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… Berendsen overcame the teething problems of the new post, and adapted readily to the diplomatic life. … After a brief visit to Wellington he took up his post in July. In 1948 the legation was raised to an embassy …
Type: Biography
… at the Alexander Turnbull Library – had a two-year posting as a UNESCO library advisor to the Indonesian … in 1964. In 1965 ill health forced him to resign from his post as the Turnbull’s chief librarian. Christine resigned …
Type: Biography
… Typhon’s people (1993), a movie-for-TV thriller set in a post–apocalyptic future, followed. One of her longest … been patron. Other official tributes included New Zealand Post’s issue in March 2013 of five Margaret Mahy postage …
Type: Biography
… Zealand's behalf on 28 June 1919. He was concerned at the post-war chaos in Europe and the rise of communism in Russia … general election delayed since 1917 because of the war. The post-war situation in New Zealand worried Massey. The … Although Allen resigned in 1920 and took up the post of high commissioner in London, Massey was to find two …
Type: Biography
… of Trinidad. Again, Mary Anne accompanied him on this posting. His early death in 1896 left his wife desolate and …
Type: Biography
… 1920 she found employment at Wellington Girls' College, a post she never took up because her father was to go …
Type: Biography
… for the Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society), a post he held until he retired in 1977. Neil Begg was a great …
Type: Biography
… a student at the training college. Chilton now took up the post of rector of Port Chalmers District High School. He was … , a primitive freshwater shrimp-like animal. Chilton postulated that comparable forms might exist in New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… on corporal punishment, championed the introduction of post-primary technical classes and superannuation for …
Type: Biography
… X signed an act promoting Dumont d'Urville to the rank of post captain and on 17 August l'Académie Royale des Sciences …
Type: Biography
… Mary Frances Bunny (formerly Kelly), widow of the local post and telegraph master F. J. Bunny. There were to be no …
Type: Biography
… he led the company that arrested Te Whiti and Tohu Kakahi. Posted to Manaia, he built a sophisticated redoubt, grew …
Type: Biography
… (Māori) Battalion in the Second World War and a noted post-war Māori leader. Many of his more than 40 …
Type: Biography
… ostensibly on financial grounds, an offer of the Australian post. He saw such an appointment as a dignified and happy …
Type: Biography
… In 1860 he was placed fourth out of 60 candidates for the post of army assistant surgeon, and started the induction …
Type: Biography
… a dedication remembering the fallen is read, and the last post is played. Later in the morning, another more public …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public holidays
… including feeding, sleeping, brain development and post-natal depression. It also operates a blog on which …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Parenting
… his followers at Te Ngutu-o-te-manu. Some firing at an outpost alerted Titokowaru and he disposed most of his force … of food soon had to fall back to Fort Galatea. This post also proved untenable, and the whole expedition …
Type: Biography
… secretary, minister of defence, and minister of justice, posts which he retained until the Atkinson ministry was …
Type: Biography
… use in primary schools. The three bulletins he wrote for post-primary students and adult education classes – How …
Type: Biography