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… shopping lists) were written on lightweight tissue paper – known as flimsies – and rolled up in an aluminium …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… by large warehouses and the New Zealand Forest Products paper mill. Recent growth In Penrose, new industrial parks …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… destroyed his huge collection of artefacts, letters and papers, including his memoirs. He died at West Clive on 23 …
Type: Biography
… a main trunk (Auckland–Dunedin) service had long existed on paper. What the fledgling aviation companies most needed was …
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Part of story: Aviation
… a guide to basic parliamentary practice and certain papers were translated into Māori. In 1880 Parliament’s … Te Karere o N ui Tireni in 1842, many Māori-language newspapers were published. Initially these were …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… while bark mould beetles ( Diagrypnodes wakefieldi ) are paper thin, to fit beneath loose bark. Some beetles have …
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Part of story: Beetles
… Linnean Society of London. His first important scientific paper was written for the New Zealand Exhibition at Dunedin … Nor had he neglected science, although his torrent of papers in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute …
Type: Biography
… by joining the staff of the Sun , an enterprising daily newspaper in Christchurch. In 1920 he became editor of the … he resigned, typically on a point of principle, when the paper's proprietors tried to interfere in his coverage of … years followed. He took over the Record , a weekly paper in Rangiora, re-establishing it as the North …
Type: Biography
… the decade following her marriage Jane Harris published newspaper stories using the pen name 'Jenny Wren'. In December … discussion and spiritualist doctrine was evident in her paper 'Woman's work and destiny', which she read before the …
Type: Biography
… Critic , a newly established Auckland weekly. However, the paper quickly failed, leaving Henderson without payment for … in Sydney, working for several daily and weekly newspapers. Pauline convalesced in Auckland for two or three … mother. Kennaway began planning an independent weekly newspaper modelled on A. R. Orage’s the New Age. In early 1934, …
Type: Biography
… plateau of the central North Island, and he presented many papers to the New Zealand Institute on the subject of … and the Ruapehu group was the subject of many of his papers. He was also interested in river systems and water …
Type: Biography
… association, the name has been used for planes, boats, newspapers, and numerous commercial ventures. The first … to New Zealand in the mid-1950s and 1960s. Two national newspapers have been published under the name: a successful paper from colonial days, which merged with the New Zealand …
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Part of story: Southern Cross
… uwhi (yam), tī pore (Pacific cabbage tree) and aute (paper mulberry) – grew with difficulty. Kūmara growing and …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… the land and have the tracings mechanically recorded onto paper. With the adoption of aerial photography and …
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Part of story: Modern mapping and surveying
… of pounamu might be set off with pieces of white aute (paper mulberry). Shark teeth and even human teeth of …
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Part of story: Māori clothing and adornment – kākahu Māori
… Julius Haast, collected many moa bones and published papers on his discoveries. Most of these early finds came …
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Part of story: Fossils
… with the erection of 14 lighthouses. He wrote a paper on New Zealand lighthouses for the Institution of …
Type: Biography
… of the region's first, and at the time, only newspaper, the Otago News. The superintendent of Otago, Captain William Cargill, engineered the collapse of this paper, and replaced it with the Otago Witness in 1851. …
Type: Biography
… pumice as an aggregate, and had a backing of building paper. Panels were about 900 by 900 millimetres, and 50 …
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Part of story: Building materials
… J ournal . Many found it a dull read. In 1924 a Dunedin newspaper called it ‘an intensely, almost depressingly, respectable paper. One imagines it taking the chairs at public meetings …
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Part of story: Accountancy