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… first settled in New Zealand around 1250–1300 CE, they introduced dogs and kiore (the Polynesian rat). They also …
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Part of story: Conifer–broadleaf forests
… also logged for timber from the 19th century. Browsing by introduced mammals such as possums, deer and goats has …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… first settled in the country. The missionary Samuel Marsden introduced the first apple and pear trees in 1819, and one …
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Part of story: Apples and pears
… Although garden centres have been instrumental in introducing new cultivars of hardy and easily propagated …
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Part of story: Gardens
… food chain. If people did arrive as early as 50–150, and introduced the rat, they either died out or did not stay, as …
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Part of story: When was New Zealand first settled?
… the 1950s. The New Zealand Underwater Association (NZUA) introduced diver certification and standards for scuba …
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Part of story: Diving and snorkelling
… North, claimed in court that the quota management system introduced in 1986 to manage commercial fishing rights …
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… Western Māori. One of his first tasks in Parliament was to introduce in August 1898 the Māori Council Constitution … argued vehemently against a number of the Māori land bills introduced into the House between 1897 and 1910. The most …
Type: Biography
… beginning more than 50 years as a newspaper proprietor. He introduced innovative ideas to increase circulation, … formed the Brett Printing and Publishing Company. Brett introduced photo-engraving in New Zealand, bringing out the …
Type: Biography
… Zealand’s first inspector general of prisons in 1880. Hume introduced a single system throughout prisons, based on … system in practice. The first national probation system was introduced in 1886, allowing first offenders to be placed on …
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Part of story: Prisons
… them with the local brigade. When automatic exchanges were introduced in the 1950s, people had to either know the local … time. The 111 number for calling all emergency services was introduced in 1958 in Masterton, and slowly spread to other …
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Part of story: Ambulance services
… interested Drummond was the degree of success achieved by introduced species, especially birds. Their behaviour as … with the biologist T. W. Kirk , carried out a survey on introduced birds with assistance from the Department of …
Type: Biography
… Norwegian meteorologists researching mid-latitude cyclones introduced the idea of fronts (where two different air … tracked by theodolite. In 1942, radiosondes were also introduced – attached to balloons, these transmitted …
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Part of story: Weather forecasting
… they successfully lobbied the first Labour government to introduce universal, non-means-tested pensions in 1938. But … groups between 1984 and 1993, when successive governments introduced a broad agenda of free-market reform. In 2012 it …
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Part of story: Interest groups
… different blocks of land that were balloted for hunting introduced whitetail and red deer. A slow start In 1892 … A Stewart Island County Council Empowering Bill was introduced into the 1894 parliamentary session but not …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… be improved so that the asylum could be kept cleaner. Hume introduced a more healthy and varied diet, especially … sewing, repairs, gardening and other jobs. He also tried to introduce a range of leisure pursuits to avert 'Lazy Morbid …
Type: Biography
… administer MPs’ entitlements. Legislation to this end was introduced in 2002 but not passed. From 2009 information on … Adapting to change After a period of flux when MMP was introduced, some minor parties struggled to maintain their …
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Part of story: Parliament
… Paper began production. Regional development The government introduced regional development incentives in the mid-1970s. … imports. In other economies, licensing had only been introduced – if at all – as an emergency (often wartime) …
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Part of story: Government and industrial development
… the provisions of the Victims of Offences Act 1987. It introduced guiding principles for the treatment of victims, … crime. In August 2011 the Victims of Crime Reform Bill was introduced to amend Victims’ Rights Act 2002, the Children, …
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Part of story: Victims of crime
… made up of around 268 growers on 10,850 hectares in 2007. Introduced potatoes Potatoes were first planted in New … – Russet Burbank, Ranger Russet and Shepody – were introduced from North America in the late 1980s and early …
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Part of story: Market gardens and production nurseries