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… to build a purely miners' organisation. Bob Semple and the apostles of socialism had to convince the union establishment … the opprobrium heaped on the vanquished leadership. In the post mortems that followed the defeat, Semple disowned all strikes and presented himself successfully for the post of organiser in the reconstructed national …
Type: Biography
… George Clarke in 1844. From 1853 he held the newly created post of chief land purchase commissioner, and from 1856 he …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā take Māori – government policy and Māori
… in Japan when the Dutch were establishing a trading post there. Working for a company which was more interested …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… painted lattice shapes in acrylic before returning later to post-modern figurative work Geoff Thornley, who experimented …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Painting
… piano competition. Taupō’s museum occupies a former post-office building in the Domain, near the remains of an …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… hospitals was not realised until 1937, when he designed the Post and Telegraph Department offices in Herd Street, …
Type: Biography
… War broke out in 1914, he joined the Royal Navy and was posted as a gunner on the destroyer Opal. The ship was based …
Type: Biography
… The region’s only daily newspaper is the Dominion Post . …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington region
… out in a number of occupations, becoming a cadet in the Post and Telegraph Department, then a wireless operator and …
Type: Biography
… years of private nursing in Wellington, Bagley took up a post in June 1908 as assistant inspector in the Department … from 1928 a specialist branch of nursing with its own postgraduate training course. After her retirement in 1930 …
Type: Biography
… for his family. This difficult period was drawn on in his post-alcoholic period to write his next novel, The talkback …
Type: Biography
… his retirement from medicine, although he did retain the post of registrar of births, deaths and marriages. A complex …
Type: Biography
… day New Plymouth, and Te Āti Awa, pressing for a trading post permanently occupied by Pākehā to ensure both …
Type: Biography
… child, Mary Eliza Frances (known as Mina), married the postmaster, Charles Tipping, in 1872. Hannah later gave them … Thomas Ward, her elder surviving son, worked for the Post Office and soon after his marriage in 1887 moved on to …
Type: Biography
… extolled. Barry tried hard to secure himself an official post as an emigration agent, and, despite the government's …
Type: Biography
… authority on political science and was poised to teach a post-war generation of students, and perhaps to re-enter …
Type: Biography
… during the early 1990s as a large cohort of women who had postponed pregnancy started having children. The ra … married before the birth – a trend which peaked during the post- Second World War baby-boom years. Adoption was a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… public service. His retirement marked the passing of the post-war era in which new power stations were constantly …
Type: Biography
… of the sons of Alexander and Thomas Burt held executive posts in A. & T. Burt Limited when Alexander died in Dunedin …
Type: Biography
… High School. After working as a shorthand writer in the Post and Telegraph Department, she trained as a nurse … Hospital, Wellington. After further study she completed the postgraduate course for nurses in 1934. Over the next four … in October she was appointed a nurse instructor at the postgraduate school for nurses in Wellington. There she …
Type: Biography