Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zealand is not the first nation to discover that the material blessings of the welfare state come wrapped in red tape...
Trying to deal with their burgeoning bureaucracy*- crack New Zealanders, is "like boring a hole through treacle." Now the nation is considering a solution to government regimentation and pettifoggery. Last week, after a year of deliberation, New Zealand was pressing ahead with plans for a new, independent government official who will act as a civic watchdog in much the same fashion as the famed, 153-year-old Swedish institution known as the ombudsman, or grievance...
...envisaged in a bill before Parliament that is solidly backed by both political parties, New Zealand's ombudsman (pronounced om-boods-man) will have access to government records and power to investigate based or autocratic official decisions, as well as inequities in the law. To be known officially as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Investigations, he will be able to take action on his own or on the complaint of any citizen who, for a modest fee ($2.80), seeks redress from unfair treatment by officialdom...
From the start, Britain has insisted that it cannot join the European community without trade protection for Commonwealth food producers, chiefly New Zealand and Australia, whose grain, meat and dairy exports compete directly with European farm products. Britain is asking Europe's Six to limit their own, costlier food production by keeping farm prices low. However, the Common Market nations would promise nothing more specific than "reasonable" prices, while Britain demands hard and fast guarantees on an issue so vital to the future of the Commonwealth...
...kind of permanent damage seemed to have allayed most fears. Most of the scientists who had opposed the test on the ground that it might do long-lasting damage to the earth's upper atmosphere and the Van Allen radiation belt were reserving judgment. Scientists in New Zealand, the country most affected by the blast, treated it as an interesting scientific experiment-and a pleasure to observe...