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… wearing lipstick in class – which had some shock value in post-war Dunedin. Arthur Prior New Zealander Arthur Prior …
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Part of story: Philosophy
… in 1931) were to rise to leading scientific and academic posts. Baden Powell was assistant director of the Auckland …
Type: Biography
… Canterbury with the present. ‘A curious people’ The Evening Post newspaper commented on 2 January 1901, ‘ We are a … significance – the inauguration of the Universal Penny Postage.’ 4 New century Whether it began on 1 January 1900 …
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Part of story: Anniversaries
… villages). It was flanked by large figures and carved posts and was complete with drawbridge. The exhibition's …
Type: Biography
… for some years before being dispatched to commentate on the post-war 1945–46 New Zealand ‘Kiwis’ army team’s tour of the …
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Part of story: Sports reporting and commentating
… played on weekends, and many clubs had ‘home’ grounds with post-match functions at their clubrooms. Hockey became …
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Part of story: Hockey
… Shortly afterwards Searancke was dismissed from his post as resident magistrate when John Sheehan , minister of …
Type: Biography
… a second in modern greats in 1926 for his first academic post as senior lecturer in English at the University of Cape …
Type: Biography
… falling Pākehā population and loss of European dominance). Post-war epidemic A global pandemic of syphilis and …
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Part of story: Sexual health
… secretaries of the 1942–43 consultative committee on the post-primary school curriculum (which produced the Thomas …
Type: Biography
… provincial commissioner for the Girl Guides Assocation, a post she filled until 1954 and which involved numerous …
Type: Biography
… incarceration numbers in the early 2000s. Meanwhile, the post office was an important public building in many …
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Part of story: Public buildings
… or canoe racing (paddling), or ... games of skill, such as posture dances, ti rakau, [or] dart throwing ... Kite flying … Uenuku’s breadfruit. Whakatūria was caught and tied to a post inside Uenuku’s whare. He watched Uenuku’s people …
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Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia
… Like Noel Hilliard’s, Witi Ihimaera’s writing has tackled post-1960 Māori urbanisation, but he focuses less on …
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Part of story: City images
… conditions, was a standard camping accessory. Caravans Post-war petrol rationing finally ended in 1950 and during …
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Part of story: Camping
… deep-water wharf (Queen’s Wharf) was built, as was a new post office and bond store. This was the beginning of …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… Thomas chairman of a consultative committee on the post-primary school curriculum. Their report, the Thomas …
Type: Biography
… to the war effort. Business was slow to recover in the post-war years − fewer international tourists arrived in …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… it had been since 1897. When the railways and then the post and telegraph department were privatised, even the …
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Part of story: Unions and employee organisations
… Ward rose rapidly in the ministry of William Fox, becoming postmaster general and then secretary for Crown lands on 2 … When Alfred Domett became premier, Ward was reappointed as postmaster general after the resignation of Walter Mantell . … with a knack for winning over an audience. He declined a post in Weld's ministry in 1864 but was elected for Avon in …
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