Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial Conference is a meeting of the Prime Ministers of all the self-governing dominions-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland-together with the secretary of State for India. In its original form it was called the Colonial Conference and first met when the Premiers represented their Dominion Governments at the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. In 1907, however, owing to its growing importance, its name was changed to the Imperial Conference and it was presided over by the Prime Minister of Great Britain instead of the Secretary of State...
...Nebraska, will deliver a lecture this evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House on the subject. "Christian Science: Heaven Here and Now". Mr. Chadwick is a lecturer of wide experience, having spoken in all parts of the world, including the United States, Canada, the British Isles, New Zealand, Australia, Africa, China, and Japan. He began as a practitioner in Christian Science in 1891, and became a teacher in 1908. He is at present a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer in a written answer to a question asked in the House, stated that the Colonies are repaying loans to the Mother Country. Payments on principal have been made by the following dominions: South Africa, ?381,000; Australia, ?526,000; New Zealand, ?141,000; British Guiana...
Psychologists credit man with the instinct of acquisitiveness, and never was psychology better vindicated than by those same facts and by stamp collecting in general. Even the Jackdaw of Rheims was no more given to this acquisitiveness than the Philatelists who amassed a collection of New Zealand stamps worth, a hundred-thousand dollars. So firmly is the hobby, or the fad, rooted in human nature that a firm of stamp dealers was willing to give practically that amount for the collection in a recent sale. And a similar Swiss firm has sent its principal to this country and widely advertised...
...every country save. England and New Zealand the traffic goes on the wrong side of the road." This statement is a slight exaggeration, because Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island still "keep to the left", although New Brunswick and British Columbia have recently passed laws requiring that all vehicles adopt the right turn. But the English still prefer the old method of traffic regulation, even though they have to learn to drive all over again whenever they "visit the continent" or come to America...