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… wire and iron standards became common. Early fencing When Robert Heaton Rhodes purchased Blue Cliffs sheep station in …
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Part of story: Farm fencing
… from 15,000 in August 1911 to 8,000 in December. In 1912 Robert Baden-Powell visited New Zealand and the government …
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Part of story: Youth organisations
… William Martin , George Grey, William Swainson and John Robert Godley , together with discussions in England during …
Type: Biography
… autocratic behaviour and the consequent defection of Robert Stout and John Ballance . Sheehan's mixture of …
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… commentator and polemicist Hilda Phillips. Chemist Robert Gant’s photographs provide a vivid glimpse into the … literature advocate, bookseller, author, teacher Gant, Robert photographer, chemist, actor Haydn, George builder, …
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… in 1887, he sensationally defeated the premier, Sir Robert Stout . Although losing his seat in 1890, he …
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… in 1896 and returned to his busy legal practice. Following Robert Stout 's appointment as chief justice in 1899, he was …
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… costs for a model from out of town. The barrister Robert McVeagh introduced a number of Māori he met outside …
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… and his followers supported the British. Governor Robert FitzRoy suspected that Hōne Heke 's support of …
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… employer representatives on the court outvoting the judge. Robert Muldoon, the minister of finance, denounced the joint … At the 1975 general election the National Party, led by Robert Muldoon, returned to power. Its policies included a …
Type: Biography
… he had fought is encapsulated in words written to a young Robert Semple in 1910: 'my shift seems about closing, …
Type: Biography
… to study at the Dunedin School of Art under the Englishman Robert Nettleton Field . He had chanced upon Field’s work in …
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… poems, and met many other writers, including Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren and Robert Graves. At the end of this trip, he made a decision …
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… members of Parliament: Major Duncan MacIntyre and Corporal Robert Muldoon . Returning to Wellington at the end of the … in industrial matters of the minister of finance, Robert Muldoon. Relations between the two men became very …
Type: Biography
… he was a member – in 1908 to the Auckland Islands, and Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition on the Terra …
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… one of 12 children of Annie Cains and her husband, John Robert Brown, a flaxmill worker. Gordon initially attended …
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… families and companies controlled huge tracts of land. Robert Campbell held eight stations in Canterbury, Otago and …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… the Wellington South seat, but exchanged electorates with Robert McKeen; Croskery lost, McKeen was elected. He was a …
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… Munster. These were headed by two lieutenant governors – Robert Wynyard and Edward Eyre respectively – and each …
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Part of story: Self-government and independence