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… difficult calculations without even the use of pencil and paper. Solving the impossible Roy Kerr commented on the … mathematical approaches to the problem. Kerr then read a paper by physicist Ezra ‘Teddy’ Newman, arguing that the … Kerr came to the opposite conclusion from reading the paper, got back to work and in a few weeks produced the …
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Part of story: Physics, chemistry and mathematics
… 19th-century sports coverage Newspapers were published in New Zealand from 1840, and by the 1850s all the main centres had their own papers. From the beginning race meetings and cricket games … was often included, with excerpts culled from foreign newspapers, normally months after the games described. In …
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Part of story: Sports reporting and commentating
… may die before their memories have been captured. Papers, photograph albums, documents and even meaningful … data. 19th-century photographs printed on acid-free paper and stored in acid-free albums survive in the 21st …
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Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… joining the ends of each spar, and a covering of brown paper or newspaper. The kite was often given a long tail decorated with paper bow ties. This style was brought to New Zealand by the …
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Part of story: Kites and manu tukutuku
… from the gallery on occasions of significance. Reading newspapers Historically, most people learned about parliamentary matters through newspaper reports. These were written by journalists who viewed …
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Part of story: Parliament
… on geology. By the end of 1907 he had published his first paper and gained first-class honours in geology. He then … in nine parts from 1913, culminating in a benchmark paper in 1918 on the origin of serpentine. He returned to … appeared in 1941 along with the first of six descriptive papers (a comprehensive memoir remained unpublished at his …
Type: Biography
… he began to study mosses in earnest. In his first published paper on the subject he emphasised his reluctance to publish … a complete lack of scientific training, Brown published 22 papers on mosses between 1892 and 1902. Many of the names …
Type: Biography
… other pursuits. He was one of the founders of the Mataura paper mill in 1875, and sustained a considerable loss when … 1885. He then resigned, but continued to contribute to the paper. He upheld the rights of large runholders, and blamed …
Type: Biography
… and was leader writer for the Southern Australian newspaper, until its publisher persuaded him to establish a paper in New Zealand. Quaife arrived with his family at … Quaife apologised publicly, he was dismissed by the paper's proprietors. Thereafter he devoted himself to the …
Type: Biography
… of rangiora as poultices for wounds and sores, and called paper ‘pukapuka’, which is one of their names for this … settlers living in the bush used the leaves as toilet paper, and trampers still do today. Rangiora Large, soft, …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… As well as being a scholar who published more than 100 papers, she was an excellent teacher, mother to two … Now juggling her scientific work – reading and writing papers, going to conferences when she could, some teaching – …
Type: Biography
… Founded in 1859, the town was shaped by industry – a paper mill (1876), a dairy factory (1887) and freezing works … still operate, but the dairy factory closed in 1984 and the paper mill in 2000, as did a nearby opencast mine whose principal customer had been the paper mill. Sawmilling and fibreboard plants remain. Tulloch …
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Part of story: Southland places
… in the process publishing a number of research and review papers in the local journal Southern Stars and the … to unorthodox astronomical theories, publishing research papers on gravitation and a theory of radiation. While many … lunar astronomy. In 1924 and 1930 he published two hallmark papers in the New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology …
Type: Biography
… A notable exception to this reluctance was the pulp-and-paper industry, in which the government had invested heavily. Paper provided 49% of manufactured export earnings in 1960, …
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Part of story: Government and industrial development
… goldrushes drew off adult labour, Fenwick joined the new paper's job-printery. He later recalled watching Benjamin … offer was accepted, but Lawrence was too small for two newspapers and in 1869 they were happy to accept £150 from the …
Type: Biography
… survey of the range. This culminated in an important paper in 1938 on the flora and vegetation of the Tararua … time by the New Zealand Forest Service, producing landmark papers on the ecology of the Kaweka, Kaimanawa and Ruahine …
Type: Biography
… disenfranchised. Until 1990 voters took a printed ballot paper into a private booth and crossed out the names of … a tick beside their electoral choice. Voters put their own paper into a closed ballot box. At early elections a show of … and it was recorded for everyone to see. In 1860 one newspaper even published the details of how every elector had …
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Part of story: Elections and campaigns
… scale, with soil information. A 1980 DSIR discussion paper, Land alone endures , addressed the role of research … up of the Fertiliser and Lime Research Unit. Soil science papers have also been taught at Waikato and Victoria …
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Part of story: Soil investigation
… have a unique form of reproduction. This is true of the paper nautilus (these are not true nautilus, but a species … in their mantle or around their mouth. The shell of the paper nautilus is really an egg case and brood chamber, …
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Part of story: Octopus and squid
… for five years on the Illustrated Sydney News and other newspapers. He moved to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1856 and was probably employed there in the newspaper or general printing trade. At an unknown date … By May 1864 Seffern was manager of the Auckland newspaper the New-Zealander , and in August he became one of its …
Type: Biography