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… They weigh 190 grams and measure 35 centimetres. A self-introduced species that arrived relatively recently (perhaps …
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Part of story: Wading birds
… grey. Hunting harriers Believing harriers posed a threat to introduced game birds such as partridges, pheasant and …
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Part of story: Birds of prey
… but Pahikore did it in 15 hours without a track. He also introduced his nephew George Bannister to climbing, and the …
Type: Biography
… Television was introduced in New Zealand in 1960, with stations based in …
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Part of story: Rural media
… Zealand’s different ethnic communities. That year a review introduced a new non-racist immigration policy : apart from …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… good wine country. The Corban family was instrumental in introducing commercial winemaking to New Zealand. …
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Part of story: Middle Eastern peoples
… living in substandard housing. The government therefore introduced laws to promote suburban housing. …
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Part of story: Suburbs
… te Wao Tapu Trust (1989) is a Wellington-based company that introduces at-risk young people to theatre and kapa haka …
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Part of story: Young people and the arts
… feeding. At Level 4 trainees can again specialise, and are introduced to feed budgeting and have to prepare a property …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… were connected to Auckland by telegraph. The telephone, introduced in Auckland and Christchurch in 1881, took longer …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… connecting roads. Gold mining, which the railway was introduced to serve, ended in the 1920s – except at Waihī. …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… non-urban multi-member districts. The Māori electorates – introduced in 1867 – were always single-member districts. …
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Part of story: Electoral systems
… research Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs) were introduced to encourage the development of cooperative …
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Part of story: Research institutions
… an egg), and then only in alternate years. The effects of introduced predatory animals on these long-lived, …
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Part of story: Native plants and animals – overview
… early 1940s some friends persuaded her to enter a recently introduced radio quiz programme, ‘Information Please’, on …
Type: Biography
… and the state's right of compulsory purchase, which was introduced under the Land for Settlements Act 1894. The … established a Validation Court to sort out Māori title, introduced a new system of land boards to purchase land and … between 1892 and 1900. Virtually full Crown pre-emption was introduced between 1892 and 1894, although a further 423,184 …
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… was again the scene of intense musical activity. A patron introduced Alfred to the cornet, which he played in the … in Auckland and Sydney in 1904. A Moorish maid (1905) introduced the New Zealand singer Rosina Buckman in the …
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… in the archdiocese between 1947 and 1969. Some newly introduced orders were selected for their particular … criticised but McKeefry had no sympathy for proposals to introduce vernacular languages into the liturgy. He did not …
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… at Knapdale in the 1890s. He later founded a Romney stud, introduced a shorthorn herd and imported the area's first … a pamphlet, Open letters on proportional representation. He introduced to Parliament several private member's bills on …
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… effect to the Treaty of Waitangi. The Land Claims Bill introduced into the Legislative Council on 22 January 1842 … was seen in the framing of the fundamental measures introduced in the first General Synod in 1859. He remained a …
Type: Biography