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Guilford/Guildford NZ Directories 1947 -
1956
NZ Time Line: Src:
- 1948 British
Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948 passed.
- Protest campaign against exclusion of Māori
players from rugby tour of South Africa.
- Polio epidemic closes
schools.
- Mount
Ruapehu and Mount
Ngauruhoe erupt.
- Meat rationing ends.
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- 1949 1 January: New
Zealanders become "British Subjects and New Zealand Citizens"
- Referendum agrees to compulsory military
training.
- New Zealand gets first four navy
frigates.
- 30 November: General
election: National Government
elected.
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- 1950 Naval and ground forces sent to Korean War.
- New Zealand abolished Legislative
Council .
- Wool price
boom. How to Shear a sheep
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