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… Architect John Campbell, who oversaw a programme of post-office building in the same idiom. These ranged from the simple Hunterville Post Office (1903) to the more ornate Roslyn Post Office, …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… prop makers, make-up artists, caterers and actors. During post-production films are edited, sound is refined and sound … with director Peter Jackson: Wingnut Films, Park Road Post Production, Weta Workshop, Weta Digital, Stone Street …
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Part of story: Screen industry
… including general stores, boarding houses, stables, a post office, butchery and picture theatre. Milling in the area peaked in the 1940s. The post office closed in 1988. Residents could no longer … but busy township. The mill closed in 1966, followed by the post office. By then, the general store was the only shop …
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Part of story: King Country places
… at 25 for 2. Untroubled by a polished Otago attack, he posted his century in 136 minutes, and then took another 74 … With the outbreak of the Second World War Bill Carson was posted to the 6th Field Regiment of the New Zealand … many times’. After the North African campaign Carson was posted to Italy. He was serving in the 5th Field Regiment as …
Type: Biography
… their overseas competitors did not. The complexity of the post-war economy and the external diversification of the … between 1986/87 and 1993/94, the longest recession in the post-war era. At its bottom, economic activity was 9% below … was the term used to describe the liberal reforms of the post-1984 Labour government. The name refers to the minister …
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Part of story: Economic history
… flying school at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Gray was posted to No 11 Flying Training School at Shawbury, … squadron at Church Fenton, Yorkshire (1954–56), and a posting to HQ Far East Air Force in Singapore (1956–59). He …
Type: Biography
… Intelligence Centre was established in Wellington. The Post Office’s network of Morse radio stations was used to … through their ‘Y’ organisation. This used the Post and Telegraph Department’s network of high-frequency …
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Part of story: Intelligence services
… a military activity, civilian police are often involved in post-conflict situations. New Zealand police personnel have been posted to Cyprus (1964–67), Namibia (1989–90), East Timor …
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Part of story: Peacekeeping
… occupations in government departments. They included the posts of arms cleaner, boatman, bugler, Chinese interpreter, … which specified that people applying for civil service posts must be aged between 17 and 23 years, and provide …
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Part of story: Public service
… Public buildings such as council offices, law courts and post offices support the government and administration of … buildings became larger and grander. Nearly every major post office had a tall clock tower – to show the time, but … art deco predominated, influencing a generation of rebuilt post offices, law courts and public libraries until the …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… a 2013 population of 690. Established in 1870 as a military post, Tīrau became a coach stop for travellers. First called … Tīrau, like many small rural towns, was declining. The post office and a number of businesses had closed. Local … in central Putaruru, built in 1969, was originally the post office. Arapuni Settlement 14 km west of Putaruru. …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… First stamps The world’s first postage stamp, the penny black, was issued in the United … was recovered in just two years as more letters were posted. By 1912 New Zealanders posted an average of 139 items per person each year– the …
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Part of story: Postage stamps
… identified for most of the rest of his career. In his new post, as the Marine Department’s surveyor of ships and … In June 1940 Stanich was transferred to the new post of waterfront controller at Auckland, responsible for … form the backbone of Union’s trans-Pacific service in the post-war years. In 1946 Chris Stanich finally returned to …
Type: Biography
… welfare. During bitter hand-to-hand fighting at Quinn’s Post in June 1915 he returned to the fray after being … colonel and appointed director of education for the NZEF, a post he held until the end of February 1919. In appreciation …
Type: Biography
… to contemporary settings. The q uarry (2013) addressed the post-earthquake reconstruction of Christchurch, with a … Ruskin. Sorawit Songsataya is an artist situated between post-medium and post-internet art. He combines available online footage, …
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Part of story: Experimental film
… 1962 the Wellington Exchange replaced the call-overs with a post-trading system. All the other exchanges had followed … by 1970. At one end of the trading room a large board, or ‘post’, listed all the active stocks. On a raised platform …
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Part of story: Stock market
… School. The following year he transferred to a full-time post in anatomy, on the recommendation of Professor W. P. … health officer; the following April he took up a full-time post in Wellington, having become the second recipient of … This prevented him taking the UNICEF position, or any other post-retirement service, and contributed to his death, in …
Type: Biography
… Canterbury coastline was called Kā Poupou-o-Rakihouia (the posts of Rakihouia), after the posts he put up at several river mouths, signifying …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… campaign may have increased support for first-past-the-post (FPP), which received 46% of the vote in 1993. On the … voters whether they wanted to replace the first-past-the-post voting system with the mixed-member proportional (MMP) …
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Part of story: Referendums
… by the 1950s the native timbers were running out. Concrete posts were used, and also radiata pine, but it rotted in the … allowed radiata pine to be universally adopted for fence posts. Regulations When early farmers complained about …
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Part of story: Agricultural and horticultural research