The Colony of Otago, as conceived by Thomas Burns and William Cargill, its chief protagonists, was to be a 'Class' settlement where the settlers would be united by membership of the Free Church of Scotland. Land was to be ...

This thesis is primarily based on a study of North Otago and South Canterbury rock drawings and has, as its main objective, an analysis· of stylistic variation between these areas. Following a review of previous research ...

Coal mining is an industry about which people have held and still hold a number of misconceptions. Much of this fact lies purely in lack of understanding for it seems coal mines have always been shunned by the wider ...

When the fate of Palestine was placed in the hands of the United Nations General Assembly in April 1947, the New Zealand Government became actively involved in the search for a solution to this seemingly intractable problem. ...

[…] The major objectives of this study were to determine more precisely the degree of relationship of rotaviral isolates from different host species by comparison at the genetic level. Before this could be fully investigated, ...

This is an attempt to gain some understanding of the First World War as experienced by the ordinary New Zealand trench soldier. It is not a military or political history of the War but is rather, the story of the men in ...

Economic growth in nineteenth century New Zealand involved the exploitation of the natural resources of land, forests, and minerals and their transformation into sources of productive output. To encourage such use and ...

This study concerns the Gujaratis in New Zealand, mainly up to 1945. The majority of Indians in New Zealand are Gujaratis, most of them members of either the Koli or Kanbi castes and originally from South Gujarat. Although ...

Most pottery studies in the Pacific to date have been concerned with typol9gical characteristics, particularly decorative features. Although this work has been very successful at revealing historical relationships between ...