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… used by government departments. The Public Finance Act 1989 introduced accrual (or businesslike) accounting to …
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Part of story: Accountancy
… the most popular alternative sport was underwater hockey, introduced in 1974. New Zealand teams have been successful …
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Part of story: Diving and snorkelling
… gumboot- and rolling pin-throwing. In the 1930s, Manawatū introduced chariot racing, which became very popular. The …
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Part of story: Shows and field days
… marginalised. Women New Zealand was the first country to introduce votes for women. The possibility was discussed in …
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Part of story: Parliament
… models. Later she would comment that the new methods were introduced ‘in the face of Departmental opposition which now …
Type: Biography
… hen house. Progress speeded up when night observations were introduced from 1930. Taking observations of lamps at the …
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Part of story: Modern mapping and surveying
… with limited success. So in 1936 the Labour government introduced the Primary Products Marketing Act, which gave …
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Part of story: Government and agriculture
… of new predators competition for roost sites from introduced mammals, birds and wasps human interference and …
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Part of story: Bats
… as illiterate and dirty. In 1898 the Kauri-gum Industry Act introduced kauri-gum reserves for British subjects only, and …
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Part of story: Ethnic and religious intolerance
… Europeans introduced horses to New Zealand from the early 19th …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… Intrauterine devices The IUD or intrauterine device was introduced in the mid-1960s. Now termed an IUCD …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… Overseas magazines were exchanged and articles reprinted, introducing readers to new ideas of lesbian feminism. SHE …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… easier to get and a new BYO (‘bring your own’) permit was introduced. Sports clubs were allowed liquor licences, …
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Part of story: Liquor laws
… and shells. Eat or be eaten The first Polynesian settlers introduced kiore (rats) and kurī (dogs). Kurī were eaten and …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… diseases such as influenza and measles, which had been introduced by Europeans. By this time the settlement at …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… various places around the coast, mostly in Fiordland, and introduced the potato. A decade or so later whalers also …
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Part of story: Otago region
… with pieces of mycelia. This spawn is then used to introduce the mushroom fungus to the compost on which it …
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Part of story: Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi
… native ant Amblyopone saundersi and the closely related, introduced Australian Amblyopone australis are rather …
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Part of story: Ants
… slower-growing trees such as kahikatea and ribbonwood are introduced to provide long-term protection for the waterway. …
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Part of story: Trees in the rural landscape
… falcon as a near-threatened species. It is threatened by introduced predators such as stoats, by changes in habitat, …
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Part of story: Birds of prey