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… At just 39 years of age he had held the top medical post in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and had been the …
Type: Biography
… schools. In 1931 Begg left New Zealand to take up the post of YWCA national general secretary for India, Burma and …
Type: Biography
… to graduate, received her BSc only in 1919. After gaining a postgraduate diploma in household and social science from … which he represented at a conference in Paris in 1934. The post-war years saw Noel Benson, now venerable, inspiring …
Type: Biography
… century. However, Boreham did not hold many official posts, largely because of his radical views, and perhaps …
Type: Biography
… with a large number of ballads and concert songs. With the post-war reopening of Covent Garden in May 1919, Buckman …
Type: Biography
… by the 1930s economic depression , the Second World War and post-war austerity, but would explode in the 1950s. In need … couldn’t wait to grow up: ‘Teenager was a new thing, a postwar thing, which I sort of noticed as a kid. There was a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… School for four years and later Ōkato School. He joined the Post and Telegraph Department in 1911 but left in 1917 for …
Type: Biography
… at the congresses of Young Christian Workers and the Lay Apostolate in Rome. The latter’s dominant theme was the role … Delargey became the first New Zealand bishop to be given a post in the Roman Curia. He attended all four sessions of …
Type: Biography
… 1871 and on the 18th of the same month took up his new post. In addition to examining, he was to assist in the …
Type: Biography
… risen gradually from under 100 annually in the immediate post-war years to about 800 in the early 1980s, increased to …
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Part of story: Business failures and corporate fraud
… Māori members and failed to place them in administrative posts. He moved to set up an independent Māori political …
Type: Biography
… employed as a journalist and editor on Wellington's Evening Post . Coupland Harding died in Wellington on 16 December …
Type: Biography
… and Mr Whitaker the Attorney-General gave Mr Whitaker [the post of] the Acting Minister of War during the absence of Mr …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… and Eileen Duggan as engaged in effeminate sentimental posturing. Denis Glover and A. R. D. Fairburn regularly … Rita Angus and Toss Woollaston, made their names through post-impressionist landscape painting, rather than …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… she was made an MBE for her work during the war. In the post-war period, Arihia provided lodging for young men from …
Type: Biography
… with the followers of Te Whiti and Tohu in 1879. Parata posted bail for his son, who refused to accept it. Parata is …
Type: Biography
… ‘100 years of progress’ stamps and medals – the New Zealand Post Office issued commemorative stamps, and the provinces …
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Part of story: Anniversaries
… – that much of our most respected non-fiction in the post-Waitangi Tribunal era continues to be historical in …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… to retire in 1920 was not accepted, and he remained at his post until appointed administrator of New Zealand's mandated …
Type: Biography
… entertainer. In 1925 he took up a part-time teaching post, giving monthly master-classes at conservatories in …
Type: Biography