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… depression. Hamilton was minister of internal affairs, and postmaster general and minister of telegraphs. He also held the difficult and unpopular posts of minister of labour (1931–35) and minister in charge …
Type: Biography
… School of Engineering had grown inbred and inward-looking; post-war staff recruitment was not easy, nor did those who … appointed. It was a challenging if not altogether inviting post. The University of Western Australia’s vice chancellor … by any disappointed senior lecturers’. When he took up the post in August 1951 Hopkins said he believed his most …
Type: Biography
… seeking a transfer for himself. In May 1943 he accepted a posting to Force 133, the British unit assisting the Greek … manuscript of his memoir, Report on experience , which he posted to his wife in New Zealand. In mid April 1945 he was …
Type: Biography
… and permanent representative came to an end in 1958. The post was left vacant for some time and there was criticism … in the Munro tartan with gold buttons. The Evening Post reported, ‘His audience on both sides of the House hung …
Type: Biography
… continued to close under pressure from rail and road. The post-war economic boom sustained the majority until the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ports and harbours
… figure flanked by the two manaia, foreshadow pare of the post-1500 period. Uenuku Uenuku, an early carving of special …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… sand in the early 2000s. On 9 October 1944 the Evening Post reported that 10,000 tons of clean, Bristol Channel …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Engineering on the sea floor
… There were water troughs on the street, and hitching posts on hotel verandahs and shop fronts. Heavy horse-drawn …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Horses
… risk of an avalanche is high. Thunderstorm hazard maps are posted on the MetService website. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Weather forecasting
… instruction in coastal artillery in Sydney before being posted to Fort Dorset in Wellington. Here he trained gunners … corps through the bottleneck at Larissa. In May 1941 he was posted as officer commanding, 43 Anti-Aircraft Battery of …
Type: Biography
… at the end of 1942. For two years Mulgrew worked for the Post and Telegraph Department, but he had already developed … 1956 and seconded to the Ross Sea Committee and Wellington Post Office (Radio Section). For two years (1956–58) Mulgrew … to New Zealand in January 1958 Mulgrew was seconded to the Post and Telegraph Department for a month, on request of the …
Type: Biography
… On graduation from Duntroon in 1946, Brian took up a posting as a lieutenant with Jayforce in Japan. Initially … Hauraki Regiment, based in Tauranga and shortly after was posted to the same position in the Northland Regiment in … and a daughter. Late in 1954 they accompanied him to his posting as deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster …
Type: Biography
… between 1947 and 1987 may have been partly due to the post-war Fulbright educational exchange programme, but also … New Zealand, Americans were not always made welcome in the post-war years. New Zealand’s involvement in the Vietnam War …
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Part of story: North Americans
… the area to be designated a national park. Petrels in the post Attempts to eradicate pests from island sanctuaries … petrels on Herekopare Island, near Stewart Island, he posted the birds’ corpses to the Department of Internal …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… to become a journalist and joined the Wellington Evening Post , which was edited by his uncle E. T. Gillon . In the … Zealand to continue his journalistic career at the Evening Post and (briefly) the New Zealand Times. Then in 1906 he …
Type: Biography
… in the army in November 1917 as a private, but was soon posted to an ambulance unit. By the time he reached England … at Burnham Camp, near Christchurch, in 1942–43 before being posted to the Pacific as second in command of No 22 Field …
Type: Biography
… and war organisation and mobilisation. It was a demanding post, but one that Braithwaite was only to occupy briefly. … not return to the NZEF. Instead, he was appointed to the post of brigadier general staff, to a British corps on 11 …
Type: Biography
… but this did not work well. Pupil-teachers, who had no post-primary education, struggled and it was hard to make … again by 1936 and in 1940 enrolments reached 1,460. The post-Second World War baby boom meant more teachers were …
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Part of story: Tertiary education
… ashore in Auckland. Confirmed in that rank in 1947, he was posted to England for staff courses and a period of exchange … Services Liaison Staff in Melbourne in November 1953, a post he held for nearly three years. He was then appointed …
Type: Biography
… employed as a journalist or editor for the Evening Post and the Evening Press in Wellington, and the Southern …
Type: Biography