Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sinner Spring. In Greymouth, New Zealand, police searched two weeks for Escaped Prisoner John David Buckeridge, finally pulled back the covers on a neatly made bed in his mother's home, found Buckeridge stuffed inside the mattress with only his head sticking...
...Britain's High Commissioner Alec Morley steamed from Ceylon to the Maldives aboard the cruiser Gambia, and that led to hysteric Maldivian outcries of "gunboat diplomacy." Because of Britain's eagerness to establish a new steppingstone airbase to break the flight from Europe to Australia and New Zealand, the British are pushing grimly ahead with construction...
Pedagrog. In Onerahi, New Zealand, an ad for Teacher's whisky is on the side of a school...
...Zealand's engineers made a close study of the world's only other big geothermal power plant, at Larderello in central Italy. Larderello's steam has been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud...
...turbine is only a beginning. Eventually New Zealand plans to get 250,000 kw. of geothermal electricity out of the Wairakei region, and hundreds of square miles of steam land are awaiting exploitation in the neighborhood...