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… erecting future slums. In 2007 the Auckland City Council introduced new design rules, banning windowless apartments, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City history and people
… game of Victorian (later ‘Australian’) rules football was introduced to the Otago and Thames goldfields by miners …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sport and society
… committee after a strong attack on 'the great evil of introducing assisted immigrants'. He showed further concern …
Type: Biography
… was an early supporter of the ecumenical movement. He introduced a course on ecumenics at the college in 1941, and …
Type: Biography
… the Poverty Bay flats, but claims that he was the first to introduce sheep, cattle and horses to the district have been …
Type: Biography
… acquired near Orakei basin. Valuable plum varieties were introduced from Luther Burbank at Santa Rosa, California. …
Type: Biography
… In addition to an increasing resistance to common introduced infections, an important factor was a vigorous …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… John Ballance, native minister and minister of defence, introduced a 'one-policeman' policy at Parihaka as part of a …
Type: Biography
… their families’ survival. Nevertheless, cats and dogs were introduced as companion animals and were well established by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pets
… clear visual quality, and the word beautiful keeps on being introduced’. Hodgkins also provided inspiration for a …
Type: Biography
… time of pubs was an unlikely legacy of the war. It was introduced as a temporary measure to prevent soldiers who …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: First World War
… but as they joined the paid labour force and equal pay was introduced (so women and men were paid the same for the same …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Income and wealth distribution
… John Lidgard and Des Townson. In 1979 the government introduced a 20% tax on boats. As boats built for export …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… the Faculty of Arts and Science. Beyond the university Jack introduced the people of Dunedin to many aspects of physics …
Type: Biography
… low-fired copper earthenware glazes. She now resumed this, introducing cigar-shaped parcels of sawdust and mothballs …
Type: Biography
… as Jane Collier had gone resolutely against this trend, introducing innovative teaching methods: these were picked …
Type: Biography
… are still important, the world championships, which were introduced in 1966 for men and in 1973 for women, have …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bowls, pétanque and tenpin
… Peoples, was, as Phillips noted, about New Zealanders introducing themselves to each other. As well as entries on …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… Classes in cooking, singing, swimming and dressmaking were introduced by 1903 and art classes were compulsory for all …
Type: Biography
… a simple man and Blithe spirit for the Court Theatre. She introduced classes for children at the Malthouse in drama …
Type: Biography