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… and on D’Urville Island followed, and early in 1943 he was posted to Greymouth to survey coal resources. Wellman …
Type: Biography
… of the extended range of art materials available in the post-war years. It was also a time when her reputation in …
Type: Biography
… is evident in his 1937 design for the Hereford Street Post Office. The majority of Wood's ecclesiastical …
Type: Biography
… school at 16 to work as a telegram boy in the Whakatāne post office, but abandoned a planned career as a linesman … he failed his English exam. In 1963, after a year at the post office, Joe lied about his age to get a job in the …
Type: Biography
… Nelson was without prospects, and in 1847 he applied for a post with the colonial government at Auckland. In August … He resigned from the General Assembly to take up the post of commissioner of native reserves, which McLean …
Type: Biography
… when he retired to Kawiti, near Ōrauta. James Hēnare’s post-war life was marked by a commitment to public service, … to his people was exemplified by his refusal of an overseas posting as a high commissioner. His dedication was …
Type: Biography
… Wilkinson, an Englishman working on the installation of a post and telegraph system in South Africa. When Iris was a … employed by the Wanganui Chronicle by March 1929. At each post she inserted controversial interviews or subversive …
Type: Biography
… Zealand. After training as a naval architect in Glasgow, post-war employment with Fisher & Paykel and 17 years … friendship. Back in Britain, Jackson’s unit was posted to North Wales, but the air they encountered was much …
Type: Biography
… He also hinted that he had been a commander or even post captain in the navy but a search of archives in London, … to New Zealand in 1855. Family influence obtained him a post in the Native Land Purchase Department under Alfred …
Type: Biography
… Remuera Ladies’ College. Early commercial aviation and postal flights The school imported new aeroplanes at the … the construction of seaplanes and worked to interest the Post and Telegraph Department in aeroplanes for mail …
Type: Biography
… artists – Sharon O’Neill, Jon Stevens and Misex. Punk and post-punk labels At the end of the 1970s local music was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Recording companies and studios
… not to come within 20 miles (32 kilometres) of Invercargill Post Office, to pay her own debts, and not to pledge her …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Divorce and separation
… of Sarey Stuart and her husband, Edward Pond Skinner, a post office linesman and former seaman. She grew up in …
Type: Biography
… they had seceded from New Zealand. They set up a border post and began selling ‘passports’ and ‘citizenships’, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pulp and paper, aluminium and steel industries
… express, Barker addressed a large crowd of strikers in Post Office Square and then made his way to the court. He …
Type: Biography
… especially fond of his weekly sessions at the New Zealand Post-graduate School for Nurses; he loved to draw out the …
Type: Biography
… for the Westport Coal Company. In January 1915 he was posted as a private in the Canterbury Battalion. Later in …
Type: Biography
… of sugar distribution. For his work in these various posts he was knighted in 1917 and elevated to the peerage …
Type: Biography
… publications. Bloggers Danyl Mclauchlan (The Dim-Post) and Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish) and Scoop news site …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… southern provinces to the north of Auckland. At least 80 post offices alone were constructed between 1870 and 1877. …
Type: Biography