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… of 19 is said to have been appointed to a music director's post at Würzburg, and later held a similar position at … 1860s Schmitt was in Sydney, where he held various musical posts as organist and conductor, and established a choral …
Type: Biography
… greater numbers with a range of denominations to cover all postal costs. They typically have longer time frames between … in an earlier era. KiwiStamp In 2009 New Zealand Post introduced its first non-denominated stamp, the …
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Part of story: Postage stamps
… not. Major departments such as lands, labour, railways and post and telegraph remained firmly in the hands of their … in the harsh fiscal climate which accompanied the post-war recession of 1921–23. Treasury’s rise in status …
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Part of story: Treasury
… It is erected in sections, with the wires tied to strainer posts at each end of the section (called a strain). Intermediate posts are put in at intervals between the strainers to … standards hold the wires in place between the intermediate posts. When the wires are strained tightly and supported in …
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Part of story: Farm fencing
… and independent support'; but the Wellington Evening Post considered him a political turncoat: 'Vain, … to Wellington to take up the editorship of the Evening Post , to which he was appointed in August 1878. He remained …
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… was used for house frames and weatherboards, piles, fence posts, bridges and firewood. By 1915 most of Canterbury’s … it was used for railway sleepers, bridges, wharves, fence posts and mine props. Since the 1970s high-grade red beech …
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Part of story: Southern beech forest
… no longer necessary. Country towns also benefited from the post-war baby boom and the 1944 introduction of compulsory … towns saw population numbers falling, and shops boarded up. Post offices and banks closed. Country hospitals and small …
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Part of story: Country towns
… English-born people – a pattern strongly reinforced by the post-1945 inflow of English arrivals. By 1976 about 38% of … country as a whole. Reflecting their own urban origins, the post-1916 immigrants preferred to settle in New Zealand’s …
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Part of story: English
… are issued by the state-owned Reserve Bank and New Zealand Post to mark special occasions or to honour individuals. … tender, but are mainly purchased by collectors. New Zealand Post has been the only issuer of legal-tender commemorative … which 1,000 were issued, cost $295 to buy from New Zealand Post, but the notes’ face value was only $185. Collecting …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes
… were sponsored by Aim, a brand of toothpaste. New Zealand Post was the sponsor from 1997 to 2014. In 2015, a number of … 2010 sponsorship of these awards was assumed by New Zealand Post. In 2014, their final year, the New Zealand Post Book Awards covered the categories of poetry, fiction, …
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Part of story: Awards and prizes
… for more time there, and one man served for three postings. In March 1941, under the code name ‘Cape …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… her life in England and Europe. There she was influenced by post-impressionist painting and produced works including … for portraits of women in a style influenced by French post-impressionist Henri Matisse. Other painters returned … strong opponents of modern influences such as cubism and post-impressionism. Another returned expatriate, Margaret …
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Part of story: Painting
… biggest state-owned enterprises were: KiwiRail New Zealand Post (including Kiwibank) Genesis Power and Mighty River … major commercial departments, the Railways and the Post Office. The finances of both departments were separated … petrochemicals; rail, air and shipping transport; postal and telephone services; hotels and travel agencies; …
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Part of story: State-owned enterprises
… The meaning behind this notice, published in the Evening Post in 1961, would have been clear to those who knew the … of etc. Wish contact persons interested in same. T206 Evg. Post’. 1 There is little evidence of publicly visible …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… he pou kino e kore e eketia’ (an attractive or carved post will be climbed by kiore, an ugly, uncarved one won’t). Carved posts supporting storehouses or stages provided footholds …
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Part of story: Kiore – Pacific rats
… miners and the subsequent loss of land. The four Hauraki posts When the Māori King movement was established in the … some tribes pledged mountains as symbolic pou (supporting posts). In Hauraki, the Kohukohunui and Rātāroa mountains on …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… until 1958. A tale of two kings When Cambridge got a new post office in 1908, the arched metal grille over the door … commemorated the reigning monarch, King Edward VII. The post office was extended in 1936 and, as it gained another … short time later, he abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson. The post office, with its two grilles, is unique in New Zealand …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… also for a short while temporary reporter for the Evening Post . He married Dorothy Teresa Dudson, a music teacher, at … Tablet in 1937 and was a political reporter on the Evening Post for a short period. From the early 1940s he edited a …
Type: Biography
… school at 14 in 1924, and in 1925 began work with the Post and Telegraph Department as a messenger boy. There he … the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 the Columbans began posting missionaries elsewhere in Asia. Late in 1938 Douglas … the expatriate Christian missionaries who stayed at their posts, but they became less forbearing after the Allied …
Type: Biography
… of intermediate schools, abolition of scholarship entry to post-primary school, and the broadening of the secondary … enthusiasms, the inclusion of agricultural subjects in the post-primary curriculum, was emphasised: 'agriculture, and … local unified control by education boards of primary and post-primary education, though it was shelved during the war …
Type: Biography