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… had probably long known about the colony, set in dense forest alongside the sluggish Waitangiroto River. They …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Herons
… needed cooking skills. As late as 1969, the New Zealand Forest Service published a manual for staff hunters called …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cooking
… and was a strong advocate for the protection of the native forest and natural wilderness of the central North Island. … marches. He and his family had belonged to the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society for many years, but as it …
Type: Biography
… in works built under Sheppard, such as the Rotorua Forest Research Institute (first stage, 1965–67) and the … the Government Printing Office, Wellington (1961–66); the Forest Research Institute Building, Rotorua; and an …
Type: Biography
… In Walter Nash 's 1957–60 administration he was minister of forests, and minister in charge of printing and stationery. … day of thanksgiving. Tiri was an energetic minister of forests, pushing through the first road to Maungapōhatu in … a plan for the conservation management of Urewera forests, which also allowed some commercial return to the …
Type: Biography
… in 1962. During these years he conceived the idea of pine forests on Ngāti Tūwharetoa land in the Taupō basin. He was …
Type: Biography
… large loads and avoid difficult journeys over steep and forested terrain. The craft were sometimes dragged or …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Transport – overview
… developed to be ridden off-road on rough tracks. Hills and forests were converted to parks specifically for off-road …
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Part of story: Bicycles
… by Sir David Henry , the managing director of New Zealand Forest Products, to consider a move to the fast-growing … managerial and social skills to co-ordinate housing for the forestry workers. He served on the initial Tokoroa High …
Type: Biography
… stones etc. Added pleasure is to be found in the hills and forests, adventuring, hunting goats, foraging, as well as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Daily life in Māori communities – te noho a te hapori
… New Zealand, where he purchased 62 acres of hilly, heavily forested land, part of the Ngaere block, a few miles south …
Type: Biography
… Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones’s Operation 8: deep in the forest (2011) issues arising from sexuality and gender – for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Documentary film
… of 14 kilometres per hour. A month later, Dunedin’s annual Foresters’ Fête featured a velocipede race at the Caledonian …
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Part of story: Cycle racing
… into summer, groups moving inland would fish the rivers. Forest birds such as kākā, kākāpō, kererū, takahē and weka …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Southland region
… His concern over the needless destruction of native forests led him to support measures such as the Scenery …
Type: Biography
… food. They were Tangaroa (god of the sea), Tāne (god of the forest), Rongomātāne (god of cultivated foods) and …
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Part of story: Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari
… supporting around 150,000 stock units had been converted to forestry. A drought in 1982–83 was followed by floods in … in 1994, partly because of the conversion of pasture to forest. Economies of scale led Wattie’s to close its canning … partly because of the large workforce involved in farming, forestry and fishing – 22.4%, compared with 5.7% nationally. …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… OBE. She was a keen amateur naturalist, and a member of the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand. She also …
Type: Biography
… radio talks on the mountains, and he was president of the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand from 1948. …
Type: Biography