Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph Gordon Coates, 64, one time Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925-28); in Wellington, N.Z. Minister of Armed Forces & War Coordination since last July, rangy Ranchman Coates in 30 years of public life had administered home affairs, foreign affairs, courts, customs, rails, mails...
...west they regularly make the world's biggest overwater hop-San Francisco to Honolulu, swing southwest by pinpoint navigation through the string of coral dots that lead to New Zealand, to Australia and New Guinea...
...link ourselves with them, the way . . . is clear. All they need to do is adopt written constitutions and apply for membership and all we need do is accept them. . . . Great Britain could come into the union, for example, as four States. . . . Canada could constitute another State. Australia, New Zealand and the contiguous islands might form still another...
...Japanese planes had attacked a convoy approaching or standing off Guadalcanal. They had sunk a destroyer, a New Zealand corvette, a tanker, damaged a "fuel-oil boat." The U.S. victory had lasted one day. The Navy Department and the news-hungry press could have afforded to wait for the whole story in one accurate installment...
This year the rugbymen face a restricted schedule in line with those of other sports. Plans for the season include no away from home games at all, but the club, which will be built around a nucleus of three returning men, is slated to face a team of New Zealand sailors in the near future and will follow that contest up with others against similar British units as they happen to be in Boston...