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… pay some direct taxation. Every male had to go to the Post Office and hand over some money to the government. …
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Part of story: Taxes
… 1968. The worst was the 1929 Murchison earthquake, when the post office tower and several other buildings collapsed. …
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Part of story: West Coast places
… Frederick Whitaker, as premier, offered him the posts of minister of lands and postmaster general, but …
Type: Biography
… Vogel made the finance portfolio the most powerful post in government. He came into office at a time of … 1869 until August 1876. He held, at various stages, the posts of colonial treasurer, postmaster general, …
Type: Biography
… deer in state forests around Rotorua. In August 1932 he was posted to head office in Wellington, where he spent a year … Sutherland , in their shared office. In late 1932 Poole was posted to the Hanmer Springs and Balmoral state forests in … Service in late 1936 in another temporary role. He was posted to Hokitika to work on an ecological survey of rimu …
Type: Biography
… but ill health forced him to withdraw and take up a post as aide-de-camp to General William Eyre, who was … Urewera was not inviolable. Whitmore was eased out of his post in July 1869 by the new defence minister, Donald … 1879 in Sir George Grey 's ministry, also holding the post of commissioner of the Armed Constabulary. For 10 days …
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… In 1978 he was appointed minister of Māori affairs and postmaster-general; in 1980 he became minister of police, dropping the post office portfolio but retaining Māori affairs. He lost … as the marae was provided with new buildings, poupou (posts) and tukutuku (woven panels). In a rare honour for a …
Type: Biography
… From 1914 the family lived in Gore, where his father was posted by New Zealand Railways. Here, at the age of four, … welcomed into their family. Further military intelligence posts followed, including service in the El Alamein and …
Type: Biography
… and the printing press to a site near the Greytown North Post Office. The first issue of Te Puke ki Hikurangi was … 1903 he was appointed by the Rongokako Māori Council to the post of chairman of the Hurunuiorangi marae committee. …
Type: Biography
… Street, Vogeltown, from a do-it-yourself manual. In the post-war years New Zealand society demonstrated a growing … could be related to effortlessly. While modernism in the post-war period represented a challenging and positive …
Type: Biography
… by Paul Cullen, archbishop of Dublin, and appointed vicar apostolic of the Eastern Province of Cape Colony in South … several churches, presbyteries and schools allowing no post to be more than a day's ride distant from another, … included in the Wellington diocese. He accepted the post reluctantly but dutifully, as became a protégé of …
Type: Biography
… only be eight for the day.' Hunter demurred, this was preposterous; but Parnell insisted. 'There are,' he argued, … 'I arrived here in June, 1841,' a settler told the Evening Post in 1885, 'found employment on my landing, and also to …
Type: Biography
… and was appointed the first lady editor of the Evening Post . Her column of 'Political news and notes' was lively …
Type: Biography
… in what is now Island Bay. Tapu-te-ranga was a staging post for voyages across Cook Strait; one report claims that … the nautilus shell ashore I will go and fetch the carved post And establish it in the Waitematā Our desire will then …
Type: Biography
… of them Dutch). Continuing restrictions on Asian migration Post-war immigration regulations continued to discriminate …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Immigration regulation
… out of the public bars. They would lean uncertainly on lamp-posts, inviting the passing parade to “gedda a bloody …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Parades and protest marches
… part of the Best First Book Awards in the New Zealand Post Book Awards (from 2016, the Ockham New Zealand Book …
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Part of story: Awards and prizes
… 'young, enthusiastic, aggressive' Barnett succeeded to the post of organist and choirmaster at St John's Presbyterian …
Type: Biography
… Tura built a house for her to give birth in, with two posts inside. The first (pou-tama-wahine) was for her to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… Broberg was sworn into the New Zealand Police Force and posted to Dunedin. He was described at the time as 5 feet …
Type: Biography