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… of clumps of stems. New Zealand has 15 native and 32 introduced species of Juncus – the most common type of rush. … Sedges New Zealand has many sedges – 170 native and 43 introduced species. Common wetland species include various …
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Part of story: Wetlands
… as street lighting improved, late-night shopping was introduced and car ownership became widespread. A den of … children exacerbates. In 1988 the Education Department introduced a programme called ‘Keeping Ourselves Safe’ into …
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Part of story: Security and personal safety
… new health syllabus, Understanding change in puberty , was introduced in 1987, and in 1989 legal restrictions on … When the new health and physical education curriculum was introduced in 1999, sex education became ‘sexuality …
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Part of story: Sexualities
… spent millions of dollars on education and health, but also introduced tax cuts. Spending and social services There has … Accident Compensation Corporation. In 2007, the government introduced the ‘Working for Families’ programme to provide …
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Part of story: Spending in the economy
… up his appointment at Rangiora, Strachan immediately began introducing reforms to the school's curriculum and … supplement the traditional professional courses. In 1926 he introduced his 'organic curriculum', which included a …
Type: Biography
… Sutherland set up a liberal staff benefit fund. He also introduced profit-sharing schemes and quarterly and annual … businessmen. He revolutionised the retail grocery trade, introducing new methods of marketing and setting the stage …
Type: Biography
… of the Soil Survey Division. In this position he began introducing uniform standards for soil survey, and in 1948 he introduced the genetic classification of New Zealand soils, …
Type: Biography
… tariffs on imported goods. After the government introduced an import licensing system in the 1930s … Federation that persuaded the Labour government to introduce comprehensive import licensing in the late 1930s. …
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Part of story: Employer and business organisations
… requirement, which already applied to primary teachers, was introduced for secondary teachers, to address the teaching … time, and in the late 1970s, mobile kindergarten vans were introduced. In 1979 REAP (Rural Education Activities …
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Part of story: Country schooling
… gymnasium work and Swedish drill.’ 3 Later the YWCA introduced women to the regimes of the British Women’s … juvenile delinquency statistics there had dropped. The YWCA introduced ‘Keep Fit’ classes for women in the 1950s. As …
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Part of story: Gyms
… New Zealand farms. Lighter, more manoeuvrable machines were introduced from the 1920s, and became more widely used for … many small local dairy factories. After stock trucks were introduced, there was no longer a need to drove animals over …
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Part of story: Farm mechanisation
… 1950s, annual national awards and competitions have been introduced for art forms other than literature, and for … general. Theatre awards New Zealand was relatively slow to introduce lasting awards for theatre practitioners. In 1992 …
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Part of story: Awards and prizes
… principal of the training college. In this position he introduced several reforms to teacher training in Otago … the university became closer from 1904 when education was introduced to the university curriculum, although the …
Type: Biography
… and irrigation schemes have robbed them of these sites, introduced weeds such as lupins have crowded out nesting … eggs in a scrape on rough open ground. This abundant, self-introduced species is considered a pest around airports and …
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Part of story: Wading birds
… of New Zealand. There were fears that cities would introduce old-world problems such as overcrowding, squalor, …
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Part of story: Rural mythologies
… after New Zealand split from Gondwana. The speed with which introduced rats, mice, stoats and other mammalian predators …
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Part of story: Evolution of plants and animals
… some of the world’s major deserts. For example, goats were introduced to the forested island of St Helena in 1513. By …
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Part of story: Goats and goat farming
… are unique (endemic) to New Zealand, and recognise harmful introduced organisms. Classification system The …
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Part of story: Collections of plants and animals
… about Māori, The New Zealanders , a Pākehā–Māori man is introduced as ‘a white New Zealander’ and promptly responds …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… are threatened or endangered. There are two main threats: Introduced predators. Defenceless chicks left alone on their …
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Part of story: Seabirds – overview