Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Doubtless many other New Zealanders will hasten to establish our claim to the fish "Pelorus Jack" which was referred to as an Australian by a correspondent in TIME of April 18. But in case they do not: Pelorus Jack was a very real and popular personality who for many years frequented the cairn waters of Pelorus Sound, New Zealand, and made a practice of meeting the daily steamers as they passed through the narrow French Pass on the regular route between Wellington and Nelson. (I am a native of Nelson and saw him innumerable times and this...
...Father of New Zealand but its Baby is Thomas Rodgers of Rangitikei on North Island. Last week Mr. Rodgers cut his 92nd birthday cake, gave of it generously to a delegation which arrived to hail "The First White Baby Born In New Zealand...
...forward tactics which it has already made use of this season. In this system the backs are chiefly on the defensive and leave most of the offensive work to the forwards. Harvard will employ the opposite system, relying more on its backs, and availing itself of the New Zealand system which Captain Cabot has popularized this year...
...Never in all New Zealand has such a thing happened before!" puffed the Mayor of Auckland after 48 hours of civic chaos. "If things go on like this I shall positively be obliged to read the Riot...
...from the waterfront came at last British bluejackets from the British ex-cruiser H. M. S. Philomel, launched in 1890, rated today as a training ship. With these sailors guarding Queen Street, confident New Zealand insurance men wrote policies covering glass not yet broken at premiums only 50% above normal, but charged for new fire & theft policies 1,000% above the old rate. That night Auckland went quietly to bed and next clay Premier Forbes soothed New Zealand's House of Representatives at Wellington...