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… that the minister is representing government policy. Post-MMP developments The advent of the mixed-member …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cabinet government
… sky) and the floor represents Papatūānuku (the earth). The posts of the house represent those that Tāne used to …
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Part of story: Māori creation traditions
… earlier times the area under rāhui was marked with a wooden post, a stick with seaweed on it, or a piece of the missing …
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Part of story: Mātaitai – shellfish gathering
… mining community of Lyell in the Buller Gorge had a bank, a post office, a weekly newspaper, a court house and a police …
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Part of story: Economic history
… work among the Maori,’ declared Wellington’s Evening Post in 1902, ‘is the constant tendency of the pupils to …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… interned in Germany and Italy. Around 18% of New Zealand’s post-war Yugoslav immigrants were displaced persons. …
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Part of story: Dalmatians
… Post-war depression Immediately after the First World War …
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Part of story: Economic history
… grows up to 10 metres tall. The trunks were used for house posts or walls, the fronds for roofs, and the leaves for …
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Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… to planted shelter is artificial shelter using tall posts and windbreak material, usually a polyethylene fabric, …
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Part of story: Shelter on farms
… and infrastructure – the telecommunications arm of the Post Office, Air New Zealand and New Zealand Railways were …
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Part of story: Investment
… ground. Sometimes skulls or preserved heads were put on a post to preserve the mauri of a kūmara crop. …
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Part of story: Kūmara
… church adherence and attendance declined slightly in the post-war years. Church leaders still enjoyed close and …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… richer farmers were sent away to boarding school – by the post-war years almost a fifth of secondary pupils were …
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Part of story: Farm families
… wood products in the world. Treated wood is widely used for posts and poles in the agriculture and horticulture …
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Part of story: Radiata pine
… The post-baby-boomer Māori writers of fiction in the 2000s … of four teenagers living on another planet, won the 2013 NZ Post Māori-language book award. Fiction by Witi Ihimaera and …
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Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… had gained his MD. In 1924–25 he made the first of many postgraduate study trips to Britain, becoming an MRCP (he … on patients and their families; in 1969 he took up a post as medical officer at Queen Mary Hospital in Hanmer … of the condition. On his return to Wellington after this posting, he became director of clinical services to the …
Type: Biography
… ahead. He took up the position the following year. In the post-war era New Zealand’s hospital system, like those in … the position of visiting lecturer to the New Zealand Post-graduate School for Nurses in Wellington; he held this …
Type: Biography
… offered support during pregnancy and birth, and provided post-natal care for six weeks. LMCs received a lump sum from … pregnancies and births. They also visit women during the post-natal period and provide advice and support on …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… worked material for the magnificent, ill-fated Dunedin post office, completed in 1868; a more secure edifice was … in 1883. Also in Thames Street was the large, decorated post office finished in 1884; it was for years a favourite with postcard, calendar and crockery illustrators. The freezing …
Type: Biography
… the War Office nominated Fox, by then a captain, for the post. Despite his relatively low rank, he came with … recommendations, was leaked to the public by the Evening Post , causing a furore. Seddon was probably right to …
Type: Biography