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… ( Trichosurus vulpecula ), a cat-sized marsupial, was introduced to New Zealand in 1837 for the fur trade. In … copper-coloured variety that lives in Queensland was never introduced. Distribution Two-thirds of possums are thought …
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Part of story: Possums
… over the decade. Pay as you earn Pay As You Earn (PAYE) was introduced for income tax in 1958. Under PAYE tax began to … second Labour government’s infamous ‘Black Budget’ of 1958 introduced taxation of dividends, on top of direct taxation …
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Part of story: Taxes
… of his crew having sex with Māori women, knowing they were introducing syphilis and gonorrhoea. ‘A connection with … Diseases Act 1869 In 1869 New Zealand followed Britain in introducing a Contagious Diseases Act. Under it, suspected …
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Part of story: Sexual health
… mature cattle being carried until larger lorries were introduced in the 1950s and 1960s. Transporting bobby calves … formed to develop solutions to the problem, and in 2003 it introduced an industry code that farmers and trucking …
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Part of story: Transport of animals
… goods and rural gossip. In the 1890s there was a move to introduce legislation that would stop Lebanese migration and …
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Part of story: Middle Eastern peoples
… White, considered to be the world's best bacon pig, was introduced into New Zealand in the late 1920s. However, …
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Part of story: Pigs and the pork industry
… common name for the water weed Ceratophyllum demersum , an introduced flowering plant that has spread to many lakes and …
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Part of story: Liverworts and hornworts
… policy, the more liberal residence requirements that were introduced in 1947 were prompted by humanitarian concern …
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Part of story: Chinese
… early 20th century, New Zealand followed Germany’s lead and introduced systematic inspection of schoolchildren. In 1913 … Recent gains In 1970, when the metric system was being introduced, the ‘commonplace’ measurements given as examples …
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Part of story: Body shape and dieting
… new skills such as literacy and new religious beliefs, introduced new forms of discipline such as physical … function than teaching academic or practical skills, and introduced Māori children to a new way of life, values and … some traditional elements of Māori childhood were also introduced to the new education system. For instance the …
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Part of story: Ngā tamariki
… the sale of healthy foods. In 2015 the same government introduced the New Zealand Childhood Obesity Programme, … screens in 1973. Health warnings on cigarette packets were introduced in 1974 and there were significant increases in … warnings were made larger and standardised packaging was introduced. There has been less comprehensive action against …
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Part of story: Public health
… They broke up great estates, enacted factory legislation, introduced industrial conciliation and arbitration, and … brought in pensions for old people. At the same time they introduced votes for women, making New Zealand the first …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… all kinds of animals, but by the 1870s they focused less on introducing bizarre creatures. As early as the 1880s it was … but died on the voyage.’ 1 Predators Predators of valued introduced species were deemed to be ‘vermin’. Native black …
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Part of story: Acclimatisation
… on low incomes, and the universal family benefit was introduced in 1946. This was an important source of support … until the statutory domestic purposes benefit (DPB) was introduced in 1973. The DPB provided financial support for …
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Part of story: Family welfare
… Harbor. Flying boats TEAL’s trans-Tasman services to Sydney introduced the stately Empire, Sandringham and Solent flying … subsequently acknowledged the criticism itself, when it introduced a DC4 Christchurch–Melbourne service in 1951, and …
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Part of story: Aviation
… for urgent action to prevent it from becoming established. Introduced shellfish The Pacific oyster ( Crassostrea gigas … A small black Asian mussel ( Musculista senhousia ) was introduced in the late 1970s, probably in ballast water or …
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Part of story: Marine invaders
… rates (the more you earn the higher rate you pay) introduced in 1891 became central aspects of the New Zealand … towns. Māori did not have to pay the unemployment poll tax introduced in 1930, but only got unemployment relief if they …
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Part of story: Taxes
… an education in New Zealand. Following the riots, Malaysia introduced affirmative action policies to help the Bumiputra … at New Zealand universities. In 1977 the government introduced a quota of 300 new Malaysian university students …
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Part of story: Malaysians and Singaporeans
… The forest cover includes taupata, karo, whau, flax and the introduced boxthorn. The semi-coastal zone reaches 10 … also elephant seals and Hooker’s sea lions, as well as the introduced kurī (dogs) and kiore (Pacific rats), and even a …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… wine map. The 1985 vintages from Cloudy Bay and Hunter’s introduced the British public to New Zealand wine. The … the grape in 1973. Ross Spence of Matua Valley Wines had introduced the variety in 1969, with a commercial release in …
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Part of story: Wine