Search
… to change views worldwide. In New Zealand, scuba-diving technology allowed a growing group of Kiwis to explore …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marine conservation
… had to be upgraded to comply new processing and packaging technology – so meat no longer had to be frozen, but could … in 1980 – which made it easier to start new plants with new technology. Old freezing works close As a result of these … processed eight sheep per minute. In some works robotic technology operated the big saws that make the first cuts to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Agricultural processing industries
… prices in the late 1970s brought about a revival, with new technology allowing opencast pits to be dug in Otago and on …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gold and gold mining
… Lambton Quay, used to be the waterfront. The engineering technology involved in reclamation is relatively simple. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Engineering on the sea floor
… parks, racecourses, paddocks and beaches. The improving technology brought a spate of flying ‘firsts’ that would …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Aviation
… world. Chemical boosts Farmers have been eager adopters of technologies that promised to improve production. After the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Farming and the environment
… doctors and nurses, or worked in insurance, information technology and publishing. Some used New Zealand as a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: South Africans
… Polytechnic (later a campus of the Eastern Institute of Technology), Gisborne. Toihoukura was founded in 1993 by … they had emerged. In exploring the potential of the new technologies of their times, the young artists were doing …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu
… over New Zealand. The number indicated which map to print. Technological developments After the First World War, advances in radio technology meant that weather reports could be received from …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Weather forecasting
… makers and designers experimented and innovated with new technologies and materials to find new territory in the 21st … proved themselves to be adaptable and bold, embracing technology, celebrating tradition and maintaining critical …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… receptive audiences and a sense of community new digital technology that broadened artists’ access to production, and … urban centres. Local and international perspectives Digital technologies and increased mobility meant that many Aotearoa …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hip hop
… His Utility Plane is held at the Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland, and remnants of his first monoplane … vision far outreached the capacity of his simple workshop technology. He was nevertheless, by a wide margin (whether …
Type: Biography
… 53,256,697 items and had 2,063,093 registered members. Technology From the late 1970s librarians attended seminars … in main centres but throughout the country. Information technology represented a new way of life for the library …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Libraries
… and Indians and cops and robbers. Commercialisation and technology Children’s play was increasingly influenced by commercialisation and technological change through the course of the 20th century. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Children’s play
… prices for farm products rose, and there was increasing technological innovation and scientific agricultural … seed and poisoned bait from aircraft was a significant technological breakthrough in pastoral farming. Aerial …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Farming in the economy
… Ruakura milking machine, which set the standard for milking technology for years to come. He also designed a breast pump … in land to increase production gave way to a scientific and technological approach. Uncompromising in his beliefs and …
Type: Biography
… and the legislators were clearly mistrustful of the new technology. The introduction of wire fencing Heavy annealed … trial and error, farmers soon became adept at the new technology. By 1878, 77% of New Zealand’s fenced area was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Farm fencing
… orchards and vineyards, farming has demanded determination, technological innovation and significant changes to the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Farming and the environment
… Curves 20th-century bush tramways pushed railway technology to its extremes. As the terrain became tougher, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bush trams and other log transport
… occupation for millennia. Traditional fishing expertise and technology was transferred to New Zealand. Polynesian hooks, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics