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… soldiers from drink's 'disgrace and ruin.' He assumed the post of master of plan drawing at the Royal Military Academy …
Type: Biography
… Veysey Along with McLean, two other sports reporters of the post-war decades constituted a famous troika. In Wellington …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sports reporting and commentating
… The 1950 Auckland Empire Games gave the perfect start to post-war athletics. Big crowds filled Eden Park for the four …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Athletics
… promotion after fourteen years in Ohakune, Trevor took the post of deputy principal at Kuranui College, Greytown, in … partners. She was appointed editor of the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association’s journal, a perfect …
Type: Biography
… London. In 1845 he began as a junior officer in the General Post Office and soon became private secretary to the … in favour of a rival blocked his appointment as chief postmaster at Brighton. For health reasons, and because he … by flexible, low-profile tactics. Hall abandoned outflanked posts, but lost no essential base. …
Type: Biography
… War History Branch of Internal Affairs. The prospects of post-graduate study at Princeton and a foreign affairs … of his career, but relations with Barclay broke down in post-production. Te rua , O’Shea’s final feature, was … captured the character and look of New Zealand during the postwar decades, its industry and commerce, its politics and …
Type: Biography
… Rata was a complex and contradictory man: socialist apostle, conservative radical, labourer turned cabinet … moved her four children to Auckland, where she worked as a Post Office cleaner. There the family shared a crowded …
Type: Biography
… He was an uninterested scholar and left school to join the Post and Telegraph Department’s Christchurch office. He … day. Professional diver In 1966, aged 29, Tarlton quit his Post Office job to take up diving full-time. The decision … probably contributed to his early death. In 2012 he was posthumously inducted into the International Scuba Diving …
Type: Biography
… Edward and Jean began to consider moving overseas to escape post-war scarcity and rationing, bouts of whooping cough and … Youth Orchestra. Beatrice met Brian Alfred Tinsley, a postgraduate student in physics, at the Socratic Society; by …
Type: Biography
… secretary to the minister in 1912. He was to hold this post for 28 years, serving under a series of native …
Type: Biography
… colloquially 'the Crucifixion'): they were tied to a post in the open with their hands bound tightly behind their …
Type: Biography
… Bickerton accepted, out of several promising offers, the post of foundation professor of chemistry at the newly …
Type: Biography
… who was appointed chief surveyor of Canterbury in the new post-provincial Survey Department. Brodrick's first field …
Type: Biography
… controversial record in Australia, Chapman was offered a post as judge of the Supreme Court in New Zealand. He …
Type: Biography
… World War he was again in Otago. He volunteered and was posted to the 14th (South Otago) Company of the Otago …
Type: Biography
… electors and business tycoons. Failing to obtain the post of New Zealand official war correspondent in 1915, …
Type: Biography
… in the ways of bureaucrats, he insisted before taking the post that he report to only one superior, Prime Minister …
Type: Biography
… least partly because he was soon to be dismissed from his post under a cloud of allegations of homosexual conduct. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction
… at the Westport School of Mines, but left at 14 to become a post office message boy and then a railway worker. On 29 …
Type: Biography
… the unpaid acting rank of brigadier. He retired from his post with the war graves commission at the end of 1943. …
Type: Biography