Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Harvard Law School, will tour New Zealand and Australia during the Spring Term. Leaving on January 10, he will visit the major law schools in both countries, and return to Cambridge near the end of June...
Although Griswold does not plan to do any formal teaching in either New Zealand or Australia, he hopes to visit every important law school in both countries, meeting informally with students and teachers to discuss legal training in the United States...
Though Britain refused to go along with Canada's demand for full convertibility of the pound, it did promise to wipe out restrictions on dollar-area newsprint, salmon, farm machinery. Canada in turn refused New Zealand's plea to cut down trade-inhibiting farm subsidies, but agreed to keep down tariff barriers against lamb and mutton, automobiles and aircraft. For the Commonwealth's smaller, less developed partners, Canada led a big power move to increase development aid, pour more money into the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Colombo Plan to speed progress in Asia and Africa...
...project that won the swiftest approval-and could do most to knit the Commonwealth together-was a proposal by Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming for a globe-girdling communication system linking virtually every Commonwealth land. Stretching from Britain across the Atlantic to Canada and on to New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan and Africa, the coaxial cable will join all nations by telephone for the first time. Cost: $246 million. Target date...
Hose Sorry Now? In Wells Ford, New Zealand, city officials discovered that a new, $160,000 fire station .had complete modern plumbing, no water supply...