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    Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake, KG, GCMG, CH, QSO, PC (/ˈhoʊlioʊk/; 11 February 1904 – 8 December 1983) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 26th prime...
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  • until 1957. Keith Holyoake succeeded Holland, and was defeated some months later at a general election by the Labour Party in 1957. Holyoake returned to...
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    Zealand dollar. In 1984, he was only the second prime minister (after Sir Keith Holyoake) to receive a knighthood while still in office. Mounting legal costs...
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    health in 1957, Holland stepped down as Prime Minister to be replaced by Keith Holyoake. Sidney Holland was born in Greendale in the Canterbury region of the...
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    ill, Marshall was part of the group that persuaded him to step down. Keith Holyoake became Prime Minister. Marshall sought the deputy leadership, managing...
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    George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906) was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in...
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  • Hodgetwins Keith Holyoake (1904–1983), former Prime Minister of New Zealand (1957, 1960–1972) Keith Ismael (born 1998), American football player Keith Jackson...
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  • co-operator Henry Holyoake (1657–1731), headmaster of Rugby School Holly Holyoake (born 1988), Welsh classical music singer Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (1904–1983)...
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  • – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (b. 1944) December 8 Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)...
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    interests of finance and social welfare to external affairs. His biographer Keith Sinclair explained that "for Nash, by 1958, the great moral issues were...
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    term. It saw the Second National Government headed by Prime Minister Keith Holyoake of the National Party win a fourth consecutive term. This is the most...
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    Zealand-born governor-general, Sir Arthur Porritt on the advice of Keith Holyoake. The next governor-general, Sir Denis Blundell, was the first New Zealand...
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    from the leadership in favour of Keith Holyoake, but the transition occurred too close to the election, and Holyoake had little time to establish his...
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    following the 1960 elections, and had been re-elected in the 1963 election. Keith Holyoake remained Prime Minister. The Labour Party experienced a leadership change...
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  • was commander of Australian Forces in Vietnam in 1971 and 1972. Sir Keith Holyoake was the Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1960 to 1972. Sir Jack Marshall...
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    formally established as a ministerial portfolio in 1949. This means that Keith Holyoake is considered the first deputy prime minister. It was formally designated...
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    two prime ministers were knighted while still in office (namely Sir Keith Holyoake in 1970, and Sir Robert Muldoon in 1983). The Diplomatic Protection...
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  • New Zealand political leader Keith Holyoake assembled a "shadow cabinet" within the National Party caucus after his change to the position of Leader of...
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    Cricket Board from 1959 to 1962. Blundell was appointed by Prime Minister Keith Holyoake as High Commissioner for New Zealand in Britain and Ambassador to Ireland...
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  • This is a summary of the electoral history of Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1957, 1960–72), Leader of the National Party (1957–72), and...
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    Government of New Zealand (also known as the Holyoake Government, after head of government Keith Holyoake) was the government of New Zealand from 1960...
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    Several New Zealand Prime Ministers including Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, Keith Holyoake, and David Lange held the External Affairs portfolio. The most recent...
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    Party, beginning New Zealand's second period of National government. Keith Holyoake, who had briefly been Prime Minister at the end of the first period...
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    years, 282 days National First National 26 The Right Honourable Sir Keith Holyoake KGGCMGCHQSOKStJ MP for Pahiatua (1904–1983) – (31st) 20 September 1957...
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    Keith Holyoake's cautiousness toward the entire Vietnam question. While it was considered that New Zealand should support South Vietnam, as Holyoake alleged;...
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    measure to avert a balance of payments crisis, but the opposition, led by Keith Holyoake, made substantial gains out of the issue throughout the parliamentary...
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    Zealand to be appointed by the Queen on the advice of Prime Minister Keith Holyoake as the 11th Governor-General of New Zealand, and the first to be born...
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    the New Zealand National Party. The election was won by Pahiatua MP Keith Holyoake. By 1956 Sidney Holland’s health was beginning to fail. His memory began...
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    Cobham was served by three Prime Ministers: Sidney Holland (1949–1957), Keith Holyoake (1957 and 1960–1972) and Walter Nash (1957–1960). He was most careful...
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  • Zealanders to refer to themselves as British, such as when Prime Minister Keith Holyoake described Sir Edmund Hillary's successful ascent of Mount Everest as...
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