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Word: zealander (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to the zealous bureaucrats who write the rules, many a traveler arriving in New Zealand by air soon wishes he hadn't. Last week Tom Shand, New Zealand's new Minister of Civil Aviation, decided to give the bureaucrats a taste of their own medicine. He invited nine of the nation's top civil servants to join him on an airborne "picnic" to Auckland. It was a bumpy flight (the pilot had been encouraged to seek out the roughest patches of air), and before it was over, the passengers were handed landing forms to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Object Lesson | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...found to be carrying an undeclared pistol. A representative of the Reserve Bank was accused of smuggling in undeclared dollars. The Health Department man was found to be short one vaccination and was forced to take his shot then and there. Feeling duly humbled, the men who write New Zealand's entry rules were taken over to watch a planeload of genuine tourists go through the same agonies in earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Object Lesson | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

When it was all over, Tom Shand's picnic guests were herded into a meeting. Its agenda: possible ways of making things easier for visitors arriving in New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Object Lesson | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...Street office, while Bernard Harmer, the youngest son, is in charge of the busy Manhattan office. The Harmers, father and sons, collect stamps only for pleasure. Henry Harmer specializes in forgeries. Cyril has a collection of "pigeongrams," letters entrusted to commercial pigeon service by 19th century settlers on New Zealand's Great Barrier Island. Bernard collects Victorian "postal stationery," i.e., envelopes printed with grotesque designs and slogans in praise of temperance, penny postage and peace. Says Henry Harmer: "The great charm about stamp collecting is that you can collect what you like, and you can't lose money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Just Like Mclaria | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Corner. In Auckland, New Zealand, the City Council altered its road boundaries when the Town Planning Staff pointed out that one officially proclaimed road ran into a zoo, through the lion's cage, the hyena's cage, the baboon's cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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