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Robert Heaton Rhodes

Canterbury landowner Robert Heaton Rhodes was postmaster-general and minister of telegraphs in William Massey's Reform Cabinet between 1912 and 1915.

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  • Supporting Belgium during the First World War
    The Post and Telegraph Department at war

Keywords

postal service
reform party
william massey
WW1 home front
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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