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… The first time any part of New Zealand was outlined on paper was during Abel Janszoon Tasman’s voyage of 1642–43. …
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Part of story: Charting the sea floor
… out research into the processing of sugar from beet and paper from white pine, and the preserving of milk. Friberg …
Type: Biography
… 1950s, the Meremere power station and the Tasman pulp and paper mill both attracted young Irishmen, who formed Gaelic …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… successful suing of the Manawatu Daily Times in 1957. The paper’s review of his novel Sweet white wine claimed the …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… shop. His experience in journalism began on a daily newspaper in Manchester. In 1858 he transferred to Castleford, … where he took over as editor and proprietor of a local newspaper. In 1862 he joined the promoters of the Albertland … Marlborough Express , with a promise that the weekly newspaper would serve the interests of the whole province, …
Type: Biography
… founded Dominion in Wellington in 1907 and then became the paper’s parliamentary reporter. He was appointed managing … So great was the popular demand for this issue that the newspaper published it as a book, Life in early Poverty Bay . By … was sold to R. J. Kerridge in 1937, Mackay retired from newspaper work. A committee was formed to publish a history on …
Type: Biography
… with officials from other departments, prepare the policy papers on which the minister or cabinet take decisions. MFAT …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation
… were drawn in the sand or dirt, or occasionally marked on paper. A 3-D map John Chubbin, in 1856 one of the first …
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Part of story: Early mapping
… daguerreotypes to the wet-collodion process, printed on paper and by which 'any number of copies can be produced, …
Type: Biography
… from a peat swamp. The plan was to use the extracts for paper coatings and lipsticks that wouldn’t melt in the sun. …
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Part of story: Plant extracts
… masonry structures by the earthquakes of 1848 and 1855. In papers, lectures and by example in his buildings, Turnbull …
Type: Biography
… a frame of mānuka covered with bark cloth made of aute (paper mulberry). This type was described by the 19th-centruy …
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Part of story: Kites and manu tukutuku
… of the nature of the discipline. From the earliest days papers were included on New Zealand politics and government, … mass media, and African and Chinese politics, along with papers focusing on the great Cold War powers of the USSR and …
Type: Biography
… In 1947 he joined the New Zealand Labour Party’s daily newspaper the Southern Cross as a feature writer and critic, and became the paper’s education specialist. In 1950 he entered the … Antony Whitlock, a member of the family that owned the paper. He returned to Wellington in 1963 to be editor of …
Type: Biography
… driving forces behind the purchase of Greymouth’s morning paper, the Grey River Argus , by a coalition of local labour groups. As a member of the paper’s board of directors and its manager from 1920 to …
Type: Biography
… Institute of Canterbury, Stack published a number of papers on Māori subjects. His South Island Maoris: a sketch … of their history and legendary lore (1898) was based on a paper delivered to the institute in 1877, and included a …
Type: Biography
… Māori society. As one of the proprietors of the Māori newspaper Matuhi , Taiāwhio appears to have played a major role … in promoting its cause. He bought a printing press for the paper, and installed his wife as editor. The paper was published regularly between 1903 and 1906. The …
Type: Biography
… Nazi-controlled territory. They were often without identity papers. New Zealand belonged to the International Refugee …
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Part of story: Poles
… and prizes in memory of her parents. Her collection of papers, clothes and antiques formed the basis for the …
Type: Biography
… heart was created by microscopic analysis of thousands of paper-thin slices of real hearts. This will enable medical …
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Part of story: Knowledge-based industries