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… women worked outside the home as a part of the war effort. Post-war growth Growth slowed during the period of post-war adjustment. Strong growth took up again from 1950 …
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Part of story: Economic history
… of the land and water … [the] chief Tukuha … set up a rāhui post at Te Rautāwhiri. The post remained in the same position, but whenever the chief …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… nationalised in 1945. An 1865 law which established the Post Office Savings Bank also curbed the rights of other … and enabled it to absorb competitors. By the mid-1950s the Post Office Savings Bank controlled around 80% of the … to operate savings banks, allowing them to compete with the Post Office Savings Bank and the trustee savings banks in …
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Part of story: Banking and finance
… overseas. Dressing down New Zealand diplomats taking up a post overseas are given detailed guidance on appropriate … also implements policy through its network of diplomatic posts in other countries, which gather and analyse …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation
… ducks in moulting season. A rāhui was often indicated by a post (pou rāhui), sometimes painted red. Clothing, a lock of … banned when fowling. The remedy for pūhore was to set a post (tuāpā), sometimes painted red, in the ground. It was … of snares with it, then toss it down at the base of the post. They would then say a karakia (charm). …
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Part of story: Te tāhere manu – bird catching
… that were sold included Petrocorp, Contact Energy, the Post Office Bank, State Insurance, the Rural Bank, Air New … creation of Kiwibank in 2002 as a subsidiary of New Zealand Post in effect re-created the Post Office Savings Bank as a full-service commercial bank. …
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Part of story: State-owned enterprises
… took employment in 1906 as a telegraph message boy with the Post and Telegraph Department. From December 1907 through … period of illness he transferred to the staff of the Chief Post Office in Wellington. Later he was appointed a clerk at …
Type: Biography
… became the first New Zealand resident appointed to the post. Politicians left the door open for members of the … racket’. His grandfather, Sir James Fergusson, held the post in 1873–74 and his father, Sir Charles Fergusson, from … In Australasia, New Zealand was the third-most desirable posting, after Victoria and New South Wales. Overall, only …
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Part of story: Governors and governors-general
… a market. It was known as ‘the coffee-palace’, and the post office operated from it during the 1870s. The city … to Wellington, Mr Austwick from Yorkshire told the Evening Post that he had ‘much praise’ for the city but one …
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Part of story: Markets
… in which riders tried to pick up rings from a row of posts with a levelled lance. The game of fugleskydning … as pot shots were taken at an iron bird atop a post in the middle of a field. Sunday evening dances were …
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Part of story: Scandinavians
… led to widespread criticisms of the first-past-the-post electoral system, two main reasons. First, on both … Responding to a growing sense that the first-past-the-post system was unrepresentative, the Labour Party promised …
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Part of story: Electoral systems
… It consisted of a heap of stones. A tūāhu with an enclosed post was a pouahu. A wooden waka (box) containing the tribal … be kept in the enclosure. Small carved wooden houses set on posts – kawiu – also contained waka. Sometimes a whata …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… Minister Richard Seddon, who would telephone the Evening Post . The match against Wales – the focus of intense public … T The telegraph service was strengthened when it joined the Postal Department to become the Post and Telegraph Department (P & T) in 1881 (‘the Post …
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Part of story: Telecommunications
… The sky is the roof The earth is the floor The rear post stands at Pikitū The central post stands at Ngātira The front post stands at Tārukenga, at Te Ngākau The front barge …
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Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… Sounds. From 1877 his father had a contract with the post office to collect mail from vessels of the Union Steam … father retired. George took over the farm and became acting postmaster, then in 1907 postmaster in his place. Ethel's family were initially …
Type: Biography
… was the first Invercargill politician to hold a cabinet post. As education minister Hanan sought to introduce … of primary and secondary schools and the reshaping of post-primary schooling by placing students in courses suited … agricultural, domestic, manual and technical instruction in post-primary school curricula; and to introduce a national …
Type: Biography
… The immediate post-war years were active and optimistic times for the emerging aviation industry. The more robust wartime and post-war aircraft that became available after 1918 proved …
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Part of story: Aviation
… background, he had a long struggle to obtain good hospital posts and higher qualifications. He undertook general … the final FRCS qualification in 1908. Unable to find senior posts in London or Birmingham, Dawson bought a general …
Type: Biography
… Women’s Royal Army Corps as a temporary corporal. She was posted to Waiōuru as the education assistant. During her two … the other cadets in her class. During her first posting she made a strong impression as a beat constable and …
Type: Biography
… Wairarapa. He then became a journalist with the Evening Post and in 1913 was appointed the Post ’s representative in the parliamentary press gallery. …
Type: Biography