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… sacks and scooping and weighing contents. Rolls of brown paper, string and newspaper were used to package items. Sawdust was often … was often given a few sweets wrapped in a twist of brown paper. At Christmas some grocers gave regular customers a …
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Part of story: Food shops
… to a dressmaking firm; later she made envelopes and paper bags at the Mataura paper mill. When the family moved to Dunedin she began to …
Type: Biography
… Association founder Apirana Ngata contributed a number of papers along with other members; they were later known as … made an early contribution to the TACSA conferences with a paper on Parihaka. He then published articles in Dominion …
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… and that of the New Zealand Institute, and publishing 11 papers in the Institute's Transactions between 1876 and 1909. Early papers utilised his medical training to analyse Māori and …
Type: Biography
… south Westland. Between 1937 and 1952 Wellman published 36 papers and reports, mostly on Nelson and Westland geology. … in Wellington. During the next five years he published 16 papers, with those on Quaternary tectonics and the …
Type: Biography
… member of any cabinet committee – other ministers presented papers on their behalf. The two ministers appeared on the …
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Part of story: Cabinet government
… or forestry, for example in the dairy industry or pulp and paper. Because the focus in chemical engineering is on …
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Part of story: Engineering
… as the only departmental head with access to all cabinet papers, he or she has an unparalleled range of influence. …
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Part of story: State services and the Public Service Commission
… from the 1950s, prompted the development of a pulp and paper industry at Kawerau. The forest was sold by the Crown …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… the township of Thames, in 1929. The aute plant The aute or paper mulberry tree, used for making tapa (bark cloth) in …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… from one part of New Zealand to another. Industries such as paper mills, mines and appliance factories develop over time …
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Part of story: Workforce composition
… Men with carts also collected bottles, rags (for making paper) and bones (to be ground up for fertiliser). Many …
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Part of story: Sewage, water and waste
… 70 km north, where the logs are processed into pulp and paper. It was constituted a town district in 1954 and a …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… On the origin of species , Huxley published a scientific paper describing Mantell’s somewhat damaged bone as the …
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Part of story: Penguins
… Wright submitted work to the Free Lance and other papers. His poem 'Wellington' was printed in gilt and black … In 1906 he bought an old press and began to print a weekly paper, the Nelson Times , producing 12 issues before August …
Type: Biography
… unique perspective to the region’s cultural programme. Newspapers The Taranaki Herald was founded in 1852 and the Taran … in 1857. The two companies amalgamated in 1966, though both papers were still published for some time after this. The …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… settings for English and New Zealand magazines and newspapers. 'Madge', as she often signed herself, gained a … vice president in 1900. Margaret Bullock gave a number of papers at NCW meetings, including one on the 'burning … living conditions in trenchant letters to the local papers. Her feminist and welfare work often made her …
Type: Biography
… the emerging New Zealand scene. Over this period, newspapers began to attempt to review modern music. Playdate … Xi noticed the paucity of dance reviews in New Zealand newspapers. He told Mike Nicolaidi, chief reporter for the … reviewing New Zealand’s art history, The big picture . Newspapers Newspapers have continued to be a major source of …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… parents could see the mother’s name and age in the adoption papers, and would usually be given some information about … I know I ceased being her mother as soon as I signed that paper but I know I could still be a friend.’ 2 By December …
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Part of story: Adoption
… with the problem of erosion and presented a detailed paper for the conservation side. He continued as director of … Development Finance Corporation. He published more than 50 papers in a variety of journals, including the New Zealand …
Type: Biography