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… did so every day. Email had a drastic impact on the use of postal services. By 2013 New Zealand Post was considering … taking a Facebook or Twitter holiday – when they stopped posting for a day or so – for fear their followers might …
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Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… South-West of England at Exeter. He was dismissed from this post in 1940, ostensibly because of an association with a … East with the rank of lance corporal. In March 1941 he was posted to the 21st Battalion and proceeded to Greece. He was … visiting Soviet generals at Freyberg’s headquarters. His posting, as a second secretary, followed a meeting in London …
Type: Biography
… guns and that prepared positions cannot be rushed'. As post commander at Courtney's Post and Quinn's Post between June and August he put this …
Type: Biography
… with his appointment as its parliamentary secretary, a new post created to improve communication between the medical … invalided ashore in England some nine months later, then posted to the retired list in March 1917. James Malcolm …
Type: Biography
… of people continued to practise. Clout shooting uses a post or flag marker and a long range (up to 185 metres, … to deliver fire behind defensive lines during battle. Going postal In a ‘postal shoot’, competitors are distributed … across the country or internationally. Their results are posted to the adjudicator, who then announces the winner. …
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Part of story: Archery, fencing, shooting and military re-enactment
… in a practice in Bury, Lancashire, then obtained a post as house physician at the Royal Free Hospital, London. … hospitals, medical services for units in the field, and the post-war education of medical officers. He travelled often …
Type: Biography
… as Para Matchitt and Cliff Whiting. Even the pou (carved posts) contain an element of irony. Grant depicts ‘urban … Institute of Technology took down the maihi and amo (front post) of the house for restoration, the names of the Rotorua …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… in Canada, in late 1943 he joined the Fleet Air Arm and was posted to the aircraft carrier Illustrious , flying Corsair … cut short in 1950 due to an American and British desire for post-war reconciliation with Japan. In the early 1950s …
Type: Biography
… of £13 per annum in 1897 she took charge of the Lichfield post and telegraph office, which was moved to a lean-to … retired from teaching in 1913; however, she was to remain postmistress for another 13 years. During the First World … community. In 1921 a telephone switchboard was wired to the post office. Isabella was paid one pound per year by each of …
Type: Biography
… and rainy Greymouth where police were traditionally posted as a punishment. His comrades gave him a handsome … dismissal. He had allegedly been guilty of abandoning his post when guarding timber on the wharf and of making a false …
Type: Biography
… stayed in Scotland, she would have had little respite from post-industrial working-class hardships. Despite being …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Scots
… there were 39,000 registered players. Rooftop tennis The Post and Telegraph building (now apartments) on Wellington’s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tennis
… returning to New Zealand at the end of 1928. Weir was posted to Fort Dorset in Wellington and promoted to … December 1928. Over the next four years he held a range of posts in Christchurch and Wellington, which mainly involved …
Type: Biography
… the authorities until he was reinstated as captain and posted to Cairo in 1915. He subsequently served in field … his desire to be at the centre of the fighting when he was posted to France. However, he was not a jingoist, as a … apply for service with a British or Australian unit was he posted to the medical corps at Featherston Military Camp. He …
Type: Biography
… had the world’s southernmost trams and electric lamp posts. In the First World War (1914–18), 430 Invercargill …
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Part of story: Southland places
… deacon in 1913 and a priest on 16 December 1916. His first posting was as assistant curate to A. O. Williams at … in the Bay of Plenty, from 1918 to 1921, when he was posted to Ōhinemutu. Kuini died about this time, and on 4 …
Type: Biography
… Parliament in 2008, at the same election as Ardern. Post-prime ministerial posts Relative youth enabled some leaders to carve out …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… anxious to increase the country’s population. The first post-war assisted immigrants arrived on a commercial steamer … And your destination is … In the 1950s, the government posted liaison officers on board the steamers to give the …
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Part of story: The voyage out
… serving in several small towns in Scotland before being posted to Australia in 1888. He specialised in dealing with … and became senior probation officer in 1921. He held this post until 1926 when the probation system was integrated …
Type: Biography
… Canada and Australia, it was an attempt to solve both the post-war ‘surplus women’ problem in Britain and the ‘servant … service was not in that category. 1945 onwards In the post-war decades women generally did their own housework. …
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Part of story: Household services