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… in 1892. From May 1894 he worked as a messenger with the Post and Telegraph Department while continuing his studies … in November 1899 he was accepted as a cadet at the Dunedin Post Office. On 5 March 1906 in Dunedin Horace married Ada … returned to New Zealand. Although Horace went back to the Post Office, he maintained a lifelong interest in the …
Type: Biography
… On 24 November 1917 in London she married a New Zealand post office worker, Walter Frederick Kent-Johnston, who was … She was also the founder and president of the Hamilton Post and Telegraph Women’s Association; Fred Kent-Johnston …
Type: Biography
… for conducting local-authority elections. First-past-the-post This system was used to elect most mayors, as well as … city’, Len Brown, was elected in 2010 by first-past-the-post. He received 49.3% of the valid votes cast. Block … elections. The block vote is a first-past-the-post system in which electors have as many votes as there …
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Part of story: Electoral systems
… New Zealand’s first shops were trading posts selling goods to whalers in the 1830s. Later, family …
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… with different types of fence, including the traditional post-and-rail, the hugely successful No. 8 wire fence, and …
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… In the post-Second World War period in New Zealand, under the first-past-the-post electoral system, the level of disproportionality was … as strong under MMP as they were in the first-past-the-post era, they have not been unstable. 2011 referendum The …
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Part of story: Electoral systems
… and its first female ambassador to head a bilateral post. Initially working as an historian, Angus joined the … manager Archibald Douglas Angus. Archibald was frequently posted to different parts of the country, and Angus attended … to 59 men. From there she served in increasingly senior posts in New Zealand’s embassies and consulates in Singapore …
Type: Biography
… in the 1960s, responding to a need for quicker movement of postal items than the Post Office was able to provide. The country’s first courier …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… strengthened its role in economic policy-making. Diplomatic posts in Europe To advance its strategy, New Zealand … headquarters in Brussels (1961) was the critical step. New posts were also opened in Italy (1965) and West Germany … – diversifying markets for New Zealand exports – new posts were opened in South Korea (1971), Chile and Peru …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation
… which capacity he served until December 1918. He was later posted to the headquarters of the Australian and New Zealand … completed a congenial and professionally valuable posting. Described as ‘an officer of sound judgement, tact …
Type: Biography
… of hostilities in the north Balneavis was for a short time posted to Wellington and then transferred to Wanganui in … returning officer for the province in 1875, filling both posts capably. He was awarded the New Zealand War Medal in …
Type: Biography
… he joined Hansard briefly, then worked for the Evening Post. In 1872 he became manager of a press association, and on its sale, editor of the Evening Post. He resigned this position in 1875 to contest, … 1884 Gillon returned to the editor's chair in the Evening Post. His literary skills and his strong personality matured …
Type: Biography
… isolation that three centuries after Tasman, these post-war Dutch immigrants were the first continental …
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… skills and her first position was with the Invercargill Post Office. Both her parents died in 1917, and by 1918, … up, she was promoted to second secretary. In 1943 she was posted as official secretary to Canberra, where Berendsen … for him or his successor, James Barclay. Her next posting was to London in 1946 as a New Zealand delegate to …
Type: Biography
… popular images such as a photograph of a blobfish. Signposts – Te Ara’s blog Launched in November 2007, Signposts …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… of poles or small beams) and was flat-bottomed. The stern post (koua to Moriori) and the pūremu (two pieces of wood … keels of matipou wood, up to 9 metres in length. The stern post, made of akeake, could be over 3 metres high, while the …
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Part of story: Waka – canoes
… with their mates. The store also usually functioned as the post office, polling place and registrar of births, deaths … serving farmers, such as the manufacture of concrete fence-posts. …
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Part of story: Country towns
… needs of settlers and travellers Sarah opened a shop and post office. Although Isaac was appointed postmaster in 1863, Sarah conducted the day-to-day affairs of the post office and handled mail to and from Whareama on the …
Type: Biography
… and their areas of land use intersected. Dual-purpose post In the famous Te Arawa love story of Hinemoa and … rested during her swim across Lake Rotorua on a tumu (post) erected in the lake. Named Hinewhata, it was placed … water]. 1 Rights to bodies of water were shown by posts, which were placed in particular areas and were often …
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Part of story: Take whenua – Māori land tenure
… both territories became commissions, in effect diplomatic posts, but named to reflect their constitutional link with … of colonial powers in the 1970s, and New Zealand diplomatic posts followed in Fiji and Tonga (1970), Papua New Guinea … range of diplomatic and consular functions, many Pacific posts were heavily focused on aid, provided as much for …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation