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… Forest Products (NZFP), began constructing a pulp and paper mill at nearby Kinleith to process the wood. A company … town, which it found difficult to shake. Pungent pulp and paper A sulphurous smell announces the presence of the …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… correspondence with 'Te Mete' (Smith) and began publishing papers in the Journal of the Polynesian Society. His first … but Smith never seemed to be able to satisfy his hunger for paper; he was often reduced to writing on the back of old …
Type: Biography
… and Alexander Bathgate he founded a threepenny weekly newspaper, the Saturday Advertiser, Time-table, and New Zealand … , the first issue of which appeared on 17 July 1875. The paper was immediately successful under Bracken's editorship, … position with the Morning Herald , but resigned when the paper attacked Robert Stout . In 1885, together with John …
Type: Biography
… was an important year for Joan Wiffen. Her first scientific paper was published, describing a new mosasaur that she … advised her to sign herself ‘J. Wiffen’ when writing papers to obscure her gender, because ‘men have better …
Type: Biography
… where members could present and discuss scientific papers. The New Zealand Institute, founded in 1867, was a body that published these papers and the proceedings of local institutes. In 1861 two …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… Power Conference in England he was to give an important paper demonstrating that New Zealand was at the forefront of … his trip and return to New Zealand. Appropriately, his paper was delivered on his behalf by Evan Parry. Lawrence …
Type: Biography
… was unheard of before 1950. It was first sold in a waxed paper wrapping. In 1963, 30% of bread was sold this way. … wrappers, introduced in 1979, had to be looser than waxed paper to stop mould. Speciality breads In a move away from …
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Part of story: Food and beverage manufacturing
… and through numerous advertisements and reports in local papers it is possible to trace his meteoric rise as a … to His Excellency') in Canterbury, Nelson and Napier newspapers. In 1859, after his return to Auckland, he moved his …
Type: Biography
… interest when he came to New Zealand. His first scientific paper was published in London in 1867, and by 1872–73 he was … continued throughout his life, and in his last published paper he listed 616 New Zealand species. After 1882 he …
Type: Biography
… were important places to meet and exchange information. Newspapers The telegraph encouraged the growth of small local newspapers, because it allowed them to quickly get news from distant places, and compete with metropolitan papers. By the 1890s, many country towns had newspaper …
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Part of story: Rural services
… over editorial policy. In June 1895 he promoted a weekly paper, the Sun. Although the paper failed before the end of the year, it helped expose … 1896 and in December that year he became the editor. Newspaper editors and proprietors in New Zealand frequently …
Type: Biography
… wool were 35.8% of exports. Plastics, organic chemicals, paper and paper products, electrical and electronic goods and …
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Part of story: Factory industries
… widely on botanical expeditions, writing and publishing papers on his discoveries. He visited Great Barrier and … in New Zealand and overseas. He contributed over 130 papers to the Transactions and Proceedings of the New …
Type: Biography
… are offered at six of New Zealand’s eight universities. Papers only are offered at Lincoln University, and there is … although philosophy is taught in education and law papers. Te Wānanga o Raukawa offers a degree in Māori laws …
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Part of story: Philosophy
… Radio Hauraki returned to shore. Print media Auckland newspapers had a chequered history until the Southern Cross … Under the latter title it became a successful conservative paper and continues in that mould today. The Auckland Star , … 1870, provided a different voice as Auckland’s other major paper until it closed in 1991. Diverse interests of …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… He became an MRCP and published the first of 160 scientific papers in the same year. After junior posts at the … Back in New Zealand in a series of ground-breaking papers, Smirk was able to show that hypertension could be …
Type: Biography
… dwindling populations of native birds. His first published paper, in 1923, was on the migratory waders coming to New … he had a lifelong association through field trips. Stead's papers on the offshore islands, published mainly in the …
Type: Biography
… a fruitful working association. Turner's first scientific papers, however, were co-authored in 1928 with his mentor at … departments of earth science. In addition to research papers, he produced a series of textbooks that have …
Type: Biography
… to the Wellington Philosophical Society, and he delivered a paper about the lowlands to one of its meetings in 1910. His second paper (1911) recorded his belief – in contradiction to … He produced two bibliographies and further challenging papers on the geomorphology of the southern North Island. …
Type: Biography
… physics and chemistry. While there he published two papers: one on photography, the other geological. In later … work. During his time at Victoria he published many papers reporting original research in the journals of the … science. Easterfield published a small number of research papers focusing on soil chemistry and animal husbandry. As …
Type: Biography