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… Nineteenth-century settlers made many attempts to make paper, which was needed for newspapers and letters – both essential in the days before … Paper: the first attempts …
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Part of story: Pulp and paper, aluminium and steel industries
… In the mid-20th century the paper industry boomed, and several new mills opened. There … wars. Local and overseas business interest in the pulp and paper industry was strong. The government was committed to … The pulp and paper boom …
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Part of story: Pulp and paper, aluminium and steel industries
… New Zealand’s aluminium, steel, and pulp and paper industries were all set up after the Second World War, … Pulp and paper, aluminium and steel industries …
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… Decline in numbers of papers Increasing competition from radio as a medium for … and advertising reduced the number of New Zealand newspapers in the mid-20th century. By 1940 each of the four …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… A recurring subject in Māori letters to newspapers is the aspiration to participate in government – or separate from it. This is most apparent in the papers Māori produced themselves. Regional in origin, these … Māori-owned newspapers …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… these techniques were used to produce higher-quality wood. Paper chase In the 1800s there were a few paper mills in New Zealand, which used waste paper, rags, …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… Birth of today’s papers From the 1860s New Zealand’s rapidly increasing … made newspaper publishing more financially viable. Several papers founded in this period survived in some form into the …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… Reading newspapers and journals is the traditional way for farmers to keep up with developments in agriculture. Newspapers From the early days of European settlement, most …
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Part of story: Rural media
… involved in the felling and processing industries. Pulp and paper mills Two major pulp and paper mills came into operation in the mid-1950s. New …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… when it was relatively rare – and new – for a New Zealand paper to be foreign-owned. By 2007 almost all of the country’s daily papers were owned by two Australian-based media … The future of New Zealand newspapers …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… 1875, he listed the equipment that printed his town’s newspapers as one of his signs of progress. Almost every town … and local community in New Zealand once had its own newspaper, and many had more than one. They were a vital … First newspapers, 1839–1860 …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… Through the early 20th century New Zealand’s newspapers multiplied and expanded. As readership and … The heyday of newspapers, 1900–1939 …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… anything else. The fibres were found to be unsuitable for paper, but swamp kauri is now one of the most valuable … like hardwoods, with more stable and durable wood. Pulp and paper New Zealand research into pulp and paper production initially focused on native species, before …
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Part of story: Forestry research
… their observations, he published a succession of research papers on meteor astronomy. One of his most important … features and craters, and published a number of descriptive papers. In the early 1950s he began a long study of the …
Type: Biography
… from wasp or bee stings every three years in New Zealand. Paper wasps These wasps make papery nests from dry plant fibre mixed with their saliva. …
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Part of story: Wasps and bees
… in the plant genus Coprosma. The resulting scientific paper was published in the Transactions and Proceedings of … of grasses. In 1930 and 1935 he co-authored two papers on the latter with Allan, and in 1936 contributed …
Type: Biography
… Philanthropist newspapers Promotion of temperance, the European way of life and … plight of Māori, led to the establishment of other newspapers. Charles Davis (editor of several papers) produced … Philanthropist and church newspapers …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… in cities, whether at work – in 19th-century factories, on paper rounds or milk runs, or in McDonald’s – or at play. …
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… Mahupuku also conceived the idea of a Wairarapa Māori newspaper to be the vehicle of Te Kotahitanga. The idea was … Wellington and found him work with an English-language newspaper. Despite falling ill, Kiingi worked there for nearly … had not abandoned Te Puke ki Hikurangi , two competing newspapers were too much for the market. Both papers failed in …
Type: Biography
… in Auckland to cover the New Zealand wars for a London newspaper. McMinn then turned to teaching, accepting a position … Argus. However, he was determined to establish his own newspaper, and after considering setting up in opposition to the … He hoped this would be the first of a chain of North Island papers, but a planned Opunake venture never proceeded. The …
Type: Biography