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… product quality varied enormously. In 1894 the government introduced the Dairy Industry Act, under which goods were …
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Part of story: Dairying and dairy products
… appeared as young craft artists supported each other and introduced their ideas to the nation’s consumers. …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… by British settlers. But probably pre-emption was introduced simply because it was standard practice. It was …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… dragon boating began in Hong Kong in the 1970s. It was introduced to New Zealand by Olympic kayaking gold …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… (Rosedale) and Neudorf. Germans were among the first to introduce commercial winemaking into New Zealand. They also …
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Part of story: Germans
… species and 35 that have been deliberately or accidentally introduced and have become established in the wild. This is …
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Part of story: Ferns and lycophytes
… from ten to eight. That meeting, held on 8 June, decided to introduce the eight hour day within three months and to do …
Type: Biography
… rākau. The larvae feed on the dead wood of native trees and introduced pine. When mature larvae or tataka have emptied …
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Part of story: Beetles
… standards, and in 1944 a Poultry Flock Improvement Plan was introduced by the New Zealand Poultry Board and administered …
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Part of story: Poultry industry
… New Zealand had no land mammals to use for meat except the introduced kurī (dog) and kiore (rat). For many tribes, the …
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Part of story: Te tāhere manu – bird catching
… a benign climate and few predators (stoats, cats and other introduced pests had not yet become widespread). Efficient …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… fixed-term permits issued. An amendment to the act in 1971 introduced water conservation orders to protect wild and …
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Part of story: Irrigation and drainage
… evolution Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution, introduced in his 1859 book Origin of species , influenced …
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Part of story: Geomorphology – a history
… freedoms of people. In 1962 the Office of the Ombudsman was introduced to provide a person to whom grievances could be …
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Part of story: Law
… Other comparatively recent factors such as overfishing, introduced predators and global warming have wreaked havoc …
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Part of story: Penguins
… present – took part in whaleboat races. Māori quickly introduced these boats at home, and by the 1840s whaleboats …
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Part of story: Whaling
… of Māori team members from rugby tours to South Africa introduced Māori to the anti-apartheid movement. A new …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… sterilising. Machine milking Milking machines were first introduced in the mid-1890s, and by 1920, about half of the …
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Part of story: Farm buildings
… the area also had native eels. Rainbow and brown trout were introduced to Lake Taupō in the early 1900s. They soon …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… introflexus and Orthodontium lineare , were accidentally introduced into Europe, where they have become noxious …
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Part of story: Mosses