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… that could be produced. He foresaw islands submerged, and forests and beaches swamped by mud. His fears were confirmed …
Type: Biography
… the Tainui canoe. Rival chiefs established claims to kauri forests and sought to establish control over the European …
Type: Biography
… great losses if they did not retire into the safety of the forests at Ruatāhuna. During this period the planting of …
Type: Biography
… was initially the main source of their livelihood. Kauri forests were being felled in the north and boats travelled …
Type: Biography
… as those of Garin, Jean-Baptiste Petit-Jean and Jean Forest. When Pompallier first asked for him as coadjutor …
Type: Biography
… some of his best-known poems such as 'The passing of the forest'. What is sometimes regarded as his best piece of … in his garden', was published in The passing of the forest and other verse in 1925, and has appeared in modern …
Type: Biography
… developing a vineyard, extensive vegetable gardens, and a forest nursery at Waitangi. In 1839 he made futher …
Type: Biography
… hand and bushworker in areas as diverse as the Kaimanawa forest and South Westland. From 1952 he served as a …
Type: Biography
… He also accepted a position on the executive of the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, having …
Type: Biography
… day Greytown. Ngāti Kahukura-awhitia gradually cleared the forest, until in the time of Tāwhirimātea, father of …
Type: Biography
… from the sea, and at Wharepapa, nearby but closer to the forest. Relations with the tribes already settled there, …
Type: Biography
… Tōtara has fallen. She stood proud and tall in Tāne’s forest. She provided shelter for the homeless and food for …
Type: Biography
… visit to Mangahouanga Stream, which flowed through steep, forest-covered hills. Joan recalled her excitement at their …
Type: Biography
… such as kānuka ( Kunzea sp.) through to beech and other forest types. It was the first detailed account of how gorse …
Type: Biography
… of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand and the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and active in …
Type: Biography
… and carve it. A 600-year-old tōtara tree, from the Pureora Forest, was shipped to London in 1964. The design was …
Type: Biography
… summed up the mood: Nash, as ‘Robbin’ Hood’ in Sherwood Forest, beatifically handed out £100 goodies to a queue of …
Type: Biography
… Its plan was organised around an internal ‘moat’ and a forest of timber columns, made from peeled tree trunks, …
Type: Biography
… River, itself a source of food, were complemented by nearby forests and lakes. Since part of the king's role was similar …
Type: Biography
… Essex, a leafy north-east London suburb bordering Epping Forest, the son of Ernestine Kennedy and her husband George …
Type: Biography