first national government 1949–1957
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first national government 1949–1957
Ernest Bowyer Corbett, about 1960
Frederick Widdowson Doidge, 1940s
Josiah Ralph Hanan, about 1946
Keith Jacka Holyoake
Thomas Clifton Webb, 1949
Thomas Philip Shand
William Alexander Bodkin
Classics illiterated, 1958
A family affair
A property-owning democracy
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Algie, Ronald Macmillan
Anti-communist National Party poster
Bodkin, William Alexander
Championing private enterprise
Comics mini-boom, 1940s to 1950s
Corbett, Ernest Bowyer
Corrupting comics, 1957
Davenport, Arthur Egbert
Diplomacy, 1945–1960
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Doidge, Frederick Widdowson
Formation and rise
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Government and market liberalisation
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Grace Hilda Cuthberta Ross
Hanan, Josiah Ralph
Holland announcing emergency regulations, 1951
Holland, Sidney George
Holyoake, Keith Jacka
Jack Marshall
John Kenneth McAlpine
Macdonald, Thomas Lachlan
Marshall, John Ross
McAlpine, John Kenneth
Murdoch, Alfred James
New Zealand National Party cabinet, 1951
Page, Ruth Allan
Parties making up Parliament, 1949–1981
Polson, William John
Post-war taxation – 1950 to 1959
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Private and public investment, 1947–1977
Ronald Macmillan Algie
Ross, Grace Hilda Cuthberta
Shand, Thomas Philip
Sidney George Holland
Sidney Holland
Sidney Holland (left), Viscount Cobham (centre) and Harold Barrowclough (right), September 1957
State loans and state houses
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Sullivan, William
Support for adult sport, 1937–1972
The 1951 waterfront dispute
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The role of prime minister
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Thomas Macdonald, 1954
Towards modern leadership
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Unionism after the Second World War
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Webb, Thomas Clifton
William John Polson
William Sullivan