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… chairlift, which was installed at Ruapehu in 1954. Post-war transport In 1947 a rope ski tow, designed by …
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Part of story: Skiing
… Post-war racial conflict During and after the Second World …
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Part of story: Manners and social behaviour
… to cut him off at the corner, Deans cut back towards the posts – which would also make the conversion easier – and …
Type: Biography
… were needed to build larger public buildings such as post offices, pubs, churches and cathedrals. Tenders were …
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Part of story: Building and construction industry
… the Royal New Zealand Fencibles were assigned to a defence post in Howick. They were retired soldiers enlisted to serve …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… of Second World War veterans into New Zealand’s post-war society. Many thousands of veterans received …
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Part of story: Veterans’ assistance
… of colonisation on their disease and death rates. Pre- and post-contact life expectancy Evidence suggests that Māori …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… This was an important source of support for families in the post-war period, but its value proportional to wages …
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Part of story: Family welfare
… public buildings included the ferry building and the chief post office, both completed in 1912. In the 1920s Auckland’s …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… six cookhouses, 17 shops, a picture theatre, hospital, and post office. After training, men marched over the Remutaka …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… 28 March 1865, in Adelaide, she married George Francis, a post office clerk. When he died of alcoholism in November …
Type: Biography
… 1900. They drew pupils from across, and beyond, the region. Post-1945 suburban growth led to a surge of new …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… 1869. He was elected superintendent in 1862, and held the post until September 1865. During his tenure the council …
Type: Biography
… to help her mother run the Caledonian Hotel and local post office. There Rose McBride met and became engaged to …
Type: Biography
… in Somerset in 1922 was followed a year later by a similar post at St Edmund's School, Canterbury. Seeking to escape …
Type: Biography
… and then on a hand-operated lathe constructed from a gate-post and a chaff-cutter wheel. In 1895 he devised cutters to …
Type: Biography
… did was largely due to the political structure of TEAL, and post-war loyalty to Britain. The decision to re-equip TEAL …
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Part of story: Aviation
… Royal Indian Military College, Addiscombe, and in 1848 was posted as ensign in the East India Company army, rising to …
Type: Biography
… Norman and Victor worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the post-war period, Matilda failed to influence her offspring …
Type: Biography
… poem ‘To a Maori figure cast in bronze outside the chief post office, Auckland’ is as bawdy and direct as a pub …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata