When Frank Charles Coles was born on 1 December 1902, in Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, his father, Charles Roby Coles, was 35 and his mother, Amalia Elisabeth Thodsen, was 31. He married Irene Mabel Simpson in 1928, in New Zealand. He died on 10 October 1981, in New Zealand, at the age of 78, and was buried in Puketapu, Hastings, New Zealand.
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The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
The Dominion of New Zealand was brought about when New Zealand proclaimed itself a political independent government inside the British Empire. The Dominion of New Zealand allowed the British Government to shape its foreign policy, and it followed Britain into the First World War. Full independence was granted in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947.
The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations.
English (southern): variant of Cole , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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