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… among economic and sectional interests – and pushed for ‘post-materialist’ values. Rejecting the idea of ‘growth’, …
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Part of story: Political values
… servant: the two previous commissioners had been from the Post and Telegraph Department. Despite the stresses of the …
Type: Biography
… 1840s to a township with shipping, a school, courthouse, post office, two hotels and the headquarters of Waiapu …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… the council’s primary responsibility for deliberating post-coup developments in Guatemala and opposed American …
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Part of story: Multilateral organisations
… became the accepted guide for visitors eager to view the post-eruption wonderland. Over the next few years he took …
Type: Biography
… in detail. Excitement too much In 1938 the Evening Post reported: ‘Within a few hours of celebrating a unique …
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Part of story: Birthdays and wedding anniversaries
… are likely to continue being used for many years to come. Post-control management Millions of dollars have been spent …
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Part of story: Weeds of agriculture
… work during his years at Wallaceville and Ruakura. The post-war period also saw a continuation of his involvement …
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… and who delighted in the sobriquet of ‘Coffee’, to the big post in the middle of the house, with my dog chains, for …
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Part of story: Cooking
… as an honorary instructor and later as president. In the post-war period he pioneered aerial search and rescue …
Type: Biography
… and armoured cars under his command. In March 1915 he was posted to a new squadron in France made up of armoured Rolls …
Type: Biography
… and orchestra reflected this. Yet he could also offer the post-Baroque musings of Timedance (2012), a collaboration …
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Part of story: Composers
… and Guides. The 1950s saw strong growth in memberships. A post-war baby boom, peaking in 1961, put pressure on …
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Part of story: Youth organisations
… but ultimately unsuccessful third-party challenge to the post-Second World War ascendancy of the Labour and National … and considered entering the ministry. Instead he took up a post-primary teachers’ bursary at Auckland University … to overcome New Zealand’s disproportionate first-past-the-post voting system, and its decline in the 1980s was swift …
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… December 1841. His mother died in 1846, and his father, a postmaster, died in 1852. Thomas was cared for by an aunt … 1930s the urgings of James McDermott, chief engineer in the Post and Telegraph Department, were instrumental in gaining …
Type: Biography
… Zealand Air Force as a meteorological observer (1944–45), postings which stimulated a lifelong interest in maps. On 4 … Zealand studies, but is particularly obvious in the many postgraduate theses on New Zealand history and politics he …
Type: Biography
… Crown colony era. More significantly, Domett took up the post of colonial secretary for New Munster (1848–53), a … did he administer affairs in this capacity that the post of secretary for Crown lands was changed from a …
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… request of the New Zealand War Cabinet. He held this post until 1946. It was an administrative task in which he … or dupes or traitors either potential or intended’. In the post-war years, Kippenberger’s health was not good and he …
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… chauffeur. He embarked with the 11th Reinforcements and was posted to active service with the 2nd Battalion of the … gazetted as a member of the Pēwhairangi Māori Council, a post he was to retain until at least 1945. In 1937 he …
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… joined the Woman’s Auxiliary Air Force and was initially posted to Wellington. Her first job was as a runner in … demanding job. She was trained as a radar plotter, then posted to Northern Group Headquarters in Auckland. She later …
Type: Biography