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… stripe as they mature. The parasite Cotesia rubecula was introduced to New Zealand in 1993 to help control them. … Cotesia kazak and Microplites croceipes , have been introduced to control tomato fruitworms. Thrips Thrips are …
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Part of story: Insect pests of crops, pasture and forestry
… tawa, pūriri, taraire, kahikatea, nīkau and coprosma, and introduced plants like privet, elderberry and plums. When … to less than 50 in the 1980s, due to forest clearance and introduced predators, but it has rebounded to over 600 …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… James Cook had used the word ‘coumalla’ (kūmara) to introduce potatoes to Māori in Queen Charlotte Sound. More … hundred pigs’. 2 A number of types of potatoes which were introduced early became strongly associated with Māori, and …
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Part of story: Kai Pākehā – introduced foods
… mushrooms that fruit on soil and wood. They include the introduced ink caps (e.g. Coprinus comatus ) and field … a mushroom, but with shallow pores on its underside. This introduced species was first reported in New Zealand in the …
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Part of story: Fungi
… and abortion. It was National MP Venn Young who introduced a private member’s bill on homosexual law reform. … On the other hand, anti-abortion Labour MP Gerard Wall introduced a bill to prevent private clinics from offering …
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Part of story: Labour Party
… of the new arrivals. A new approach to hospitality By introducing new customs and foods, ideas and practices, the … and Verkerk smallgoods are among the flavours of Europe introduced by the Dutch. Arts and design Dutch immigrants …
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Part of story: Dutch
… retreated towards the entrance. Mechanisation was slowly introduced from the 1900s. Because mining conditions varied … the later 20th century, high-pressure water-jet cutting was introduced in some West Coast mines. Coal flowed out in …
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Part of story: Coal and coal mining
… classrooms and was active in developing school sport. She introduced cricket, and also founded a car mechanics club … help students develop responsibility and independence she introduced a school council in 1937. She had a reputation …
Type: Biography
… and formerly of Māori. Huhu beetles have adapted well to introduced pine forests and thrive on pine wood. Giraffe …
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Part of story: Insects – overview
… Many were also escaping the Austrian army’s conscription, introduced in 1881. The first Dalmatians in New Zealand …
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Part of story: Dalmatians
… land loss around Manukau Harbour. It was instrumental in introducing the Resource Management Act 1991, which makes …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… War. Censorship of the press, mail and telegrams was reintroduced and a range of publications critical of the … Federation headed a campaign that lobbied the government to introduce film censorship. This led to the appointment of …
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Part of story: Censorship
… The act asserted the primacy of families and whānau, and introduced family-based decision making (family group … children to discipline them. The private member's bill, introduced by Green MP Sue Bradford, was controversial but … Children’s Act 2014 (later renamed the Children’s Act) introduced new requirements for people working with children …
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Part of story: Child abuse
… rock art near the Ōpihi River. This encouraged Walters to introduce ideas and motifs from indigenous art into his own … rock art and the drawings of a schizophrenic whose work was introduced to him by Schoon. These paintings, many of them …
Type: Biography
… who suffered back trouble. New hygiene regulations were introduced into the slaughter industries by the early 1970s, … and added a hood and long sleeves to the shirts. He also introduced pre-shrunk fabrics and did away with the chemical …
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Part of story: Rural clothing
… of volunteering for military service. When conscription was introduced in 1916, the Catholic hierarchy approved it. The … the Protestant establishment and defeated efforts to introduce wartime conscription. Daniel Mannix, the outspoken …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… large areas of land. In 1814 the missionary Samuel Marsden introduced horses and cattle. Missionary John Butler introduced the plough in 1820. These new domesticated …
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Part of story: Ahuwhenua – Māori land and agriculture
… whales have been seen in the harbours of Campbell Island. Introduced species Sheep, goats, cattle and rabbits, all introduced to the Auckland Islands, have been eradicated, …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… of public works and state-housing construction, and introduced a guaranteed price for dairy products. The Social … Act 1938 greatly expanded the scope of the welfare state, introducing universal free health services and extending …
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Part of story: Labour Party
… were carried on trains from the earliest days. In 1878 NZR introduced the first Railway Travelling Post Office (RTPO) … goods and parcels business. In 1931 the government introduced strict transport licensing regulations to protect …
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Part of story: Railways