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… for fertiliser. The project was abandoned in 1933 because of the economic depression, and the difficulty of working on an active volcano. Farming Many attempts have … service – by pigeon. Flying the 90-odd kilometres to Auckland, the birds carried up to five messages, which were …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… If this is not done carefully, it can perforate the wall of the uterus. By 1975 about 500 women had had the Dalkon Shield, a brand of IUD, inserted at Auckland’s National Women’s Hospital – and an unknown number …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… to Australia, he became a clerk in the Sydney Ordnance Office, then, between 1838 and 1840, clerk to the Parramatta Bench of magistrates, where he updated the handbook The Australian … he gained employment as a temporary government clerk in Auckland until his 'disgrace' forced him to resign yet …
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… Polynesian settlers often gave names from the Māui mythological tradition to the New Zealand landscape. Māui is the trickster hero of Polynesian myth, and oral traditions about him are also … Rotongāio, Motutapu Island in the Hauraki Gulf, and the Auckland suburb of Mt Eden. Sound switch Māori share many …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… than 15 times larger than its land area. A high proportion of New Zealand’s marine species – 15,000 identified as of 2007 – are not found anywhere else. Marine reserves … Marine Reserve around the Kermadec Islands. The large Auckland Islands Marine Reserve (484,000 hectares) extends …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… Some of New Zealand’s most beautiful animals are the sea slugs. … shell, but scientists group them with the gastropod group of molluscs, which are snail-like shellfish. Two main types … nudibranch species Pleurobranchaea maculata , washed up on Auckland beaches. Testing found that the nudibranchs …
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Part of story: Shellfish
… Skuas are aggressive seabirds that rob other birds of their food, prey on eggs, chicks (such as fatty … occasionally found around mainland coasts, they are more often seen on the Chatham and subantarctic islands, and in … off Stewart Island and the Chatham, Snares, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell islands. Skua females lay two eggs …
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Part of story: Gulls, terns and skuas
… The rise of smaller parties From 1978 onwards there was a slow but … 1978 and the first mixed-member proportional (MMP) election of 1996 marked a transition from a pure two-party system to … part of the Alliance, new party leader Sandra Lee won the Auckland Central seat. …
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Part of story: Political parties
… The return of Saturday shopping In the 1970s, perhaps because more New … Act 1980, allowing Saturday trading. An increasing number of shops began to open on Saturdays and the nature of the … off in some parts of the country. The Ōtara market in South Auckland, which had started in 1978 as a charity fundraising …
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Part of story: Weekends
… years the highwayman Robert Herman Wallath has become part of the folklore of New Plymouth and holds a unique place in the history of … to eight years' penal servitude in Mount Eden prison, Auckland. Mainly because of sympathetic local support, …
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… and publishing Māori people quickly saw the advantages of writing and printing for conveying ideas, in their own language and in English. Song poetry, part of a vigorous oral tradition, was published in collections, … and by local events and national festivals such as the Auckland Writers Festival and the Writers Programme in the …
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Part of story: Creative life
… camp in March 1917, leaving baby Shirley in the care of her maternal grandmother, Emma Cumming. Shirley remained … household. The family was completed in 1924 with the birth of Shirley’s half-brother, Allan Gibson Smith. While … Court judge and at the end of 1929 the family moved to Auckland, where Shirley attended St Cuthbert’s College for a …
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… Frederick Aloysius Weld, third son of Humphrey Weld and Maria Christina Clifford, daughter of Charles, sixth Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, was born and … one. He was one of a group of southerners who converged on Auckland for the opening of the General Assembly in 1854. …
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… a $4.3-million high-performance facility opened in 2009. Of the 72 men and 49 women who attended these centres in … there were 10 local associations with 62 affiliated clubs, of which nine were schools. As with many sports, the focus … the course. Early regattas were raced on harbours (such as Auckland and Lyttelton) and lakes (such as Pupuke on …
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Part of story: Rowing
… was a favourite recreation and entertainment, and a way of keeping warm on cold nights, socialising and meeting … balls among the elite to dancing in a woolshed at the end of shearing. In 1850s Wellington (population 5,000), for … of chiefly Māori at a ball at Government House in Auckland, probably in the 1850s. The women, who wore the …
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Part of story: Dancing
… The most eye-catching feature of Ian Wedde and Harvey McQueen’s anthology The Penguin book of New Zealand verse (1985) was the inclusion, for the … of poets and poetries prospering elsewhere. For some time Auckland had a group interested in postmodern and American …
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Part of story: Poetry
… Magazines and journals have been part of New Zealand’s cultural landscape since the beginning of organised European settlement. The first settlers to … Zealand Monthly Magazine , which produced three issues in Auckland in 1862. Hurdles to success In noting the arrival …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… Linguistics is the study of human language and how people use it. What is the range of sounds which occur in human languages? How are words … as English language, romance languages and anthropology. Auckland University At Auckland University, where …
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Part of story: Linguistics
… December 1869 in Sapiston, Suffolk, England. He was the son of Emily Louisa Merielina Rogers and her husband, John … For the next five years he was senior science master at Auckland College and Grammar School and during this time … in 1893). He also became a keen mountaineer and was a founding member of the New Zealand Alpine Club. His interest …
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… Martin was born probably in Kilmuir, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland, some time between 1805 and 1810. He was the son of Mary Nicholson and her husband, John Martin, a doctor. … 1841 and reappointed in November 1841. Martin arrived in Auckland in January 1842 having been appointed editor of the …
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