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… Herald , and wrote a weekly labour column in the Evening Post. An advocate of state socialism, arbitration and …
Type: Biography
… Under her leadership the Napier Seventh-day Adventists posted over 1,000 tracts on the issue to influential people …
Type: Biography
… of Carter, Carterton acquired sites for a cemetery, post office, court-house and police station. His most …
Type: Biography
… on the Snares, Campbell Island and the Antipodes. 65 finger posts were erected to direct castaways to the supplies. …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… its entirety. No cows allowed In 1950 Wellington’s Evening Post explained to its readers what the new motorway was for: …
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Part of story: Roads
… has the main wharf, a hospital and resident doctor, post office, bank, council office, police, several stores, a …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… in 1874. At that time the museum was housed in the old post office building, but a new museum in Princes Street was …
Type: Biography
… his position, anti-militarism found new expression in post-1950 church-based peace and anti-nuclear movements. …
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Part of story: Presbyterian Church
… gas provoked argument and even fighting. The elaborate lamp posts used for street lighting were ridiculed. Residential …
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Part of story: Energy supply and use
… for most – but also, from 1965, by protests from the post-war baby-boom generation then reaching their 20s. They …
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Part of story: National Party
… thwarted her plans. James Cowie died in 1941 and Graham was posted overseas with the New Zealand Medical Corps, leaving …
Type: Biography
… in 1864 and sheriff of Wellington in 1866, holding both posts until his resignation in 1878. In 1864 he established …
Type: Biography
… as a specialisation in its own right. Responding to the post-war winds of change, he shifted the focus from imperial …
Type: Biography
… night of 24 November 1935, radio engineers employed by the Post and Telegraph Department deliberately jammed a popular … was likely to urge his listeners to vote for Labour. The postmaster general, Adam Hamilton, who was the minister …
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Part of story: Media and politics
… a clash with popular serials. Choral compositions In the post-war years, more choirs incorporated New Zealand …
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Part of story: Choral music and choirs
… depression). After the Second World War In the era of post-war growth, partly a product of prosperous farming and …
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Part of story: Otago places
… salaries were cut and jobs lost. It was not until the post-Second World War period that government funding of …
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Part of story: Early childhood education and care
… activated by smashing the glass on a box mounted on a lamp post. This sent a signal to a switchboard operator, who …
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Part of story: Fires and fire services
… together as they had no nails. They used timber for posts, ridge poles and outer walls, and rushes, bark or …
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Part of story: Building materials
… another wife – ‘too common’ a story, regretted the Evening Post . 1 In 1886 former Royal Navy officer Theodore Berhew …
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Part of story: Inner-city living