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… to New Zealand in the 1950s. Quilting was most likely introduced to the Cook Islands by 19th-century missionaries …
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Part of story: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts
… her husband, James Alexander Pond. His father was a dyer, introducing him to chemistry at an early age. Initially …
Type: Biography
… hours years before Victoria adopted them, and they were introduced in Canterbury even before the arrival of the …
Type: Biography
… As more effective treatments for mental illness were introduced, patients became more willing to enter mental …
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Part of story: Mental health services
… breeds in Australia and New Zealand. It is a protected self-introduced native. Appearance Coots are mainly sooty black …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… at the Court of Arbitration. After the Labour government introduced compulsory unionism in 1936, the shop assistants' …
Type: Biography
… for local bodies The Local Government Amendment Act 1996 introduced new and more rigorous financial management of …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… materials such as corn husks, wool and the feathers of introduced birds are now incorporated into woven articles. …
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Part of story: Māori weaving and tukutuku – te raranga me te whatu
… than a large quantity of a single item. After iron was introduced as a shipbuilding material and more efficient …
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Part of story: Freight and warehousing
… on a vigorous, but ultimately unsuccessful, campaign to introduce prohibition. This was the high point of …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… we make between analogue and digital technology, by introducing simulated dust and scratches to a test pattern. …
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Part of story: Media art
… clubs that patrol at holiday time. Horse racing Māori introduced horse racing to Thames in the 1850s. They helped …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… and concern for victims, the Criminal Justice Act 1985 introduced new sentences, including reparation. Used mainly …
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Part of story: Victims of crime
… and Wairarapa. A very good, powerful pianist, she introduced the practice of asking pupils to play piano works …
Type: Biography
… Office insisted it was pressure of work. Telecom Telecom introduced new services in the 1990s, which were already …
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Part of story: Telecommunications
… New Zealand Railways cup and saucer. In the 1970s it introduced stoneware dinner sets. These and other early …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places
… time many New Zealand workers were influenced by the idea, introduced from Europe and the US, of revolutionary …
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Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes
… felt some of the worst effects of the emergency regulations introduced during the 1951 waterfront dispute. Labour MP …
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Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes
… – where it was known as Monterey pine – it had been introduced to New Zealand in the 1850s, although the timber …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… arrived. The most common modern kūmara, Ōwairaka Red, was introduced by a whaling ship, the Rainbow , moored at …
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Part of story: Māori foods – kai Māori