Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backing up Father Lynch, minor shocks occurred last week in New Zealand, South America, Germany...
Chief complainant was Republican Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California. Stirred to action by loud protests from the California Cattlemen's Association, he charged that the Army & Navy were buying their beef from Australia and New Zealand to supply outposts in the Philippines, Hawaii, the Canal Zone. It was claimed that a city of 100,000 could subsist on these foreign meat purchases, which exceeded 6,500,000 Ib. per year. Other provender which the Army & Navy have been buying in part abroad included beans, cereals, dairy products. The Cal- ifornia Cattlemen's Association pointed out that Hawaiian beef...
Rear Admiral Joseph Johnston Cheatham, Paymaster General of the Navy and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, insisted that his agents at Cavite and Pearl Harbor bought meat from Australia and New Zealand only because the U. S. product was either not available or more costly. Naval supply officers last year bought 20,000,000 Ib. of meat, of which only 10% came from abroad...
...mandate over Armenia (which has since become a Soviet republic). Other mandates held by Britain are: Palestine, parts of German East Africa, Togoland and the Cameroons, Southwest Africa (held by the. Union of South Africa), German New Guinea (held by Australia), the Nauru and Samoan Islands (held by New Zealand...
Died. Sir Joseph George Ward, 74, 1906-12, 1928-30 prime minister of New Zealand; at Wellington...