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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.
In 1892 a new form of land tenure was introduced, under which large areas of crown lands were leased for 999 years, at an unchanging rent of 4% on the prairie value.
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.
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 New Zealand general election 1957 - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
The 1957 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 32nd term.
The 1957 elections marked the beginning of the second Labour government, although this administration was to last only a single term.
The 1957 election campaign was dominated largely by financial issues, particularly introduction of the PAYE tax system.
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  Papua New Guinea - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea or PNG) is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is occupied by the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya).
Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.
New Guinea is part of the humid tropics, and many Indomalayan rainforest plants spread across the narrow straits from Asia, mixing together with the old Australian and Antarctic floras.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Papua_New_Guinea   (3221 words)

  
 Timeline_of_New_Zealand_history
Timeline of New Zealand history From Sterwiki This is a timeline of the History of New Zealand.
New Zealand's first sheep breed, the Corriedale, is developed.
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)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ireland
Moreover, the influence of the Marquis of Ormond was a fatal cause of discord.
At the general election in 1892 the Parnellite members were reduced to nine, while the anti-Parnellites were seventy-two, and at the election in 1895 there was no material change.
New churches are built on land purchase out, or acquired free of rent or under very long lease, and church and ground are exempt from taxation.
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 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   (1580 words)

  
 Glossary
Either the paper printed for an election showing the candidates' names and affiliations or the paper containing questions to be decided in a referendum, which voters mark to record their vote.
In South Australia general elections are held for all House of Assembly seats (47) and half the Legislative Council seats (11) every four years.
An analysis of previous election results (in percentage terms) used to identify the shift in political support that would be required in electoral districts for seats to be won or lost at an election.
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 New Zealand - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
New Zealand is a multicultural society with 4 million people, 8 million orcs, 968 million Asians.It is rumoured to hold a portal to Azeroth and the World of Warcraft.
New Zealanders undertake constitutional reform while on some seriously hard drugs: "let's abolish our upper house, and work out what to have instead later" (1950) and "let's have half the seats in parliament filled by people who don't have to stand for election, and call it MMP" (1996) are two of the country's landmarks.
New Zealand has the most beautiful sheep in the world and is the envy of all nations, many of whose male citizens are tempted by the these woolly sirens.
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 Political parties in New Zealand - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
New Zealand's "third party" between the 1960s and the 1980s.
The popularity of New Zealand First, a party which opposed immigration, was a significant factor in its creation.
A party which campaigned in the 1963 elections on a platform of reducing the size of the government, introducing a written constitution, and restoring the upper house of Parliament.
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 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.
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 by topic — Electoral rolls - Electronic Resources - State Library of New South Wales
The election was held on November 28 to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 12th session of the New Zealand Parliament.
Elections for the 4 Maori seats by the Maori vote were held on 20 December.
When Governor Glasgow signed the New Zealand Electoral Bill on 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world where women had won the right to vote (over 21 and including maori women) and women voted for the first time in the 1893 election.
www2.sl.nsw.gov.au /databases/?subject_id=327   (1859 words)

  
 A History of the Orthodox Church: The Orthodox Church Since WWI
It adopted a new constitution of the church that provided for the reestablishment of the patriarchate, the election of bishops by the dioceses, and the representation of laymen on all levels of church administration.
Generally speaking, however, all the Balkan churches adopted an attitude of loyalty to the new regime, according to the pattern given by the patriarchate of Moscow.
In 1905 the American archbishop Tikhon (future patriarch of Moscow) presented to the Russian synod the project of an autonomous, or autocephalous, church of America, whose structure would reflect the ethnic pluralism of its membership.
www.orthodoxinfo.com /general/history7.aspx   (2796 words)

  
 XTRAMSN: History Of NZ Elections
The New Zealand Constitution Act (UK) established a system of representative government for New Zealand, with a General Assembly consisting of a Legislative Council appointed by the Crown and a House of Representatives elected every five years by males over the age of 21 who owned, leased or rented property of a certain value.
Parliament passed new Electoral Act, including entrenched provisions that could not be amended unless the proposed changes were agreed to by either 75 per cent of MPs or a majority of those who voted in a referendum; eligible Maori required to register as electors.
Term for non-Maori electorates changed from 'European' to 'general'; introduction of Maori electoral option, held after each five-yearly population census to permit Maori to choose which type of roll (general or Maori) they wish to be on until the next option; right to vote extended to permanent residents of any nationality.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Presbyterianism
In New Zealand the church of North Island, an offshoot of the Scottish Kirk, organized 1856, and the church of South Island (founded by Scottish Free Churchmen, 1854) have consolidated in one General Assembly.
During this period of separation the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, was established by the "New Side", with Rev. John Witherspoon, afterwards a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as first president.
In 1788 the synod adopted a constitution, and a general assembly was established.
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The general election victory in Epping in 1945 also laid the basis for a strong Labour presence in the constituency on which I was able to build to win the 1964 election, as Leah Manning’s only successor –the only other Labour MP for Epping that there has ever been.
The New Model Unions, which became the trend from the 1850s tended to exclude women from membership and they required long apprenticeships to be admitted to the trade.
Employment was generated by the docks and related industries and it was in this area that the labour movement sunk roots at an early stage.
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 Glossary.html   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Duncan was an officer of the Granite Cutters (from 1905, the Granite Cutters' International Association of America) from 1895 to 1923 (secretary, 1895-1905, secretary-treasurer, 1905-12, and president, 1912-23) and edited the union's official journal from 1895 to 1928.
She moved to New York City in 1889 where she met anarchist leader Johann Most and her long-time collaborator, Alexander Berkman, and became active in the anarchist movement and in union organizing in the clothing industry.
Powderly, Terence Vincent (1849-1924), general master workman of the KOL, was born in Carbondale, Pa. Apprenticed as a machinist, he moved to Scranton and joined the International Machinists and Blacksmiths of North America in 1871, becoming president of his local and an organizer in Pennsylvania.
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 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS JEAN PING OF GABON AS PRESIDENT OF FIFTY-NINTH SESSION, DECIDES ON OFFICERS FOR MAIN COMMITTEES
The General Assembly this morning elected Jean Ping, Minister of State, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and la Francophonie of Gabon, as the President of its fifty-ninth session.  The new President will assume his role upon the opening of the new session in September.
Ping noted that the election marked the tenth African presidency of the Assembly.  He said it crowned his country’s participation for some 50 years in the noble mission of the United Nations to build a more caring world in which future generations would be freed from the ravages of war and underdevelopment.
The achievement of that mission, however, depended on the participation and cooperation of all Members in a spirit of mutual understanding, dialogue and tolerance, he said.  He proposed to pursue broadened consultations to continue the necessary effort to revitalize the Organization, reiterating his support for the Secretary-General’s determination in pursuing reform.
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2004/ga10243.doc.htm   (1088 words)

  
 MapUp.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elections in 1972 resulted in the formation of a ministry headed by Chief Minister Michael Somare, who pledged to lead the country to self-government and then to independence.
Papua New Guinea's politics are highly competitive with most members elected on a personal and ethnic basis within their constituencies rather than as a result of party affiliation.
New governments are protected by law from votes of no confidence for the first 18 months of their incumbency, and no votes of no confidence may be moved in the 12 months preceding a national election.
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 Auckland City Libraries: New Zealand voting rights timeline
Entitlement to enrol was extended to all men over the age of 21, providing they were British subjects who either owned property or had lived in New Zealand at least one year and in an electorate for 6 months before registering as an elector.
New Zealand Māori Voters' Rolls 1908 on microfiche contains full name, tribe, hapū, address and sex of those who voted in Northern, Eastern and Western Māori electorates.
Voting rights granted to New Zealand citizens and permanent residents who had resided in an electorate for one month.
www.aucklandcitylibraries.com /heritage/familyhistory/newzealand/nzvotingrightstimeline.htm   (770 words)

  
 Economy - The European economy: a history - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
New Zealand’s economic destiny seemed to lie in large-scale sheep farming, and the export of wool, tallow and perhaps canned meat.
New grasses were sown so that two blades of grass grew in place of one.
It was an economy sometimes described as ‘two-legged’, with the pastoral leg generating the foreign exchange the economy needed, and the manufacturing leg generating the jobs to maintain full employment.
www.teara.govt.nz /NewZealandInBrief/Economy/10/en   (1087 words)

  
 Cumann na nGaedhael
The idea for the new party arose in late December 1922 but its formal launch was delayed until April 1923 as a direct consequence of the turmoil caused by the civil war.
In the general election in June 1927, Cumann na Gaedheal performed very poorly, winning just 47 seats with 27% of the vote, and was able to survive in office only because of Fianna Fáil's contained refusal to take up its 44 seats due to the party's rejection of the Oath of Allegiance.
Its support base contracted further in the general election of January 1933 (48 seats compared to Fianna Fáil's 77) as it failed to counter de Valera's populism and was increasingly labelled the party of the middle class.
www.generalmichaelcollins.com /pages/Cumann_na_nGael.html   (4691 words)

  
 New Zealand florists - christchurch florist flower nz Christchurch florists
Perhaps the most English of New Zealand's cities, Christchurch was founded in 1850 and has such landmarks as Hagley Park and Christchurch Cathedral.
Christchurch is the main city in Canterbury, New Zealand.
New Zealand's first public railway line was opened from Ferrymead to Christchurch in 1863.
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 Today in History | NZHistory.net.nz, New Zealand history online
Ngati Porou leader and politician Apirana Ngata is one of New Zealand's best-known figures.
The first member of New Zealand's inaugural Parliament, Hugh Carleton, was elected unopposed at Russell in the Bay of Islands.
He was elected to Parliament in 1905 representing Eastern Maori, a seat he would retain until 1943.
www.nzhistory.net.nz /timeline/14/7   (534 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.
He was responsible for exploring vast areas of south-eastern Australia and opening up new grazing lands in the southern parts of Victoria.
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 General elections 1853-2005 - dates & turnout | Elections New Zealand
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 /record/resultsdata/elections-dates-turnout.html   (1027 words)

  
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This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War.
The final major hurdle imposed by the NRC is the fact that their new, streamlined licensing timeline imposes a 42-60 month delay from the time that the application is filed until it is approved.
A new outdoor exhibit is the recently restored Daisy Track, which was used to study the human body's tolerance of gravitational forces and restraint systems, technology that has also been used in the seat belts in today's automobiles.
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