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The Evening Post (8 February 1865 – 6 July 2002) was an afternoon metropolitan daily newspaper based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded in 1865 by Dublin -born printer, newspaper manager and leader-writer Henry Blundell , who brought his large family to New Zealand in 1863.
Over 200 people attended his funeral and he was remembered in the Evening Post obituary as “an imam as imams should be, but rarely are.” The Post continued: Sheikh Khalid’s impact spread wider than New Zealand and on his death messages of sympathy were received by Wellington Muslims from the Muslim World League and the World Assembly of ...
Wellington 5 November 1944 One of four firefighters overcome by carbon monoxide while fighting an industrial fire, and died in hospital four days later [6] Fireman Eric Bright Auckland 15 November 1943 Trapped in a ship when he could not find his exit route after the fire flared up [6] Fireman William Molloy Bluff 25 October 1938
He was convicted and fined for offences in connection with voting in 1884, which gave the local paper the Evening Post some satisfaction. [8] He resigned from the Legislative Council on 11 March 1885, when he was well into his 80s, so that the eldest of his four sons, Robert, could succeed him. [2]
[1] [2] Eugene, 68, and his son Gene, 30, were millionaire money lenders [3] and owners of Invincible House at 136 The Terrace in Wellington. [4] John Barlow was a business acquaintance and made an appointment, documented in five different diaries, to meet them in their office around 6.00pm on 16 February, 1994.
The Evening Post reported about 4000 had visited Days Bay on Anniversary Day 1905. [17] His real pleasure was in running his resort and finding extra work for his commercial vessels in their slack times.
Wellington: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. ISBN 0-908573-76-6. Hoy, D G (1970). Rails out of the Capital. Wellington: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. OCLC 571029. Johnston, Christine (1991). Learning the Hard Way: A Case Study of selected Railway Accidents in New Zealand since the 1920s. Wellington: NZRLS. ISBN 0-908573-57-X.
He served on the Wellington Fire Board from 1954, the Hospital Board from 1950 to 1956 and the Harbour Board from 1950 until his death in 1979. He was also the chairman of the Wellington City and Suburban Water Supply Board, director of the New Zealand Municipalities Co-operative Insurance Company and patron of the City of Wellington Highland ...