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… the regular force in 1946, Gilbert held a number of staff posts, one of which was army liaison officer in Australia. … officer in 1954. In October 1956 Gilbert was offered the post of director of the new New Zealand Security Service by …
Type: Biography
… novitiate newly established at Paignton, Devon. From this post he ministered to Catholics in nearby Brixham. In 1885 Grimes was the Society of Mary's nominee for the post of bishop of the proposed new diocese of Christchurch, … He pressured the Society of Mary to undertake its long-postponed secondary school for boys, and St Bede's …
Type: Biography
… which was predominantly recruited from Ngāti Porou. Post-war, 1945 to 1970 The region profited from generally … the population to 30,000 – had been formed in 1936. In the post-war years the town resumed its growth, although not at …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast region
… When the Second World War broke out Hargest sought a senior post in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. A … personal contacts to get command of a brigade in 1940 – a post for which he was unfit. Hargest's experiences in prison …
Type: Biography
… Finally, on 11 June 1909, the department offered her a post in Te Kao, Northland, where local Māori required … times to Wellington it was not until November that she was posted to New Plymouth. While based there, she also nursed …
Type: Biography
… 1 Birth control information censored A 1906 law allowed the Post Office to refuse to deliver – and to destroy – letters … with under-16-year-olds, or give them contraceptives. Post-pill information After the pill arrived in 1961, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… so investors could track individual stock movements. Last post Soon after 3 p.m. on Friday 21 June 1991, the three … stopped permanently at 3.11 p.m. A bugler played the ‘Last post’ and members drank champagne. In Auckland members sang …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Stock market
… and companies. Brigade commanders became redundant and were posted to a colonels list, with minimal duties. … press and the New Zealand National Party, but were posted to the retired list. Appeals to the governor general …
Type: Biography
… freedom’ and ‘Human endeavour’. A potent monument to post-war civic pride, the third painting, almost nine metres … the enthusiastic praise he received from the Evening Post ’s art critic, Eric Ramsden. In 1958 Mitchell was …
Type: Biography
… nor was surrealism a factor. The inspiration was rather post-impressionist landscape painting, especially French … Tapper. Other landscape artists In the North Island in the post-war years several artists, especially Eric Lee-Johnson …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Painting
… art, intermedia, new media art, multimedia art, web art, post-internet art or simply media art. Billy Apple’s art … fixed works and consumer objects into what became known as post-object art, producing temporary installations, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Media art
… and scrapping. Union membership was automatic, and in the post-war years the hurly-burly of industrial action was … on roads, railways and construction sites and for the Post Office, carried freight, and had jobs on the factory …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women and men
… legal training and knowledge of affairs would enhance the post. In London Perceval was popular and highly regarded as … to survive this public humiliation. With no comparable post for him in New Zealand, Perceval chose to stay in …
Type: Biography
… his portrait being included on commemorative medals, post office stationery and Christmas cards. He returned to … of Western Samoa, and on 1 January 1921 he was posted to the retired list of officers. In recognition of …
Type: Biography
… inlet with 188 kilometres of coastline, formed by post-glaciation flooding 12,000 to 16,000 years ago. The … taxi. From 1870 early naturalist Charles Traill ran a small post office and general store. Visitors could attach stamps … shrub Senecio rotundifolius and send a ‘Stewart Island postcard’. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… He married into Ngāti Hauaroa and established a trading post at the river junction. In 1903 the railway line and … many of its houses are used as holiday homes. The post office, which closed in 1989, was converted into …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country places
… of 12s. 6d. per week. In 1849 William Young, the deputy postmaster general, wrote to Major William Kenny, commanding … to name 'some trustworthy person' to supervise the Onehunga post office agency. As the duties were part-time, the position was expected to be voluntary. The first postmaster, William Filmer, a sergeant in the Fencibles, had …
Type: Biography
… had easier access to town (Feilding) and local businesses, post offices and the school closed. No wine in the wetlands …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… was an era in which the initiative for the provision of post-primary education in New Zealand was often taken by …
Type: Biography
… driveways, garden paths, boxing walls, or securing fence posts, concrete is the wonder material. Many Kiwi men, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay