Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest step in the independence of Canada is the proposal to choose a national flag. A commission has been appointed to select a design. Lest too great excitement be aroused, it may be remarked that Australia and New Zealand already have such flags...
...Reform Party of New Zealand, of which the late Premier W. F. Massey was for so long the leader (TIME, May 18), elected Minister of Railways J. G. Coates Premier of New Zealand and leader of the Party. There was talk of a fusion between the Liberal and Reform Parties, which, if it took place, would give the welded party an absolute instead of a relative majority...
...politician, he is considered little better than a failure and as a statesman, untried. His difficulties in stepping into the shoes of the late popular Mr. Massey are manifest. His friends in New Zealand, while wishing him the best of luck, are, therefore, dubious as to whether he is the right man to lead the Reform Party and head the Government...
...Wellington, capital of far-off New Zealand, Death came to William Ferguson Massey, for close on 13 years Prime Minister. He was a laughing man-one of the most genial that ever entered the public life of that Dominion. Mr. Massey was born at Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, 69 years ago; and at the age of 14 went to rejoin his parents in New Zealand, where they had moved eight years before. The embryo statesman became a farmer and, more to the point, a prosperous farmer. He entered Parliament in 1894, the next year becoming Chief Opposition Whip, a position...
Died. William F. Massey, 69, Premier of New Zealand, in Wellington, N. Z. (see COMMONWEALTH...