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… because indigenous fish, except for the grayling ( Prototroctes oxyrhynchus ), which disappeared soon after settlement, were not suitable as sport fish. Today brown … lakes throughout New Zealand and are established in most waters suitable for them. Trout require hard gravels in which …
… in the world, only 23 having been awarded. Instituted by the Governor of New Zealand by an Order in Council, dated 10 March 1869, it met an urgent need for some decoration … five of the crosses before notifying the Secretary of State for the Colonies of the unprecedented action he had …
… Taupo is situated on the eastern bank of the Waikato River at its outlet from Lake … head of Tapuaeharuru Bay. Mount Tauhara (3,566 ft), the reputed geographical centre of the North Island, is about 5 …
… by Andrew Sinclair, another enthusiast. Hooker collected mosses, liverworts, fungi, and seaweeds as well as flowering plants, previously collected by others, and Colenso continued to send to him further … to New Zealand in 1839 as ship's surgeon on the Tory . Later, he joined a party of surveyors from the Cuba which …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. William Thomas Locke Travers was born on 19 January 1819 … 56th Regiment, and of Caroline, nèe Brockman. He was educated at the College of St. Servan in France. During the … Travers served with the British Foreign Legion, being a lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Lancers and, for a short time, …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. According to his own account, Barry or Berry (there is … 1819, and went to London at an early age. Many years later, when he interviewed Arthur Orton, the Tichborne “claimant”, he told …
… The dividing line between science and technology is not readily drawn, and some reference should be made to the development of facilities for teaching and research in mining and engineering. The need … of problems of gold recovery from ores which remained after the wealth of the poor man's diggings had been skimmed. …
… Most of the £4,500,000 worth of silver that has been exported has been obtained from gold mines. Silver mines as such … Thames gold mines, and from prospecting in Toi Mine near Te Aroha. The minerals have been found in the western half of the South Island, but are nowhere known in …
… that it was passed partly in Ireland and partly in the United States of America, where Pollen's father was in Washington … in building the Capitol. Pollen studied medicine and graduated as M.D. He went to New South Wales in the late 1830s, …
… Jackson (Sydney) the following August and then, under charter to Samuel Lord of that port, set sail for New Zealand. … Although the ship already had a profitable cargo, the intention was to take on spars for the Cape of Good Hope, Whangaroa being selected as the port of call. Included in the 70 or so persons on …