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Levin: hotbed of Tory militancy?

Written By: - Date published: 12:44 pm, October 16th, 2007 - 3 comments

Just had this sent through to me by a Levin reader. The reference to the Federation of Labour and getting the army in to sort out the workers should have been a dead giveaway that the piece was thirty years old, but in the timewarp that is Levin you never can be too sure…

From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth

Written By: - Date published: 11:36 am, October 13th, 2007 - 1 comment

On the morning of October the 12th 1917 845 New Zealand soldiers lost their lives in a failed attack on Bellvue Spur during the Battle of Passchendaele. At commemorations held in Flanders yesterday, Peter Kennedy, The New Zealand Ambassador to Belgium reffered to the attack of that morning “the greatest disaster in New Zealand’s history, […]