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… in popularity as a younger generation of performers introduced jazz influences into both rock and experimental …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Jazz and dance bands
… evacuation plans for population centres. Some areas have introduced signs showing evacuation routes, and safety zones …
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Part of story: Tsunamis
… rural school. They formed a strong imaginative team, introducing into the syllabus a range of practical subjects. …
Type: Biography
… treated as paupers or prisoners.’ 3 The Lunatics Act 1868 introduced regular independent inspection of asylums. …
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Part of story: Mental health services
… These and similar activities led the government to introduce the Electoral Finance Act. Exclusive Brethren …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… in 1863, when the Australia and New Zealand Land Company introduced a bull and three cows to their station in …
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Part of story: Beef farming
… against the popular belief that the infection had been introduced solely by the Niagara. The crowning achievement …
Type: Biography
… care or protection of children. These conferences, first introduced in New Zealand, were later adopted in other …
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Part of story: Ngā tamariki
… volume, and for The imperial album on NZ scenery. They introduced new photo-engraving techniques and were the first …
Type: Biography
… the Māori population declined because of the impact of introduced diseases. By 1858, non-Māori outnumbered Māori. …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… social functions, developing the school library, and introducing a prefectorial system based on democratic …
Type: Biography
… gaining ground. One of the earliest types of ethnic music introduced to New Zealand was the Scottish pipe band, and …
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Part of story: Creative life
… to earthquakes. He improved lighting in woolstores by introducing sawtooth roof structures from 1895. He designed …
Type: Biography
… opera singer then teaching in Auckland. It was Garratt who introduced Natzke to the Auckland public. As song leader at …
Type: Biography
… Lower Hutt. Plant manager W. H. (Bill) Wilson, a Canadian, introduced a competitive league, encouraging employees to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Softball and baseball
… permitted from 1898 and an early form of play-the-ball was introduced in 1906. The biggest change of all also occurred …
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Part of story: Rugby league
… developed slowly. European settlers, arriving from 1840, introduced customary holidays such as Christmas and New …
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Part of story: Holidays
… to fill pillows. Now they are legally protected, but introduced rats, cats and stoats have taken a heavy toll. …
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Part of story: Small forest birds
… in the 1980s). In the 1950s electric multiple units were introduced on the increasingly busy Hutt Valley lines. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Railways
… with an upper-middle-class New Zealand accent, he would introduce each item with facts about its recording and the …
Type: Biography