Dissertation - Postgraduate Diploma
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Middlemarch, 1914-1918
This dissertation attempts to provide a short overview of the effect of the Great War, 1914 - 1918, upon a small rural community in Central Otago. This work concentrates on the social aspects of the war's impact on the ... -
The thin end of the wedge : the 1970 South African tour controversy
In 1981 as a bewildered third former I marched up Queen Street in Auckland to protest against the Springbok tour. At the time I knew it was for the better good, yet the next day at rugby practise I had trouble explaining ... -
The black monk and the blue mystic : the writings and monochromatic paintings of Ad Reinhardt and Yves Klein
This dissertation is an examination of the monochromatic paintings and associated writings of Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) and Yves Klein (1928-1962). Since its inception in 1918, the modern monochromatic painting has continued ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Mineral dressing and gold extraction of Blackwater Mines (Reefton) Ltd. N.Z.
In the Past, only a brief outline of the Mill has been published – Chem. Eng. Min. Mag. – Nov. 1939 – and this investigation has been the more interesting, not only on account of the efficient manner in which the gold is ... -
'A silent testimony' : St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Orphanage for Girls, South Dunedin
The purpose of this study is to place the work of the sisters at St Vincent's in Dunedin within the context of the work of their Order. Statistics for the period demonstrate why the Order was in this vanguard of social ... -
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 ... -
The geology of an area surrounding Hyde, Central Otago
Geological mapping conducted in an area surrounding Hyde, Central Otago, indicated that chlorite subzone schist underlay a succession of Tertiary rocks consisting of marine and freshwater sediments of the Stranraer Group, ... -
Glacial extent on Campbell Island at the last glacial maximum
Campbell Island, New Zealand’s southernmost island, is located approximately 700 km south of the South Island at 52.33˚S, 169.09˚E. In February 2009, the R/V Polaris II (Otago University’s research vessel) travelled to ... -
Imagining development
Introduction: This dissertation is concerned with investigating how development in the South(*) is being represented by New Zealand Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs). The term 'development' is a complex word with a ... -
Conservation genetics of island takahe (Porphyrio mantelli)
General introduction: Conservation of biodiversity is one the most important contemporary global problems faced by humanity. Human activity has caused the extinction of more than a thousand vertebrate species over the ... -
Immediate reactions in Otago to the movement for the abolition of the provincial government, 1874-1876
INTRODUCTION: On July 1874, during a discussion in the House of Forests Bill, Sir Julius Vogel, the Premier, said that he hoped soon to abolish the North Island Provinces. In all probability he intended, if unsuccessful ... -
Late Quaternary geology of Glenorchy district, Upper Lake Wakatipu
The Late Quaternary Geology of the Glenorchy District, Upper Lake Wakatipu was investigated in terms of geomorphology, sedimentary facies distribution and characteristics and Quaternary deformation. Terraces that are ... -
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 ...