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… to be negotiated with them for whaling stations and trading posts, in return for goods and weapons. An unsuccessful …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… begun to refer to new technologies, a common feature of ‘post-internet’ art). Stella Brennan’s ‘Tuesday 3 July 2001, …
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Part of story: Media art
… as the prize. One competitor entered a goat as the ‘Caprine post peeler’, which was claimed to be ‘self motivated, …
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Part of story: Shows and field days
… grow on another plant, or on a structure such as a rock or post. Epiphytic orchids are often found in mature lowland …
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Part of story: Orchids
… with teams often disqualified if they were found to have ‘post-maritals’ in their line-up. Not to be sneezed at The …
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Part of story: Netball
… on the Maleme airfield he destroyed German machine-gun posts with grenades three times. Then, despite wounds to …
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Part of story: Second World War
… arrival the doctor considered the case to be hopeless. A post-mortem analysis of the contents of Gregg's stomach …
Type: Biography
… ‘What have I ever done to the Triad but seize it from the post, and, deserting all else, rejoice in it alone? Why, the …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… Hillary is one New Zealander who triggered naming in the post-Second World War era. British wartime leader Winston …
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Part of story: Place names
… state ownership after facing collapse in 2001. The long post-war phase of state-owned air services, however, had …
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Part of story: Aviation
… service commissioner was Peter Verschaffelt, who held the post from 1923 until 1935. He was appointed at the age of 36 …
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Part of story: State services and the Public Service Commission
… and offering, in 1890, to send 'A series of 52 views, post free, to all parts of the World, for £2 12s.' His …
Type: Biography
… in Auckland in February 1864 on the Thomas Fletcher. He was posted to Tauranga, where he was later joined by his family. …
Type: Biography
… position of first librarian. Of the 42 applicants for the post, few, so far as was known, had mixed much with books. …
Type: Biography
… Constabulary (colonial army) troops were recruited and posted to Taranaki, along with 100 Whanganui Māori. The war …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… Nelson Lakes (1956) Westland (1960) Mount Aspiring (1964). Post-war prosperity was one reason for this boom; the …
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Part of story: National parks
… and returned to Nelson until August, when he took up a post as the company's resident agent at New Plymouth. Bell's … resigned the seat in 1850. Before Bell took up his Nelson post he revisited Wairarapa to see if he could persuade the … to regard himself as an administrator, holding a political post which no one else was willing to hold, and agreed with …
Type: Biography
… had the audacity to speak from the balcony of the Evening Post building, telling the crowd what the new Labour … do wrong. Her fighting spirit was reported in the Evening Post , while Tomorrow magazine described how men in the …
Type: Biography
… of Queen and Shortland streets, under the verandah of the post office, where brokers and their agents waited for … an ‘official’ market. Changing share prices were posted on a bulletin board outside and given to the press. …
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Part of story: Stock market
… Zealand Herald (set up in 1863) and Wellington’s Evening Post (1865), which merged with its morning rival the Dominion to become the Dominion Post in 2002. By 1875 the Nelson Examiner had disappeared, …
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Part of story: Newspapers