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… that were influenced by new literary theories such as postmodernism, and emphasised the political and cultural … laptop and log-on and go “I’m going to read the Dominion Post online”, because that would be ridiculous.’ 1 In the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… they pay rates. Voting in local-government elections is by postal ballot. Elections are not held on the infrequent … The remaining local authorities used the first-past-the-post (FPP) system, in which each voter has one vote and the …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… Kennedy and her husband, Archibald Logan, who worked in the post office. He attended the parish school and Chalmers … service. From the mid 1860s he taught Morse code to many postmasters (or their wives) located along an advancing … of electric lines. Despite charges in the press that the postmaster general, Joseph Ward, had shown undue favouritism …
Type: Biography
… Information in the China section. This latter work led to a post with the British Council in 1945–46. She took charge …
Type: Biography
… was married in 1907 to Joseph Parker, editor of the Evening Post from 1916 to 1942. …
Type: Biography
… newly formed New Zealand Army Nursing Service. Initially posted to Egypt, MacLean took charge of the isolation block …
Type: Biography
… whole NIMT was proposed in the late 1940s, in response to post-war coal shortages, but the government opted instead …
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Part of story: Railways
… 1902 Mann left for Melbourne where he was offered the post of organiser for the Political Labour Council of …
Type: Biography
… A network of church-run boarding schools provided the main post-primary education option for Māori until the 1940s. The …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… of street gangs. But if there is anywhere in the post-colonial world where two cultural worlds truly live an …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… Large state employers such as the railways, forests and Post Office were restructured and many Māori became …
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Part of story: Ngā take Māori – government policy and Māori
… of New Zealand; he became registrar in 1876, and kept the post until his death. He lived in Christchurch during the …
Type: Biography
… and his followers had a farm, flour mill, boarding school, post office, church and meeting house. In 1865 Firth leased …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… New Zealand wine industry for several decades. The first post-war wine-maker to explore Hawke’s Bay’s potential for …
Type: Biography
… booksellers Upton and Company, but when he applied for the post of city librarian in Dunedin on 2 April 1908 he was …
Type: Biography
… dining saloon and bakehouse. The building was opposite the post office and from the living quarters upstairs the family …
Type: Biography
… 1853, the son of Alfred Adolphus Mitchell, a Royal Navy post captain, and his wife, Nelly Stanley. He served as a …
Type: Biography
… 1861 he was elected speaker of the House and retained that post through 10 sessions. As speaker he succeeded in …
Type: Biography
… Eve 1914 he trained on Salisbury Plain, and after being posted to the 1st Field Company of Engineers participated in …
Type: Biography
… (1921–22). Morrell then went to Balliol College on a postgraduate scholarship. His DPhil dissertation, published … Chamber Music Society for nearly 20 years. Morrell wrote post-primary school bulletins on New Zealand history …
Type: Biography