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… In July 1870 Colonel J. M. Roberts, at a constabulary post on the Napier–Taupō road, wrote of the event: One night …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… Wynyard Quarter: the Waterfront Theatre project. A proposed post-earthquake arts precinct in Christchurch argued for two …
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Part of story: Theatres, cinemas and halls
… and true, pointing at the wall of mountains; the telegraph posts like a lesson in perspective drawing’. 1 In 1864 gold …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… 1988 and 1993 many corporations – among them Petrocorp, Postbank, Air New Zealand, New Zealand Steel, Telecom, the … Kiwibank, piggybacking on a branch network of New Zealand Post outlets. The rail network was repurchased in 2004 and …
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Part of story: Treasury
… hard, dense and heavy, and was used for railway sleepers, posts, poles and piles. Taraire Taraire ( Beilschmiedia …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… the same name in North Otago. The town was also a staging post on the route from Nelson to the West Coast – from …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… motorist – poor roads, unbridged streams, and no sign-posts – Wilson helped to found the Wairarapa Automobile …
Type: Biography
… midshipman in the Philomel in the Mediterranean. Subsequent postings took him to the South America, North America and …
Type: Biography
… change. Efforts were made to revitalise te reo Māori. The post-Second World War urban migration of Māori was …
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Part of story: English language in New Zealand
… insisting on their recovering skins. In March 1945 he was posted to the retired list with the rank of major. ‘Major’ …
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… National Film Library and the School Publications Branch. Post-primary curricula had been reorganised with the … acted as a brake on reforming intentions. The all-important post-primary reforms were complex and controversial. The …
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… London and Washington Laking’s first diplomatic posting was as counsellor in the New Zealand embassy in … to Beijing. Among his last acts before relinquishing his posts on 31 December 1972 was ensuring, with Kirk’s support, …
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… great ancestors through artworks in the form of pou (carved posts), so they were quick to appreciate the idea of putting …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… 4-inch nail, tip a ram, blow a dog whistle and dig a fence-post hole. Children move to the city Parents and children …
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Part of story: Farm families
… 20th century and became even more marked after 1945. The post-1900 development of coal mining in New Zealand was …
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Part of story: English
… a church or hall. Country schools, hospitals, banks and post offices closed, and hotels became taverns. A few …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… choir boys for Christchurch Cathedral. She was offered a post at the new school but declined. Cathedral School opened …
Type: Biography
… morning paper, outstrip the Liberal evening Timaru Post. Alexander sharpened the Herald 's news coverage, …
Type: Biography
… fruitlessly for six months to obtain a public service post in New Zealand. Even in universities there was …
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Part of story: Creative and intellectual expatriates
… While settled family life was celebrated in the immediate post-war period, what happened in families was sometimes …
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Part of story: Families: a history