Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regards to "Adorable Aitutaki" Mr. Archie Campbell (TIME, Sept. 13) tells about the beautiful, and amiable women on this [South Pacific] island of paradise, which is governed by New Zealand. Clothing there is very scarce...
...does not mean reduction in wages. It does not mean loss of retirement and seniority rights and benefits. It does not mean that any substantial numbers of war workers will be disturbed in their present jobs. . . . Experience in other democratic nations at war-Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-has shown that the very existence of national service makes unnecessary the widespread use of compulsory power...
...communiques told a now familiar tale: it was snail's progress by U.S., British, New Zealand, Canadian and Indian troops. They recorded the storming of a hill by cobelligerent Italians, who had been severely mauled in a first venture against their ex-allies (TIME, Dec. 20); for that success, General Clark sent congratulations. But most notable was the announcement that French soldiers were also in the line...
...Admiral Karpf anger, a four-masted bark of 2,853 tons, put out from Port Germein,'South Australia, on Feb. 8, 1938. Aboard were 44 cadets and 16 officers and men of the Hamburg-America Line. Five weeks later she radioed her position from somewhere south of New Zealand and said she would round Cape Horn. That was the last ever heard of her until the lily maiden was found...
Eleanor Roosevelt explained a nose-rubbing picture widely published in U.S. papers. She said that the head Maori guide in New Zealand, "a fine-looking woman" named Ragni, had asked permission to greet her "as we greet all distinguished visitors." Mrs. Roosevelt added that when she was a little girl her father "used to say, 'Let's have a Chinese kiss,' and then we would rub noses. ... I was very glad my father had taught me to rub noses properly...