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… in London. On 30 June 1913 he was promoted to the rank of post captain. His association with New Zealand resulted from …
Type: Biography
… Allan, an Oxford-educated leader writer with the Evening Post. She resigned from the Lyttelton Times because of a …
Type: Biography
… College then appointed William Riddet to the equivalent post. To avoid duplication it was decided to set up one …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… the social groups that frequented them, were bolstered by post-war urbanisation. Many young Māori men joined the gay …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gay men’s lives
… engineer and engineer-in-chief (1907); he held the last post until his retirement in 1920. From May to July 1920 he …
Type: Biography
… more widespread in the 1980s. From the late 19th century post-school-age women could hone their sewing skills at …
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Part of story: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts
… disease-laden germs within your home’. 1 Dishwashers were a post-Second World War innovation and something most …
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Part of story: Washing, cleaning and personal hygiene
… health of future generations. Once he was appointed to the post of director of the new Division of Dental Hygiene …
Type: Biography
… to play on smaller grounds, with reduced or lowered goal posts, and some games were modified to better suit …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Children and sport
… only a few hundred. Faced with labour shortages in the post-war period, the New Zealand government encouraged …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pacific Islands and New Zealand
… ‘the oldest teenager in the world’. 1 Jazz for listening In post-war New Zealand, jazz gradually ceased to accompany …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Jazz and dance bands
… same year there began a long association with the Evening Post in Wellington as a columnist and music critic. His … life: ‘people are far more interesting than butterflies or postage stamps’, he once said. Above all he believed that …
Type: Biography
… the trade to an end and he sailed north to set up a trading post in Hokianga in mid 1826. On a later voyage the …
Type: Biography
… observer. Three years later, in 1908, he obtained a post with the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the …
Type: Biography
… later he was appointed to the New Zealand Staff Corps and posted to Hamilton as adjutant of the 4th (Waikato) Mounted …
Type: Biography
… to help her find her individual strength. She accepted a post at Otaki Maori College in 1917 and during the influenza …
Type: Biography
… of employment for public servants, and in 1867 brought the post office's money order and savings bank scheme into …
Type: Biography
… journalism, writing reports and articles for the Sports Post , the New Zealand Herald and the English magazine …
Type: Biography
… be critiqued. They drew on elements of European styles – post-impressionism in the case of Toss Woollaston, cubism …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… hospital where Gonzaga was appointed matron. She held the post until 1950, and for many years was also in charge of …
Type: Biography