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… to medicine and nursing, the act covers anaesthetic technology, chiropractic, dentistry and related professions, … dietetics, medical laboratory science, medical radiation technology, midwifery, occupational therapy, optometry and …
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Part of story: Health practitioners
… and wet weather often created impassable mud holes. Vehicle technology was limited to the puny wagon and horse team. Log … but it was the First World War that greatly improved truck technology. Young soldiers returned in 1919 with experience … truly arrived. There were steady improvements in trucking technology. By the mid-1950s diesel engines of over 300 …
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Part of story: Bush trams and other log transport
… to measure water depth. Today’s map-makers use more complex technology – multiple sound beams sweep across the seabed to …
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… from Canadian and Danish producers, who had more advanced technology, were better organised, and whose products were … of butter and English cheddar using Canadian and Danish technologies, and based on the cooperative principle used in … in farm production after 1920 were the result of applying technology to grassland farming. New technologies developed …
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Part of story: Government and agriculture
… the Agricultural Research Division in 1987 to become MAF Technology. In 1990 it was reformed as Agriculture New … Zealand has been contracted by the government to provide technology transfer, farm monitoring, economic surveying and …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… and very labour intensive. Automatic irrigation system technology was developed for border dyke irrigation at the … the flow rates needed for border dykes. Also, new sprinkler technologies reduced labour input, applied water more … were increasingly used. Irrigation scheduling and control technology Soil moisture is measured to make sure that …
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Part of story: Irrigation and drainage
… service helped New Zealand topdressing firms to maintain a technological edge over those in much larger countries. … reel for electric fences’. Gallagher electric fencing technology was exported worldwide, and in 2009 the company … pistol or rifle. His company, Paxarms, has exported this technology to more than 150 countries. …
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Part of story: Inventions, patents and trademarks
… Scientific societies New Zealand has about 60 scientific and technological societies that coordinate and promote specific … 1933. It functions as a national academy for the sciences, technology and humanities, consisting of a federation of …
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Part of story: Research institutions
… had 14 special interest branches, and 15 regional branches. Technology advances Farm production increased as new technology developed, such as ultrasound scanning for …
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Part of story: Veterinary services
… to the formation of the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MoRST) and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FoRST). The DSIR was abolished in 1992 and …
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Part of story: Research institutions
… pasture in flat, dry areas of the South Island. Electronic technology In the late 20th century a new wave of mechanisation began with the introduction of electronic technology. An early application was using lasers for … areas under a variety of conditions. Global positioning technology has made the delivery of fertiliser and …
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Part of story: Farm mechanisation
… conservation. The Isaac Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies was a collaborative association between Lincoln … new departments were added in the 1950s. The faculty of technology was established in 1961 and that of veterinary … drainage; pasture species for dairy and sheep farms; seed technology; sheep and beef production; wool production; …
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Part of story: Agricultural and horticultural research
… A prime example was the Ministry for Research, Science and Technology (1990–2011), which for its two decades of … such as the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology – which did not do any science itself, but funded … In 2011 the Ministry for Research, Science and Technology and the Foundation for Research, Science and …
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Part of story: Crown entities
… 'gold dredging spoons' – an early attempt to develop a technology for retrieving gold from the beds of Otago's … husband. Gold-dredging was Otago's contribution to mining technology; Charles McQueen was one of the new technology's major pioneers. …
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… to the Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ECART). If the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART) has issued guidelines about this … Access to information The Human Assisted Reproduction Technology Register holds information about donors, donor …
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Part of story: Infertility and childlessness
… Somerville was appointed as production manager to plan the technology and editing principles of the encyclopedia. In … well together. Branding Before the provision of design and technology for the encyclopedia went out to RFP (request for … there was a consensus on Te Ara (the pathway). Design and technology In November 2002 registrations of interest were …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… birthing and post-birth care has been provided by midwives. Technology Medical technology increased the monitoring of pregnant women …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… Building in his honour. Research, specialisation and new technology After 1946, under the vigorous leadership of the … teeth), dentistry for children and dental anaesthesia. New technology, including high-speed drills, X-rays, improved … chair-side dentistry. Challenges Professional, academic and technological advancement was not matched by improvement in …
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Part of story: Dental care
… available unless there is good reason for withholding it. A technology-neutral act One important feature of the act is that it is technology-neutral – it applies to information however it is … has enabled the act to cope with the massive changes of technology and information storage since the early 1980s. …
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Part of story: Freedom of official information
… amalgamated with the university. The Auckland University of Technology began in 1895 as the Auckland Technical School, … Massey University at Albany, the Unitec Institute of Technology, and the Manukau Institute of Technology. Hospitals Auckland’s first hospital was a tent …
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Part of story: Auckland region