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… welcomed the appointment of such an outstanding man to the post. After sailing in the Bangalore to Sydney and thence to …
Type: Biography
… infant missions to the South Seas, and in 1804 took up the post of local agent for the London Missionary Society's … the Māori language. The establishment of the New Zealand outpost was further delayed. The missionary societies rejected … ultimately Great Britain was in large measure due to the apostolic labours of Samuel Marsden. …
Type: Biography
… the years of army discipline and the social strictures of post-war New Zealand. Pearson spent four formative years …
Type: Biography
… initially at a local sawmill and then the Taumarunui Post Office before taking up a role at the Mosgiel Woollen …
Type: Biography
… from 1921 to 1924, and again from 1927 to 1935. Russell was posted to the retired list in 1932. In 1934 he was appointed …
Type: Biography
… to the change the balance of power. A woman’s magazine for post-war New Zealand The shy and restrained Wishart …
Type: Biography
… early schooling, and he boarded in Christchurch for post-primary education. Boarding school was a shock, as he …
Type: Biography
… to exile on St Helena in 1815. After 18 months without a post he returned to service, and was involved chiefly in the …
Type: Biography
… in November 1961, moving to Wellington to take up the post. Early in her tenure she became aware of the wealth of …
Type: Biography
… Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi and Ngāti Maniapoto, and in the post-war years worked to reconcile King movement and …
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… to miners and it was given added impetus by such notable apostles of socialism as Tom Mann , the veteran of the 1889 … and was deprived of his civil rights for 10 years. In the post-war years Webb returned to mining. He joined George …
Type: Biography
… A year later they reunited after James accepted a UNESCO posting in India and asked Jacquie to join him there with …
Type: Biography
… No 4 New Zealand Field Ambulance. Then in May 1918 he was posted to Britain and in September to the No 3 New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… satiric ‘Secular litany,’ a critique of New Zealand’s arid post-war culture that anticipated his colleague Bill Pearson … cancer on 4 October 1981, aged 67. His family supported the posthumous publication of Kaspar’s journey and Tomorrow the …
Type: Biography
… the DCM for single-handedly capturing a German machine-gun post at Messines (Mesen). In March 1918, at Mailly-Maillet, …
Type: Biography
… John McKenzie's expertise on land matters won him the post of minister of lands in the Liberal cabinet from 1891 …
Type: Biography
… in July 1863 was made minister of defence as well. This post he continued to hold in the subsequent Fox–Whitaker …
Type: Biography
… built a new shop and storeroom in Whakarapa, added a post office to the business, and opened branches at Waihou …
Type: Biography
… Arnold Nordmeyer for the leadership of the party when the post came up for election at the last caucus of 1965. In a …
Type: Biography
… a Scot, he was appointed to the Protectorate of Aborigines. Posted as sub-protector in Taranaki, McLean had to mediate …
Type: Biography