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… New Zealand lexicographers who worked overseas include Robert Burchfield, chief editor of the Oxford English d … such as Eric Partridge, expert on English slang, and Robert Burchfield, the editor-in-chief of the Oxford English …
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Part of story: Linguistics
… was the daughter of Margaret Boyce and her husband, Edward Robert Ward Wilson, a farmer. When Mabel was about nine the … were two sons of the marriage: Edward, born in 1920, and Robert, born in 1926. The Whitakers lived in New Plymouth …
Type: Biography
… family of four young daughters. They became acquainted with Robert Barstow, a well-educated settler, who had established …
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… Vanuatu in 1839), David Livingstone in Africa and Robert Morrison in China. Church Missionary Society The …
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Part of story: Missions and missionaries
… In the 1975 election campaign National Party leader Robert Muldoon created a high level of public anxiety about …
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Part of story: Balance of payments
… Sissons came to New Zealand in 1866 to join his brother Robert, who was farming at Kamo, near Whangarei. Born at …
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… In New Zealand Small made the acquaintance of Charles Robert Thatcher, with whom he struck up a warm friendship; …
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… of the earliest Shetlanders to arrive in New Zealand was Robert Stout. He came in 1864 as a 19-year-old, settled in …
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Part of story: Scots
… from 1915 to 1922. Among the engineers, John Blackett and Robert West Holmes served as engineers-in-chief. A …
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Part of story: English
… death at work. The watersiders’ union president, ‘Big Jim’ Roberts, told his members that if they lost thier lives, the …
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Part of story: Workplace safety and accident compensation
… born in Sunderland, Durham, England, on 1 February 1847, to Robertine Jane Brown, a stationer's daughter, and her husband, Robert Fenwick, a Chartist cabinet-maker. They and their … 1856. After working as a contractor and timber merchant, Robert Fenwick became a hotel-keeper. George attended a …
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… and his wife, Laura Greaves Bird. He was the nephew of John Robert Godley , founder of the Canterbury settlement. … war in South Africa, where he served with Colonel Robert Baden-Powell at Mafikeng. Early in 1900 he became …
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… 1858 the family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, on the Robert Henderson. They settled in St Clair, and Mackenzie … District School, where he was probably taught by the young Robert Stout . After working as a clerk in various …
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… the settlers nor to Lord Stanley, who instructed Governor Robert FitzRoy to bring a militia bill before the …
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… talk of a family migration. In 1850 James Crowe and Henry Robert, Richmond's two younger brothers, joined Hursthouse. … Māori society. He objected to the land purchase officer, Robert Parris , 'hanging about' Māori settlements and wrote, …
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… Old Testament, translated over a long period by Archdeacon Robert Maunsell and revised by a committee in New Zealand, …
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… on 26 December 1881, the third of twelve children of Robert Parker Glen, an accountant, and his wife, Alice Helen … children's fiction. The comedy is authentically based. Robert Glen's position as an agent for Dalgety and Company …
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… in Wellington. Endorsed by the long-time incumbent, Jim Roberts , who had resigned, he defeated two other candidates …
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… New Zealand, where, in 1875, he entered the office of Robert Stout and began studying law. He married Stout's …
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… 1900 and 1907. They were Mark Fagan , William Parry , Robert Semple , Patrick Webb and Savage himself. The …
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Part of story: History of immigration