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… which supported the New Zealand National Party led by Robert Muldoon in the general election of that year. After …
Type: Biography
… and shippers. In January 1880 he entered a partnership with Robert Bauchope, an accountant and commission agent, as …
Type: Biography
… on 12 March 1904, the ninth of eleven children of Francis Robert Linton, a stock dealer, and his wife, Emma Maria …
Type: Biography
… 1885 Edward Mahoney retired; Thomas and a younger brother, Robert, carried on the practice. In 1887 Thomas designed the …
Type: Biography
… work for better wages and conditions for neglected workers. Robert Popata and Megan Jones, co-founders of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement
… my instruments or plans from the wet’. 1 It was tougher for Robert Bain in south Westland, who took off his jacket one …
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Part of story: Early mapping
… usually included a romance sub-plot. Published in London by Robert Hale, they were consciously pitched at an overseas …
Type: Biography
… in Australia. New Zealand’s prime minister at the time, Robert Muldoon, had a ready reply to complaints: ‘New …
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Part of story: Kiwis overseas
… siting of the new customs wharf, and another to Governor Robert FitzRoy demanding the removal of the tax on bread and …
Type: Biography
… company Warner Brothers Pictures and local cinema magnate Robert Kerridge, Amalgamated obtained a 50-year lease. Late …
Type: Biography
… Work on the cathedral began under the supervision of Robert Speechly but was suspended for lack of funds in 1865. …
Type: Biography
… purchased the practice of the recently deceased architect Robert Lamb. Many fine houses were built in the ensuing …
Type: Biography
… not fringe radicals but included influential men such as Robert Stout (premier from 1884 to 1887) and John Ballance …
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Part of story: Atheism and secularism
… 1965 he numbered such public figures as Keith Holyoake and Robert Muldoon as personal friends. He continued to write …
Type: Biography
… political connections through his close relations with Robert Stout, James Macandrew, William Larnach, Henry Smith …
Type: Biography
… Cathedral Square in Christchurch features a statue of Robert Godley – the founder of the Canterbury settlement – …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City public spaces
… livestock. Several Antarctic expeditions used the island. Robert Falcon Scott quarantined huskies for his 1901–4 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nearshore islands
… move. The recommendation for a tunnel had come from George Robert Stephenson, nephew of the rail pioneer George …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bridges and tunnels
… were debated at price-control hearings. In 1982–84 Robert Muldoon, who was minister of finance (and prime …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Law and the economy