This thesis describes and discusses runholding in Otago and Southland during the provincial period. The main emphasis is upon runholding as a form of land use rather than as a social institution. This involves an examination ...

INTRODUCTION: Man's interaction with his environment involves facing risk and uncertainty in the form of environmental hazards. These threaten life and property, and the normal functioning of individuals and societies ...

The thesis is an analysis of the five-part madrigal volumes of Benedetto Pallavicino, maestro di cappella at the Mantuan court 1596-1601, in relation to the compositions of his contemporaries active at Mantua and the nearby ...

Carboniferous to Lower Cretaceous Torlesse rocks and Haast Schist derivatives constitute the major part of the ''eugeosynclinal" facies of the Eastern Province of New Zealand. Strata consist largely of quartzofeldspathic ...

The activities related to the development and utilization of New Zealand ironsands are briefly reviewed. The various ironsands operations around the country and their different modes of concentration are described to define ...

The mineralogy of Waipipi ironsands was investigated with particular emphasis on composite nature and its effect on ironsand beneficiation. The relevance of the Davis Tube magnetic separator in defining a composite ...

A series of functional experiments are carried out with standardised obsidian tools cut to specific dimensions, on prepared shafts of wood. The wear patterns obtained are photographed at prescribed stages of use. The results ...

The presence of a relationship between the ingestion of artificial food colours and a change in the frequency and/or duration of selected behaviours that are representative of the hyperactive behaviour syndrome was ...

The mineralogy and structure of two gabbronorite intrusions forming Bluff Hill, is described. They intrude volcanogenic metasediments of the Greenhills Group and together comprise a segment of Brook Street terrane (Coombs ...

A major debate has raged over the existence and causes of a phenomenon known as "drug lag". Protagonists in the debate have argued that the U.S.A. is typically late to receive new pharmaceutical products because of the ...