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'The carrot or the stick?' Achieving the voluntary provision of a public good with a reward or sanction mechanism
This study investigates the effect of compliance mechanisms on contributions to a public good fund in an experimental context. Thirty-six participants, matched by gender and trust level into nine groups of four participants, ...
Effects of Closing a Small Rural Church
Introduction : This project is based on the hypothesis that the closure of a small rural church is a traumatic event in the life of the church and the surrounding community, evoking feelings of loss and grief, which if ...
The Chemistry and Photochemistry of the Insecticide Carbaryl in Aquatic Environments
Large quantities of pesticides have been used for many years in New Zealand to control agricultural and horticultural pests. The fate of a pesticide after application as a powder or solution to the target organism depends ...
Maori prisoners in Dunedin, 1869-1872 and 1879-1881 : exiled for a cause
The exile of Maori prisoners to Dunedin in 1869 and again in 1879, was due to the Northern wars and the confiscation of land in Taranaki by the Government. Maori never accepted the 'justice' imposed on them and active ...
Disrupting the binary: a space for gender diversity
It is by now almost self-‐evident that binary models of the highly nuanced concept of gender are at best incomplete, and limit understanding of the diversity of gender expression. In this work, I summarise and critique ...
Maori, European and Half-caste Children; The Destitute, the Neglected and the Orphaned : An Investigation into the Early New Zealand European Contact Period and the Care of Children 1840 - 1852
This dissertation explores New Zealand society between the years of 1840 to 1852 in order to ascertain the situation of neglected, orphaned and destitute Maori children within early European settlements. Throughout this ...
Archaeology and Shell Adzes in Prehistoric Oceania: A Revised Methodological Approach to the Descriptive Analysis of a Solomon Islands Collection
This dissertation examines archaeological study of shell adzes in the Pacific. It provides a critical review of archaeological methodology and terminology used in descriptive analysis of this artefact class. It raises ...
Mai i ngā Ao e Rua – From Two Worlds : An investigation into the attitudes towards half castes in New Zealand
This dissertation investigates the attitudes of others’ experienced by ‘half-caste’ or bi-ethnic people of New Zealand, that is, people who have both Māori and Pākehā heritage. The dissertation combines the personal ...
Superannuation and ideology : the search for an effective policy for the aged in New Zealand, 1974-1984
The development of a superannuation policy in New Zealand since 1970 has been the result of a search for effectiveness in an area of large Government spending on welfare. The positions developed by the two major political ...
Tā te Pūnaha Mātauranga o Aotearoa he Kaikai Haere i te Oranga Tonutanga o te Reo: The Perpetuation of Māori Language Loss in the New Zealand Education System – A Pākehā Perspective
This research report examines how the New Zealand education system has perpetuated language loss for Māori, both historically and contemporarily. Colonisation is not simply an historical concept but it remains embedded ...