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… or by-products. The value of these materials should be judged on their chemical content. …
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Part of story: Fertiliser industry
… of the country. Friend or foe Weeds are plants that people judge to be bad. Whether a plant is a weed can be a matter …
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Part of story: Weeds of the bush
… Not Guilty'. This 'most extraordinary' proceeding, said the judge, 'according to all my experience, is a position … Sullivan had previously lied and perjured himself. But the judge, Alexander Johnston, was hostile to Burgess, … course found Burgess guilty, along with Kelly and Levy. The judge, in pronouncing the death sentence, lectured Burgess …
Type: Biography
… Affairs. In the original department the Māori Land Court judges had been given an important administrative role and … a wide variety of administrative action. The role of the judges was eliminated and that of the minister much reduced. …
Type: Biography
… argued that Aratoi’s value ‘was priceless’ and could not be judged ‘in accountants’ columns’. Rod McKenzie, a dairy …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… the flora. Described as 'a poor man, uneducated as judged by ordinary standards', he nevertheless studied for a …
Type: Biography
… through her work with the gas company, and was called on to judge local cooking competitions. She also undertook …
Type: Biography
… pyramids, in order to score points against tightly defined judging criteria. Team members include ‘flyers’, who are …
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Part of story: Marching teams and cheerleaders
… at the home of his eldest son, John Denniston, a judge of the Supreme Court. Thomas Denniston 'was a man of …
Type: Biography
… moved the short distance to Wetherstons near Lawrence. Judging from letters written in his adult life, and from …
Type: Biography
… 1867 he was elected to the Waimate Road Board. He acted as judge for the Saltwater Creek Steeplechase in 1867. In …
Type: Biography
… its forecasts on the history of tourism in New Zealand and judged that the country was too far away from the rest of …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… decisions on wages and working conditions in the hands of a judge, instead of relying on the labour market. From about …
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Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes
… officer. Mary Anderson became the country’s first woman judge in 1945. Issues From the 1910s women’s groups argued …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… objects, it is opposed to craft-based practices that are judged by aesthetic standards. Making art meaningful …
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Part of story: Post-object and conceptual art
… received an honorary certificate. Exhibits from what the judges described as New Zealand's first manufactory of the …
Type: Biography
… of the peace. After being sworn in before Edward Conolly, judge of the Supreme Court, on 16 January 1894, she …
Type: Biography
… for Denmark. He had to decline when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court. He was never regarded as, and … or his view of what was appropriate to New Zealand. His judgements were characterised by his literacy and wit. He … distribution and sale being organised by his fellow judges and many friends at the Bar. A popular edition …
Type: Biography
… this mediocrity through his activities as a critic. As judge of elocution and singing at 54 amateur competitions in … and controversy. He considered it his responsibility to judge all performances against exacting standards of … for the professional and amateur alike,' he said. While his judgement was seldom at issue, his frequently caustic and …
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… Dawe. Michael Prendergast was the recorder of Norwich, judge of the Sheriff's Court for the City of London and a … He was regarded as 'a safe verdict-getter', better before a judge than a jury, and 'practically invincible' on appeal. … in November 1881, the month he was knighted. Prendergast's judgements often contained little law, being either …
Type: Biography