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… for the collection, annotation and indexing of books and papers on the early history of New Zealand. This began about …
Type: Biography
… batatas ) hue (bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria ) aute (paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera ) taro ( Colocasia …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia
… 1920s plantings started to reach maturity. Tasman Pulp and Paper built a plant at Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… the 2000s, the needs of the customer who just wants a newspaper, a loaf of bread or some milk are met by dairies … by chains – Whitcoulls (formerly Whitcombe and Tombs), Paper Plus, Borders (bought by Whitcoulls in 2008), and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Shops
… conduct tours around the Star building and to represent the paper on bus tours for the elderly. Grace Green's voice was …
Type: Biography
… Auckland Institute, and between 1889 and 1902 contributed papers on a variety of topics, including evidence of a …
Type: Biography
… kūmara (sweet potato), gourd, kurī (dogs), taro, yam, paper mulberry and the Pacific cabbage tree ( Cordyline … kept in cages. Leopards’ lunch A letter to the Colonist newspaper in 1873 suggested that its writer knew a suitable …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Acclimatisation
… poetry almost daily and published it in a variety of newspapers. She also sold poems and songs door-to-door in … and wrote Towards a nother s ummer , which remained in her papers and was published posthumously in 2007. New Zealand …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fiction
… river setting was also ideal for milling timber, flour and paper. In the 20th century tobacco was grown. The Riverhead …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Auckland places
… He resigned in December 1931 by mutual agreement with the paper's directorate. His last years were spent as parish …
Type: Biography
… the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London he published papers which led to his book The theory of light: a treatise …
Type: Biography
… quality’. 1 They frequently arrived with pants and boots, paper collar and smart necktie. Over time their standard …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural clothing
… sister, Charlotte. The Misses Milne advertised in the local papers that 'they have purchased the whole of Mr. and Mrs. …
Type: Biography
… The other three options had also been on the voting paper in the 1992 referendum. They were: preferential voting …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Electoral systems
… slaughter techniques on sheep and cattle. Their published papers markedly improved understanding of the humane …
Type: Biography
… straddling the Hatea River. It was remembered for its walls papered with pages from the Weekly News and photographic …
Type: Biography
… study of the great masters, modelling, house decoration, paper hanging, casting, wood and stone carving, and …
Type: Biography
… before paying for their purchase, which exacerbated the paper jam. Margin trading – buying shares on credit – became …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Stock market
… While at Victoria College he published eight scientific papers, one with Professor Thomas Easterfield but the others …
Type: Biography