Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. The dogs went with them. But most of their heavy equipment they abandoned. The last thing Admiral Byrd did on shore was to haul down the U. S. flag. As the ship pulled away for her three weeks' trip, through the icepack of Ross Sea, to New Zealand, and as his men breakfasted or dragged their sacks of home mail to reading seclusion, he saluted two long objects which rested, dejectedly, they seemed to him, on an ice knoll. They were the Ford and Fairchild airplanes which had carried him on his surveys of 150,000 Antarctic square miles...
...further shows the ship and airplane routes of the four parties who have worked around the continent the past two winters: 1) Byrd Antarctic Expedition at the Ross Sea; 2) Wilkins-Hearst Expedition (Sir George Hubert Wilkins) at the Weddell Sea; 3) British- Australian-New Zealand and Antarctic Expedition (Sir Douglas Mawson's) at the Indian Ocean side; 4) Norwegian Whalers (Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen's and Lutzow Holm...
...four British dominions were paired and spaced. Canada & Australia on His Majesty's right beyond the French, New Zealand & South Africa at his left beyond the Japanese. India still in tutelage, and the Irish Free State, were sandwiched tight between firm Mother Britain and grim Italy...
...opening ceremony the Governor [Captain Graham] attended and presented the Mau with a flag." Embarrassed by the situation in Western Samoa was Britain's Labor Government last week. Three courses seemed open for the solution of this latest Empire problem: 1) Western Samoa could remain a New Zealand mandate. 2) Western Samoa might be joined with Eastern under U. S. rule. 3) George V might create Western Samoa a crown colony (as thousands of Samoans have already petitioned and begged him to do) with her governors appointed by and responsible to the British Parliament...
...crisis occurred fortnight ago. One Alfred G. Smyth, patriotic Samoan merchant returned from a two-year exile incurred by asking embarrassing questions in 1928. Welcoming him at the dockside was a delegation of the Mau, and a watchful detachment of New Zealand constabulary. Leading cheers for the return of Al Smyth was the only survivor of Samoa's royal family, the High Chief Tamasese. In the excitement of the moment someone hit a constable by the name of Abraham on the head, with fatal results. There was a burst of gunfire. A moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other...