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… of beetles and moths. Many insects are smaller than in New Zealand and a high proportion are flightless. Abundant … There are no amphibians or reptiles, and while fish are abundant there are few species and those inshore …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… More than just molluscs In zoological terms, ‘shellfish’ refers to species belonging to the mollusc group. But … a radula – a ribbon of teeth for rasping food. Molluscs in New Zealand There are over 3,660 species of mollusc living in …
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Part of story: Shellfish
… crew of the Endeavour took on board fresh water, cut wood, fish and kūmara (sweet potato) during their visit in October … steelwork was constructed by the Elmira Bridge Company of New York. Opening of the Ūawa bridge The bridge across the … to shipping in 1967. The wharf is the second longest in New Zealand. In the early 2000s its deterioration led to the …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… 1840s to protect the interests of landholders against the New Zealand Company. It was dubbed ‘the Nelson Supper Party’, as … the hyphenated title Nelson–Marlborough. Examples include Fish & Game and the former district health board. National …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… the arrival of Polynesians, between 1250 and 1300 CE, New Zealand fur seals and to a lesser extent sea lions and … beefstakes’. 1 In addition, seal teeth were valuable for fish hooks. In the first two centuries of settlement, Māori …
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Part of story: Sealing
… at present.’ 1 Mangōnui today Mangōnui’s reputation as a fishing town attracts crowds to the food outlets along the … One is now at Kaitāia’s museum and another at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington. Grapes were planted …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Boys’ High School (1942–44). At 15 he took a job on a fishing trawler off the Otago coast and was then employed as … By then Arthur was involved in politics. He had joined the New Zealand Labour Party at 16 and delivered its pamphlets …
Type: Biography
… – joints from moa and seals required large ovens, whereas fish or kūmara (sweet potato) could be cooked in smaller … using cast-iron ranges – a technology not then available in New Zealand. From cooking in pots and on spits suspended over …
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Part of story: Cooking
… Gould was a good-looking and direct-speaking man, keen on fishing and shooting and a good horseman. He married Helen … later with considerable success. In 1940 he applied to the New Zealand Sheep Breeders' Association for recognition of his …
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… at Walton-on-Thames, England. Afterwards, she returned to New Zealand to live with her mother in Napier. In 1929 Ruth … the association enjoyed a high public profile. The Silver Fish, the highest award in guiding, was awarded to her in …
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… site of AM radio transmitters for the radio stations 4YZ, Newstalk ZB and the Radio Sport Network. The two-teacher … opened in 1912, still operates. In Māori, ‘maka’ means fish hook, and ‘rewa’ means to float. The story goes that a … Pither claimed to have achieved Southland's – and New Zealand's – first powered flight in his home-built plane, …
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Part of story: Southland places
… of a shooting gallery at a community sports day in Oamaru. Newspapers continued to report accidental deaths at shooting … Amusement arcades The earliest amusement arcades in New Zealand, places where people could play novelty games for a … games such as ‘fortune tellers’ (which were also in fish-and-chip shops). However, the flashing lights and …
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Part of story: Arcade, computer and video games
… in the 1870s and 1880s, when many went elsewhere. New Zealand’s economic destiny seemed to lie in large-scale … came under pressure from white meats – chicken, pork, and fish – and butter from other oils. Affluent countries …
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Part of story: Economy
… international expositions) sanctioned 20 world’s fairs, but New Zealand participated in only five – all but one in the … Theatre Company and a drama of the legendary hero Māui fishing up the North Island. The same theme was present at …
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Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… Bruce Simpson's Aardvark, began providing technology news and commentary in 1995. Read Write Web Read Write Web, … in 2003. It employed multiple authors and became one of New Zealand’s most widely read and influential blogs. It was … Danyl Mclauchlan (The Dim-Post) and Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish) and Scoop news site reporter Lyndon Hood wrote in the …
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Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… to have been born on 17 January 1868 at Tomioka, a small fishing village on the island of Amakusa-Shimo-shima, near … in the Pacific, finally leaving ship at Invercargill, New Zealand, in the late 1880s or early 1890s. He was almost …
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… . Pounamu was sometimes called Te Ika-o-Ngāhue (Ngāhue’s fish) because of his exploits in retrieving it. Tūhua was a … Ara pounamu (greenstone trails) Before Europeans arrived in New Zealand, Māori had extensively explored the South Island. …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… bound for the West Indies. Bollons made landfall in New Zealand the hard way when the barque England's Glory ran … and cultural practices and made a special study of Māori fishing equipment. His collection of artefacts remains one …
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… Born in New Plymouth on 24 February 1918, Daniel Anthony Watkins was … World War. He served in the Middle East with No 4 New Zealand Field Ambulance and at HQ New Zealand Division, but … woodwork (which cost him a finger), swimming, deep-sea fishing and travel. Daniel Watkins died on 22 February 1982 …
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… part in the South Island’s tourist industry, offering fishing, hunting, skiing, hiking and other recreation. In … structure were built at its outlet in the 1950s. When a new dam was built in the 1970s, the lake was raised further, … vista across the lake remains one of the best-known in New Zealand. Tekapo Lake Tekapo, the highest of the Mackenzie …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places