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… . Blomfield worked at the Herald in the days before newspaper photography, when artists sketched their impressions … and Free Lance. Usually known by its original name, the paper was the first of a lively new breed of illustrated … their meagre resources and purchased the Observer. The paper's sole assets were its copyright, cases of dilapidated …
Type: Biography
… and literary works. In the 19th century they wrote in newspapers and magazines. In the 20th and 21st centuries they … reviews of live performances and literature appeared in newspapers in the 1840s. Later in the 19th century occasional … of local art exhibitions were published. By the 1880s some papers, such as the O tago D aily T imes , ran Saturday …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Arts reviewing
… years he concentrated on developing a career in the newspaper industry, while at various times working as an … year George Edgecumbe became business manager of the paper. Although by this time it was owned by the Auckland … 1886. Under his influence the editorial emphasis of the paper became less parochial and more tolerant of change. It …
Type: Biography
… forest products such as sawn and rough wood , pulp and paper , which are 10% by value of exported commodities fish …
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Part of story: Economy
… chemistry, and by providing a weather report for a local paper. He married Frances Elizabeth Murray at Lincoln … He soon stamped his mark on Canterbury science, giving papers on several aspects of biology and geology to the …
Type: Biography
… university extension to teach the first Māori language paper, while Metge taught a course on Māori society and … on research. The research centre produced a series of papers on the socio-economic and demographic profile of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… Baden, as he was known, published his first scientific paper on Mollusca at the age of 20. Within a decade, … region between 1931 and 1955, and the culminating paper in 1960. Other global projects were an important study … (1973). As well as producing more than 100 scientific papers, Powell wrote three notable books which, without …
Type: Biography
… his parents to Queensland, where his father was to edit a paper. He left school to work as a messenger in a drapery … led to his forced resignation in 1905. He founded another paper, the Flame , and worked as municipal librarian before … May 1911 the Worker became a weekly; in August 1912 a newspaper format replaced the magazine format. By July 1911 Ross …
Type: Biography
… moa hunter culture was the most notorious example. In a paper read by James Hector to the Wellington Philosophical … palaeolithic moa hunter culture, and pre-empted Haast's own paper on the subject. Although the two papers were eventually published together in July 1875, …
Type: Biography
… on this expedition is evident in seven major scientific papers he published on the island's geology, vegetation, … on Lord Howe Island in November 1913 and later published a paper on the vegetation. During the First World War he was …
Type: Biography
… to the Chatham Islands. His first series of scientific papers, published in 1939 on the birds of the Chathams, … chief palaeontologist in 1952. He published many scientific papers on living and fossil Mollusca and also a few on …
Type: Biography
… of Māori arrived in New Zealand they found that the paper mulberry tree (aute), from which they would have made … Draperies and department stores sold material and paper patterns. Home sewing became easier with the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Clothing and footwear manufacturing
… daughters grew older Winnie took seasonal work marking exam papers and occasionally did indexes for OUP books. This was … his death, in 1957, Winnie supervised the transfer of his papers and books to the Bodleian Library, brought unfinished … years supported and advised scholars consulting the Cary papers. Her essay on him for the Dictionary of National …
Type: Biography
… in 1932–33 and became a pioneer in the use of pine for newspaper print. The visits laid the basis for overseas contacts … forestry scheme, eventually to mature as Tasman Pulp and Paper Company, was both a substantive and symbolic …
Type: Biography
… producing goods such as cement, tyres, and pulp and paper. The Iron and Steel Act 1937 provided for a … and port facilities for the central North Island pulp-and-paper industry. The industry included private sector …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Government and industrial development
… history drawings. Sketches, paintings, reports and personal papers are now preserved in libraries and museums in … Dunedin and Sydney. Buchanan published 36 scientific papers as well as the three volume, illustrated folio work …
Type: Biography
… for a contractor and working alone on small jobs. Newspaper wallpaper Poor people could not afford wallpaper so they improvised: ‘The inside of the house was papered in the usual Weekly News pictures, pasted to the …
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Part of story: Building trades
… queen was expensive and useless, published a radical newspaper in Dunedin from 1887. He was loathed by many among the … Workman could claim a larger readership than any other paper in town. After dying down in the late 19th and 20th … a republic began appearing in left-wing journals and newspapers. Bruce Jesson, a founding member of both the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Royal family
… with a younger colleague, A. F. Downer; they wrote a joint paper on the work completed to that time. For a later paper, Newnham was given a Fulton special award. The …
Type: Biography
… At an early age Petersen began collecting books and papers on New Zealand, in particular material on William … to historical scholarship. Some of Petersen’s collected papers were lodged with the Alexander Turnbull Library and …
Type: Biography