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...islanders asked Britain's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, lanky Sir Leslie Brian Freeston. Said he: if Pitcairn Islanders would build a school, the British would promise to keep it going in perpetuity. And to show he meant it, his office placed an ad in New Zealand's Education Gazette for a new teacher...
Enough's Enough. At LaGuardia Field, N.Y., John Plenty stepped off a plane from England, felt a little giddy, decided he was too old to go gadding off to New Zealand, took a plane back home...
...only two nations have signed the treaties. The law is already in effect for China and Burma, and students will soon be able to apply for scholarships in these countries. Other treaties are pending action in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, France, Italy, and Norway...
...Eurasians, Indians, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors and Malays, rugged, 6 ft., 63-year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...
...week or two; controls on butter, to peg it around 73? a lb.; controls on certain types of fertilizers and a rollback of the price of chemical ingredients; extension of the government's price-control powers for another year. The government might even import butter from New Zealand. Rent controls would continue...