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Notocene stratigraphy of the Fletcher Creek and Inangahua Junction areas, North Westland
In the Inangahua and Fletcher Creek areas, North Westland, Greenland Group greywackes and argillites, into which the Tuhua Group granitic rocks have intruded, are unconformably overlain by lower Tertiary to lower Pleistocene ...
New Zealand's response to the Korean crisis: June-July 1950 : a study in official Government policy.
On 25 June 1950, the armed forces of the People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) invaded the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Four days later, on 29 June 1950, New Zealand decided to assist in defending the territorial ...
Geology of the Gladstone peak area, Takitimu mountains, western Southland, New Zealand
Volcanogenic sediments of the Lower Permian Takitimu Group into the Gladstone Peak area are mapped and sub-divided into seven lithofacies. Some of the lithofacies indicate a shallow marine near shore environment, others ...
Salt-water and bush : the struggle for Port Resolution, 1835-1868
The island of Tanna lies in the Southern New Hebrides, north-west of Aneityum and south-east of Erromanga, and is about thirty miles long by ten or twelve miles broad. The most significant feature of the social organisation ...
Attitudes in New Zealand to Scandinavian immigration, 1870-1876
Preface:
This study makes no attempt to examine in any detail the establishment and the administration of Scandinavian immigration to New Zealand. The methods used in forming special settlements and the regulations ...
Milton, the rural depression experience
The Great Depression of the 1930's has been seen by historians as essentially a national phenomenon which, unlike the Depression of the 1880's, was a relatively even experience geographically speaking, with no significant ...
A study of a silver beech stand in the Silver Peaks State Forest
INTRODUCTION
The distribution of Silver Beech (Nothofagus menziesii (Hook f) Oerst) in New Zealand is noted for gaps and discontinuities (Wardle 1964). These have been hypothesised to be due to extinction of the beech ...
A century of land tenure on the Benmore Sheep Station.
This long essay sets out to trace the pattern of land tenure that has evolved, over roughly a century, on one of the largest sheep stations in the upper Waitaki area. Of central importance to the Benmore Sheep Station was ...
The Public Safety Conservation Act.
INTRODUCTION
The Public Safety Conservation Act is an important but little known piece of legislation. It confers upon the Government very broad powers in times of ‘emergency’ and has been invoked with sweeping effects. ...
The report of the Chinese Immigration Committee, 1871 : with respect to some aspects of public opinion in Otago Province.
The scope of this essay is limited. It is intended primarily as an analysis of the report of the Select Committee on Chinese Immigration of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1871. My purpose is not to examine at ...