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Dame Patsy Reddy to be Governor-General

Edit Otago Daily Times 21 Mar 2016
Prime Minister John Key has announced that the next Governor-General will be Dame Patsy Reddy. Dame Patsy will replace Sir Jerry Mateparae whose five-year term ends on August 31, becoming the third woman to hold the post. "I am delighted Dame Patsy accepted the role," says Mr Key ... Her salary will be $348,000 per year ... "I know it has happened - with Sir Keith Holyoake, for instance - but as a general rule that is not my preference." ... ....

Measured Budget needed this year

Edit Otago Daily Times 16 Feb 2016
This will be Mr English's eighth consecutive Budget as Finance Minister under the John Key-led Government and may be his last ... Why will he be thinking like that?. Mr Key has indicated he wants to seek a fourth term as prime minister of New Zealand and, more importantly, become the longest-serving National Party prime minister - eclipsing the record held by the late Sir Keith Holyoake ... This is not the time for crazy spending promises ... ....

Opinion: Billions to buy Auckland votes

Edit Otago Daily Times 28 Jan 2016
At a cost of $2.5 billion, the rail link would be one of New Zealand's largest transport projects ... Both Labour and the Greens will need to find another issue on which to attack the Government ... By staying on as prime minister past the 2017 election, Mr Key would overtake the late Sir Keith Holyoake as National's longest-serving prime minister. Sir Keith won four elections as leader of the party, something Mr Key will be keen to emulate ... ....

Auckland Airport celebrates 50 years (Auckland International Airport Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jan 2016
Keith Holyoake was Prime Minister; we still had pounds, shillings and pence; we had visits by both the United States' Vice-President and President in the same year and for followers of popular culture, the very first episode of Country Calendar screened.' ... Dignitaries included Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, Government Ministers, local mayors, ......

Billions to buy Auckland votes

Edit Otago Daily Times 27 Jan 2016
At a cost of $2.5billion, the rail link would be one of New Zealand's largest transport projects ... Both Labour and the Greens will need to find another issue on which to attack the Government ... By staying on as prime minister past the 2017 election, Mr Key would overtake the late Sir Keith Holyoake as National's longest-serving prime minister. Sir Keith won four elections as leader of the party, something Mr Key will be keen to emulate ... ....

Key declines Haast anniversary invitation

Edit Otago Daily Times 09 Oct 2015
Mr Allanson felt it would have been appropriate to have Mr Key at the celebrations because the last 50km link in the highway - between Haast and Paringa - was officially opened by National Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake on November 6, 1965. The ODT reported Sir Keith as saying the highway was ''an enduring national asset'' which underlined ''the unity of the whole country'' ... To which, Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake responded....

Simple intervention can moderate anti-vaccination beliefs, study finds (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2015
(Source. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Photo by. L. Brian Stauffer. University of Illinois graduate student Zachary Horne, left, psychology professor John Hummel and their colleagues developed an intervention that moderated anti-vaccination views ... 8/3/2015 ... of I. psychology professor John Hummel, psychology professor Keith Holyoak of the University of California at Los Angeles, and UCLA graduate student Derek Powell ... (noodl....

How to convince vaccine skeptics — and how not to (UCLA - University of California ...

Edit Public Technologies 03 Aug 2015
"It's more effective to accentuate the positive reasons to vaccinate and take a nonconfrontational approach - 'Here are reasons to get vaccinated' - than directly trying to counter the negative arguments against vaccines," said Keith Holyoak, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Psychology and a senior author of the study ... "Try not to be directly confrontational," Holyoak said....

Voter fatigue may erode National's conference bravado

Edit Otago Daily Times 24 Jul 2015
If this weekend's National Party conference runs true to recent form - and there is no obvious reason why this year's gathering of the clan will depart from that script - it will be so stage-managed that any vitality or vibrancy will have been sucked out of the affair before it has even begun ... National's powerbrokers will not care ... Sir John Marshall took over from Sir Keith Holyoake only to be rolled soon after by Sir Robert Muldoon ... ....

Political legend’s former lake-side holiday home up for sale

Edit Scoop 10 Apr 2015
The holiday home previously owned by former Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake – and one of the first baches built in the lakeside Taupo township of Kinloch – has been placed on the market for sale. ....

Holyoake family selling late PMs lakeside bach

Edit Big News Network 10 Apr 2015
It's the end of an era for the family of former Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake, as their late grandfather's lakeside bach goes up for sale. The two-bedroom Lockwood house at Kinloch has ... ....

Holyoake family selling late PM's lakeside bach

Edit NZ Herald 09 Apr 2015
It's the end of an era for the family of former Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake, as their late grandfather's lakeside bach goes up for sale.The two-bedroom Lockwood house at Kinloch has uninterrupted waterfront views out over... ....

400 at reunion: 'town was humming'

Edit Otago Daily Times 08 Mar 2015
The memories were flowing in Otematata over the weekend during the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of the Benmore Dam ... The event marked 50 years since the dam started producing electricity in 1965 and was officially commissioned by then prime minister Sir Keith Holyoake ... ''It's been great ... ....
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