Word: auckland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freddie, a ferret, is five years old, which is getting along, for a ferret. Freddie lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and enjoys comparative fame and security as one of the very few, if not the only ferret anywhere with a steady job as an electrician's assistant...
...Francisco-Los Angeles to Honolulu-Canton Island-Suva-Noumea-Auckland...
Peter Fraser preceded Curtin to Washington last week. In a way, both were already known there-Fraser through his able, popular Minister Walter Nash, who has been recalled to home duty in Auckland; Curtin through his aggressive, ambitious External Affairs Minister, Dr. Herbert Evatt, who has twice visited and often spoken...
...family council had been called. Mrs. John Curtin, who has never been outside Australia, said last week in Canberra that she was going to London (via the U.S.) with her Prime Minister husband. Then came word from Auckland that New Zealand's Prime Minister, able Scot-born Peter Fraser, was on "the eve of his departure." No word came from Pretoria, South Africa, but no such council would be complete without Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, the British Commonwealth's elder statesman...
...Tinkle. From Auckland to Dunedin, Tuesday to Friday, New Zealanders hear the tinkle of the bell summoning House members from the lobby at precisely 2:30 p.m. Eight hours later-with a two-hour dinner intermission-they catch Speaker William E. Barnard's words ending the day's session. Although the broadcasts have long since lost their novelty, guesstimators swear that for big debates half the Dominion's radios pick up Australasia's most powerful station (2YA, 60 kilowatts...