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… He worked for a timber-milling company and the State Forest Service before joining the Public Works Department …
Type: Biography
… Pass – to the West Coast, but since it was densely forested and impassable for sheep they did not pursue it. …
Type: Biography
… pine trees from the nursery to the planting sites in the forest. For an extra shilling a day, he would hitch up his …
Type: Biography
… the Austrian geological survey. He worked in the Bohemian forest and at Carlsbad, becoming chief geologist for …
Type: Biography
… townships, humble dwellings, ravaged hills, and slain forest. In trying to persuade New Zealanders to look long at …
Type: Biography
… as well as travelling by horse and canoe into the Urewera forest to visit isolated patients. When Maaka began his …
Type: Biography
… worked as public relations officer for the New Zealand Forest Service from 1952 to 1957. During the 1950s he began …
Type: Biography
… him on special outdoor assignments such as reporting on a forest fire in the Gouland Downs. When the war ended and …
Type: Biography
… political activity. He belonged to the Ancient Order of Foresters and became involved in the affairs of the Dunedin …
Type: Biography
… lakes and coasts and to enjoy unrestricted access to forests and mountains. The efficacy of McKenzie's policies … than a tenant farmer's son. Pipers played 'Flowers of the forest' and people wept openly. It was an appropriate choice …
Type: Biography
… medicinal knowledge, an expert on the geography of his forested ancestral lands, and was proficient in gathering …
Type: Biography
… Canterbury rivers, the cliffs of Banks Peninsula, and the forests of Westland. He instigated major museum …
Type: Biography
… Fraser's Ungrateful people (1952) and Cresswell's The forest (1952). The Pelorus Press also printed elegant …
Type: Biography
… of the Valuation Department and commissioner of state forests. His 1906 bill to strengthen leasehold land …
Type: Biography
… until 1853 when he opened a store at Montgomery Hill, Forest Creek, Castlemaine. An effective advocate of miners' …
Type: Biography
… moved on towards Ruatahuna, firing into every place on the forested track that could conceal an ambush. On 8 May the …
Type: Biography
… the page and across to the next column until it finished. A forest of tiny advertisements covered the front page. It …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Newspapers
… one of Turbott’s most important works. Emerging out of the forest on a ridge between two harbours, the unconventional …
Type: Biography
… the largest kauri tree in New Zealand, the atua of the forests and birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku. …
Type: Biography
… Waikanae. He was also deeply involved in the Native Forests Action Council. In all these areas his wide-ranging …
Type: Biography