Word: auckland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parliamentary majority had declined. As 1949's campaign got under way, Labor candidates faced dissatisfied audiences that insistently harried them with heckling questions. How much more was Socialism going to cost? Why were government ministers riding in U.S. limousines while ordinary folks couldn't get cars? An Auckland newspaperman called it "the revolt of the guinea pigs...
Perseverance. In Auckland, N.Z., Thomas Clark, survivor of nine air crashes, applied for a steward's job on the Tasman Empire Airways...
...sentry tower above the historic Pa (native Maori fortress) near Auckland, New Zealand, a single Maori warrior stood waiting. When the government car rounded a bend in the road, he called the traditional chant of welcome and challenge. A tall, bronzed man stepped from the car and picked up the ax that the sentry tossed toward him. At this gesture (the time-honored sign to show that a visit is peaceful) hundreds of Maoris in native costume sang their ancient haka, song of welcome...
...world knows him as Sir Peter Buck, onetime member of New Zealand's Parliament, major in World War I, now head of Honolulu's Bishop Museum, traveling professor at Yale and the world's leading authority on Polynesian anthropology. To the Pacific Science Congress, meeting at Auckland last week, Sir Peter brought along some distinguished delegates. Under his guidance they came to learn more about his mother's people, the vigorous islanders who fought the New Zealand whites until the 18703 and now live beside them in peace...
Freddie's employers reckoned without the Auckland Local of the New Zealand Electrical Workers union, a potent organization in a country where about half of the wage earners are union members. From George Allbright, secretary of the local, went a letter to the Korma Mills factory where Freddie did a job lately. "The union's complaints," said Allbright, "are on the following grounds...