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… Hospital, Wellington. Lambie was soon selected for a senior post with the Department of Health, where she came under the … courses led to the establishment in 1928 of a six-month postgraduate programme for registered nurses wishing to … the two instructors. Mary Lambie's direct involvement with postgraduate nursing education was short lived. In February …
Type: Biography
… were excluded from many occupations. Banks, businesses, post and telegraph offices, teaching and nursing, and the … lower-level positions. Fourteen weeks of paid pre-natal and post-natal parental leave was introduced in 2002. This was …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… Field Artillery, and after a brief training period was posted to the 14th Division at Ypres (Ieper). He served for … and administrative skills. Not until 1953 was he formally posted to the retired list; from 1954 to 1957 he was colonel …
Type: Biography
… statuary. Clark’s public sculptures include the Timaru Post Office sculpture (1957), ‘Anchor stones’ (1958–59), in … including the Reserve Bank in Wellington and the Newton Post Office in Auckland. Public sculpture flourished during …
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Part of story: Public and street art
… Church, Epsom, on 31 January 1919. On 13 March he was posted to the reserve of officers and returned to the Public … offered him the position of chief of the general staff, a post he took up on 1 August 1941. He also became general …
Type: Biography
… a reputation in New Zealand as a leading poet of the post-war generation. His status was confirmed by his … those associated with Anglo-American modernism in the post-war decades. He was also interested in seventeenth … of almost 300 separate parts, Atua Wera was published posthumously in 1997 and was immediately recognised as …
Type: Biography
… In 1908 Jock and Mary Adamson opened a boarding house, post office and telephone exchange in Harihari. Passengers …
Type: Biography
… A field goal is achieved by kicking the ball over the goal posts and is worth three points. If a touchdown is followed …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… Staff Corps as a probationary second lieutenant. He was posted to the Canterbury Military District on 21 February …
Type: Biography
… By February 1865 Cassidy had a store, which was also a post office agency and possibly a hotel, at the Waimea …
Type: Biography
… was on the wall for such roles. ‘The moment concrete posts came in, header harvesters came in, machine shearing …
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Part of story: Rural workers
… in that age group. There has also been a sharp increase in post-school qualifications among Māori. Between 2001 and …
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Part of story: Workforce composition
… between conservatives and avant-gardists in the Evening Post and the Dominion . …
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Part of story: Criticism and the arts
… construction of the new hospital in 1878. Ewart took up his post at a time of political tension between local and …
Type: Biography
… 28th (Māori) Battalion in New Zealand using false names. Post-war Fijian settlement After the Second World War …
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Part of story: Fijians
… with a punch or slap. The field has rugby-union-style goal posts, with a net extending below the crossbar. One point is …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… Restaurant in Featherston Street, opposite the Chief Post Office. There were only a few restaurants in Wellington …
Type: Biography
… in materials and ferrying stock to mainland markets. Pigeon post In 1897 Great Barrier Island was the site of the …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… built in 1832–36 as a storehouse, granary and trading post. Made of volcanic rock and Sydney sandstone, this is …
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Part of story: Northland places
… his son’s whereabouts, one of the talking poupou (carved posts) told him that the bird-shaped tekoteko of the house …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving