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… the Kalgoorlie goldfields. He published a number of papers on his results, which earned him a DSc from the … was a principal part of his relaxation. In 1922 he wrote a paper on a method of proportional representation in New …
Type: Biography
… settlement developed from 1953, when the Tasman Pulp and Paper Company established a mill to process timber from …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… and adhesives, and highly pure kaolinite is used for paper coating. In the 2000s the largest kaolinite clay pits …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… and Pākehā population had reached 5,445. Development A paper mill was established in 1939 (known from 1947 as the …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… a political journalist and later as editor on his father's paper, the left-wing Lyttelton Times. Maud and William were … lady editor of the weekly Canterbury Times , another family paper. After Beryl's birth she enrolled in a BA course at … Liberal Association and the following year she gave a paper at a congress convened by the International Council of …
Type: Biography
… and morbidity. A year later he published a statistical paper on fever in Great Britain. Using vital and hospital … the 1850s he published a number of scientific and medical papers which applied his interest in statistics and …
Type: Biography
… and tī pore (a tropical variety of cabbage tree). The aute (paper mulberry) tree also arrived; its bark was used for …
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Part of story: Kūmara
… London, England, he was the eldest child of Hyman Cohen, a paper stainer, and his wife, Caroline Benjamin, a hatmaker's … Times 's publishing department. Caught up in a strike by paper runners against a pay cut, he refused to apologise as … showing his abilities as a 17-year-old by keeping the paper going when Henningham fell ill. He was 'prodigiously …
Type: Biography
… when Volney Palmer began buying up advertising space in newspapers at a discounted rate and on-selling it to … he was also selling advertisements in Otago and Canterbury papers. Ilott prepared the copy and the artwork. In 1896 J. …
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Part of story: Advertising
… of New Zealand’s most important authors. Library and newspapers The Hocken Library, based on the collections of local … of Otago. From 1851 to 1932 the weekly Otago Witness newspaper recorded the life of the province and kept it informed …
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Part of story: Otago region
… harrier running had English origins. ‘Hare and hounds’ paper chasing was a popular public school sport from the … Two ‘hares’ – good runners – left first leaving a trail of paper as they went. The rest then followed the traces, …
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Part of story: Athletics
… in his home town by his uncle, T. R. Brett, a newspaper proprietor and stationer, and local historian. In 1862 … Zealand aboard the Hanover , with the idea of combining newspaper work with development of 40 acres of land he had … for reporters, and hired Brett as a marine reporter. Newspapers became Henry Brett's life from then on. Brett won …
Type: Biography
… at Auckland University College, who described them in a paper read to a meeting of the Auckland Institute in … 1887. Cussen, himself a member of the institute, presented papers on the geology of Mt Ruapehu, Waikato and the King …
Type: Biography
… act allows all official information – including cabinet papers and officials’ advice to ministers – to be made … 1840s, when Governor William Hobson closed down some newspapers criticising his Māori land purchase policies. In … for the war effort. Pacifist and revolutionary socialist papers were targeted, with the Communist Party coming under …
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Part of story: Media and politics
… the potential of the plantations for supporting a pulp and paper industry. Ellis was an active proponent of forestry, … He then moved to Melbourne and eventually joined Australian Paper Manufacturers Limited. From Australia he vigorously …
Type: Biography
… as a printer's devil on the Nonconformist , a Christian newspaper, where he became a skilled compositor. After a breach … the voyage he produced several copies of a handwritten newspaper, the Ocean Record . Farjeon spent a month working as … the goldfields, moving from camp to camp and starting newspapers at each one. In 1861, anxious to reach the new …
Type: Biography
… District Historical Society, his main contributions being papers on the dating of Māori genealogies, and the society's … and genealogical work. He left three main collections of papers: a manuscript called 'Horouta', which he described as …
Type: Biography
… Adams and another colleague, Hayes wrote the definitive paper on the 1931 earthquake. On 1 December 1932, at Karori, … writing was in seismology, on which he contributed 30 papers. He was among the first to demonstrate that …
Type: Biography
… on Tmesipteris and Hymenophyllaceae , writing two important papers as a result. Oxford was handy to Christchurch, but … his students, but between 1930 and 1944 he published nine papers, five on ferns. Through his early work on club-mosses …
Type: Biography
… late 1943 and for a short time was a chemist at the Mataura paper mill. In 1945 Holloway joined the New Zealand Forest … together with his own observations, led to an influential paper, ‘Forests and climates in the South Island of New …
Type: Biography