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A few months ago, the eyes of Protestant Christendom were turned with deep interest to the Meeting of the Synod of the Reformed Church of France, at Paris, and to the Meeting of the Synod of the Lutheran Church at Strasburg. But the revelations made at both these Synods have been painful in the e...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Before we can pass on to a description of the lives of the great men whom we are to review, we must provide an adequate background by describing the Whare-wananga , or house of learning. This may be described as the University of the Maori, and it was one of the most exclusive Universities in the...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
That the Polynesian dialects are related to each other and form but isolated varieties of one great language is by no means a very modern discovery. The first attempt at a comparative table (of forty-seven Oceanic words) was made by Dr. Reinhold Forster, the naturalist who accompanied Captain Coo...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
(Written for the “N.Z. Railways Magazine” by James Cowan .) That “goodly land,” the beautiful and wealth-producing province of Hawke's Bay is the subject of this running survey of the great district and its chief town, whose people are making so heroic an effort to restore conditions to normal af...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
The Dominion , Saturday, July 11, 1925. p. 8. Peeps at Parliament: A Fused Fusion Wire — Mr. Atmore Short-Circuited (By “Novitia.” ) I really hadn't, at the time, the faintest intention of darkening the doors of the House of Representatives again—at least, not until that fine week-end which Mr. B...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Hamley Bridge Station, South Australian Railways. This is a break of gauge station, the main line being 5ft. 3in. gauge, and branch line 3ft. 6in. (On the left is a three line track to permit of the running of vehicles of either gauge.) The railway experts submitted their report, but in an addend...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Included in the prisoners of war are 5 officers and 85 other ranks who were wounded when captured.
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Yesterday I saw Steve O'Rourke being filmed in Willis Street. He strode along the pavement in his Italian suit while the camera crew ran backwards in front of him and I stood in a doorway, watching. I only ever see Steve on television these days and I'd forgotten how short he is. I'm not tall and...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
The process of evolution did not stop at imperialism. Passing on to still greater things, he became a humanist, eager to do something for humanity's sake. “All legislation which I have brought to bear upon the human side of life is the legislation which counts most with me,” he said to a newspape...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
City Flour Mills, Bycroft Limited (James Hume, manager), Flour Millers and Biscuit Manufacturers, Shortland Street, Auckland. The business of Bycroft, Limited, is the oldest established flour-milling industry in the Auckland province. Its inception dates back to over forty years ago, when Mr. Joh...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
The test of the affections. Ruling principles in man’s uature. What is Love? A special invocation. An answer advanced.—Love’s beauty often marred. True love’s pleasures unsurpassable. True, and false love, distinguished, and contrasted. Counterfeits detected. Deception’s vileness reprimanded. Sym...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
(By H. A. Peebles , Railways, Thorndon, Wellington. ) “Your railway, when you come to understand it,” says Ruskin, “is only a device for making the world smaller.” When one visualises the isolation of peoples in the prerailway era and contrasts the transport difficulties of that period with the r...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Na nonofo ia papa ma le eleele ona to ai lea o le eleele. A o le atua o papa, o le alii lea o Salevao, sa na iloa se mea o gaoioi i le moa o le eleele (lalolagi). Na oo i aso e fanau mai ai le tamaitiiti ona faaigoa lea ia te ia o Moa e tusa ma le mea na vaaia ai o migoi. Sa faatonuina e Salevao ...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
(By T. G. Glasgow , Sight-testing Officer, N. Z. R.) Aprevious article dealt with the preliminary training of a recruit porter engaged in shunting work. It is now proposed to deal with more advanced phases of the subject. Busy country stations, which are not provided with a regular shunting servi...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Evil is to be conquered by absorption, not by rejection. I passed my life in one horizon, locked in the sky's blue prison. That blue bubble of the sky broke, and left me here to die. The sky is a cup whereof men sip, with air and sunlight wet the lip. But there is one whose ceaseless strife imper...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
( By A. J. G. Schmitt .) The names used in this story are entirely fictitious. The incident described, however, and the method used for stealing sheep from the large mobs which were driven via the East Coast of the North Island, in the early days, may, perhaps, be recalled by many of the older ge...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
A mobile surgical unit, based on the head and chest units organised in England at the beginning of the war by Professor H. Cairns and Mr A. Tudor Edwards , was equipped in England in 1940. The unit was formed as a result of a generous gift of £2500 by Mr A. Sims of Christchurch . The senior surge...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
At Alexandria, the New Zealand veterinary officers had to make the best shift that they could. Lieut.-Col. Young and his staff managed to win through all difficulties, which included the successful overcoming of the tricks of some Egyptian dealers in forage. By the end of three weeks the animals ...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
The New Zealandia At Port Chalmers. On September 28, in latitude 45.2 S., longitude 120.1 E., the barometer began to fall very rapidly, and the wind came out W.N.W., increasing to a heavy gale. The vessel was put under her two lower topsails and run before it. The gale increased to frightful viol...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
By R. S. Kent (Apprentice Instructor, Addington Railway Workshops) In the field of industry to-day the problem of personnel is becoming of increasing importance to the engineer. The larger scope and complexity of industrial organisation and the tendency towards specialisation and rearrangement in...
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