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… involved in the shifting fortunes of the colony's newspapers. In October 1844 Revans's Gazette was succeeded by … commercial support began the Wellington Independent. This paper was forced into recess in August when financial … combined to create an unusually aggressive tone in the newspaper's columns. The early years were not easy, but the …
Type: Biography
… As a small-town crusading newspaper proprietor and pioneer printer, Alfred Amory George … Courier. Later he worked in Gisborne and Napier on several papers, established the first job-printing works in Hastings …
Type: Biography
… insects continued and at 20 she had published her first two papers on entomology. From 1927 to 1929 she was on the staff … of Entomology. Between 1936 and 1943 she published five papers in parasitology, including two papers on trematode …
Type: Biography
… previously lacked. In October 1878 he presented his first paper to the Otago Institute; he was to publish over 60 papers up to 1925. The duties of a school inspector allowed …
Type: Biography
… The remainder of Reed's career was spent principally in newspapers in New Zealand, Australia and Britain. In 1869 or … struck a deal with George Jones to wind up Jones's newspaper, the Echo , which had been the main rival to the …
Type: Biography
… Revans, New Zealand's first commercial printer and newspaper proprietor, was born probably in 1807 or 1808, third … in establishing British North America's first daily newspaper, the Daily Advertiser , in Montreal. An … proprietors. After this, Revans's only involvement with newspapers was as a contributor of economic and political …
Type: Biography
… father's firm, which he later managed. His first published paper was on analyses of wine. On 1 October 1867 he married … seem for a period to have combined their surnames as two papers published in 1880 refer to him as H. Suter-Naef. In …
Type: Biography
… at the Shag River mouth, which Skinner in an accompanying paper argued were unequivocally Polynesian. When the … range of sites, mainly on the Otago Peninsula. Three more papers and a note were published in the Journal of the …
Type: Biography
… In 1912 Cotton published his first geomorphological paper, 'Notes on Wellington physiography'. With its closely … figures and Cotton's characteristic line drawings, the paper introduced a new standard of description and … after 1912 Charles Cotton produced a number of acclaimed papers and reviews, and in 1922 he published his first book, …
Type: Biography
… Spectator to a job as full-time political cartoonist. The paper promoted the policies and ambitions of its proprietor, … full pages of lively cartoons, and submitted this to the paper's business manager. To his delight he was hired at £5 … His ridiculing of European dictators led, in 1933, to all papers carrying his cartoons being banned in Germany, and in …
Type: Biography
… Pākehā settlement records, business archives and literary papers the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington (1920). … major national organisations and a wide range of personal papers, including those of leading politicians and writers …
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Part of story: Archives
… but still anti-clerical and populist Investigator. This paper lasted less than a year. He also set up as a dancing … he launched the anti-clerical Lancashire Beacon. Both the paper and his emigration plans languished, and in 1850 he … he launched the Auckland Examiner , a weekly muck-raking paper which lampooned rivals and corrupt local officials. …
Type: Biography
… fertilised by insects. Cheeseman's first publication was a paper on the botany of the Titirangi district, which … in 1872. Subsequently he published over 60 botanical papers, often containing detailed descriptions of new …
Type: Biography
… hangars and their design, he presented an authoritative paper, ‘Aerodrome and air route development in New Zealand’, … future, and was probably the first complete technical paper on aeronautical engineering in New Zealand. In 1934 … conference of the engineering profession, his second major paper, ‘Modern problems of civil aviation’. The paper …
Type: Biography
… to five editions. Pérrine Moncrieff went on to contribute papers to RAOU's journal, the Emu , and articles to Birds and the Nelson Evening Mail and other newspapers. She also gave public lectures and papers to the …
Type: Biography
… In 1930, aged 42, she published her first scientific paper. Because of her isolation, sharing information by mail … Theodor Herzog of the University of Jena, Germany, write a paper in English describing 14 new liverwort species. The … the dining-room table, Amy Hodgson published more than 30 papers between 1930 and 1972. She described two new families …
Type: Biography
… the judiciary, with rejection of a proposal in a 1985 white paper to give the judiciary the power to strike down legislation. Rights from God In 1985 a white paper examined the proposed introduction of a bill of rights … law. The parliamentary select committee dealing with the paper received 431 submissions, some of which contained …
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Part of story: Constitution
… prizes of 1892. Between 1890 and 1893 he published 16 papers on determinants and related items of algebra, and … In the period 1900–1908, however, he published 12 papers (mainly on economics and statistics) in the …
Type: Biography
… in trout and salmon throughout his life, publishing papers on various acclimatised salmonid fishes. However, New … developed an ‘eye’ for a species, and from 1938 wrote many papers, describing new species and making their chaotic … to shift from one scientific journal to another to get his papers published. Nevertheless, his contribution to …
Type: Biography
… the passing of the OIA students rarely saw their marked papers. Once the precedent had been established, the system changed so that papers were sent back to students on request. Improving the … analysis, were also likely to be made public. Most official papers and advice were written on the assumption that they …
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Part of story: Freedom of official information