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Arthur's father, a keen Australian cricketer with flowing blond mustaches, walked out on his team during an England v. Australia Test Match to attend the birth of his son in 1895. Arthur was born in Brisbane, but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, prefers to be known as a New Zealander. "Lloyd George," he says, "is known as a Welshman, yet he was born in Manchester." Coningham's odd nickname, "Mary," is a corruption of Maori, which means a New Zealand aborigine. In the service of a country whose red-blooded he-men are often...
...Zealand put up a strong case for a bigger Fund quota, because she has the highest per capita world trade of any country in the world and it is subject to big fluctuations. But Finance Minister Walter Nash announced that in spite of the fact that his plea was rejected he was going back to New Zealand and fight for ratification of the Fund agreement...
Concluded Minister Ralston: "I know that other countries have drafted armies. That is true of the United States, of Britain and of New Zealand, and I know the magnificent way they have fought. . . . For better or for worse, that was not our system...
...which now makes 95% of the world's penicillin, plans this month to export 1,000,000,000 units to the 18 Latin American countries, will soon export penicillin to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and the British West Indies...
Later, as commander of Aircraft, South Pacific Fleet, he bossed the Army, Navy, Marine and New Zealand flyers who turned back the Jap air fleets in the Solomons...