Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read loud and clear by Edward VIII (TIME, Nov. 9). Today George VI is making rapid further progress with doctors and vocalists to overcome his defective speech (TIME, Dec. 21), and the Duke of Kent was recently pressed into service to read an overseas royal radio broadcast to New Zealand. Omens were that the whole House of Commons will loyally cooperate to avoid unpleasant subjects until after the Coronation next May 12, and the House was slated last week for such work as raising Cabinet salaries a trifle, including that of the Prime Minister. This matter intensely English Punch presented...
...Zealand surgeons performed at Wellington an abdominal operation on globe-girdling Flyer Harold Gatty, now prospecting the weekly Pan American Airways service between California, Honolulu, Pago Pago, New Zealand...
Touching on external policy he blandly said: "At the moment it is not our intention to change existing relations with the British Commonwealth except in so far as use is made of the same machinery utilized by Canada, New Zealand and Australia. . . . I regret our relations are no better than they were with Britain. The British Government still exacts payments through penal tariffs of a sum of money we say is not due. We do not propose to pay it. The Irish people have not surrendered, and are not going to surrender. . . . However, I am certain that this Constitution will...
Expert Winton proudly pointed to an official mark of 360 eggs, set by a Corvallis, Ore. Leghorn in 1934-35. Questioned further, he consulted his records, discovered that the official world's champion was a Black Orpington which laid 363 eggs in New Zealand...
...football team had lost only one game in three years, but by something which Princeton's enterprising Athletic Association had arranged, in place of a brass band, to entertain the customers between halves. It was an all-star mile race in which the No. 1 entrant was New Zealand's famed Jack Lovelock, Oxford medical student and Olympic champion, stopping off on his first trip home in six years...