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… to open grasslands on treeless subantarctic islands. Introduced species A number of introduced species, including the skylark and several game …
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Part of story: Birds of mountains and open country
… the railways carried 686,287 animals. Before trucks were introduced, stock travelled ‘on the hoof’ to the railway and … capacity by over 30%. Later even larger wagons were introduced, which carried 120 sheep or 16 cattle. Horses …
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Part of story: Transport of animals
… consultation and planning, the Quota Management System was introduced, with widespread industry support. When fishers became aware that a quota system was to be introduced, they increased their activity – quotas (how much …
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Part of story: Fishing industry
… ancient Amblyopone species, to well over a million for the introduced Argentine ant Linepithema humile . A colony … the eggs of arthropods (insects, spiders and the like). The introduced Australian ants Orectognathus antennatus and …
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Part of story: Ants
… the environment’. 1 By his own account, Smith’s efforts to introduce coarse fish began in 1960, when he unsuccessfully … earliest liberations involved perch, which had first been introduced into New Zealand in the 1860s, mostly in Otago … perch to compete with them. At one point he considered introducing pike, a carnivore that preys on virtually any …
Type: Biography
… insects which have become pests, because the larvae feed on introduced pasture and clovers. Surviving an unpredictable …
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Part of story: Insects – overview
… public. Their ecosystems are fragile and the risk of introducing rats and other pests is too great to allow … main threats to native land birds are the mammals that were introduced when people settled the land. The land birds’ … began in 1769 when European voyagers and then settlers introduced two larger species of rats ( Rattus norvegicus , …
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Part of story: Land birds – overview
… large flightless birds to extinction. The Pacific rat they introduced also decimated populations of small, … and fragmented the bush area available to birds, while introduced predatory animals depleted populations and … and other exotic mammalian predators have never been introduced – or on which conservationists have managed to …
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Part of story: Native plants and animals – overview
… grown by Māori When Europeans arrived in New Zealand, six introduced cultigens (cultivated plants that have no known … the new country’s cooler climate. Some plants may have been introduced to New Zealand more than once, possibly coming … Scientists think that gourds were either deliberately introduced from Asia and America, or may have floated across …
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Part of story: Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia
… acting on ministerial advice. Under procedures introduced in 1999, the attorney general exercises primary … Māori Land Court. Appointments procedures The procedures introduced in 1999 standardised the appointments process. … Conduct Commissioner and Judicial Conduct Panel Act 2004 introduced prescriptive procedures for investigating …
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Part of story: Judicial system
… most likely to be seen are rainbow and brown trout, first introduced to New Zealand in the late 19th century. Both … crested grebe (South Island). The larger birds are mostly introduced species, including mallard ducks, black swans and … since the 1950s. Some exotic lake weeds, accidentally introduced, have thrived in lakes with unnaturally high …
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Part of story: Lakes
… and maintained by the council. Similar requirements were introduced for county councils and roads boards under the … Pedestrian crossings and traffic lights were also introduced to discourage jaywalking and to control traffic … flows. Seeing red Wellington’s first traffic lights were introduced at the main city intersections in 1931. Their aim …
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Part of story: Streets and lighting
… the practice, to no avail. Depression taxes A poll tax was introduced in 1930 to fund unemployment relief. Every male … purposes. On 8 February 1933 Finance Minister Gordon Coates introduced a sales tax of 5% of the value of goods sold, on … The Beer Duty Act charged 3d per gallon of beer when it was introduced in 1880. …
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Part of story: Taxes
… the financial system in 1984, but the Reserve Bank did not introduce a formal system of banking supervision until 1987. … on banking regulations). In 1996 the Reserve Bank introduced an unusual variant of prudential supervision …
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Part of story: Reserve Bank
… is often used. This is because weeds have usually been introduced, accidentally or deliberately, from other … spread more vigorously than they had in England. Many were introduced accidentally as impurities in agricultural and … of New Zealand’s most notorious weeds. It was deliberately introduced, often sold as seed or seedlings in the 1800s, …
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Part of story: Weeds of agriculture
… a change of government. In early 1986 the cabinet agreed to introduce it subject to a parliamentary conscience vote. In … Auckland 1990 Commonwealth Games, the Lotteries Commission introduced Instant Kiwi scratch cards in 1989. The game’s …
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Part of story: Gambling
… channels were constructed across a paddock, and water introduced from a head race. The sequence of watering was … system has been improved through precision land levelling, introducing wider border widths and higher flows, and the …
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Part of story: Irrigation and drainage
… in 1902, a system of building and administrative grants was introduced. Capitation was used to fund secondary schools until 1920, when national pay scales were introduced for secondary teachers. After the 1989 reforms …
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Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… are resilient, forests are threatened by over-use and introduced animal pests. Sustainable timber production In … no longer living in the area, such as kiwi, have been re-introduced. At the Hurunui River, North Canterbury, …
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Part of story: Southern beech forest
… Another name, pero, made some believe that kurī had been introduced by Spanish settlers, as perro is Spanish for dog. … they probably became rare through cross-breeding with introduced dogs, and then disappeared altogether. …
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Part of story: Kurī – Polynesian dogs