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… with glossy green, pink and purple neck feathers. Pigeon post From 1897 to 1908 Great Barrier Island had a regular pigeon-post service to Auckland, and boasted the world’s first …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… of their parents, breaking their last grasp. Tāne planted posts to keep his parents apart, which is why he is also known as Tāne-tokotoko-o-ngā-rangi (Tāne of the posts that hold the heavens aloft). Ranginui and Papatūānuku …
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Part of story: Ranginui – the sky
… Primary processing Because refrigerated products require post-farm-gate processing, dairy factories sprang up near … moved out of the cities to be nearer farms. There was some post-farm-gate processing of wool, including scouring and …
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Part of story: Economic history
… in the Armed Constabulary on 5 January 1869, and given the post of second in command of its No 8 (Arawa) Division. … in 1879 Porter regained his land purchase and military posts. In the general election of 1881 he unsuccessfully …
Type: Biography
… Rangitane . Seven passengers and eight of the crew died. Post-war incidents In the 30 years after the Second World … War there were several maritime incidents. In her first post-war voyage from Sydney to Wellington the liner …
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Part of story: Shipwrecks
… through the opposing team’s goal. There are two sets of goalposts; a kick between the inner posts is called a goal and is worth six points, and a kick …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… wanted to retain or change the country’s first-past-the-post electoral system. Regardless of their vote on the first … referendum, MMP was chosen in preference to first-past-the-post. The voice of the people In a comment made in …
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Part of story: Referendums
… when passed over for the permanent position, she accepted a post as matron of Palmerston North Hospital. On arrival she … help prevent infection. Her first major act on assuming her post was to organise sewing bees with her relatives to sew …
Type: Biography
… to New Zealand in 1860 or 1861. Frances obtained a post as governess in Auckland, where her father was … she was offered, and accepted, nomination for a similar post at Morrinsville, but was rejected by the school …
Type: Biography
… Post-Second World War changes The freeze on the number of … licences. Alcohol consumption rose significantly in the post-war economic boom. However, the rise was stalled for …
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Part of story: Liquor laws
… against the back wall under the pou tuarongo (back wall post) or the third poupou (post) on the tara whānui (wide or visitors’) side of the …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… of Sir Norman Angell, she began to promote the study of post-war reconstruction. 'To wait until peace is in sight', … prolonged study.' In 1941 she helped to found Wellington's Post-War Reconstruction Study Group, and in 1943 the …
Type: Biography
… policy. He urged the necessity of planning for post-war reconstruction and the importance of full … department and expanded its functions greatly. During the post-war period it had a central role in promoting full … he had made a substantial contribution to the shaping of post-depression New Zealand. …
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… After returning to New Zealand, Gifford obtained teaching posts in science and mathematics at Waitaki High School … the wider public through his weekly articles in the Evening Post , Wellington, during the 1920s and 1930s. These were …
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… husband, Melvin Brown Esson, a senior telegraphist with the Post and Telegraph Department. The family moved around New … the opportunity to write a recipe feature for the Evening Post , and so her column ‘Dine with Elizabeth’ began. … and 1961. The column itself was a feature of the Evening Post for over 15 years. The success of Elizabeth Messenger’s …
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… and politicians placed Milner centre stage in debates on post-primary schooling. He was elected first president of … Party candidate for the Oamaru electorate in 1941, but war postponed the election. A vital part of citizenship … Approved in 1936, it was to become part of the nation's post-primary schooling policy from 1946. Milner did not …
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… the Geological Survey and in May was informed he was to be posted overseas as a sergeant, unless a vacancy occurred for … Ongley protested, claiming it was illegal not to be posted as an officer: he was on sick leave when the war …
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… were still often unhygienic, which caused a high rate of post-operative infections. From the 1860s antisepsis (use of … hard-working and sober. Nursing leaders (matrons) were posted around the British Empire and took ideas about …
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Part of story: Hospitals
… Bay Frontiersmen. Commissioned as lieutenant, he was posted to the Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment and landed at … with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, in October 1917 he was posted to the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment in Palestine. …
Type: Biography
… aircraft apprentice training scheme, and in 1941 he was posted to South Africa. While there, he transferred to pilot … his wings on 24 September 1943. In early 1945 Waugh was posted to No 75 (New Zealand) Squadron as a flight engineer …
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