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… build my house Its ridge pole will be made of hīnau Its posts will be made of māhoe (whiteywood) and patatē …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… Highs and lows, 1945–60 Post-war test cricket began disastrously for New Zealand in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cricket
… of homosexuality ( If I bought her the w ool, 1971) and post-colonial exploitation ( Unlikely p laces, 1979). Two …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… Centre, the hub of Māori social and cultural life in post-war Auckland. Apartment living Many urban Māori lived …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… named Hatupatu, a small storehouse, most of the stockade-post figures and an open octagonal lookout shelter in the …
Type: Biography
… government. After the security of the wartime contract, the post-war climate for dairy exports was increasingly …
Type: Biography
… from her Sunlight League and Youth Hostels Association posts in 1938. She resumed work as the league's secretary in …
Type: Biography
… was formed in 1931 Williams declined another ministerial post; because of the effects of a severe car accident some …
Type: Biography
… able to vote, stand for committees and hold all official posts. When Mary Clement Leavitt of the United States-based …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women’s movement
… Club in 1877, Henry Anderson, editor of the Evening Post , said, ‘When you come to the club at night, your wives …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Men’s clubs
… imbued him with her simple Catholicism. Joseph joined the post office as a message boy in 1869 but was soon sacked for … introduced on 1 January 1901: 13 million more letters were posted in the first year of penny postage than in the …
Type: Biography
… kept him fully occupied. In 1975, however, an English postal strike delayed this process, creating cash-flow … dog’, which Mike Robson, editor of Wellington’s Evening Post , agreed to publish three times a week from 16 February … hit with adults and children alike. The Evening Post published it five days a week from February 1977, …
Type: Biography
… parents emigrated to New Zealand to escape the austerity of post-war Britain. Sylvia stopped initially at Sydney, but … topic as Māori increasingly moved into the cities in the post-war decades. Raymond lived up to Wishart’s hopes for …
Type: Biography
… the Canterbury Horticultural Society in 1903, and held this post for the next 53 years. Otahuna soon became famous for … Rhodes joined William Massey 's cabinet in 1912 as postmaster-general and minister of public health. He gained … had begun collecting as a boy, and his appointment as postmaster-general in 1912 had revived his interest. He took …
Type: Biography
… Merry and her husband, John Allum, a porter at the General Post Office. As a 19-year-old clerk he married Annie Attwood …
Type: Biography
… in 1961. Around this time he was offered the ambassadorial post in Washington, but ill health precluded his acceptance. …
Type: Biography
… Conference at Bretton Woods, which established the post-war international monetary regime, and negotiating in …
Type: Biography
… in the amateur ranks. International competition The first post-war international success came in 1919, when several …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Athletics
… in 1938, and in 1944 and 1946 she undertook wartime and post-war goodwill visits to the United States, where her …
Type: Biography
… that would one day replace their tin shacks and trading posts, but those who were eventually born into that bright …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction