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… He gained his pilot’s wings in June and in November was posted to No 73 Squadron at Digby, Lincolnshire. Kain showed … No 73 Squadron was mobilised on 24 August 1939. It was posted to Le Havre-Octeville, France, on 9 September, then …
Type: Biography
… 1947. He had a major role in determining the shape of the post-war RNZAF and in the introduction of jet aircraft in 1951–52. After a posting to London, where he became air officer commanding at …
Type: Biography
… attached to the New York office of the architect George B. Post and in 1909 went to London, where he became an … Hamilton (1931), Ashburton (1938) and Blenheim (1939); and post offices in Napier (1930), High Street, Christchurch, …
Type: Biography
… in 1926 Miles served at army headquarters before being posted the following year to command the artillery in … sunk on 9 June. In March 1941 the Divisional Artillery was posted to Greece, where Miles was fully occupied determining …
Type: Biography
… lifestyles of everyday New Zealanders. They exposed timber posts, beams and rafters, and enhanced the effect by using … a double-height volume, while the Juriss House, with timber posts and translucent screens, demonstrated an interest in …
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Part of story: Domestic architecture
… his wife, Mulgan wrote a report on English and Scottish post-primary education which was well received back in New … Zealand until some years later. In 1915 he was offered the post of assistant director of education but had to decline …
Type: Biography
… the mainly British immigrants who arrived after 1840, and post-Second World War arrivals from Pacific, Asian and … of us are … you wouldn’t be struggling financially.’ 1 Post-1970s expansion Since the 1970s the cultural sector – …
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Part of story: Creative life
… J. Stewart promised to bare his buttocks outside Auckland Post Office if the All Blacks lost. With 27 minutes to play … a tale of two tours. In 1982 they toured Wales and Spain, posting losses against Swansea, Llanelli and a Welsh XV. Six …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… where he gained a first-class MA in history. A two-year postgraduate scholarship at the University of Michigan then … Africa. On his return to England in 1928 he took up the post of assistant lecturer in history at University College, … officer attached to the 3rd New Zealand Division. On his posting to the reserve in October 1943, Captain Rutherford …
Type: Biography
… between large and small parties became the norm, with a post-election period of negotiation before a governing group … ACT's leader and deputy leader were offered ministerial posts. However, during this parliamentary term the party …
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Part of story: Political parties
… settlement flourished until the 1960s. Since then the bank, post office and school have closed, but the hotel still … the town has sculptures of sheep and a huntaway dog. The post office and maternity hospital closed in 1989, as did …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… Ngāhinapōuri, Te Rore and Harapēpē, Ōhaupō was a military post during the Waikato war. It was settled by Bohemian … of Te Awamutu. First named Alexandra, it was a military post during the Waikato war. In 1864 the Second Waikato …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… landed, most often for J. N. Williams’s holdings. A post office opened in 1885. In its heyday, from the 1900s to … the bay became a centre for the local pastoral industry. A post office opened in 1890. At Waimā, on the north side of …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… and WAAFs, respectively. A small number of these women were posted to service in Europe and the Pacific. Recruitment … the suburbs was never more popular or possible than in the post-war years, 1945 to 1965. Prosperity and peace underlaid …
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Part of story: Women and men
… Ivon Watkins Limited expanded dramatically during the great post-war growth of New Zealand farm production. Under … in the company, but remained chairman (having held that post since 1970). He acted as a business consultant, owned …
Type: Biography
… to become managing director of Whitcombe and Tombs, a post he held for 41 years. Bertie Whitcombe's business style … director in 1958 but remained chairman of the board (a post to which he had been appointed in 1943) until 1962. He …
Type: Biography
… Dentists’ Register of New Zealand on 22 May 1911. His first post was as an assistant and locum tenens in Morrinsville, … 1916. Transferring to the British Army, Freyberg was posted to the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment, but … of the army. However, medical examinations prior to a posting in India revealed a heart problem. Despite strenuous …
Type: Biography
… Back in Wellington, Mason aligned himself with an emerging post-war art scene, exhibiting at the Architectural Centre … the same year failed to sell. Mason joined the New Zealand Post Office as a tolls operator and exhibited no paintings …
Type: Biography
… others being well on the way by then. Each was required to post a carbon emissions inventory as the basis for emissions …
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Part of story: Economy and the environment
… from their traditional homelands to be closer to trading posts and to the swamps where flax grew. Food cultivation …
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Part of story: Flax and flax working