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Letter of the week: A doomed dash for growth newstatesman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newstatesman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rangitīkei: Deep blue electorate with slight chance of rain stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Author Nigel Robson has written a book detailing the affect of the boer war on New Zealand. Our First Foreign War: The impact of the South African War 1899-1902 on New Zealand Nigel Robson Reviewed by Alister Browne If you like your history richly-layered then this is just the title for you, with the added bonus that it covers a part of the New Zealand story not much explored. For the Boer War, as it used to be called, came after the New Zealand Wars and not long before the Great War, both of which cast long and deep shadows over the period. ....
Stuff archive A cub troop from Feilding visits the Standard on September 6, 1963. Ray Hardman is operating the linotype machine. “Linda and I are the ‘front of the house’. You get people coming in from all walks of life. You never judge a book by its cover. “Over time we’ve got to know our customers, their lives and families. We worry sometimes when we haven’t seen our regular customers for a while and hope they’re OK. “People pop in for a chat, for directions, for general information. They say we are the Standard, so we must know what’s going on in the community.” ....