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… a mix of formal gardens, regenerating bush, remnant native forest and old conifer plantings, and includes a winter … gardens was mainly utilitarian – to trial exotic trees for forestry and to provide experimental gardens for studying …
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Part of story: Public gardens
… the first women to cross the Copland Pass, a snow-covered, forested route through the Southern Alps between Mt Cook and …
Type: Biography
… 20th century trade patterns changed as pastoral farming and forestry developed. Coastal shipping declined, as did … three-berth port opened in 2002, primarily for exporting forest products. A variety of cargo can be handled at both …
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Part of story: Northland region
… Maori Council v Attorney-General 1989, which related to forests. Tainui Maori Trust Board v Attorney-General 1989, …
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… the north of the South Island. After Māori burnt areas of forest and woodland in the drier eastern 'rain shadow' …
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Part of story: Grasslands
… men worked in sawmills. Until about 1906 the remaining forest was burnt or felled, except in the Ruahine and …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… the devastation of land caused by the milling of rimu forests. Mark Wallace died in Greymouth on 20 May 1984, …
Type: Biography
… km south-west of Waitōtara. It passes through dense native forest for 30 km from its source, and through steep, rugged …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… various native birds should be protected, and introduced a forest and bird protection motion in 1893. Mackenzie and … Zealand Native Bird Protection Society (which became the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand). He also …
Type: Biography
… to require the return of land making up the Mangatū State Forest to Māori ownership. The recommendation followed the … when acquiring land that became part of the Mangatū State Forest from its Māori owners in 1961. It did not make any …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… morally inclined. It has its own processes: the forest rises and falls, the desolate gumland which follows … is called on to locate the lovers lost in the threatening forest. Even then it has to be said of the principal Māori …
Type: Biography
… Independent Order of Good Templars, the Ancient Order of Foresters, and the Freemasons. He moved to Dunedin in 1882 …
Type: Biography
… The hilly terrain, wetter climate and history of podocarp forest clearance make it more typical of parts of the North …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… He claimed to have fought with Gustavus von Tempsky 's Forest Rangers in the late 1860s and to have received a leg …
Type: Biography
… – Hineahuone – means earth-formed maiden. Tāne, god of the forest, formed her and then breathed life into her. …
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Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… into an easy, 5.5-kilometre walkway through native forest. The first part is through the spectacular Ngākawau …
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Part of story: West Coast places
… (494 m). The Piakonui Stream, which drains the thickly forested reserve, is a tributary of the Piako River. A loop …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… for whakairo (carving) represented Tāne, the god of the forest, and carving timber was sometimes referred to as the …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… Kauri from the Māori In the 1800s New Zealand’s native forests were milled and much of the timber was exported …
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Part of story: Overseas trade policy
… below the ash at a few sites suggests that small areas of forest may have been cleared before the eruption, and …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity