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	NEW ZEALAND'S MONARCHY
		New Zealand Cabinet Ministers, and Court of Appeal judges are customarily appointed to the Privy Council, and the latter are entitled to sit on the Judicial Committee to hear appeals from New Zealand and elsewhere.
		As the coat of arms of the New Zealand Government is not that of the Queen, she continues to use the Royal Arms in New Zealand, and members of the Royal Family use their own arms, which are variations of the Royal Arms.
		The officer is New Zealand Deputy to Garter King of Arms, and is the representative in New Zealand of the College of Arms.
	www.geocities.com /cox_nz/factsheet1.htm (6449 words)

	New Zealand general election, 1893 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Zealand general election of 1893 was held November 28 to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 12th session of the New Zealand Parliament.
		The Māori vote was held on December 20.
		The election was won by the Liberal Party, and Richard Seddon became Prime Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_1893 (159 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Canada - Elections to the House of Commons
		In the ensuing January 23, 2006 general election, the Liberals were defeated by the Conservatives, who emerged as the largest party in the House of Commons, although well short of an absolute majority.
		The new party emerged as a major contender to the Liberals, who lost their absolute majority in the House of Commons in the 2004 general election.
		Between 1962 and 1980, eight federal elections were held in Canada, five of which (1962, 1963, 1965, 1972 and 1979) resulted in minority governments, as no party won an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons.
	electionresources.org /ca (2310 words)

	Election results : General elections 1853-2005 - dates & turnout
		From 1853 to 1879 general elections took place over a period of weeks or months.
		At the first elections in 1868 three of the four members were elected on nomination day (15 Apr), two without opposition and one by show of hands; the fourth was returned in a poll on 6 May. From 1881 only the day of Maori polling is given.
		Includes an estimated 485 electors enrolled in the New Plymouth, Grey and Bell and Omata electorates, for which figures are not available.
	www.elections.org.nz /elections/elections_dates_turnout.html (471 words)

	Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Elections
		New Zealand recently adopted this model, which is explained at the New Zealand Elections Site.
		The data from the 1997 election study are available on-line; the raw frequencies for a number of variables in their massive survey can be read directly with your browser, or you can download the full data set in SPSS format to analyze on your own computer.
		Elections Canada provides the interim election results for the country as a whole, by province and by major metropolitan area.
	www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/elections.html (1123 words)

	Electoral rolls and voting rights - Family History - Heritage - Christchurch City Libraries
		Three microfiche entitled New Zealand Māori voters' rolls, 1908, list people who were on the Māori electoral rolls in the year 1908.
		Generally men who leased or owned property had the vote, and those who had land in several parts of the province had more than one vote (called 'plural voting').
		The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre also holds a card file index of portraits of prominent Christchurch citizens, and these may refer you to photographs of mayors and councillors published in newspapers or held by the Council.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /FamilyHistory/ElectoralRolls (1157 words)

	Scandinavian Club of Manawatu - Immigration to Manawatu
		In fact, Doctor Isaac Featherston, one of the New Zealand Commissioners, exceeded his instructions in July and August 1870, when he requested that the Norwegian firm, Winge and Co., recruit at least ten young couples before the current emigration season closed - due to the icing-up of ports - in October 1870.
		He told curious listeners that the voyage to New Zealand was free and that each family would be given ten acres.
		It was also two days before New Zealand's General Election and the authorities feared local labourers, who in turn feared losing employment to the newcomers, might cause problems.
	www.geocities.com /scanmanawatu/immigration.html (2532 words)

	Thomson Nelson - Political Science Resource Centre
		Visit New Zealand Elections for more information about this system and the history of its adoption in time for the 1996 general election.
		The raw survey data from the 1997 and 2004 elections are available for the CES and for the 1984-2000 election studies from York University.
		Elections Canada provides the official results of the 1997 and 2000 general elections on line.
	polisci.nelson.com /elections.html (1396 words)

	More about our electoral administration : Key dates in New Zealand electoral reform
		1853 First election for the House of Representatives held; 37 MPs elected using First-Past-the-Post in a mix of single-member and multi-member electorates; although some Māori (almost invariably tribal leaders) voted, Māori were effectively excluded because they owned their lands under communal title.
		1881 First general election with universal male suffrage; all MPs elected in single-member electorates; introduction of 'country quota' allowing rural electorates to have 25 percent fewer people than town electorates; European and Māori elections held on single (but different) days; rules defining legal campaign spending introduced.
		1956 Parliament passed new Electoral Act, including entrenched provisions which could not be amended unless the proposed changes were agreed to by either 75 percent of all MPs or a majority of those who voted in a referendum; eligible Māori required to register as electors.
	www.elections.org.nz /administration/key_dates_electoral_reform.html (1164 words)

	First Parliaments 1853-1871 - New Zealand Politics Timeline - Christchurch City Libraries
		Males over the age of 21 who were British subjects and held, rented or leased property of a certain value or over able to vote.
		Henry Sewell becomes first Premier of New Zealand, but is succeeded by William Fox two weeks later, and then by Edward Stafford after another two weeks.
		New Zealand Settlements Act passed to allow confiscation of land from Māori after the New Zealand Wars.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Reference/NZPoliticsTimeline/1853-1871 (276 words)

	New World Celts
		Australia and New Zealand, countries referred to in Britain as "down under" profited enormously from the arrival of Scottish immigrants.
		The Scots highly deserve their place of honor in the roll of those who did so much to develop Australia and New Zealand into prosperous, modern states whose sobering influence has added so much to the world in general.
		Initially, the discovery of copper in South Australia at Kapunda in 1843 and Burra in 1845 drew people from Wales; but it was the discovery of gold in the Ballarat-Sebastapol area of Victoria in the early 1850s which caused the Welsh population of the province to rise dramatically.
	www.newworldcelts.org /australia.html (2320 words)

	New Zealand
		Auckland, New Zealand: Published for the Programme for Theology and Cultures in Asia by Pace Publishing, 1993.
		Christchurch [N.Z.]: Published for the Maori Synod of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand by the Presbyterian Bookroom, 1961.
		Christchurch, New Zealand: National Council of Churches in New Zealand : Distributed by the Presbyterian Bookroom, 1964.
	www.schoolofministry.ac.nz /reformed/biblionz.htm (1529 words)

	Timeline 1871-1874
		1871 Jul 25, A carrousel was patented by Wilhelm Schneider in Davenport, Iowa.
		1871 Aug 30, Ernest Rutherford (d.1937), physicist who discovered and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation and was the first to achieve a man-made nuclear reaction, was born in New Zealand.
		1871 Nov 1, Steven Crane, poet and novelist, was born.
	timelines.ws /1871_1874.HTML (13601 words)

	[06 Feb 1998] GA/COL/2974 : GOAL OF ERADICATING COLONIALISM BY YEAR 2000 SHOULD GUIDE WORK OF DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		UTULA UTUOC SAMANA (Papua New Guinea), Chairman of the Special Committee, said he was honoured to take on the position of Chairman, which had become a unique and unprecedented forum for the representatives of the Non- Self Governing Territories to freely speak their minds.
		MICHAEL JOHN POWLES (New Zealand) offered congratulations to the Chairman on his reappointment and said that, during his term, New Zealand greatly appreciated the Committee's efforts and consideration of the people of Tokelau.
		In light of the fact that the General Assembly had again deferred consideration of the item during the recent regular session, he stressed that the inclusion of it in the Special Committee's work would serve no purpose, but would undermine the tripartite talks.
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/1998/19980206.GACO2974.html (2320 words)

	Black History Tidbit - Sistah Talk
		Returning to New Orleans after the war, Pinchback organized the Fourth Ward Republican Club and served as a delegate to the convention that established a new constitution for Louisiana.
		A year later he was elected to the U.S. Senate, but he was again refused the seat amid charges and countercharges of fraud and election irregularities--although some observers said it was the colour of his skin that counted against him.
		At the age of 50 he decided to take up a new profession and entered Straight College, New Orleans, to study law; he was subsequently admitted to the bar.
	www.blackliving.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=3802 (487 words)

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		Given the political success that do-not-call legislation generated for many politicians, some are seeking to latch onto direct mail in a ploy for short-term political gain, regardless of the consequences.
		New Komeito had been urging the LDP to abandon its goal of moving the bills through the Lower House by the end of the week, due to concerns it could negatively affect Sunday's Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election.
		While their numbers are generally expected to decline in the next few years because of competition from alternative delivery systems and new forms of electronic communication, the demand for rural carriers is expected to increase.
	www.postcom.org /archive/news2005/news06-05.htm (16496 words)

	United Press International - NewsTrack - The Almanac
		In 1993, the ruling New Zealand National Party won a one-seat majority in general elections.
		In 1994, in a stunning upset, Republican candidates swept the general election, regaining control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress.
		In 1982, former KGB chief Yuri Andropov succeeded the late Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
	www.upi.com /NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061030-101022-9302r (4060 words)

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		April 29, 2005 -- According to DM News postal commentator Cary Baer, "The biggest problem that the USPS and mailing community have with Congress is its oft-repeated propensity to put its hand into the postal service’s wallet and extract huge sums of cash, usually with the administration’s (both Democratic and Republican) approval.
		The national representative body believes the new structure could cost charities millions of pounds in lost income and force many organisations to choose between paying out on increased postage costs or reducing their direct mail and donor marketing activities." See also The Scotsman.
		April 28, 2005 -- The Nikkei News Service has reported that "Japan Post President Masaharu Ikuta said Wednesday that he welcomed the fact that the postal privatization legislation suggests it may be possible for the privatized postal firms and their holding company to maintain capital relationships with one another.
	www.postcom.org /archive/news2005/news04-05.htm (16566 words)

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