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… 1900, the township contained some 2,000 inhabitants, and a post office, hall, school, blacksmiths, various shops, three …
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Part of story: Southland places
… the Middle East, arriving at Suez in January 1917. He was posted as a trooper to the Imperial Camel Corps, a …
Type: Biography
… Post-First World War The end of the First World War saw the …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… part of the education system. After 2½ years in this post she joined the staff of Christchurch Normal School’s …
Type: Biography
… To prevent the spread of infection he had shops closed, posted armed men at crossroads, and organised teams to feed …
Type: Biography
… Te Arawa tradition, the harbour was named Mānuka (implanted post), after the ancestor Īhenga, who claimed the waters by …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… New Zealand Expeditionary Force in December 1939 and was posted to the 5th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery. He …
Type: Biography
… he moved to England in pursuit of work, accepting a post at a preparatory school in Windsor. At the same time he …
Type: Biography
… he declared war on the Tūranga (Gisborne) Māori after a post was removed from a burial ground of his ancestors. For …
Type: Biography
… was over 16%. In 1960, when coal production reached a post-war peak of over 3 million tonnes, 37% came from …
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Part of story: Coal and coal mining
… would puzzle to understand the following from the Dominion Post in the early 2000s: ‘As well as being a finishing farm …
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Part of story: Rural language
… in a 1970 article, and in Anna Jackson and Jane Stafford’s post-nationalist Floating worlds: essays on contemporary New …
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Part of story: Criticism and the arts
… sleepers. Harder woods such as tōtara and beech made sturdy posts, and tōtara and rātā were also used for wharfs. Rātā, …
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Part of story: Logging native forests
… the army in 1947. He occupied various administrative posts. A report noted that he did not have a particular …
Type: Biography
… sleepers, wharf and house piles, telegraph poles and fence posts. Living giant The largest living tōtara, known as …
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Part of story: Conifers
… 1853, utilised two voting systems: the first-past-the-post system in single-member districts and block voting in …
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Part of story: Electoral systems
… heat, and capture the wild dogs that were drawn to her. In post-European times, feral packs of kurī–European dog …
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Part of story: Kurī – Polynesian dogs
… and employed a manager. Waipukurau thrived during the post-Second World War agricultural boom. Car yards opened in …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… 20th century, it has been declining since the mid-1980s. Post-school qualification rates are low and in 2013, 40.2% …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… of coastal Maketū, including Phillip Tapsell’s trading post. The warring ended in 1844, with Te Arawa keeping …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region