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  Western Samoa Government
The present head of state Malietoa Tanumafili II the scion of a traditional royal line holds his position for life.
The head of state appoints the prime minister (head of government) and with the advice of the prime minister the members of the Cabinet.
Its chief justice is appointed by the head of state on the recommendation of the prime minister.
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  Administrator of Norfolk Island: Role
Norfolk Island laws confer various powers and functions on the Administrator in a number of areas such as education immigration quarantine customs social services and the management of Crown land on the island.
Although the Norfolk Island Act 1979 (Cth) states that it is the Administrator who is to administer the Government of Norfolk Island section 7 of that Act makes provision as to the manner in which the Administrator is to exercise his or her powers and functions.
The principles of responsible government and the rule of law impose an obligation on the Administrator to satisfy himself or herself as to the legality or propriety of the recommended action - that the processes followed and actions to be taken are lawful or within power.
www.dotars.gov.au /territories/norfolk_island/governance/admin/role.aspx   (1358 words)

  
  Lists of office-holders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heads of government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Heads of government of the Republic of the Congo
Colonial Heads of Port Cresson and Bassa Cove
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 Politics of Norfolk Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Norfolk Island Act, passed by the Parliament of Australia in 1979, is the Act under which the island is governed.
This council is headed by the Chief Minister of Norfolk Island.
The island is subject to separate immigration controls from the remainder of the nation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Norfolk_Island   (777 words)

  
 Pitcairn Islands Study Center
the main island is shaped like a figure eight and is about three quarters of a mile long north to south.
The lagoon is shallow with many coral heads and filled with many varieties of fish (Wahlroos, Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas, 1989).
The island is home to a number of birds such as the Murphy’s Petrel, Sooty Tern, Brown Noddy and other species.
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 Norfolk Island - Prehistory And First Penal Settlement (1774-1814)
Norfolk Island is a small volcanic island 8 kilometres by 5 kilometres, lying in the Pacific Ocean about 1,600 kilometres east-north-east of Sydney and some 1,056 kilometres from Auckland.
However, when King arrived back on Norfolk in 1791, he found the Sirius still stuck fast on the reef at Sydney Bay, and he was able, even at that late date, to salvage a quantity of her fittings, though he was of the opinion that she would fall to pieces the following winter.
In the Norfolk Island Administrative's Report for 1923-24, it is noted that two guns from the Sirius, along with the Bounty gun and a gun captured by Australian Imperial Forces from the Turks during World War I, had recently been mounted in the Court House yard.
www.janesoceania.com /norfolkisland_history/index.htm   (8712 words)

  
 Norfolk Island - Territory of Norfolk Island
In 1920 the Mission was relocated from the island to the Solomon Islands to be closer to its target population.
Norfolk Island is the main island of the island group the territory encompasses amd is located at 29°02'S 167°57'E. It has an area of 34.6 kmandsup2, with no large-scale internal bodies of water but 32 km of coastline.
Norfolk Island panorama with Nepean and Philip Islands in the distanceThe population of Norfolk Island was estimated in July 2003 to be 1,853, with an annual population growth rate of 0.01%.
www.naturemagics.com /world-guide/norfolk-island.shtm   (4741 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
The accepted history of that island attests the fact that it was originally settled by Irish, although at present the white population has largely disappeared.
Their bishops and priests were classed as felons, a price set on their heads, and an incredible number of both clergy and people who adhered loyally to the religion of their forefathers were either put to the sword or hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Of the fourteen provinces now (1906) constituting the territorial divisions of the Church in the continental united States, nine are governed by archbishop of Irish blood, and forty-eight of the bishops of the seventy-eight dioceses comprised in these provinces are of the Irish race.
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 Bounteous pleasure - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
Last year the island's only airline went under and up until now flights between Norfolk and the mainland were only maintained by the Norfolk government chartering planes (however, at the time of writing Ozjet has announced a regular 737 jet service from Sydney and Brisbane beginning on May 24).
In 2003 the island's most famous resident, author Colleen McCullough, sent one that labelled the Federal Government a "colonial overlord" for the way it bossed Norfolk around and said "Canberra is a child pulling the wings off the world's last specimen of a particular butterfly".
Norfolk's tourism economy is almost totally geared to group tours of the elderly, which is one of the reasons its tourism industry is in trouble.
www.smh.com.au /news/new-south-wales/bounteous-pleasure/2006/05/25/1148524795669.html   (2648 words)

  
 Businessworld: The fiscal hope
The government promises to guarantee 100 days of employment on public works programmes to a member of each household at the bottom of the social scale.
On the revenues side, the government could finally attempt to increase the coverage of the service tax and remove as many exemptions as it can in the tax structure, both of which were part of the Kelkar committee recommendations.
In fact, if the government were to implement all the recommendations, government coffers would be richer by around Rs 80,000 crore (if tax rates are not lowered), according to one estimate.
www.businessworldindia.com /june2104/coverstory03.asp   (610 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Caribbean Islands / Appendix ...
In member nations in which the British monarch serves as the head of state, she or he is represented by an appointed governor general, who is independent of the British government.
The British government codified these basic principles of equal status and free association in 1931 in the Statute of Westminster, which has been characterized as the ""Magna Carta of the Commonwealth."" The statute also recognized the full legislative autonomy of the dominions and offered all former colonies the right to secede from the Commonwealth.
The Secretariat, located in London, is headed by a secretary general, elected by the heads of government for a five-year term.
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 Norfolk Island
So impressed was the British Government that it shipped them to Norfolk Island and Queen Victoria generously gave each family land to farm.
Norfolk is so far from pollution that the coral is pristine and the air so pure your lungs wonder what's happened.
The island's brutal period as a penal settlement is explained in several tours, my favourites being an earthy play called The Trial Of Fifteen and the surreal Sound And Light tour.
www.norfolkisland.com.au /Papers/article1.cfm   (734 words)

  
 Asia Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Regional Study - The South Pacific
The Solomon Island's report to the 1996 Heads of Forestry meeting reports a 1995 harvest in excess of 700,000 cubic metres and a 1996 harvest on target to comfortably exceed 800 000 cubic metres.
The drier lowland forests of the main islands have borne the brunt of this deforestation.
The island effectively comprises a fertile band several hundred metres wide encircling an ancient coral reef which rises as a 60 metres cliff inland to form a plateau in the centre of the island.
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 Index Ch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He became head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), an umbrella organization of exiled opposition groups, which was established in 1992 and received heavy funding from the U.S. When a U.S.-led coalition occupied Iraq in 2003, Chalabi returned to Baghdad and was installed as a member of the Governing Council.
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 Table Of Precedence
The Administrators of the Northern Territory and of Norfolk Island.
Heads of religious communities according to the date of assuming office in Australia.
The Permanent Heads of Departments of the Australian Public Service and their peers and the Chiefs of the Australian Naval, General, and Air Staffs, according to the date of first appointment to an office within this group.
www.statusquo.org /aru_html/html/precedence.html   (923 words)

  
 Australian Heritage Commission Annual Report 1999-2000
In the 1998–99 Budget, the Federal Government announced that from 1 July 1999 the NEGP and the Tax Incentive for Heritage Conservation scheme would be subsumed by a new grants program called the Cultural Heritage Projects Program, administered by the Department of Environment and Heritage.
Key objectives are to assist the implementation of Norfolk Island’s heritage legislation, and to enhance cooperation in the conservation of heritage places.
Overall, the aim of regional forest agreements, consistent with the Inter-Governmental Agreement on the Environment, is to reduce uncertainty, duplication and fragmentation in government decision-making and produce durable, cooperative agreements on the management and use of forests.
www.ahc.gov.au /publications/generalpubs/annual-report2000/chapter3.html   (2054 words)

  
 Bounty islanders celebrate modern mutiny
NORFOLK ISLAND: When the air hostess asks chilly passengers whether she should throw another log on the fire, a faint suspicion forms that there is something a little different about Norfolk Island.
Which is why a modern-day mutiny loomed when the Australian government announced last year that the island faced bankruptcy and Canberra planned to take greater control of the self-governing territory.
The Australian government finally dropped its plan to take more powers in December, after consultants found that the island could be solvent if it sorted out a few issues—sparking great celebration, Maywald said.
www.thenews.com.pk /print1.asp?id=44999   (832 words)

  
 Khaleej Times - Online
The government body was set up to buy banks' shareholdings in companies with which they have close relations, but life insurers hold similar holdings totaling around 40 trillion yen, larger than those of the banks.
Downer, who is on the Indonesian resort island of Bali to attend a regional conference on combating people-smuggling, said Zimbabwe would be "an important focus" of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Queensland in the first week of March.
Norfolk's legislative assembly last month announced plans to introduce the ban because it said the island's small hospital did not have the facilities to cope with serious health problems.
www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/260202/theworld.htm   (6757 words)

  
 Mass. Maritime ship on its way - Boston.com
The federal government, which owns the Enterprise, recently spent $38 million dollars renovating the vessel.
The expenditure was criticized at the time by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of its top 20 examples of government waste.
Gurnon said that the four-day delay canceled a stop on the Portuguese island of Madeira, but that classes onboard the Enterprise would not be affected.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/01/22/mass_maritime_ship_on_its_way   (280 words)

  
 Norfolk Island: Correspondence (1857)
Norfolk Island was originally part of the Diocese of Australia, of which Dr. Broughton was Bishop.
When the Convict Establishment was removed from Norfolk Island, the Bishop of New Zealand immediately resumed his [12/14] his connexion with the Island, writing at the same time to the Bishop of Tasmania, to acquaint him with his reasons for so doing.
The climate is better adapted to the constitutions of the children of the Islands: and the simple, confiding, and religious character of the population, contrasts most favourably with that of the people among whom the pupils would be thrown in New Zealand.
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 Green's Used Genealogy Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The indexes are by Head of Household; however, for the years 1850 – 1870 Crawford expanded the scope to contain different surnames within a household.
Heads of Families – First Census of the United States – 1790 – Maryland.
Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790.
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 Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free
The Joy of Heads A novel in past, present and future PAST: A satirical (?) reply to Go Ask Alice, "Epiphany Point" follows our heroine on her quest through various criss-crossed realities for enlightenment and deliverance of the same.
Living the college life of a head, Mark wanders in search of meaning and peak experiences through the use of substances and falling in love seemingly at random.
A cover of the Talking Heads song, but this one was played faster because there wasn't enough multi-track tape left...as it turns out, I thought it sounded better that way.
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 Maryland Light Stations
In 1919 the island was purchased by the U.S. Navy.
From 1880 to 1891 the Island was leased by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and used for a fish hatchery.
Fort Carroll is a man-made island in the middle of the Patapsco River built to protect the approach to Baltimore.
www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/weblighthouses/lhmd.html   (12296 words)

  
 In hot housing market, the chill of foreclosure - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Local - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Foreclosure filings are up across Middlesex, Norfolk, and Worcester counties.
More than 1,400 filings were recorded in those three counties in the first four months of the year, compared with just over 1,100 filings in the same period last year, according to Framingham-based ForeclosuresMass, which collects information on foreclosures for real estate professionals.
Stanley Paine, who heads the Newton company that conducted the Wayland auction, said most banks will work with homeowners, but he also noted that the banks ultimately want their money.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/06/19/in_hot_housing_market_the_chill_of_foreclosure   (875 words)

  
 Protected Areas Programme -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Commonwealth government responsibilities for nature conservation in Australia as a whole stem from its constitutional powers in relation to international treaties and foreign affairs generally, Aboriginal affairs, exports and imports, and corporations.
Norfolk Island National Park has been proclaimed under the Norfolk Island National Park and Norfolk Island Botanic Garden Act 1984 and also under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.
The administration of most islands in the region is the responsibility of the Queensland Government.
www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/countrysheets/aus.html   (8794 words)

  
 Norfolk MA Community Home Page
As President of Norfolk Cable Corporation, (which oversees Norfolk Cable TV,) I was heavily involved with the process of keeping NCTV's studio and office at our current Freeman Centennial School location.
What led to talks of our having to leave our current location were two factors: that our lease at the time was coming towards the end of its term, and that the school may have been facing some space issues.
[...] The story of my travails with Norfolk, have arisen because of me. Most teachers would not exert their independence in the first place and if they did and got called on it and were told to get in line, most would grieve it if possible or get in line to not risk their job.
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 Fiedor Report on the News
It is time for those governments to understand with crystal clarity that the United States of America will not tolerate that kind of support for networks that would inflict this kind of damage on the American people."
According to both government and financial sources, it looks like bin Laden played a lot of our markets "short" and walked off with a healthy profit.
Last week, even Ohio -- where the government seems to resent the desire of the people to want to go about there business while armed -- has agreed to revisit issuing concealed carry licenses to those with no felony record.
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 Sir Robert Rich
Meanwhile in England Warwick opposed the forced loan of 1626, the payment of ship-money and Laud's church policy, and with his brother the first lord Holland came to be recognized as one of the heads of the Puritans.
He raised forces in Norfolk and Essex on the outbreak of the war, and as lord high admiral (1643-45) he did good service in intercepting the king's ships and relieving threatened ports.
In 1643 he was appointed head of a commission for the government of the colonies, which the next year incorporated Providence Plantation, aftewards Rhode Island, and in this capacity he exerted himself to secure religious liberty.
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