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… Labour eliminated the tax incentives for business. It introduced a goods and services tax (GST) of 10% on 1 … to 12.5% in 1989 and to 15% in 2010). The flip side of introducing new indirect taxes was to drop income tax rates …
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Part of story: Taxes
… on Saturday until Monday morning. In 1979 closures were reintroduced, this time from 7 p.m. on Friday until 6 a.m. on … years through maximum and minimum prices. This practice was introduced in the 1930s to protect New Zealand petrol … was removed in 1987. The first self-service pumps were introduced in 1969. EFTPOS (electronic funds transfer at …
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Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… beetles have only one species in New Zealand, accidentally introduced. Distribution Some species are widely … had arrived by dispersing across the ocean, or had been introduced through human activities. But research now …
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Part of story: Beetles
… mountain daisies. The highlands are free of weeds, with no introduced plants. The dune lands of the exposed wild west … prosper on the island, in large part due to the absence of introduced predators. So, unfortunately, do sandflies, as …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… native New Zealand fish are elusive, 19th-century settlers introduced brown trout (from England) and rainbow trout and … ice skating. The traditional Scottish sport of curling was introduced to Otago by gold miners, and nine clubs were …
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Part of story: Lakes
… met through a diet of fish and shellfish. When salt was introduced by Europeans, some Māori believed that eating … Māori had no natural immunity to the infectious diseases introduced by Europeans. In 1844 the Nelson Examiner …
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Part of story: Salt
… mutton and bread. By 1890 porridge (cooked rolled oats), introduced by Scottish immigrants, was common. A milled, … product called Creamoata, or ‘one minute porridge’, was introduced by Flemings of Gore in 1920 and became very …
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Part of story: Food and beverage manufacturing
… of the racket. First New Zealand associations Squash was introduced to New Zealand by players who had encountered it … doubles world title in 1998. In that year squash was first introduced to the Commonwealth Games, and Sarah Cook and …
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Part of story: Indoor sports
… and to provide experimental gardens for studying native and introduced plants. Auckland Domain Until the Auckland … of an ancient volcano. It has large lawns, fine stands of introduced trees planted between 1841 and 1900, native bush, …
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Part of story: Public gardens
… fine particles drop out) and filtration. Chlorination was introduced to many supplies in the 1950s, and fluoride was … and some other cities, domestic water metering has been introduced. Meters measure the amount of water used, and …
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Part of story: Sewage, water and waste
… off one station and on to the next. Cattle stops were introduced once people started travelling in cars. These …
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Part of story: Farm fencing
… and widespread in New Zealand, the most common is the introduced European species Phalangium opilio (known as …
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Part of story: Spiders and other arachnids
… milk from a tank with artificial teats. Gradually they are introduced to dry feed (cereal-based meal or pellets), and …
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Part of story: Dairying and dairy products
… ( Sophora species) and matagouri ( Discaria toumatou ). Introduced nitrogen-fixers include clovers ( Trifolium …
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Part of story: Forest succession and regeneration
… Water weeds Among the most serious introduced aquatic weeds are the oxygen weeds egeria ( …
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Part of story: Weeds of agriculture
… have also become established, either by being deliberately introduced or arriving independently. Loss of wetlands …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… settlement The biggest change since the quota system was introduced in 1986 has been the emergence of Māori as a …
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Part of story: Fishing industry
… it was approved by two medical consultants (the procedure introduced by the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion … decades of avoiding the issue, the New Zealand government introduced an Abortion Legislation Bill in Parliament in …
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Part of story: Abortion
… Bread was a staple for the English settlers, who introduced wheat to New Zealand. Wheat was ground with a … In 1963, 30% of bread was sold this way. Plastic wrappers, introduced in 1979, had to be looser than waxed paper to …
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Part of story: Food and beverage manufacturing
… Tariffs and import licensing In 1907 the government introduced a 20% tariff (import tax) on cars that arrived in … 50% for unassembled and 60% for assembled. The government introduced import licensing in 1938, which restricted the …
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Part of story: Cars and the motor industry