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… Washington DC, and also aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, posts he held for three years before retiring from the RAF. …
Type: Biography
… redoubts were erected. Hamilton also began as a military post, and became a hub for the Pākehā colonisation of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City history and people
… movement of Māori to the larger provincial centres. The post-war wave This so-called ‘urban drift’ increased after …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Urban Māori
… expatriate New Zealanders living in Britain. He was posted to Egypt in April 1940 and in February 1941 was …
Type: Biography
… down the alleged victim, Louise Nicholas. The Dominion Post and TVNZ broke the story in 2004 and a high-ranking …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Violent crime
… earned less than the national median income, and fewer had post-school qualifications than the national average. Ōtāne …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… for towns throughout the colony. Centralisation The Post Office Act 1858 had created a uniform postal system throughout the colony. By 1863 Auckland, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Colonial and provincial government
… New Zealand and the ‘new Commonwealth’ In the immediate post-war era, the British Empire continued to be the key …
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Part of story: Asia and New Zealand
… on 25 May 1903. Ward was appointed honorary director, a post he would hold until his death. In 1926 the astronomical …
Type: Biography
… on 2 April 1884. In 1885 White was appointed to the dual posts of headmaster of the Dunedin Normal School and English …
Type: Biography
… schools. After completing the sixth standard he joined the Post and Telegraph Department as a messenger. Acquiring a …
Type: Biography
… Wilding joined the staff of the Bank of New Zealand. He was posted first to Napier and then to Waipukurau where he …
Type: Biography
… was appointed harbourmaster and pilot of Manukau Harbour, a post he held for 30 years. With the advent of steamships the …
Type: Biography
… were used for the clothing to discourage theft. Finger posts were set up around the islands to point the way to the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Castaways
… mayor of Richmond. Thomas Bell married Jessie McNee, the postmistress at Murchison, in 1909, and she encouraged … 1940. That year the Labour government appointed Bell to the post that made her a public figure, as the first nutrition … From this point until her retirement in 1964 she held two posts simultaneously, director of nutrition research at the …
Type: Biography
… Force then being established. In January 1877 he was posted to Blenheim, where he won high praise from his … in 1886. As the most junior commissioned officer he was posted to Greymouth, in charge of the Nelson and Westland …
Type: Biography
… but by April 1854 he had taken up a clerk–interpreter post in McLean's Wellington office. He seemed destined for a … 1855 Edward applied for and obtained the newly established post of resident magistrate's clerk at Ahuriri (Napier). He …
Type: Biography
… the Anglican Māori church at Ōtaki, and retained his post as curate at St Matthew’s until 1952, also serving as … Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, a post he held for many years. He served as a board member of …
Type: Biography
… up journalism. He worked first for the Wellington Evening Post and then for the Christchurch Press , becoming editor … land convinced him that the collapse of the ill-conceived post-war farm settlement scheme was more a result of …
Type: Biography
… serving his apprenticeship as a compositor with the Evening Post in Wellington. He then decided to enter the Wesleyan … and the reformation of the board's structure to create the post of rector as academic head. Three years at this pace …
Type: Biography