
… while under fire. He then went to England, where a posting to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, saw him … Takapuna, Tauranga and the Sanders Cup X class. Some of his post-war designs achieved national status and spread his …
Type: Biography
… the Church Army and after training in New Zealand was posted as captain to Maadi Camp, near Cairo, where he … standard on limited resources during the years of post-war austerity. He developed a broad programme, which …
Type: Biography
… of New Zealand on 5 September 1957; before taking up the post in Wellington, he was made a GCMG. He proved to be a … Her Majesty’s Household. On his retirement from the latter post in 1972, he was made a GCVO. Cobham died at Marylebone, …
Type: Biography
… Post-Romantics The people who wrote the first New Zealand … as they struggled to respond to a new environment, these post-Romantic styles were an uncomfortable fit. Their work …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Poetry
… and voluntary market transactions has varied. New Zealand’s post-war market liberalisation was relatively late, which in … unlike is called ‘inter-industry trade’. Elsewhere in the post-war era there has developed a new phenomenon, called …
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Part of story: Economy
… Post-war changes By the 1920s, through stricter enforcement, … grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, fuelled by the post-war baby boom. In 1943 the number of secondary pupils …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… provided in hill country by a bedlog or deadman (a half-post dug into the ground to support a strainer or corner fencepost). Pigtails (fence standards with a curled top to hold a wire or tape), treadins (narrow graduated metal fence posts used in temporary fencing) and tumblewheels …
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Part of story: Rural language
… ‘with conspicuous success’, as his director reported. In a post-war reorganisation he was appointed to head a new … wrote reviews of records and concerts for the Rotorua Daily Post. He also took the lead in bringing together the various …
Type: Biography
… at Urenui; he frequently carried the mail to the Waitara Post Office, as well as carrying out general troopers' work … District Maori Council, as well as filling several minor posts. His ability to speak Māori was an asset to him in …
Type: Biography
… with his hands under a folded blanket – and resigned his post. Alfred Hill Although best known as a composer, Alfred … route to a conducting career.) Matheson held conducting posts at both Sadler’s Wells and Covent Garden and, from the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Classical musicians
… at Cornwall geriatric hospital. He brought to this post a fertile mind and a new approach. He argued that the … an avoided area, into one of the most popular training posts for junior doctors. In 1953 he had become a member of …
Type: Biography
… had previously been importers, including Fisher and Paykel. Post-war manufacturing Important in the post-war period was the demand for electrical and large …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Manufacturing – an overview
… of 160 scientific papers in the same year. After junior posts at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, he obtained the … case it brought him to University College, London, and a post as research assistant in the departments of …
Type: Biography
… power. The labour movement was steadily transformed by post-war prosperity and inflation. The most important issue … state-service organisations – covering the public service, post office, railways and teachers – had first formed a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Unions and employee organisations
… at the end of 1930, but was persuaded to accept the new post of superintendent of native and island education. He … in Western Samoa in 1921. The intention in creating the new post was to bring New Zealand teachers serving in the Cook … the native school inspectorate. But at the end of 1931 the post was disestablished as an economy measure. In …
Type: Biography
… on The Feilding Community Centre (1945) and The control of post-primary schools (1948). His main publications were … which produced the blueprint for the reorganisation of post-primary schooling for forms three to five. He was also … the provision of school buildings and nothing could prevent post-primary schools from being subjected to the teacher …
Type: Biography
… took place in Wellington on the merits of keeping the post open. When Belgium was invaded on 10 May 1940 he … appointment overseas 'of equivalent status and salary': the post of senior trade representative in North America was … and to establishing new tariffs more appropriate for the post-war period. After the election of the National …
Type: Biography
… on the veranda or against the back wall under the back post, or on the visitors’ side of the house. When a death … a hearse (a special funeral vehicle) or to the graveside. Post-funeral rituals In many cultures it is important for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Death and dying