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… makes good soils, particularly where time has allowed the weathering of the ash into clays. The climate helps. Coupled … (around 1314 CE), and the subsoil contains much older, weathered volcanic ash. Lowland vegetation When Europeans …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… give it a dirty appearance. Ked numbers build up in cool weather in full-woolled sheep. Keds can be controlled using … a sheep’s liver. Spore numbers increase in warm, humid weather in late summer and autumn in the North Island, and …
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Part of story: Diseases of sheep, cattle and deer
… levels in pasture and brassica crops, especially after dry weather or where a lot of nitrogen fertiliser has been …
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Part of story: Diseases of sheep, cattle and deer
… earth. New Zealand Thais dispensed with this ritual as the weather was too chilly for wet skin. In May 2000 the South …
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Part of story: Thais
… side with the most points at the conclusion of play wins. Weather stoppage It’s unusual for indoor bowls to be affected by the weather, but this happened at the 1972 finals in …
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Part of story: Bowls, pétanque and tenpin
… more popular with European New Zealanders than with Māori. Weather New Zealand's unpredictable climate sometimes … loads. New Zealand’s sparse facilities and harsh mountain weather mean that off-field skiers need to be self-reliant. …
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Part of story: Skiing
… delicate youth, to about as rough a piece of goods as ever weathered the wide world.’ 1 Sealers’ repose Boultbee also noted that it was not all hard graft. When the weather kept them from working, ‘we passed our days in …
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Part of story: Sealing
… maomao and moki, which ran in large shoals during summer. Weather reports Days of good or bad weather were compared to the birthdays of good-natured or …
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Part of story: Tāwhirimātea – the weather
… almost doubled, from 6,726 to 12,987. Living on the edge: weather and politics The winds are sometimes extreme, and … Strait, where gales blow from the north and the south. The weather underscores the changeable nature of Wellington …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… chicks have fledged and left the islands. The moon and the weather largely govern harvesting during this period. …
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Part of story: Tītī − muttonbirding
… risks: the swimmer is exposed to tides, rips, waves and bad weather; to dangerously cold temperatures; and to hazards …
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Part of story: Open water swimming
… the calendar that was popular with recreational fisherman. Weather forecasts on Māori Television give information from …
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Part of story: Maramataka – the lunar calendar
… Both national and local agencies provide hazard warnings. Weather forecasters broadcast warnings of possible severe weather. Local authorities maintain automated instruments to …
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Part of story: Natural hazards – overview
… and in the north of this ecoregion there are ancient, weathered, volcanic mountains such as Pirongia in the … of Waikato have deposits of recent pumice, and deeply weathered clay soils from older volcanic eruptions. Friable, …
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Part of story: Ecoregions
… tuffs that have been quarried for building stone do not weather well, and are porous. Volcanic breccia consists of … material tested over the years has generally proved too weathered or broken. Most potential sources are in …
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Part of story: Building stone
… currents running along the shore (intermediate beaches). Weather patterns Changes in ocean and atmospheric … tropical Pacific) cause long-term variations in New Zealand weather patterns. As changes in climatic conditions modify …
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Part of story: Coastal erosion
… on new shoots, making it harder for trees to recover from weather and insect damage, and slowing their growth. By …
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Part of story: Possums
… has a long and often rocky coastline, and windy, changeable weather, which make navigating the seas around New Zealand …
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Part of story: Shipwrecks
… other items that need to be locked away or kept out of the weather. Often one bay is used as a workshop. It usually has …
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Part of story: Farm buildings
… solo work by which he is best known, The end of the golden weather , based on reminiscences of adolescence. His … be taken on tours without difficulty. The end of the golden weather was first performed in Wellington, after which Mason … conference in Edinburgh. He performed The end of the golden weather at the Edinburgh Festival, and later to an invited …
Type: Biography