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… was RT [radio telephone], and jobs written down on bits of paper at the office. My car has become my entertainment …
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Part of story: Taxis and cabs
… Tukumana produced further manuscripts and contributed to papers by George Graham. These writings are of enormous …
Type: Biography
… Colonial hopes During the colonial period various newspapers proclaimed that a New Zealand literature was being … cover of the first issue of Zealandia in 1889. The paper noted that a Māori man stands beneath a kauri tree, …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… Solander laboriously wrote species descriptions on papers known as ‘Solander slips’ – documents that became one …
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Part of story: European discovery of plants and animals
… Shone persuaded thousands of listeners to place strips of paper smeared with jam or honey outside their houses, close …
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Part of story: Radio
… receiving their share scrip. Brokers fell behind in their paper work. In 1962 the Wellington Exchange replaced the …
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Part of story: Stock market
… the kūmara, taro, uwhi (yam), hue (bottle gourd), aute (paper mulberry) and tī pore (cabbage tree). In general these …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… Southland lignite field the Mataura mine supplied the local paper mill from 1951, but closed with the mill in 2000. In …
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Part of story: Southland region
… circumstances: Chun Yee Hop had procured the naturalisation papers of another man and married Chu-Lin under the false …
Type: Biography
… value than banknotes, and metal coins lasted longer than paper notes. However, even coins were in short supply. …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes
… he worked with the scientists at the Cawthron Institute; papers by Theodore Rigg and Elsa Kidson gave him full credit …
Type: Biography
… with fine poisonous hairs on the leaves and stems. A newspaper article from 1892 described it as ‘a more ferocious … would have discovered. 1 Nearby Te Aute is named after the paper mulberry tree ( Broussonetia papyrifera ), which was …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… Back in Australia Hetty worked with Hector editing the CPA paper, the Workers' Weekly , taking charge for a while in …
Type: Biography
… was unveiled. The children were delighted as a local paper reported, ‘modern playground climbing apparatus, known …
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Part of story: Children’s play
… sites under his supervision led to important ethnological papers. He predicted the presence of artesian water beneath … widespread extent of glaciation in the Southern Alps. Papers on his New Zealand discoveries were read before the …
Type: Biography
… Knox was at the forefront of a major strike at the Kinleith paper mill. After a seven-week stoppage, he was successful … rate at the plant into line with that paid at the other paper mill at Kawerau. Muldoon then used the Remuneration …
Type: Biography
… Gazette at Cambridge. Soon he was also issuing an evening paper, the Cambridge News , from the same office. In 1887 he … to ethics, morality and civic duty. He sold his Cambridge papers in 1889 and moved to Christchurch, where he became …
Type: Biography
… and did not attend, although scheduled to present a paper on the responsibilities of parents. With this … in 1903. In October 1909 Adela Pankhurst, in the WSPU newspaper Votes for Women , described Stout as a 'charming lady' … on platforms in huge demonstrations in Hyde Park. Her papers, bequeathed to the Hocken Library, show the …
Type: Biography
… Between 1874 and 1878 White edited Te Wananga , a Māori newspaper published by Hēnare Tomoana. This experience and the … he randomly selected Māori informants. Owing to lack of paper and work pressures, recording was often from memory or … and traditions were sometimes recorded on odd bits of paper or by persons not expert in Māori history and culture. …
Type: Biography
… of Māori soldiers. In the 1920s he wrote anthropological papers based on field trips to remote Māori villages and to …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology