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… Jones has something particular to say to Robinson about the weather – they “step across the road”. Smith settles an …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Alcohol
… but many Labour supporters were unconvinced. Stormy weather Forecasting was one area where Treasury got into …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Treasury
… on the torchlight hunt at night, although the cold and damp weather tended to dissuade her from going far. She fished or …
Type: Biography
… it, saying it would drive girls out onto the streets in all weathers, ‘thus compelling them by law to seek shelter in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Household services
… as the Fraser Peaks and the Deceit Peaks. As the granite weathers, layers peel away like onion skins to create the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… prohibition at the Tuam Street Hall, and despite wretched weather almost 800 people attended. Prohibition, declared …
Type: Biography
… and catchment flows; rainfall statistics and seasonal weather patterns; the formation and siltation of lakes and …
Type: Biography
… of his community in minute detail: the vicissitudes of the weather, which delayed the planting of kūmara; the birth of …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand’s Labour Day occurs in mid-spring, when the weather is becoming warmer. According to New Zealand …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public holidays
… or Matahī and then returned to Maungapōhatu when the weather was kinder. Presumably Pinepine remained at …
Type: Biography
… surveyor. Baker endured long working days, often in bad weather over difficult terrain, camping out for weeks at a …
Type: Biography
… James West Stack found Karetai living in a one-roomed weatherboard house on the hill at Ōtākou with a young wife … with Karetai for three days, confined to the house by bad weather. Stack found his visit to the 'old chief' a …
Type: Biography
… and a fine judgement in reading a compass, interpreting the weather and navigating routes. His major mountaineering …
Type: Biography
… Anchoring east of Stephens and D'Urville islands, they weathered a storm and celebrated the first Christmas dinner …
Type: Biography
… nicknamed, was certainly willing 'to go to the helm in all weathers' for the province, his supporters and his friends. …
Type: Biography
… The undulating topography, dense vegetation, wet, cold weather and very primitive accommodation made it a …
Type: Biography
… tidiness, combined with the serene calmness of the depicted weather conditions, can give a Utopian or idealised …
Type: Biography
… on the lodge site had to be renewed annually. Fiordland weather was unpredictable, conditions were primitive, their …
Type: Biography
… to abandon this journey, however, because of the bad weather and rough terrain. After the missionary's return …
Type: Biography
… the role of the bushman convincingly, complete with a weathered face, bushman’s clobber and a supporting cast of …
Type: Biography