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… The following year Cook became president of the Alliance, a post he was to hold until 1935. Roberts and Cook became two …
Type: Biography
… Dress and Mantle Makers' Union in 1919, holding these posts until his death. Cooke soon became prominent in the …
Type: Biography
… His achievement was in helping the Auckland diocese in the post-Selwyn era consolidate and expand both its Māori and …
Type: Biography
… at Waikari, North Canterbury. His mother was the local postmistress, while his father, formerly a miller, worked as … of the commissioner, Paul Verschaffelt , he took up the post of controller general of prisons. He retained this …
Type: Biography
… their way home. Dancing from one day to the next, eating a post-ball breakfast with the host, and setting off home in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Dancing
… Rangitīaria decided to become a teacher. She took up a post as probationary assistant at Whakarewarewa Native …
Type: Biography
… St Patrick's College, Wellington. She then held a one-year post as an assistant lecturer at Victoria University College …
Type: Biography
… use of websites – SoundCloud and YouTube – on which she posted her music, her own website (lorde.co.nz), iTunes, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… first official war camera operator, Henry Sanders, was posted to the Western Front in 1917. G. Cory wrote that …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Documentary film
… women’s and children’s boots made to order, and orders by post promptly attended to’. 1 Footwear factories Boot and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Clothing and footwear manufacturing
… In October, however, the union, led by Furey, opposed the posting of the report of the Special Committee on Moral …
Type: Biography
… for 20 months before taking up the first of a succession of posts in the Wellington area. On 28 December 1926 he married …
Type: Biography
… during a visit to Britain, she discussed the idea of a postgraduate school for obstetrics and gynaecology in New … Shaw and John Stallworthy. Back home, Gordon accepted the post of director of maternal and child welfare in the Health … from 1946 to 1948 primarily to work towards this goal. The postgraduate school of obstetrics and gynaecology was …
Type: Biography
… Peter and Alec took over the farm. Isabella Graham became postmistress, ran a store, took in paying guests, and was … and beyond New Zealand. Their hotel also served as post office and community and first-aid centre. The brothers …
Type: Biography
… Lawrence and Chignall were taken to court over the sale of postcard reproductions of mythologically themed paintings … both of which featured nudity. The defence argued that the postcards were ‘pure art’ and therefore not indecent, to … came from the Protestant Political Association, after the Post Office, in 1917, stopped the distribution of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Censorship
… with first-class honours in physical science. He then did postgraduate work at University College, London, and spent … eventual successor to Tibbs, but in 1906 he applied for the post of director of technical classes in Christchurch. He …
Type: Biography
… columns for the New Zealand Listener and later the Dominion Post with his own cartoons. Another creator of popular …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Humour
… to conduct a dispensary. She refused advice to leave her post and return to the relative safety of Canton or Kong …
Type: Biography
… had been instrumental in bringing about an approach to post-primary education suited to the needs of New Zealand. …
Type: Biography
… distinctive, dispensing with the open planning of post-war modern homes, reintroducing multiple small spaces …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Domestic architecture