Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor's decline began shortly after the 1957 general elections. Campaigning on a platform of reduced taxes and tax rebates, the party slipped back into power with a paper-thin two-vote majority in New Zealand's 80-seat, one-chamber Parliament. But within months Labor Prime Minister Walter Nash, now 78, announced that a balance-of-payments financial crisis had forced his government to renege on its campaign promises. To pay its bills, the government slapped new taxes on beer, tobacco and petrol, which more than canceled the tax rebates. Above all, New Zealand's voters...
...Zealand's new Prime Minister is Keith J. Holyoake, 56, who will have a solid ten-vote majority in the new Parliament. The son of a farmer, Holyoake left school at twelve to help run the family farm in Riwaka. He finished his education with correspondence courses, has been in Parliament since 1932, save for one five-year break...
Jersey Standard will take over Stanvac's assets in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Southeast Asia, South Korea, Malagasy and East Africa. Socony Mobil will get the bulk of the assets in the rest of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Aden, Formosa and much of the Southwest Pacific. The two companies will retain joint ownership of Stanvac's rich Indonesian wells and split the oil business in Japan and the Philippines...
Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Proving that the power and insight of her first novel, Spinster, sprang from an exceptional talent rather than from mere autobiographical circumstance, the New Zealand schoolteacher dazzlingly describes an amoral and shatteringly beautiful pianist for whom men-except for an unbending, God-obsessed minister -queue up to destroy themselves...
Back in his adopted Himalaya skyscrapers for a closer look at the evasive Abominable Snowman, New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest in 1953, decided to extend the expedition. Reason: having earlier discovered some strange pawprints at high altitudes in the snow, Sir Edmund was almost ready to give up the hunt when, according to a letter just received by the expedition's sponsor (Chicago's Field Enterprises Educational Corp.). he happened upon a bearlike skin that his Sherpa guides -who may be con men of the highest-altitude order-swore...