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Without work, nothing': A study of the changing attitudes towards the swagger in the 1890s
The swagger has been preserved for posterity in the writings of John A. Lee in ‘Shining With Shiner’, ‘Shiner Slattery’, and ‘Roughnecks, Rollingstones and Rouseabouts’, as well as Jim Henderson's ‘Swagger Country’. But ...
Potions, pills and poisons : quackery in New Zealand, circa 1900-1915.
The basis for this essay has been founded on the regulations that were introduced into New Zealand in the early twentieth century to curtail the activities of quacks, with all their fallacious and therapeutic will-o-the-wisp ...
Geology, mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry of the volcanic island of 'Ata, Tonga.
Ata is the most southerly island in a chain of young volcanic islands in the Tonga Group lying to the west of the Tonga trench. It is presently inactive and now consists of a small remnant (1.8 km2) of a large composite ...
An investigation of archaeology in New Zealand as a means of establishing views about the past
For the archaeologist archaeology is a scientific activity which is morally 'neutral, to be enjoyed for its own sake in the enlightenment of mankind. The past will be revived by the archaeologist. For the Maori the past ...
Fighting fit? A study of the Army's medical examinations, 1916-1918.
PREFACE
The Army’s medical examinations of the conscripted men in New Zealand 1916-1918 produced a large quantity of statistics from which it is possible to assess numerically the fitness of the men for the Army. Fitness ...
Polynesian coastal hunters in the subantarctic zone : a case for the recognition of convergent cultural adaptation.
A programme of archaeological research was undertaken in the Chatham Islands, 860 km east of Banks Peninsula. This consisted of three phases of field work. These were; extensive site surveying, exploratory excavation and, ...