Word: auckland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present Presiding Bishop is 67-year-old Henry St. George Tucker, whose own see is Virginia (unlike the other provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion, the U.S. Episcopal Church has no diocese which goes automatically to its top-ranking prelate, like Canterbury in England, Toronto in Canada or Auckland in New Zealand). When Bishop Tucker's term as head of the church expires in 1943, he will not be eligible for re-election because of the age limit. In that same year Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington, now 75, is also scheduled for retirement. Many Episcopalians expect...
...full meaning of this statement was made explicit last week by a New Zealand butter-&-egg man named William Goodfellow, who passed across the U.S. on his way to Britain. William Goodfellow, who is managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of Auckland, stated that "about" 24 out of a fleet of 60 refrigerator ships which had plied from New Zealand to Britain via the Panama Canal had been sunk. Said Dairyman Goodfellow: "There are several million carcasses of mutton and lamb [in New Zealand warehouses] awaiting shipment. We also have an excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with...
...Zealand officer, a former dairy farmer from Auckland, told how he and his comrades butchered a gang of Germans trying to cross a stream in one of the Olympic passes: "We sank one boat after another. After two hours the river was teeming with half-sunken boats drifting downstream, and with splashing, drowning men. Some of the boats were littered with dead and wounded men. We got sick of killing them. It was mass slaughter." Parachutists in grey shorts and heavy grey jackets, armed with submachine guns, floated to the aid of the men in the river. "Our position appeared...
Japan must be kept off balance. Out of Brisbane, Australia into the South Pacific steamed a flotilla of seven U.S. warships-two heavy cruisers, five destroyers. Out of Auckland, New Zealand into the Tasman Sea steamed a flotilla of six U.S. warships-two light cruisers, four destroyers...
...Asked Congress for another emergency Naval appropriation of $300,841,820. Five days later a U. S. Navy flotilla of two light cruisers, four destroyers showed up in Auckland, New Zealand. Purpose of the trip: "good will and recreation...