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  New Zealand elections
New Zealand general elections occur when the Prime Minister requests a dissolution of parliament and therefore a general election.
New Zealand currently has sixty-nine electorates (including seven Maori electorates, reserved for people of Maori ethnicity or ancestry who choose to place themselves on a separate electoral roll).
New Zealand claims to have become the first country in the world to have granted women's suffrage, although the accuracy of this claim depends on the definitions used - see women's suffrage.
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  New Zealand - Search View - MSN Encarta
New Zealand is located within the Ring of Fire, a region encircling the Pacific Ocean where the movement of tectonic plates (huge segments of Earth’s crust) leads to volcanic and seismic activity.
New Zealand is a founding member of the United Nations (UN) and a full member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a voluntary association of countries and dependencies with ties to the United Kingdom.
New Zealand politics from the 1850s to the 1880s were dominated by a small elite of men who, having prospered in business and sheep farming, formed a landed gentry.
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 New Zealand - LoveToKnow 1911
The physical geography of New Zealand is closely connected with its geological structure, and is dominated by two intersecting lines of mountains and earth movements.
With these exceptions New Zealand trade is almost all done with Australia (£5,348,000 in 1907) and the United Kingdom; the latter's share in 1906 was £26,811,000 of the whole.
The outbreak of the Boer War in October 1899 was followed in New Zealand by a prompt display of general and persistent warlike enthusiasm: politics ceased to be the chief topic of interest; the general election of 1899 was the most languid held for fifteen years.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /New_Zealand   (10934 words)

  
 New Zealand general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The election saw a strong recovery by National: it won 21 more seats than at the 2002 election, when it had suffered its worst result since it first fought a general election in 1938.
On 17 October, Clark announced a new coalition agreement that saw the return of her minority government coalition with the Progressive Party, with confidence-and-supply support from New Zealand First and from United Future.
New Zealand First's involvement in such a coalition would have run counter to Peters' promise to deal with the biggest party, and Turia and Sharples would have had difficulty in justifying supporting National after their supporters' overwhelming support for Labour in the party vote.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_2005   (1679 words)

  
 New Zealand general election 1954 - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
The 1954 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 31st term.
For the election, the National government adopted a "steady as she goes" approach, saying that the country was in good hands and did not need any major policy realignments.
The 1954 election saw the governing National Party re-elected with a ten-seat margin, a drop from the twenty-seat margin it previously held.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_1954   (325 words)

  
 New Zealand general election, 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2002 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 47th New Zealand Parliament.
ACT New Zealand, National's more right-wing neighbour, failed to capitalize on the exodus of National supporters, retaining the same number of seats as before.
The other was United Future New Zealand party, a centrist party based on a merger of the United Party and the Future New Zealand party - primarily due to the performance of leader Peter Dunne, the party shot from having one seat to having eight seats.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_2002   (1473 words)

  
 Timeline_of_New_Zealand_history
Timeline of New Zealand history From Sterwiki This is a timeline of the History of New Zealand.
October: Declaration of Independence of New Zealand by the 'Confederation of United Tribes' signed by 34 northern chiefs (and later by another 18).
New Zealand ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
www.news-from-newspapers.com /en/Wikipedia.org/2005/04/15/Timeline_of_New_Zealand_history.html   (3857 words)

  
 New Zealand general election, 2005 Information
The election saw a strong recovery by National, winning 21 more seats than at the 2002 election, when it had suffered its worst result since it first fought a general election in 1938.
On 17 October, Clark announced a new coalition agreement that saw the return of her minority government coalition with the Progressive Party, with confidence-and-supply support from New Zealand First and from United Future.
New Zealand First's involvement in such a coalition would have run counter to Peters' promise to deal with the biggest party, and Turia and Sharples would have had difficulty in justifying supporting National after their supporters' overwhelming support for Labour in the party vote.
www.bookrags.com /New_Zealand_general_election%2C_2005   (1843 words)

  
 New Zealand general election 1975 - Biocrawler
The 1975 New Zealand general election was the first election in New Zealand where all permanent residents of New Zealand were eligible to vote, although only citizens were able to be elected.
The final results of election: National won 55 seats, and Labour 32 seats.
This was an exact opposite of the 1972 election.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/New_Zealand_general_election_1975   (80 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism
election and salvation, while the latter emphasized the doctrine of universal redemption.
New Zealand in 1823, and in 1835 Cargill and Cross began their evangelistic work in the
Daniel Rowlands in 1735-6; as an organization it was partly established in 1811 by Thomas Charles, and completed in 1864 by the union of the Churches of North and South Wales and the holding of the first General Assembly.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm   (4220 words)

  
 New Zealand general election, 2002 - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
The 2002 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 47th New Zealand Parliament.
ACT New Zealand, National's more right-wing neighbour, failed to capitalize on the exodus of National supporters, retaining the same number of seats as before.
The other was United Future New Zealand party, a centrist party based on a merger of the United Party and the Future New Zealand party - primarily due to the performance of leader Peter Dunne, the party shot from having one seat to having eight seats.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election,_2002   (1451 words)

  
 13 NEW ZEALAND — ARDEN | NZETC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
New families arriving in March were given land to the north of the river, also separated from the Government Reserve by the land sold earlier.
Thomas Lineham's application for assisted immigration to New Zealand was supported by certificates from J. Readman, Baptist Minister, from John Jenkyns, Vicar of Lidlington and from Henry Taylor, the General Secretary of the National Union.
It was unlike New Plymouth, however, in that it did not consist of a small, closely-settled coastal strip, but rather of a pocket of about four hundred square miles of thinly-settled squatter country, extending some thirty miles inland to the south of the province's capital and port Napier.
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 Baird Biographies - New Zealand
Born Sunday, 17 December 1893 in Dunedin, New Zealand, he last attended the Caversham school then went on to play just three first class games and for one of them to be a test would be an impossibility in modern rugby.
She was in New Zealand on her second leave in 12 years from March 1934 until January 1935.
The governor general, Lord Bledisloe, visited the farm on one occasion.Margaret Johnstone was for many years president of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society), while her husband was financial adviser to the society and a member of its council, and founder-director of the Karitane Products Society.
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 Kate Sheppard and Woman Suffrage in New ZealandWomen's History Month 2003 by Sunshine for Women
Further, the native pride New Zealanders embraced in the achievements of their small state and a wish to startle the world with their courage in political experiment may have contributed to early suffrage for women.
In 1877, all New Zealand women granted the vote for local school boards; in 1881, for liquor licensing committees; and in 1885, for hospital and charitable aid boards.
In short, the weakness of traditional conservatism, the responsible use of the ballot in other elections, the surge of radical thought, the tolerance of woman's claims, and the pride of New Zealanders in challenging tradition all coincided in the 1890 to aid passage of woman suffrage for the national legislature.
www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2003/new_zealand2.html   (1883 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Redemptorists
Detroit and New Orleans in 1847; and to Cumberland in 1849.
After a series of deliberations conducted by the Holy See with the superior general and the Fathers of the Transalpine provinces, Father Rudolph Smetana was appointed vicar-general in 1850.
Baltimore founded in 1881 a separate house for its juvenate, or junior house of studies, at Northeast, Pennsylvania.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12683a.htm   (4288 words)

  
 HOLDENREPUBLIC.org.nz: Guide to New Zealand: A constitutional history of New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: )
General election: Liberal Party remains in power, Sir Joesph Ward resigns as Prime Minsiter, and is replaced by Thomas Mackenzie.
A constitutional crises arises in the aftermath of the general election.
New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General (The Lands Case): President Cooke (as he then was) of the Court of Appeal rules that the principles Treaty of Waitangi, referred to in section 9* of the State Owned Enterprises Act 1985 created a partnership between Maori and Pakeha.
holdenrepublic.org.nz /constitutional_history.html   (5223 words)

  
 History of the Vote : From FPP to MMP
In 1993 New Zealanders voted in a referendum to change their voting system from the traditional first-past-the-post (FPP) method to Mixed Member Proportional representation (MMP).
Electoral rules and procedures were overhauled and in 1995 the boundaries of the 60 general and five Maori electorates were finalised.
Until 1881, and again from 1889 to 1903, Members of Parliament were elected in a mixture of single-member and two- or three-member electorates.
www.elections.org.nz /study/history/history-mmp.html   (1266 words)

  
 Proportional Representation in NZ - how the people let themselves in - Part I - Green Party
The result of the 1993 referendum, which was held in conjunction with a general election, was much closer.
The history of electoral reform in New Zealand, and I presume Australia, has usually revolved around the people who are left out, and/or their champions, challenging the status quo.
He was an advocate of MMP and helped to organise the visit to New Zealand in January 1987 of John Taplin from the Proportional Representation Society of.
www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/speech6662.html   (3863 words)

  
 Henry George / The New Zealand Campaigns   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The reference in the letter of Sir George Grey to the New Zealand land- tax (of one half-penny in the £) imposed in 1878(the year before the publication of Progress and Poverty) was that imposed when he was Premier, and Mr.
John Ballance, was returned to power under adult suffrage, it promptly repealed the general property tax and imposed a tax on land values of 1d in the £, with an exemption of £500.
A foundation for a totally new state of things is being laid, and this foundation is to rest upon a (total) basis of almost the entire world, at least upon all those nations who now exercise the greatest control over human affairs.
www.cooperativeindividualism.org /george-henry_new-zealand-corres.html   (5116 words)

  
 Calendar - NZHistory.net.nz
New Zealand's first female military personnel were joined within 18 months by the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Royal Naval Service.
The proclamation of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 (UK) provided for a General Assembly comprised of the Governor, an elected House of Representatives and a Legislative Council whose members were nominated by the Governor.
News of the incident is kept quiet until 1945 for fear of retribution against Allied prisoners in Japanese camps.
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 New Zealand general election 1893 Information
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.
www.bookrags.com /New_Zealand_general_election_1893   (104 words)

  
 British Empire: The Map Room: Pacific: New Zealand
Lord Gleneig, the colonial minister, had the support of the missionaries in withstanding Wakefield's New Zealand Company, which at length resolved in desperation to send an agent to buy land wholesale in New Zealand and despatch a shipload of settlers thither without official permission.
Extremely well suited for sheep-farming, the natural pastures of the country were quickly parcelled out into huge pastoral crown leases, held by prosperous licensees, the squatters, who in many cases aspired to become a country gentry by turning their leases into freehoids.
This plan was first put into execution at the general election of 1890, which was held during the industrial excitement aroused by the Australasian maritime strike of that year.
www.britishempire.co.uk /maproom/newzealand.htm   (2152 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Joseph George Ward
Sir Joseph George Ward (1856-1930) served twice as New Zealand's Prime Minister, from 1906-12 and 1928-30, and was Deputy Prime Minister during the First World War.
Born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1856 Ward's family migrated to New Zealand in 1859.
In 1878 Ward's political career began with his election to Campbelltown borough council, where he remained until 1897 during which time he spent six years as Mayor.
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 Archives New Zealand: Māori Research Topic - War
Whakapapa can be found in a large number of records held at Archives New Zealand, the main sources being the Māori Land Court records, and the records of the Native and Māori Affairs Department.
There are a number of census records from different areas in New Zealand and different dates.
Although Archives New Zealand is a repository for government records, the holdings also contain details of prominent public figures.
www.archives.govt.nz /servicestomaori/maoriresearchtopics/genealogy.php   (817 words)

  
 New Zealand Genealogy Resource List
The New Zealand Herald: anniversary and death notices 1934-1970/ edited by David Bonney.
New Zealand cemetery records : a list of holdings/ compiled by June Springer.
Roll of electors for the year...who are entitled to vote at the election of a
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 Hanz, Hospitality Association of New Zealand
His new group would involve hoteliers, merchants, aerated water manufacturers and a resolution was passed to form a catering company with 5000 shares at one pound ($2.00) each.
Brewers maintained that they had been more than generous with their war effort and in particular with the grant to the Prohibition funds, and would not budge in reducing the price of draught and bottled beer by the amount of the tax.
In 1922 - election year - Parliament set up a special committee of the House of Representatives under Mr F F Hockley, MP to review the licensed trade as a consequence of a promise made before the 1919 election, namely if prohibition did not come in such a course would be adopted.
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