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… the place where many New Zealanders first learnt to dance. Introduced as a very minor part of the curriculum in the … songs (along with stick games) were included. Efforts to introduce modern or creative dance to schools were not …
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Part of story: Dancing
… is both hunted and eaten on the islands. Weka were only introduced to the islands in 1905, but a century later there … relatively rare on the main island, which is dominated by introduced species from New Zealand and further away. The …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… government in 1999, Christchurch Central MP Tim Barnett introduced a private member’s bill to decriminalise sex work … controls on the operation of the sex industry. Some have introduced bylaws relating to signage, the location of …
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Part of story: Sex work
… which he feared would come to dominate broadcasting. Labour introduced the Broadcasting Act 1936, which placed … Service in the Prime Minister’s Department. Labour also introduced the world’s first regular parliamentary …
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Part of story: Media and politics
… institutions and government structures, the legal system, introduced plant and animal species, children’s rhymes and … or the ‘white’ Commonwealth weakened. The government introduced rights of residence based on skills and wealth. …
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Part of story: Britain, Europe and New Zealand
… children played in sandpits and on swings. New technology introduced over the 20th century – power mowers, hedge … Beekeeping had become unusual after tighter regulation was introduced in 1927. Although interest in growing food and …
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Part of story: Household management
… 1980s Neighbourhood Support Groups emerged. Neighbours introduced themselves, swapped phone numbers and agreed to … Cossgrove, for a girl’s version of Boy Scouts, which he had introduced to New Zealand. He complied and published Peace …
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Part of story: Security and personal safety
… design for the Christchurch municipal buildings introduced the newly fashionable Queen Anne style to New … the influence of the English Arts and Crafts movement and introduced the bungalow style to New Zealand. From 1902, at …
Type: Biography
… were being noticed in the streets within a week. Shearman introduced both new structures and a new stringency into … Canterbury's west coast in 1864 vindicated the decision to introduce a paramilitary style of policing, as the social …
Type: Biography
… pīngao is making a comeback, helped by the fact that the introduced marram grass, with which it competes, has been … has been a scenic reserve since 1892. It is free from introduced predators (deer, rats, wild cats and possums). It …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… at the School of Art under Samuel Hurst Seager, who introduced him to Arts and Crafts principles and practices. … piers became flat strips and art deco and Maori motifs were introduced. A restrained modernism is evident in his 1937 …
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… using a multiple diagonal-skinned, frameless construction, introduced by Robert Logan. Most of the hull was kauri, …
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Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… of our methods of fishing equal to theirs.’ 1 Fishing for introduced freshwater fish, liberated into the waterways by …
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Part of story: Recreational sea fishing
… Gorge, produced spectacular waist-high piles of vomit. Introduced plants British settlers brought many of their …
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Part of story: Poisonous plants and fungi
… and Frederick Thatcher, and the modernist aesthetic introduced in the 1930s by European architects such as Ernst …
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Part of story: Creative life
… Zealand appeared in 1926. Grey helped modernise equipment, introducing whippier rods and geared reels with a brake. He …
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Part of story: Recreational sea fishing
… Motorcycles have been subject to rules ever since they were introduced. Initially people feared that they would startle …
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Part of story: Motorcycles
… of some species and create habitats for other, usually introduced, species. Building biodiversity Proponents of …
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Part of story: Farming and the environment
… an economic downturn, such as when haymaking machinery was introduced during the economic depression of the 1880s, the …
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Part of story: Farm mechanisation
… are not directly preyed on by people any longer, things we introduced continue to threaten their survival: predators …
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Part of story: Penguins