Word: auckland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powerful Australian and New Zealand meat packers as well as the packing unions sought to stop Delfino because shipping of beef on the hoof imperiled Australia's frozen-meat export trade. Delfino cleared this hurdle after conferences with the government, paid Auckland dock wallopers triple and quadruple wages to load coal, and then got steaming. Twenty-eight days and one hurricane later, he landed in San Diego, minus 107 cattle and one crew member who had died on the way. There he was greeted by the A.S.P.C.A., U.S. Bureau of Customs, and the Public Health Service. The Chinese crewmen...
...adult life following Rotary's twin ideals. Says he: "I think Rotary day and night." Born in a tent in the wilds of frontier New Zealand (his middle name honors the Maori chief whose wife delivered him), he fought in France in World War I, went back to Auckland to become manager of a tiny furniture company. He soon took over, expanded the company until it now spreads through New Zealand. He joined Rotary in 1923, only two years after the club got to New Zealand. As the "NZers" flocked into Rotary, Thomas' responsibilities grew with the club...
Dead Heat. In Melbourne, Australia, research uncovered the scattered remains of the great race horse Carbine (1890-1914), one hoof at Victoria Racing Club, one hoof in possession of an English duke, the body skeleton at Melbourne's National Museum, the head at the Auckland, N.Z. War Memorial Museum, the hide as upholstery of the president's chair at the Auckland Racing Club...
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...After collecting a bet on the winning gelding Bali Ha'i at a race in Auckland, N.Z., Britain's touring Queen Mother Elizabeth got an even more pleasant surprise. When she presented a gold cup to Owner Sir Ernest Davis, Sir Ernest announced: "We have with us the greatest lady in the world. I want to present Bali Ha'i to her on behalf of the sporting public of New Zealand...