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unusual facts about Postmaster-General of New Zealand



Arkona, Ontario

In 1857 it was renamed 'Arkona' after the rugged cape on the Baltic Island of Rügen, a name suggested by resident cabinet maker Ephraim Brower and possibly by the incumbent postmaster Levi Schooley.

Arthur Macalister

Macalister was appointed to the positions of clerk of Petty Sessions and postmaster at Scone, New South Wales in June 1840.

Bailar

Benjamin F. Bailar (b. 1934), United States Postmaster General from 1975 to 1978

Belmont, North Carolina

He later became postmaster and town depot agent for the new Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway, which was constructed in 1871.

Caledon Egerton

Four of their sons were knighted, including Field Marshal Sir Charles Egerton, Sir Reginald Egerton (Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General), Admiral Sir George Egerton, and Sir Brian Egerton (tutor to Ganga Singh, the Maharaja of Bikaner).

Cardwell Bush Telegraph

The Postmaster was also Linesman-in-Charge, responsible for maintenance of the telegraph line in his sector.

Carling Avenue

The road is named for John Carling, founder of Carling Brewery and Conservative MP and Senator, Postmaster General and Minister of Agriculture.

Carpenter, Kentucky

Carpenter was named for its first postmaster and doctor, Ensley A. Carpenter, who moved to Whitley County shortly after the Civil War from neighboring Claiborne County, Tennessee.

Christopher Holland-Martin

Invalided out of the Army, Holland-Martin was appointed Military Secretary to the Governor-General of New Zealand, Cyril Newall from 1942 to 1944.

Collamer, Indiana

After some frustration and consideration, on September 18, 1849 they choose the name Collamer, after President Zachary Taylor's Postmaster General Jacob Collamer.

Columbus, North Dakota

Both this town and nearby Larson were named for an early postmaster who served the area (Columbus Larson), making it possibly the only town so named that was not named for Christopher Columbus.

David M. Key

Key's work as Postmaster General is harshly criticized by Mark Twain in The Autobiography of Mark Twain.

Emery County Cabin

Prior to his appointment of postmaster, Casper was appointed Presiding Elder of the Muddy Branch of the LDS Church.

Ephraim Leister Acker

He was appointed postmaster of Norristown, Pennsylvania in March 1860 by President James Buchanan and after serving eleven months was removed by President Abraham Lincoln.

Fitzroy, Waikato

It is named after Robert FitzRoy, who commanded the HMS Beagle and was later the Governor of New Zealand.

Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand

The flag is flown at places the Governor-General occupies or resides such as Governor-General's residence, Parliament of New Zealand while attending Executive Council meetings and on official vehicles.

A new design was adopted in January 1931, to reflect the Balfour Declaration of 1926 whereby the Governor General was now the representative of the monarch in the Dominion of New Zealand, rather than a representative of the British government.

To mark the transition to independence, the New Zealand Government requested that the garland of laurels on the Governor’s flag should be replaced by one of fern leaves, the fern leaf was already recognised as one of New Zealand's national symbols.

Flight to Varennes

Due to the cumulative effect of a host of errors which in and of themselves would not have condemned the mission to failure, the royal family was thwarted in its escape when the king was recognized in the town of Sainte-Menehould, by a postmaster named Jean-Baptiste Drouet.

Gang of Seven

The Republican charges were largely ignored until July 1993, when the Congressional Postmaster Robert Rota pleaded guilty to three criminal charges, implicating Representatives Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) and Joe Kolter (D-PA).

General Post Office

In 1868, as part of the Volunteer Movement, John Lowther du Plat Taylor, Private Secretary to the Postmaster General, raised the 49th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers Corps (Post Office Rifles) from GPO employees, who had been either members of the 21st Middlesex Rifles Volunteer Corps (Civil Service Rifles) or special constables enrolled to combat against Fenian attacks on London in 1867/68.

George C. Pendleton

After the election of Woodrow Wilson to the presidency in 1912, Pendleton was to be appointed Postmaster of Temple, a post no doubt intended as a reward for his long service to the Democratic party.

Governor Mountain

The mountain was occupied as a survey station by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1963–64, which named it for Sir Bernard Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand, and because of the dominating aspect of this feature.

Grey Egerton baronets

Sir Reginald Arthur Egerton, another son of the aforementioned Major-General Caledon Richard Egerton (d. 1930), was Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General, Surveyor to the General Post Office, London, and Secretary to the General Post Office, Dublin.

Habersham

Joseph Habersham, American businessman, revolutionary, and postmaster general

Heaton Rhodes

He served as Postmaster-General and Minister for Public Health, Hospitals and Tourist Resorts in the Cabinet from 1912 to 1915, when he was appointed Special Commissioner to Egypt and Galilee to report on the conditions of New Zealand troops serving there.

Henry Clay Evans

He was not a successful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress and was First Assistant Postmaster General from 1891 to 1893.

Ibn Khordadbeh

In this capacity ibn Khordadbeh served as both postmaster general and the Caliph's personal spymaster in that vital province.

James Noble Tyner

During his tenor as Assistant Attorney General, Tyner was investigated in mid-1903 for corruption in the Post Office by special prosecutor Charles J. Bonaparte and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow.

John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington

In 1910 Dickson was appointed Governor of New Zealand, a post he held for two years, and on 27 April that same year, was created Baron Islington, of Islington in the County of London.

John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham

He died in July 1949, aged 67, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Charles, who later served as Governor-General of New Zealand.

Joseph C. Pringey

An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the 68th Congress, Pringey became Acting postmaster of Chandler, Oklahoma, in 1923 and 1924.

Lyttelton Peak

It was mapped by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) and given the family name of Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, the then Governor-General of New Zealand.

Martin Krippner

Martin Krippner was postmaster at Silverdale from 1 July 1873 until 31 December 1874 and whilst in Puhoi held various offices.

Mary Hartline

Her father was involved in local politics, becoming chairman of the Montgomery County Democratic Party and, after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president, the Hillsboro postmaster.

Michel Lafourcade

Colonel Michel Lafourcade was born in Bélus, the son of Maurice Lafourcade, postmaster, and Marie Galharret, housewife.

New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line

Trippe, his wealthy Yale roommate Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and their Aviation Corporation of the Americas chairman Richard Hoyt were close to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, W. Irving Glover, the professional head of the U.S. Post Office as the position of Postmaster General was a political sinecure.

Pirate radio in Australia and New Zealand

Early to mid-1960s Bruce Jackson and friends from Vaucluse High School were raided by the PMG for operating an AM pirate station that unbeknown to them covered all of Sydney.

Postal Service Act

While postmaster, Franklin streamlined postal delivery with properly surveyed and marked routes from Maine to Florida (the origins of Route 1), instituted overnight postal travel between the critical cities of New York and Philadelphia and created a standardized rate chart based upon weight and distance.

Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand

The Royal prefix was granted in 1946, and since then the Patron of the Society has been the Governor-General of New Zealand or his wife.

Samuel M. Spencer

He was postmaster in the area, which is why some sources say the post office for Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii is called "Kamuela", the equivalent of Samuel in the Hawaiian language.

Samuel May Williams

Over the next few years he fulfilled various roles including postmaster, revenue collector, and secretary to the ayuntamiento of San Felipe, for which he received land totaling 49,000 acres.

Saul Samuel

Between 1872 and 1880, Samuel served as Postmaster-General on three occasions under Premier, Henry Parkes, including the first (1872–1875), second (1877), and third (1878–1883) ministries.

Star route scandal

Garfield's investigation revealed among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, Thomas J. Brady, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.

Susan Cullen-Ward

She was a great-great-granddaughter of The Hon. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, an Australian politician who served as Postmaster-General in the ministries of Robert Herbert, Sir Robert Mackenzie, and Arthur Hunter Palmer in Queensland.

Tapishwar Narain Raina

He was educated in Ludhiana, where his father, B. N. Raina, had been posted as Head Postmaster.

Virgil Reilly

Virgil Gavan Reilly, was born on 29 November 1892, the son of the local postmaster in Creswick, Victoria.

World Plus

RaeJean served as the postmaster of Chatanika, a small town north of Fairbanks, until 1977 when she was convicted of embezzlement and postal money order fraud.


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