Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize-winning novel for which Mr. Mayer gouged himself is Author Goudge's 13th. It lacks the sterner virtues of good literature, but it is tasty as a marshmallow, and practically written in Technicolor. Its setting swings between Britain's romantic Channel Islands and New Zealand, from 1830 to 1900. Its atmosphere is one of gentle domesticity, flavored with salty thrills of sea journeys and pioneering among the Maoris at the world's bottom...
William sailed away to China with the Royal Navy. Ashore he met a satin-cheeked Chinese girl, who murmured: "You will comfort me. . . ." When William woke up his money was gone-as was the girl and the Royal Navy. Fearful of being charged with desertion, William fled to New Zealand, soon became a successful pioneer and a heavy drinker...
...native police wielding their cudgels on a riotous city mob. But it also looks at schools, hospitals, factories and irrigation projects, asserts that India has benefited from British rule and may gradually win full Dominion status. Further glimpses of air-minded Canada, industrially ambitious Australia, contentedly agrarian New Zealand, rich, up-&-coming South Africa, lead M.O.T. to conclude that old loyalties will be maintained (along with new ones to the U.S.), old grievances will be resolved, the British Empire will prosper and endure...
Arthur's father, a keen Australian cricketer with flowing blond mustaches, walked out on his team during an England v. Australia Test Match to attend the birth of his son in 1895. Arthur was born in Brisbane, but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, prefers to be known as a New Zealander. "Lloyd George," he says, "is known as a Welshman, yet he was born in Manchester." Coningham's odd nickname, "Mary," is a corruption of Maori, which means a New Zealand aborigine. In the service of a country whose red-blooded he-men are often...
...Church of England got a walloping surprise last week. From China, by way of New Zealand's missionary magazine the Reaper, came news that Hong Kong's Bishop Ronald Owen Hall (currently stationed in Kunming) had ordained the first woman priest in the Church's history...