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2010-03-13T11:20:43.782Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152763

An oval gold coloured pendant without its hinged lid. The back is ornately decorated in scroll work and it has a half moon hinged handle to which is attached a long brown cord. It contains an ambrotype photograph of a young man.

2010-03-13T08:31:03.009Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152455

Originally owned by Ralph Lovegrove.An amber and black Taranaki Primary Schools rugby cap with a black half-moon peak, an amber and black tassel and a Yellow "T" embroidered on the front. The crown is made from six triangular pieces of fabric sewn together. Three are amber and three are black. There is a small black fabric covered button on top and the cap has black lining. A small adhesive paper label inside the crown reads "6 7/8". "R. LOVEGROVE 1943" is handwritten in black on a cotton name tag inside the crown.

2010-03-13T08:30:41.249Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152256

View of Marsland Hill from the north west with full moon rising in the south east. Barracks on top of hill with steps curving down and towards foreground. Charles Brown's grave in left foreground. Marsland Hill provided the single most important European military establishment of the Taranaki Wars. First occupied in 1855, it provided the headquarters for Imperial troops and local forces in Taranaki until the Armed Constabulary period of the 1870s and 1880s. The site was a former pa, Pukaka, and to provide a sufficient platform for the barracks and stockade, twelve metres had to be removed from the top. The iron clad barrack buildings which were erected on top of the hill arrived from Melbourne on the "Alexander" in June 1855. Marsland Hill was at the centre of an extensive signaling system throughout the First Taranaki War and for part of the second war. Three or four canvas wicker balls were raised or lowered on the yards of a signaling mast. At its greatest extent the signaling system reached the Waitara River to the north and St George's Redoubt in the Tataraimaka Block to the south.

2010-03-13T08:30:25.269Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1284778

Wellington Harbour, NZ

2010-03-13T08:25:27.078Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354520

Pilot E. F. ‘Teddy’ Harvie and his passenger, Miss Trevor Hunter, set a record for the longest flight within New Zealand in a single day. They flew approximately 1880 kms from North Cape to Invercargill in a time of 16 hrs 10 mins. It was a remarkable feat considering 22-year-old Harvie had been fly..

2010-03-13T08:24:46.576Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45960

The alliance between the Ratana Church and the Labour Party was cemented at an historic meeting between Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana and Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage on 22 April 1936. In 1928 T.W. Ratana announced his intention to enter politics, referring to the four Maori seats as the ‘four q..

2010-03-13T08:23:20.268Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45804

Surveyors arrived in Port Nicholson to lay out plans for the proposed New Zealand Company settlement of Britannia at Pito-one (Petone). When this original site proved unsuitable, the decision was made to relocate across the harbour. The new settlement would be called Wellington. The survey party, l..

2010-03-13T08:23:19.648Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1275098

A slightly different composition of an <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/southnz/2356770606/">earlier posting</a>. Taken about 4 minutes later as well, so the light had faded a bit.

2010-03-13T08:20:27.182Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1261714

No moon today sorry! Got playing with textures again and I was tossing up between this fairly over the top version or a muted toned one, and surprisingly my biggest critic preferred this, so for a change I'll listen to him:-)

2010-03-13T08:13:23.600Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1226487

Anderson's Bay Cemetery, Dunedin

2010-03-13T08:03:12.542Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1225997

2010-03-13T08:02:58.593Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1327722

During a brief stop on the Crown Range road (between Queenstown and Wanaka), I noticed that the moon was already out and quite high. I also noticed the nice contrast between the brown rolling hills and the slowly darkening blue sky. If you zoom in on the larger version, you'll notice that some detail is also visible on the moon. This I have found to be particularly rare, as normally, when exposing for the foreground it becomes quite easy for the moon to blow out, leaving you with little more than a white disc. Finally, I couldn't help but get my shadow in the picture. I'm not sure why, but I like it. Who says you need to get in front of the lens to be in the shot?!

2010-03-13T08:02:29.823Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1328586

2010-03-13T08:02:24.123Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1464125

Moon appeared over Mount Ruapehu from nowhere. This is taken at 1937 meters (~6350 feet) above sea level. We decided to stay there until the sun went down.

2010-03-13T08:02:04.984Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1662519

The most amazing moon rise I have ever seen. Shows of the low light capability of the d700 pretty well.

2010-03-13T08:01:56.230Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1460884

Mt Maunganui, New Zealand, <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4267075256" rel="nofollow">View On Black</a>

2010-03-13T08:01:42.244Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1662460

Long exposure of full moon setting over the ocean

2010-03-13T08:01:29.734Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1662422

Full moon setting over Adele and Fisherman islands

2010-03-13T08:01:27.104Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1662421

Late night fireworks - far away...

2010-03-13T08:01:27.044Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1662166

Tui are considered to be very intelligent, much like parrots. They also resemble parrots in their ability to clearly imitate human speech, and are known for their noisy, unusual call, different for each individual, that combine bellbird-like notes with clicks, cackles, timber-like creaks and groans, and wheezing sounds—the unusual possession of two voiceboxes enable Tui to perform such a myriad of vocalisations. Some of the huge range of Tui sounds are beyond the human register. Watching a Tui sing, you can observe gaps in the sound when the beak is agape and throat tufts throbbing. Tui will also sing at night, especially around the full moon period. Nectar is the normal diet but fruit and insects are frequently eaten, and pollen and seeds more occasionally. Particularly popular is the New Zealand flax, whose nectar sometimes ferments, resulting in the Tui flying in a fashion that suggests that they might be drunk. Tui are the main pollinators of flax, kowhai, kaka beak and some other plants.

2010-03-13T08:01:12.025Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1659443

Interislander Arahura on the Cook Straits leaving the North Island. I was once caught in force 7 gale on this ferry in the Cook Straits - very different conditions in this picture.

2010-03-13T08:01:10.735Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1659380

Yes, it is actually the moon. :) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fowlerhk67/">Hayden</a> and me went to Sumner Beach last night to take some photos.

2010-03-13T08:01:10.235Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1662060

Ohau Waterfall, Half Moon Bay Scenic Reserve

2010-03-13T08:00:47.285Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1665861

My first attempt at a long star trail image. 167 stacked 30 second images covering 90 minutes. Unfortunately taken on a full moon and with lights from cars. I need a lot more practice in composition as well.

2010-03-13T07:55:37.842Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1673510

<b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/manipula/">The seven deadly Flickr sins!</a></b> I'm currently working through a mountain of editing and a huge backlog of images, all while staring down the barrel of one shoot coming after another, so those who actually follow, please bare with me as I try and upload new stuff as and when. This is Anna. She's awesome. She's someone who floated into my life via a guy who started off as a work colleague and ended up as a very close friend. Stand up please, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidseumanutafa/">Dave</a> and take a bow. Anna is Dave's more significant other, and frankly during my time in New Zealand, these two guys came to be really very integral to my life here. Essentially they are very close friends. Shooting Anna for this project was always something that deeply concerned me. Always burdened by the thoughts in the back of my mind about how guys shooting pictures of girls can be perceived, asking the girlfriend of a close friend always seemed kinda daunting, especially when that friend is a deeply talented photographer and knows how to unpick all those little photographer justifications we make up about everything, and often only semi mean. So it was with some pleasure I shot these, after essentially the idea coming from Dave himself many moons ago. Always seems like you must be doing something right if a photographer and friend puts forward his own partner you know? But realistically, the bigger worry was in shooting Anna herself. She's just the most wonderful, fun, caring genuine soul you'll ever meet, and is in 'guy-speak' an absolute keeper. Never will the day come you meet a nicer person, and yet somehow for me knowing these guys it had always been Dave and Anna, and not so much Anna on her own, and here's me all of a sudden trying to take photographs that lift the lid on Anna in her own right. And then of course there was the personal guilt trip, not knowing whether I actually had anywhere near enough talent with a camera to do someone justice who I know so well and who is quite this cool. We shot the photos (Dave in the background helping out) the week before they left Wellington and flew to Auckland. As I touched on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/manipula/4355240273/">with the photo of Ellen</a> their leaving was a big deal. Dave's still there, working his magic with cameras before he flies out of NZ to join Anna who's already back home in her native Sweden. Truth is, I know they're both still out there, still the same people, but it's just not the same here without them. Anna is sadly and sorely missed. So I look back at this photo and the others to follow and remember things fondly. I remember the frantic week of flat emptying. I remember the guys graciously giving away an evening of their last week in Wellington to shoot these photos. I remember that raging leaving do and the awesome drunken party photos. I remember the questions and looks we got thrown on the beach shooting these, and the Hells pizza afterwards. I remember the one leaving do being the final one, and yet somehow they managed yet more. And I remember in that way people do to minimise the pain, me dropping them off at the airport, giving them a hug and just getting the hell out of there. No long good byes. I remember driving round the corner, pulling over and choking back the tears. I've never shied away from dealing with emotion with my photos, burying your head in the sand and acting all macho is as much a sign of ignorance as it is stupidity I think, but this photo, this girl, means something. Anna (and Dave), you're missed. <i>(Strobist/flash info: 580 EXII fired via Cybersyncs at 1/2 power, 70mm zoom, bare. Mounted on a Dave, to camera right at about 4 o'clock to the photo.</i>

2010-03-13T07:55:08.152Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:181073

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2010-03-13T07:50:47.547Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:165656

2010-03-13T07:44:37.105Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:164804

2010-03-13T07:44:04.045Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:176005

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2010-03-13T07:33:06.609Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:166091

Combination print of two light spirals and moon above Eric Lee-Johnson's house at right. View from in front of the house looking at the dark skies above the roof.

2010-03-13T07:24:16.214Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:175502

Long-exposure photograph showing 'moving' stars and moon. There is a shed in the foreground.

2010-03-13T07:14:55.471Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:174383

Hand coloured photographic image. View looking at buildings on Wellington hilltop, the cable car is visible in the centre of the image and is about to begin its descent.

2010-03-13T07:14:49.701Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:171430

2010-03-13T07:14:32.721Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:170981

Carte de visite. Outdoors, full length view of a woman wearing a dark dress and a hat, holding an umbrella. She stands beside a banner which hangs vertically, it reads 'Aoteoroa', and bears designs of a cross, a moon and three stars. Inscription at bottom reads "Jane Foley, who gave water to the wounded in the Gate Pa"

2010-03-13T07:14:28.821Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1672767

Queen's Park, Whanganui. New Zealand Wars Memorial, Queen's Park, Whanganui In Grateful Memory of the gallant officers and men of Her Majesty's Imperial Army and Navy and Colonial forces who died in the service of their country during the long wars with the natives of these islands and who lie buried in or near this town. This Monument was erected by the inhabitants of Wanganui MDCCCXCII Near this spot stood the Rutland Blockhouse Erected 1841 Removed 1883 Panel 1 1847 1851 Priv Jn McMoran 58th Regt Priv Mtw Lofthouse 65 Regt " Wm Webster " 1852 " Denis Neville " " Jn Ward " " Wm Weller " 1854 " Jn Mooney " " Wm Clayton " " Dl Treatdowner " " Jn Snook " " Jo Spratt 65th " Dnl Curtis " " Wm Connolly R A 1855 " Jn Clatworthy ) Seamen " Thos Mansfield " " Sl Sculthorpe )HMS Calliope " Jn Wood RE 1848 1857 Sergt Geo Booth 65th Regt Capt D Bazelgette 65th Priv Thos Bartholomew " 1858 " Geo McAllister " Lieut Fredk Wemyss " 1849 1861 " Hry John " Ensign Wm Alexander " " Jn Glynn " Serg Fredk Smith " " Ptk Moore Privt Wm Bowlder " " Thos Williams " " Ptk Cooney " " Jno W Star " 1862 1850 " Ptk Muskell " " Wm Lordon " " Ml Connor " Panel 2 1863 1865 Drumr Rbt Robertson 57th Regt Priv J Could 50th Regt Priv Jn Anderson " " C E Poole " 1864 " S Hargreaves " Sergt Thos Traynor " " Wm Erwin " Priv Keefe " " Wm Vine " " Ml Mulcahy " " Wm Land " " Mthw Fleming " " Ml Murphy " " Ptk Sheehan " " Jn Renny " 1865 " Hny Paris " Lieut - Maloy RE " Rt Ridyard " " Wm Masterton (The last 17 killed at " Oct R Lawson 18th Regt Nukumaru " J O Johnstone 40th and buried there.) Ensn Geo C Jenkins 18th " Jo Hassard " Interp Cs Broughton Staff " Jn Longlin 18th Regt L Cor P Conlin 18th " E Christopher " Priv P Connolly " " Thos Dobell " " S Heathwood " " Hgh Kilroy " " J Brian " " Ptk Shea " " F Travers " " Thos Crossan " " G Sparks " " Chas Robinson 68th Regt " Jnthn Fisher " Cor Ml Fee 57th " Panel 3 1865 1866 Priv Sl Peake 57th Regt Priv Rt Malcolm Col Frs " Thos Bradley 40th " M Hegerty " " Thos Moon 14th " C Henley " " Ed Delaney " " H Econemdes " " Jmr Toomey 68th " C Green " " Ed Condon " 1867 " Jas O'Brian Col Forces " Jn Corrigan 18th Regt " Jn Hobson " " Ptk Sheridan " Ensn Rt Whitfield " " Thos Prenderville 1866 1868 Lt Col Jsn Hassard 57th Regt " Rt Brown " Priv Jfy Costelloe " The Following Killed " Js Harrity 18th at Moturoa " Jn Bryan 68th Mjr Wm M Hunter Col Frs " Sl Wellesley 28th[?] Sergt E Kirwin " " Jn Brennan 14th Cpl C N Stockfish " " Jas Saddler 5th Fus Priv S Rogers " " Jn Laycock RA " S Brown " " Jo Barnet " " J Path " " S Adams " " W Lees " " Wm Stone " " G Satler " Sergt F De C Duff Col Forces " Js Kelley Died 1870 Panel 4 1868 1869 Moturoa continued At Kai Iwi Priv C Eastwood Col Frs Priv T McKenzie Col Frs " P Norman " " T Cummings " " - Nocus At Karaka " W Nicholls Sergt C Menzies D Urquhart Cpl G Horspool H Thompson Priv C Boyle J Devon " J Banks W Keneally " A Barris S Brewer " M Clowen At Te Ngutu o Te Manu " J Howe Lieut H B Hunter Priv Rd Wallace Place Unknown " T Squirs The Nukumaru remains " T Cole were removed to this At Nukumaru spot 19th March 1892 Sergt G Maxwell At Wairoa Cpl T Collins At Okotuku Priv M Glennon Panel 5 To the Memory Of His Majesty's Veterans Died since 1908 Year Age Regt Medals Priv R Bright 1909 78 yrs 57th Crim NZ " J Donovan 1910 78 " " " " Cor H J Reid 1911 75 " 65th NZ Priv A O'Connor " 85 " " " Far Sergt W J Park " 79 " 6th Dra Cds Crim Ind Mut Con S Clancy 1912 69 " A C F NZ Q M Sergt J Chadwick 1913 88 " Wan Cavy " Priv C H Swan " 80 " N Z Mil " Priv J O'Neil " 75 " 18th Regt " Sergt W Handley " 77 " Wan Mil " Scout T Adamson " 68 " Wan Rangrs NZC & Medal Troopr S Wall 1914 67 " Wan Cavy NZ Priv J Wright " 82 " 57th Regt Crim Turkh NZ Priv W McNiven 1916 82 " 57th Regt " " " Ensign E McKenna 1908 79 " NZ Mil NZC and Medal Major Kemp (Kepa) 1898 74 " Native Cont " " Sergt S Austin 1903 76 " " " "

2010-03-13T07:13:32.113Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1422609

Sarah Moon was a passenger on the Blenheim.. Collection of Puke Ariki 002/5 Born in Chagford, Devonshire, 15th May, 1807. Died in New Plymouth, 7th December, 1891. Maiden name Sarah Knowles. Wife of Phillip Moon. Gave birth to Mary Ann Maria on voyage (28th August,1842). Sarah went with her husband Phillip, for a brief time to Kawau, Auckland. Sarah was evacuated to Nelson during the land wars in 1860. References:"Establishment of the New Plymouth Settlement in New Zealand 1841-1843" / Rutherford & SkinnerPortrait IndexSkinner ObituariesTaranaki Biography Index. Sarah. Moon

2010-03-13T07:13:07.425Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1422607

Phillip Moon was a passenger on the Blenheim.. Collection of Puke Ariki 002/4 Born in Cornwall, 1802. Died in New Plymouth, 13th July, 1882. Children born before settling were John, George, Thurza, and Charlotte. Children born in New Zealand were Mary Ann, William, Harriett, Emmalina, and Charles. Moon's Reef off Belt Road named after Phillip. It was there that Phillip, who was a stonemason cut the stone for his masonary work. In belt road there is a rockery of stones compiled from a stone house, later demolished, which was built by Phillip Moon. 1855-1861 Jurors list, occupation listed as Mason, New Plymouth. Went to Kawau, Auckland for a brief time to help erect copper ore furnaces. When this turned out to be unsuccessful, he returned to New Plymouth. References:"Establishment of the New Plymouth Settlement in New Zealand 1841-1843" / Rutherford & SkinnerPortrait Index Taranaki Herald Centennial Issue 1852-1953 p.55Skinner ObituariesTaranaki Names Index. Phillip. Moon

2010-03-13T07:13:07.354Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1239737

The Moeraki Boulders are huge spherical stones that are scattered over the beach. A much photographed location, just have to keep going back until it happens for me! This was my first night visit to the site. Very cold night before it snowed 1 hour later and the full moon was gone.

2010-03-13T07:12:16.328Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1266468

Sculpture on the Gulf. Nic Moon. Monument.

2010-03-13T07:12:11.964Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1672014

Yesterday Family First were calling him morally bankrupt and offensive.

2010-03-13T07:12:09.454Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1672074

i think it looks more spectacular in shadow, well at least more dramatic (the craters standout with shadow)

2010-03-13T07:11:43.392Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1405461

the plan is to go take sunrise shots on saturday...i can't wait & i still don't know where i'm going to go. this shot was taken out west at piha with mark [maloephoto]...he is actually just to the right of the frame. i bet you didn't see this shot mark :) u-ziq...radiohead | kid a <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4076819649&size=large" rel="nofollow">View On Black</a>...ps: the moon was pretty big that night...thanks to mark for the idea. <b>no glittery stuff please, cheers</b>

2010-03-13T07:11:42.185Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1299258

We were driving home and I said, "oh, that would be a neat shot with the full moon and the old house on the hill." Gary said I should turn back and go park in the middle of the intersection where there was some gravel. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouskiwi/408596734/in/photostream/">So I did</a>. [<a href="http://vision.curiouskiwi.com/permalink.php?which=408597139">view on black background</a>] [available as a card or print as well, just ask] .

2010-03-13T07:11:38.468Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1298699

63 seconds at ISO 800, f5.6

2010-03-13T07:11:38.205Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1670740

The static and dynamic distribution patterns of ichthyoplankton were investigated over a 4 year period (1981 - 1985) off the coast of Leigh, on the northeastern coast of New Zealand. Emphasis was given to horizontal and vertical distributions, and these were described on scales encompassing broad areas of the outer Hauraki Gulf and smaller areas of 1 - 100m. The ages of these small fish were also investigated by examining daily increments in the otoliths, and this allowed a more complete interpretation of distribution patterns. Sampling that was carried out at different distances from the mainland identified major differences in the distribution patterns of individual species. For example, pilchards were caught in high densities right across the continental shelf, whereas morid cod were restricted to the outer edge of the shelf. The most intensive investigations were carried out over the Summer months and these revealed large differences in the abundances of species. For instance, few bothids and triglids were captured in December, while large numbers were caught in January. The spawning activity of adults and broad scale differences between water masses were probably responsible for these distance and time related patterns. Large differences in the densities of ichthyoplankton were found at different localities within each area of the continental shelf (e.g. close to the mainland). Furthermore, detailed investigations of abundances at a single locality over a three day period showed large changes. These changing distribution patterns were related to the dynamics of localized hydrological features (e.g. tidally induced gyres). The presence of islands over the continental shelf also influenced the distribution of small fish. Some species were only found near land, regardless of the distance from the mainland. From ichthyoplankton hauls and direct observations made using SCUBA, it is argued that the behaviour of ichthyoplankton may have a strong influence on their distribution patterns. For example, tripterygiids and gobiesocids of a variety of ontogenetic forms were observed to aggregate and maintain their position in the shallow areas of rocky reefs. Large differences were found in the vertical distributions of fish and this was true in water columns from 1 - 40m in depth. Ichthyoplankters of a number of species had different depth distributions. Some species were consistently found near the surface (e.g. hemiramphids & mugilids) or near the bottom (e.g. eleotrids). For species found throughout the water column during the day, it was suggested that biological and physical stratification (e.g. thermoclines) strongly influenced relative densities at each depth stratum. Some species (especially engraulids & scombrids) migrated toward the surface at night. Migration patterns varied for each species and among times. The latter patterns were related to ambient light levels which changed with the phase of the moon. Small scale structure in the pelagic environment influenced the distribution of fish. Large numbers of fish were found around drift algae and when experimental algae were left to drift, small fish of several species (e.g. Monacanthids) were quickly attracted to it. A number of species were abundant in surface waters, but did not associate with drift algae (e.g. engraulids). For fish that were found around drift algae, the association may be important as a source of shelter and food. There was considerable seasonality in the occurrence of fish species around algae, and the abundance of total drift algae. Drift algae were most abundant over Spring and early Summer. The movements and accumulation of algae are discussed in relation to the potential influence it has on recruitment patterns of fish in nearshore environments. The distribution patterns of small fish were strongly influenced by the surface slicks of internal waves. Densities of small fish, drift algae, and zooplankton were higher in slicks than in rippled water adjacent to them. Slicks moved at 0.5 - 1.25 km per hour in the direction of shore. A consequence of aggregation in slicks, therefore, is that small fish may be transported onshore. It is suggested that the accumulation of zooplanktonic food in slicks may be important for the feeding of ichthyoplankters. Many of the fish found in surface waters, be it in open water or around drift algae, had adult fin-ray counts and were not considered to be larvae, according to current definitions. From information on the age and size of these fish it is suggested that the capacity of fish to settle at a variety of ages and sizes has probably been underestimated. Furthermore, the occurrence of physical processes such as slicks may influence the duration of the planktonic phase and subsequent settlement rates of fish into nearshore environments. The major findings were used to provide an overall picture of what happens during the planktonic phase of some species (Chrysophrys auratus, Parika scaber & tripterygiids), and these case histories are discussed in relation to current hypotheses concerning the ecology of ichthyoplankton.

2010-03-13T07:10:34.226Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1670130

Since the explosion of the internet as a business medium, one of its primary uses has been marketing. The advantages of using the internet for business-to-consumer transactions are clear. The openness of the internet is creating opportunities for virtually all companies across various industries. The words 'internet', 'World Wide Web', 'www' or the 'web' refer to the same thing and are used interchangeably within this research study. The tourism industry is also experiencing a rapid adoption of the internet technology for marketing travel products and services. As a destination New Zealand is a small country comprising two main land masses and smaller outlying islands, with a population of about 4 million people (Statistics New Zealand 2004). Tourism is promoted as an essential part of the national economy, particularly to earn foreign exchange and generate employment. The number of international tourists visiting New Zealand is 2.2 million (Tourism New Zealand, 2006). In New Zealand almost all regional tourism organizations (RTOs) have a web presence, thereby exposing potential tourists to an array of destinations to visit. However, there are few New Zealand based studies that profile tourists based on their internet adoption and the differences between internet users and non-users. The question that baffles every business manager is what predisposes consumers to use a website? This is the fundamental question that motivated the study. While usability does play a major role in the adoption and use of a particular website, it is outside the scope of this project, otherwise the scope would have been too large and complicated to permit a useable questionnaire given the other concerns about respondents' past experiences and attitudes toward use of the net for the specific purposes of holiday purchases. The study draws upon innovation diffusion theory (IDT) and more recent conceptualizations of IT adoption behaviour to examine differences among Rogers' (1995) adoption categories. Within this context, 'adoption' refers to the stage in which a technology is selected for use by an individual. 'Diffusion' refers to the stage in which the technology spreads to general use and application. For this study an attempt is made to create a behavioural profile of visitors based on a sample of 517 overseas visitors to New Zealand. Visitors were asked to complete a questionnaire and provide information on their demographics, travel related behaviour, internet usage patterns, perceptions of the internet and online shopping in general. The thesis thus describes the initiation and evolution of an empirical research project, which investigates the adoption and diffusion of internet technologies amongst international visitors to New Zealand. The study was launched in an attempt to: 1) learn more about internet usage by visitors to New Zealand; 2) create a psychographic profile of visitors; 3) attempt to empirically validate the technology acceptance model (TAM); and 4) fill a noticeable void so that future researchers on IT and internet adoption by tourists in New Zealand have a foundation and starting point. Most of the previous research related to TAM has been in workplace related situations while studies in tourism have used students as subjects, rather than actual visitors to a particular destination (Shang et al., 2005, Moon and Kim, 2001, Klopping and McKinney, 2004). Specific market studies undertaken by destination marketing organisations or regional tourism organisations were considered only inasmuch as they aided generalization as place specificity hindered conceptual development pertaining to themes of adoption and general usage patterns. The study seeks to build on Rogers' (1995) seminal work on the diffusion of innovations and make a unique contribution to existing diffusion studies by its focus on the individual visitors as the unit of analysis and by its test of the TAM model. This study presents descriptive results via standard statistical analysis, a cluster analysis of users and a structural equation modelling of the TAM applied within a context of international visitors to New Zealand. The data were collected at major locations - the viaduct basin in Auckland and the international departure lounge at the Christchurch International Airport. The two locations were chosen to enable faster data collection. Initially the data was gathered at the viaduct basin in Auckland but the number of respondents was not many. Since the data collection was slow, decided to collect from Christchurch International airport where departing passengers could be approached. Individual passengers/tourists were approached and a screening question to ascertain if they were visitors or not was asked. If they were visiting, then they were asked to participate in the survey. No prior specific screening was undertaken to determine if they had used internet or not for their trip/travel to New Zealand. However, subsequent analysis shows that only 2.3% of the sample had not used the internet, and 31% of the sample had not bought tourism products or services over the internet. Therefore, overall, experience and internet usage was not uncommon for the majority of the sample, but a large proportion of non-users existed to permit comparative analysis. While there is a bias towards males in the sample, the 19-35 years age group was slightly more numerous for both genders, than were other age groups. The results indicate that mean internet usage is comparatively high, as is familiarity with many electronic consumer durables. The sample possesses a bias toward English speaking countries, younger people and educationally higher qualified people. Internet search engines seem to be the most popular source of search. The socio-demographic variables such as age, gender and educational attainment appeared to be but a moderate influence on general internet usage and thus on the use of the internet for booking holidays. Factor analysis of the attitudinal statements revealed six factors, which accounted for about 60 % of the total variance. The clear emergence of factors enabled the development of clusters. The clusters appear to have significance with reference to usage rates of internet. The home ownership of electronics shows a high percentage of respondents had mobile phones. This implies that New Zealand Tourism has to look at options or possible services it can introduce to market to these people who could be using mobile devices not only in their country but also while travelling in New Zealand. Wireless is another important development in the field of technology and many of the tourism DMO in other developed countries in Europe and US are adapting approaches based on these technologies to market to potential customers.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between certain descriptive and prescriptive elements in Modernisation theory, and selected phases in Maori development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis also extends to consideration of the significance of intentional development, as defined by Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton (Cowen & Shenton, 1996), as the emerging basis for such development.The particular focus within the theoretical framework is on the characteristics and implications of social transformation that are said to accompany rapid economic development - particularly for non-Western peoples living within an emerging Western economic environment. As a corollary of this, consideration is given to the evident conversion from such transitions being unplanned consequences of the forces of economic development, to the increasingly conscious, planned bases for the processes of modernisation being applied to Maori development.This thesis concludes that there has been a discernable intensification in the forces of modernisation impacting on Maori, and that this has been complemented by more deliberate efforts - at a governmental level - to advance this process. One consequence of this trend has been that the alternative models for Maori development have been virtually excluded, even from consideration by successive Governments, and that a singular theoretical model has become the near-universal standard for governmental discourse about this area of indigenous development in New Zealand.

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Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts VictoriaPeter Bakowski’s Days That We Couldn’t Rehearse is in many ways the most consistent and satisfying of his five collections to date. He has cultivated strengths and eliminated weaknesses found in earlier volumes. Yet it is unmistakably Bakowski; to mimic his much-loved crime fiction imagery, his prints are all over the scene. Bakowski’s strong suit has always been the common object used to striking and, at times, surreal effect. The everydayness of his imagery, the simplicity of his language, the straightforwardness of his thought, is all of a piece with his conception of the poet’s role as speaking to the wider public. If you have admired Peter Bakowski’s other books, you will enjoy this one, too.

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Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts VictoriaThis is a review of various Children's Picture Books, including: David Cox, "Hello Puppy!"; Stephen Michael King, "Milli, Jack and the Dancing Cat"; Penny Matthews, illus. Anna Pignataro, "Little Red Bear"; Liliana Stafford, illus. Susy Boyer, "Grandpa's Gate"; Esther Takac, illus. Anna Pignataro, "Loni and the Moon"; and Scott Willis, illus. Jenna Parker, "Enough is Enough".

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Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts VictoriaAs one of the few Australian poets with an extensive publishing history overseas as well as in Australia, John Tranter suffers from the problem of what might be called parallel publishing. His UK books are often built out of selections from his Australian books. Just under half the poems in his new book, "Studio Moon" (published by Salt, and distributed in Australia by the Fremantle Arts Centre Press), have appeared before, notably in "At the Florida" (1993). But the best from that book has been chosen, the new poems are exciting, and the result is a book that manages to be simultaneously powerful, entertaining and revealing.

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Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts VictoriaGeoffrey Blainey is seventy-three years old and has published thirty-two books. Since his last book was a history of the world, one might have assumed that he had reached the end of his career. But he is not done yet. He moves, as he has always done, from grand speculation to what might be thought trifles — in this case, the details of everyday life in Australia from the 1850s to 1914.

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Antarctica was the last continent to be colonised, and Antarctic colonisation continues into the Twenty-first Century. Today, thousands of people live and work there at numerous national bases. This paper is part of an ongoing study of the colonial settlement of Antarctica, focusing on bases established by Australia, New Zealand, the United States and the Soviet Union. It examines the historical development of the built form of Antarctic stations and the planning ideas which have shaped them, against a broader backdrop of geopolitical objectives. The performance of scientific activities and the establishment of permanently-staffed facilities were always means to display and justify national interests in Antarctica. By the 1950s, many nations were actively pursuing and contesting territorial claims on the continent. Knowledge about its valuable natural resources was growing. The 1959 Antarctic Treaty was signed to forestall both the enforcement of national rights and economic exploitation. Antarctica was set aside for wildlife and for scientific research. Nonetheless, in the climate of escalating tension between the world’s superpowers, Antarctica remained a battleground of national prowess, both scientific and political. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. invested millions in efforts to explore, utilise and tactically dominate the continent. Military resources were mobilised, and nuclear power was brought to the world’s most pristine environment. At the same time as both countries competed to conquer outer space and the Moon, ostensibly in the name of science and for the benefit of all humanity, they also sought to explore and dominate the equally-difficult south polar region. This battle for supremacy between the cold-war superpowers was primarily played out in the eastern hemisphere of Antarctica, particularly the 42% of the continent that is claimed by Australia, and the large adjacent sector claimed by New Zealand. These two nations, themselves former colonies, sought to further develop their own territorial ambitions in Antarctica by developing bases there. These ambitions could either be aided by the superpowers or eclipsed by them. Today, the four nations under study have ten permanently-staffed research stations in Antarctica. This paper examines in detail three examples of scientific colonies: Mawson, McMurdo and Mirnyy. The paper compares the planning approaches of nations serving distinctly different imperial agendas. It does so in part by reference to other colonial, territorial and scientific initiatives pursued by these nations within their own national borders, in particular science cities in the U.S.S.R.

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Women are the principal life givers of weaving. Many weaving concepts and rituals reflect the unique genealogical relationship that women have to Papatuanuku (the Earth mother), from whom all living things descend. Hine-te-iwa-iwa is the female atua (spiritual personification) for the art of weaving. Other associated entities include Hine-korako (for childbirth) and Rona-whaka-mau-tai (cycles of the moon). In the past, strict protocols and restrictions were part of maintaining the integrity of w...

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After seeing Neko Case live at this week, Silke went toff to practise Neko songs for this Friday's Drive, literally risking her risking her neck to sing this song. It's called I Wish I Was The Moon.

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Fabian unleashes a torrent of new film reviews: Funny People; Moon; Aliens In The Attic and Pelham 123. Phew!

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365 Project - February 1

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Moon rise over Wellington harbour & the old Herd Street Post and Telegraph building which is now Chaffers Dock, housing 64 apartments on the upper five levels and a mix of retail, restaurants and cafes at ground level.

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By the time we were settled in Hawera we had two sons, they were probably too young to appreciate the hours that I worked but I missed most of their early growing up but I also got out of nurse maid duties.. The boys were taken to kindergarten as soon as they could be enrolled. Our elder son, Gregory, appeared to be a very bright and attractive child and initially we were unaware of any difficulty with his speech. An example of his astuteness was that there were three houses up the Goodson Road that ran past our house and he knew each owner by the sound of the car engine. Now 45 years later he can name practically all announcers and singers on the air waves without seeing their faces. We were never sure of the reasons for his handicap but have been told it was lack of oxygen to the brain at birth. Through Plunket, Heather met up with two other mothers, Shirley Herman whose husband Walter was head builder for Arthur Brown Construction who built major constructions with emphasis on dairy factories all over the country, and Audrey Smythe who, with her husband, ran the TAB in Hawera. Walter was a hard task master, a fine up-standing bloke but tough, and was a bit of a miser &ndash; not that I was liberal. Heather and Shirley cleaned motels, partly for the money but also for the company. Shirley&rsquo;s boy and girl and our two boys were at kindergarten and both Walter and I were away from home for long days but we got together to socialize at the Hawera Club on Thursday nights. The hardship got to Shirley and she suffered a mental breakdown to which Heather responded in a caring way. Gregory was having difficulty with his speech and we took him to Stratford for therapy. When he was five years old he was kept at kindergarten for another year and when he turned six the Education Department psychologist had him go to the new IHC School in Hawera. I was not at all happy with Gregory going to the IHC School, he was in the learning mode and a lot of the pupils at the school were accident victims and could not speak properly either, often making guttural noises and Gregory was mimicking them which did not help to improve his speech. Gregory was terribly constipated and suffered terrific trauma. He paid numerous visits to the doctor, an Indian, who wanted to cut his anus sphincter muscle or give him a colostomy and he booked Gregory into the hospital. Fortunately the doctor&rsquo;s wife took off to Australia and the doctor went after her so Gregory escaped the knife. It took him some years to get over this and he often experienced terrific pain and went blue in the face. We made an appointment with the Education Department psychologist, Callender by name, and he was in a white coat and when Greg saw him he ducked behind us because he thought that this was another doctor who was going to try and invade his privacy. The psychologist told us to cut our losses and put Greg in to Tokanui which is the hospital for the handicapped at Te Awamutu. He told us Greg would be a burden to us for the rest of his life. Heather and I turned away from him and walked out. The following week I was driving towards Stratford and I saw the psychologist driving towards me. I turned around and followed him to his consulting rooms at the Intermediate School and walked in on him. He told me I needed an appointment to see him. I replied that I did not need an appointment to see him as what I had got to say deserved to be said directly to him and sooner rather than later. I told him that if one wanted to climb the social ladder one did not go around the back bar of the hotel looking for friends and I wanted Gregory out of that school. The psychologist said that he had expressed his professional opinion. I replied if I ever gave an opinion like that with so little consideration I would need to take my shingle down. He told me he was going to Australia the following week and that I should take my concerns up with his successor. Before we left Hawera we asked Dr Cameron exactly what was Greg&rsquo;s problem. He said we should reconcile ourselves to the fact that we had a ning nong in the family, which we didn&rsquo;t think was a very nice answer. When we came to Shannon we asked the local doctor, Dr. Poor, if he knew what was wrong with Gregory. We gave him Dr. Cameron&rsquo;s view and he agreed that it was not a very professional answer and would we like him to do some investigation. We agreed to this and he took Gregory into the Palmerston North Hospital to have specialist tests. After the first week Greg was making excellent progress with his speaking and getting on well with the in-house teacher and Dr. Poor agreed he could stay there for another month. This certainly did make a difference to Greg&rsquo;s speech and it was the opinion of the hospital staff that Gregory had suffered a shortage of oxygen at birth. We were inclined to agree with this as we knew the Matron of the Taihape Hospital where he was born and we knew she was not very sympathetic to the needs of solo mothers. I was getting a little frustrated with my job with the Guardian Trust. The hierarchy insisted that I go off contract and on to a salary and I did not think that I had any option. What&rsquo;s more, Mr. Campbell did not approve of me or my work ethics. He used to say that the farmers of Taranaki were no better than French peasants, that the Chairman of the Board of the Guardian Trust, who came down and did a bi-annual inspection of the farms with me, was just a bastard, and I did not think that he deserved that. Campbell was also getting hold of what I claimed were my share milkers because I had a one-to-one relationship with all the share milkers and the employees. Unbeknown to me, Campbell appointed an assistant for me, by the name of Ray Hill, a pip-squeak of a bloke who had no intense farming background. Perhaps he was of the same church, I do not know. He was to look after the 39% share milkers and these workers came to me and expressed their concern that he was bordering on the arrogant and was of no help to them at all. Actually he was more like a &ldquo;Little Hitler&rdquo;. Campbell said that I was to be responsible for him. I said that I could not agree to that as I had had no part in his appointment and quite candidly I would not have appointed somebody of that nature with a lack of intense farming knowledge. Unfortunately the daughter of one of the share milkers became pregnant to Mr. Hill and it wasn&rsquo;t long after I left that he also left. A few years later I saw him in Levin where he was then living. He had become &ndash; what shall I say &ndash; a depraved person of mumbo-jumbo. He passed away some years ago. After I left the employ of the Guardian Trust in 1965, I came to Shannon, but I still retained a small clientele at Taranaki who I used to visit, perhaps, once a month. On one of these occasions I had agreed (on the Friday) to meet up with the family in Palmerston North at six o&rsquo;clock. We were to meet in Colinson and Cunninghame&rsquo;s and if I was running late I would certainly be there by 6.30 pm or, at the latest 7 pm. However, on this particular Friday I was at Lake Alice at 5.20 pm and I heard the news that the Bulls Bridge had collapsed. I had to change direction and travel through Greatford and out to Feilding. At Feilding the lights went out on the car and I was fortunate enough to get a serviceman to repair the alternator. I eventually got to Palmerston at 7 pm, and met with the family as arranged. When I told them I had been diverted because of the collapse of the Bulls Bridge Heather&rsquo;s reaction was that &ldquo;I had told some porkies in my time, but this excuse must really take the biscuit&rdquo;. I was taken aback because it was not a &ldquo;porkie&rdquo;. We met Ron Hornsby who worked for Domet in Marton and I asked if he knew that the Bulls Bridge had collapsed. He said &lsquo;No&rdquo;. I asked him what time he had come through Bulls and had he crossed the bridge. He said he had crossed the bridge at about 5.15 pm. I told him he would not be going home that way and I was not making it up; the Bulls Bridge really had collapsed. An assistant on the counter nearby where we were talking told him that I was correct and she had heard the news on the radio. She also said that a bus had fallen into the river. A Mr. Farrington was the driver of the bus. He got washed out of the bus into the waters of the Rangitikei River but was rescued. I think he was compensated for his ordeal. I also did casual work. I built a cow shed for a neighbour and got in to Real Estate and I had a real good year. I say I didn&rsquo;t sell properties, my clients bought them. Gordon Smart, a lawyer, wanted me to take up a Real Estate license, but by and large, I had a poor opinion of Real Estate agents I felt that they were so often untruthful to get a commission. I used my time in Real Estate to seek out a farm and that farm was 1200 acres at Shannon only a kilometre away from the Waring-Taylor farm I had been supervising. The farm was hilly to easy undulating country, with a very good house containing four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The sheds were poor; there were no cattle yards, no hay country and a lot of scattered and dense manuka on the mid section of 500 acres with 100 acres of regrowth bush on the back portion which bounded the Mangore Stream which was the east boundary. When we came to Heights Road we had the only house on the road except for Jock Easton, who farmed the 200 acre section on top of the hill near the end of the road had a bach on his block. There was no electric power and his bach was pretty primitive. He was able to put up with it as his feelings were dulled with alcohol. He lost his driver&rsquo;s license about the time we came to the district and he had a chap to drive his car, mainly to the local pub. There were a few sheep on my property so I purchased 400 more and 217 of these escaped onto Jock&rsquo;s place I went to see Jock about all the stray sheep on his place but Neil, his driver, told me Jock was too drunk to talk to me. A few days later I was up on the hill behind our house talking to Ross Weggery and a sheep truck went down the road. I looked over to Jock&rsquo;s place and I could see there were not many newly shorn sheep there so I went back to Ross Weggery and asked him if he knew whose truck it was that went down the road. Ross was a local and had a farm on the main road between our place and Shannon and I was sure he would have known whose truck it was but he said he could not remember seeing a truck and when I tackled him about it again he said the Easton&rsquo;s were clients of his &ndash; Ross was in the Real Estate business. Ross did eventually come back to me and asked if I would like to buy Jock&rsquo;s place. When I first bought the Shannon property the agent told me that Jock would not be able to farm for long and his block would have complemented my property admirably but the loss of 200 ewes and the fall in the wool price caused me to reassess my ambition so I took up off farm work going through to Wanganui four days a week and working for Freeman R. Jackson a stock and station firm. From the time that I started working part-time for Freeman Jackson in Wanganui (operating in the Wanganui and Waimarino area) in 1960, there have been numerous changes in the names of the Stock and Station firms. Firstly it was Newton King with Head Office in New Plymouth servicing the Taranaki and Waikato, with Rod Weir from Levin steering the ship. Rod (the Silver Fox) had dis-established the Farmers&rsquo; Co-op Mercantile operations through the country and brought them under the Dalgety-Crown name. One day that I shall not forget was the day that man landed on the moon. Rod Weir, Ken Davidson, the Manager of Newton King in Wanganui, Tom Weston, Farm Advisor with Newton King in Wanganui and me, were on our way to New Plymouth and we stopped just past Waitotara Township to listen to the car radio reporting on the first man landing on the moon. At the meeting in New Plymouth, Rod Weir told us that he was dis-establishing the Farm Advisory section of Newton King. That meant Tom Weston and Peter Tulloch, who was a very good personal friend from the RFC days, and I were redundant. Peter set up as a private Consultant and many of his clients retained him as their consultant away from Newton King. He was based in New Plymouth and worked mainly in the hill country of Central Taranaki surrounding the Whangamomona district. One of my the first jobs concern a client, Bill Larsen, who lived in Wanganui, who owned or leased 3,000 acres in the Makakihi Valley north of Raetihi and was for the most part a logging contractor recovering native timber for various mills. He had a hard core debt of $1,500 to the firm which I was instructed to collect. I met Bill at the farm and suggested that we look around and sum up the potential for carrying out what looked to be a difficult exercise given that the logging operation could be a full time job. He said of all the blokes that had been sent to collect the debt I was the first to get out of the car. At the front of the property bounding the Manga-a-te-o River there were about 400 acres of flat in grass but invaded by blackberry and that ran up into easy hills which carried some good, millable native trees, so it was obvious he had assets that more than covered his liabilities. For all that he did not have a boundary fence with Richard Corliss at the back I did not think that was the cause of the loss of stock. However, I thought erecting a boundary fence would be a good way to start so asked Ken Davidson, the Wanganui Manager of FRJ if he would lend Bill $1,500 as his contribution to complete a boundary fence with Corliss. Corliss strongly objected, so we took him to Court. I was appointed fencing advocate with full power to have a fence built and it was duly completed. Within a couple of years Bill bought the farm on the near side of the river and moved his wife and two sons on to that farm so that more attention could be given to looking after the livestock and keeping an eye on what the neighbours were up to. A year or so later they saw Corliss mustering along the boundary fence and had a suspicion that he had got sheep out from Bill&rsquo;s through a gate that Corliss had put in illegally. When Bill got home he went down to Corliss&rsquo; shed and found eight of his sheep locked in a pen under the shed. Bill suspected that they were destined for Corliss&rsquo; home kill business at Wanganui as it was the week before Xmas. Bill parked his truck on the road then before he went to sleep the lights in Corliss&rsquo; shed went on and an hour later they went off but no vehicle came up the road. Next morning Bill (Larsen) did not go to work but decided to go over and see if any sheep had been taken through the boundary gate but on the way he saw eight newly shorn sheep behind Corliss&rsquo; shed, so he went and had a closer look to find that they had an ear cut off and Corliss&rsquo; ear mark in the remaining ear. Corliss was fined $240.00 and the judge said that it was the second time Corliss had been in court and should it happen again he would be sent to prison. Corliss decided to get out of the district and started negotiating for Andrews&rsquo; farm on the Para Para next to &ldquo;Otamoa&rdquo; Barry Plimmer&rsquo;s 6,000 acre station and, par for the course; he bought 500 of Barry&rsquo;s five year old ewes and took them up to Raetihi until he took over the new property. When Corliss got settled on the Andrews&rsquo; farm he actually brought 14 ewes back to Barry Plimmer at weaning time. But he brought no lambs. The head shepherd for Barry and my son Fraser took the trailer with a crate to Corliss&rsquo; and brought out 14 lambs whilst Corliss watched but took no action. Initially Corliss wanted to co-operate with Barry and helped him put in a deer trap on a bulldozed track near the boundary. After an initial flurry of several deer in the trap there were no more deer. Barry found that Corliss had felled a tree across the track and diverted the deer through a hole in the boundary fence into a trap on his side. Later Barry said to me that Corliss was not as bad as I said he was but a bloody sight worse. Some years later when I was on the Te Horo farm, Bill Larsen called in; it was the afternoon of 13 November 1979. He was in a carefree mood and said that he had paid Newton King, bought the farm next door, his boys were home from boarding School and he was going to the Antarctic with Air New Zealand and he offered to shout me the trip in appreciation of the help I had given him to get established. I declined the offer as my brother-in-law, Roger Dalziell was the training captain for the DC10&rsquo;s with Air New Zealand and would be taking an Antarctic flight one day and I had arranged to board his flight in Christchurch. Unbeknown to me Roger took the flight that day having been called in at short notice. On his return he advised the computer operated navigation section that the co-ordinates between Cape Hallet and McMurdo were 2 degrees out, to which the navigation seniors countered that they could not be 2 degrees out, Roger must mean 2 minutes. Roger conveyed his concern to his friend Collins. He and Roger had spent five years in the RNZAF at Ohakea training on twin engine planes. When Collins was called to take the flight on the 27 November, he spent time preparing a flight plan using logarithms, leaving the workings on his home table before he took the plane Flight 801 on the fateful Erebus disaster. After the crash ANZ staff raided Collins&rsquo; house and took his working papers. Bill Larsen was on the flight where all crew and passengers were killed. I became Bill&rsquo;s trustee and was engaged to claim against Air NZ for compensation for his family as well as the families of Levin brothers, Tony and Geoff Kelsey. After the crash a policeman said all the log books were in Collins&rsquo; flight satchel, but the logs were never noted as having been returned to Auckland. The Inquiry into the crash gave rise to the phrase &ldquo;A Litany of Lies&rdquo;. Times were hard when taking over the Shannon Farm as it co-incided with the adoption of decimal currency and a dramatic drop in wool prices. The first four bales I received &pound;52 a bale, the balance of the clip was $54 and the next year it was $48 a bale. I told Heather we would have to tighten our belts to survive and live off the land as much as possible. We had a house cow for milk and cream, hens for eggs, a good vegetable garden and home killed meat. One day Heather came home from the Women&rsquo;s Institute meeting and told me that Mrs. Strawbridge from the farm to the west of us had said that the Farmers&rsquo; Co-operative Distributing Company intended to auction our farm in the New Year. I went through to Feilding and faced up to the General Manager. I was placated and the General Manager referred to the Minutes of their last creditors meeting which stated that although I owed over $3,000.00 but while the reductions carried on at the current rate, the company had little option but to carry the account. Because the season&rsquo;s surplus stock had still to come forward, Bob Belgrave, the Commission Manager was behind the desire to sell our farm. Whenever I saw him at the Feilding sale he would not look me in the eye. I did not see him again until September 2008 at a Probus Meeting in New Plymouth, and I had great pleasure in reintroducing myself and telling those within hearing what I thought of his business tactics. By now Frazer was 6 and Gregory 8 years of age. We acquired a small pony called Raffles which Greg rode. At left: Greg's pony Raffles at his new home in Levin 20 years we sold him. Raffles came up to Greg when Greg called him. We had a small hack, it would be called a pack hack, and it was a very good ambler and a nice horse to ride. Fraser rode that when we went mustering. When we did go mustering we left before daylight and the boys would come with me and we would spend most of the day out on the hill trying to get sheep out of the scrub and get them back to the yards for treatment. The wool shed was a wreck it was impossible to work when it was raining because the front wall was virtually non-existent and the floor got wet and it was impossible to stand. The following year a merchandise store in Shannon came up for sale. It was 21 ft. wide by 28 ft. long and I bought it and when I looked at getting it up to the farm I found that there was only 16ft width so we had to cut the store in half so that it was in two sections of 14ft by 21ft. I set the two sections 7ft apart and the section that was going to be the holding pen and shearing board 2ft 9&rdquo; higher than the wool room. This worked out to be a very good system. I finished it off and it gave me three shearing stands on a raised board and it was built beside the old shed and we were able to put a shearing stand on the floor where the sheep came up long the wall to get into the holding pens behind the shearing stand. This gave us four shearing stands and I contacted the Wool Board through Godfrey Bowen and asked if their team would be interested in shearing there. The learner shearers were billeted at Massey College and they did a lot of shearing in the Manawatu and Horowhenua. This was agreed to and the fourth stand on the wool room floor was very handy because the real new chum shearers could get hands on instruction from the Wool Board instructors. We called them Wool Board instructors but they were really shearing technique instructors. They helped me with my shearing, even if all I did was just watch what they were doing and how they did it. Later I actually often shore all my own sheep. I have shorn 100 sheep in the morning and 80 sheep in the afternoon. Often Heather would pick up the wool for me and she was a very good fleeco. We got good prices for our wool, often to the envy of Dave Law our neighbour. He did not realize that he had a left handed shearer in his farm team and he had a handicapped chap picking up the wool who could not differentiate between belly wool and fleece wool and it got thrown in the press altogether. The left handed shearer threw the belly wool to the left side of the board and it got mixed up with the fleece wool. The belly wool was stained, discoloured and matted. When I took over the Shannon farm there were about 400 sheep, no cattle and six horses. The previous owners were not farmers but had hoped to set up trekking business. The grass was very rank and mostly unpalatable for sheep. I took on 400 cows that local farmers Newth&rsquo;s, had bought out of drought stricken Gisborne. I also bought 400 woolly ewes which I had shorn and turned out on the hill before ear-marking them. When I brought the sheep in to earmark them I was 217 short. I saw a large number in the neighbour&rsquo;s farm and on closer inspection I found that they had gone through beside a creek that came out of Jock Easton&rsquo;s property. I fixed the fence but did not see Easton for a few days. Before I did see him, he rang Heather from a hotel and told her I had no right to fix the fence. She disagreed with him and he threatened to run her and the children off the road. In June, Newth&rsquo;s came to take their cattle away and they were 59 short. On closer inspection there were no carcasses but I recalled I had seen signs of cattle being driven down the road very early one morning. Jock had a cousin who farmed in the district around Shannon and it appears the missing cattle finished up on his Buckley Road farm where I claimed I saw them but a few days later they were gone. I asked Shannon Transport if they had shifted cattle and was told they had taken cattle to Karl Marks&rsquo; farm at Makarina. Two trucks and trailers were engaged to take the cattle to the Feilding sale but on the way Laddie had redirected them to a yard on Makino Road beyond Feilding. I called a muster on Jock&rsquo;s property and invited Laddie&rsquo;s neighbours. They got 23 sheep but I got none. That night Laddie rang me and said I would be charged with trespass if I set foot on his farm. I assured him that I knew what was going on. In spite, Jock ordered a muster on me which meant I had to bring my sheep into the yards just before lambing. As it turned out Jock did not have a registered ear mark so the stock inspector allowed me to release the sheep from the yards. Years later Jock went to the stock inspector and asked if he would give evidence to confirm that there were unsatisfactory dealings as Laddie had not paid for the cattle which was more than the sheep were worth. The first winter on the Shannon farm I took on 400 cattle belonging to local farmer Newth. The next two winters I took on 400 cattle from Hawke&rsquo;s Bay, they were railed from Waipukarau to Shannon. One of the days was Wahine Day. We coped with driving the cattle in the gale force winds. I was helped by a neighbour, Dave Law. I then applied for Marginal Lands finance to buy my own cows. Tom Lees, who had acted as our Groomsman, processed my application and recommended a loan to buy 140 cows. After they arrived I left them in the first paddock for a month and when I went to shift them they went berserk, chasing the dogs and falling over into the creeks or down steep banks. They were in good condition, but on closer inspection they were lousy. There were as many lice as there were hairs on their heads. The lice were living on the cows&rsquo; blood. The cows had to be sprayed pronto. This was prior to the pour-on days and a cattle yard had to be built in a hurry. I had been planning for that and the posts and timber were at Mitchpine preservation plant near Foxton. Day 1: The treated timber was delivered to Heights Road and I bought the bolts, hinges and gate fasteners and sharpened my spade. Day 2: I dug 23 holes to take the big posts and pulled a bundle of posts up to the site with the bulldozer. Day 3: I made five gates. The timber was saturated with preservative and the partly finished gates could only be stood up by using the blade of the bulldozer. The gates were then bolted and hinge straps fitted. Day 4: I dragged the gates to the site and after putting in the 10 key posts I was able to swing the gates. Day 5: The last of the posts and some timber were dragged to the site. I rammed up all posts and fitted the first row of 150 mm by 50 rails to the top line. The timber rails were very heavy as I stropped 1.6 metre fence posts to the big posts around the yard and lifted one end at a time and rested it on the fence post before I nailed it in place. Day 6: For the rest of the rails I used joiners&rsquo; clamps to give the correct spacing. To spray the cattle I had the use of the gorse spraying unit on the sledge with its 200 gallon tank, independent motor and spray gun. I put three cows at a time in the crush pen and sprayed all over with the lice treatment. Days 7 and 8: To get the cows into the yard I had to do it without dogs so there was a fair amount of walking. I reckon I saved 90 cows. If they were sprayed they survived. The whole exercise sent the budget into free fall as I only got 80 calves. The sheep never seemed to get so lousy but their lice were hard to see and not so damaging. During 1970 I visited the Palmerston North A and P Show and ordered 10 straws of Simmental semen. The Simmental breed of cattle has a reputation for ease of calving and it was my intention to inseminate 10 Jersey heifers. These heifers were two years old and I hoped to make the first calving a less stressful experience for them. Having Simmental Jersey or Friesian cross calves made them valuable as bobby calves. In 1972 I bought ten empty heifers (not carrying a calf fetus) at a clearing sale at Opiki. The cattle were delivered to the farm and I intended to winter them on the better grass in the middle of the farm. I drove them up the front ridge and when I opened the gate they took off down the ridge. My good dog headed them off, but the animals could not stop and turned away from the dog and went over a rocky, steep hillside and fell about 200 metres. They all died and I had to bury them The bulldozer was on the ridge above the gate that I had proposed putting the now dead cattle through. The ground was not steep but when I started the bulldozer, lifted the blade and moved forward it took off towards the hillside where the heifers went over. Fortunately the blade was operated by a cable off the power take off. I hit the control lever and the blade dropped instantly into the ground and stopped. I had been using the bulldozer in damp conditions and the tracks were full of soil to the depth of the grouser points. I had to clean all that dirt off with a large screwdriver before I could get back onto the track and drive down to the bottom of the hill and the dead cows. With the help of our neighbours, Don and Nolan Strawbridge, who were qualified cement plasterers, I built a walk through spray sheep dip. They plastered the inside of two old corrugated iron tanks of 500 gallons capacity each which, because of astute siting, could be filled by gravity. The dipping made a big difference to the look of the sheep and this was reflected in the prices I got for them at the clearing sale before we took up residence at Te Horo. For casual work on the farm I had Joe Buhler&rsquo;s youngest brother who wanted to be a vet and was studying at Massey College for a Diploma in Agriculture the best part of it as a preempt to doing a Veterinary course. He used to come down to me at the weekends and I taught him how to shear. Just last year I saw him in the Bay of Plenty and he had qualified as a vet. He owns his own farm and I asked him how he came to get the money to do the Veterinary Course as I was sure his father would not have agreed and he said he did it through shearing. He got up to shearing 300 sheep a day and spent the best part of two years shearing To help with the work on the Shannon farm I employed Lincoln College students in the summer holidays as they were required to do practical work. I had three of them, Kevin Miles, Paul Turner and Nigel Coster. In the main I got them spraying gorse and we got the front hills of the farm clear. The hills also had Tawhini and Manuka on them and I employed three Indians who had been scrub cutters on Guardian Trust farms and when they had finished there I brought them down to Shannon and had them for a week and they cut all the small manuka and tawhini. Then I went round behind them with a chain saw and cut all the big stuff , they said I was the hardest working white man they had ever seen It was all for a good cause as we got the front hills clean and over the hill in a big basin there were tall manukas - something like 16ft tall &ndash; but the ground was easy sloping and I employed Don Cottle who had a County Ford which had four big wheels the size of the rear wheels of an ordinary tractor and it was four-wheel drive. He put five rows of spade lugs on the back wheels, three rows on the front wheels and then got a Piako chopper, which was a rotary chopper which had no skids on it, and he cleared 100 acres with that. We were actually shown on Country Calendar doing that. Unfortunately this was done before Country Calendar preserved their footage and there is no record of the work. That cost me $700 which was all that I could afford at that time. When Dad came up he had seen the Country Calendar thing and had seen how much more we could have done with another $700 he said &ndash; &ldquo;Why didn&rsquo;t you let me know?&rdquo;, but I could not believe that he would have helped me. But there it is and time is a great healer. After Dad was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE) medal for his community work and work with the Young Farmers&rsquo; Clubs, I January 1972, he came up in May for the Investiture. Mum and Dad and my older sister I went to the Investiture. My sister did not come up to our place afterwards, she had to go back home as she had children had been widowed at that time by a tractor accident. But when Dad came up there was 600 hundred acres at the end of the road that was for sale for $3,700. And I said that I would like to buy it but I had not been getting on very well with the bank manager and I owed the stock firm something like a $1,000, so I was reluctant to ask. Dad said that the younger sister who was on the home farm, and her husband, had just bought the Dorset down Stud off him for $4,000; he said he had no need of the money so he would let me have it to buy those 600 acres. He told me to get an Unconditional contract and when he got home he would send me the money. While Dad was staying with us he was having a few chest pains and he was getting worried. He had had a big cancer operation 18 years before and he thought the Big C had come back. So he went back to the South Island and arranged the very next day to go into his Specialist in Dunedin, which they did. The Specialist gave him a barium meal which he had to take and return the next day for an x-ray. As he had not taken any nightwear to Dunedin he returned to Waimate. He got the pad out and said I will send that cheque off to Willie tonight, but then changed his mind and said he would wait until after the tests so he could tell me how he got on. He put the cheque book away. Next morning when they were getting settled in the car, Mum was trying to put the safety belt on Dad said she did not have to put it on until next week. Mum said she had to get use to it and he said don&rsquo;t you trust my driving to which she replied you have always said it is the other silly bugger that causes the accidents. Dad had never had an accident on the road in his life and being the National Safety Officer for the Young Farmers&rsquo; Clubs it was quite appropriate that he not had an accident as he was quite a careful driver. I do believe he turned a two-ton tractor over once and got wedged under the plough but eventually he managed to dig himself out of that. So Mum said to put the safety belt on when they got into more traffic. As they approached Glenavy &ldquo;Gilly&rdquo;Thomas who had been the secretary of the Rifle Club for the 45 years that Dad had been the President, came out of the side road, through a give way sign and drove into Dad&rsquo;s car, the two front corners hit, no glass was broken in the doors but both doors of Dad&rsquo;s were thrown open. Mum was thrown out onto the grass and sustained quite serious injuries and Dad got rolled on the road and was killed instantly. So there it was, the $4000 he was going to give me did not eventuate. I went to the funeral and found that I would get 3/10ths of the Estate, but Mum had a life interest. This meant that she had to die before I was the recipient of any money. When I came back I went to the bank and I said that I had to settle within the week. I was told that it was not possible to process an application in so short a time. But the Manager asked why I had not approached him before and I said that I knew the other neighbour up the road beside this block wanted to buy it and the vendor did not want to deal with him. I was very keen to have it because the boundary on the top and running down to the boundary at the back which was a mountain stream had no fence it was just a bush boundary and as I had heavy cattle on each winter the cattle were pushing into the bush and actually getting through the bush into this 600 acre block. I said that I knew the neighbour used this particular bank and I knew which church the neighbour went to but I did not know which church the Manager went to, so I opt out of even mentioning it to him. The Manager said he appreciated what I said but he did not go to the same church. Even though he thought I had a good case it was not possible to process it in time. I never thought of going to the vendor with whom I was on good terms, and asking for an extension. We had to re-fence the boundary between Laws&rsquo; and us on the front side above the road and so I busied myself with that. Dave Law sent up two of his staff to help me. We were putting up a fence around the bush, we were not fencing on the boundary line so I thought better than to ask him but he was big enough to say that the spring for their water supply was in that bush so if we protected the bush we protect the water supply. We were having morning tea down on the road, when two chaps who were pansies with soft wrists appeared and said they were looking for William Raymond Wright as he had won an interest free loan for $6250. That bought the extra piece of land and also cleared the overdraft at the Bank. What a terrific relief that was. The 600 acres had very little tawhini on it. It had not been top dressed but the following winter I was able to take on more cattle for winter grazing, clean it up and, in the meantime I had done some cultivation and I wanted to put in an air strip. I had to get the manure to the air strip. I had to cut a new track around rocky spurs to give the vehicle access. I became aware that the army territorial force would do such work for me. They came out one weekend and blasted all the rock. The following weekend they brought the bulldozers out. I had cultivated the strip directly in line with the legal access at the back of the farm. The army sent the graders out and they leveled the air strip for me. It was 800 meters long &ndash; admittedly there was a bit of a kink in it but when we used it we found that the planes were able to become airborne before they got to the slight bend in it. That was quite an achievement. Some years later when the Berryman&rsquo;s bought the farm at Reteruki, the farm where the swing bridge had collapsed and their only access was a row boat across the Reteruki River, I referred them to Colonel Hei Hei of the Territorial Forces at Linton with the aim of getting the Army to repair the bridge and he initially turned it down and said it was too big a job, but then he came back as he had had an approach from the Fijian Army wanting to do a bridge building exercise and he said that it fitted the bill. The Fijians came out. They set up a camp on the roadside. They built the bridge and we know now that they only used demolition oregan timber for the stanchions and the decking. The Berryman&rsquo;s gave them malthoid backing to put between the timbers but this was not done I have to come back to this story in another part of my record and explain what happened. The Berryman&rsquo;s were sent broke when trying to defend the charges brought against them by OSH and they have had Dr. Moody a lawyer, otherwise known as Lady Alice, defending them and it is only in the last week that they have won their case for compensation. A book has been written entitled &ldquo;Into the Abyss&rdquo; and that in itself is a major read, but it should be read in conjunction with any views that anybody has on the liability for the Berryman&rsquo;s in the death of Keith Richards who was the bee keeper who drove his truck and crashed through the deck and was killed in the river. There was no Pony Club at Shannon when we arrived there and our boys were riding their ponies on the hills. I thought it would be nice if they could ride with other children. My sister had been a very early member of the Pony Club organization but it turned out there were lots of catty mothers and jealous fathers and there were lots of petty squabbles over what my kid and your kid could do I talked to a few of the local people, mainly famers whose children had ponies, and said that I would like to have a social afternoon, maybe on a Sunday, where these children could get together and have some fun and maybe receive some tuition and just learn about the care of a pony. This was agreed to. I said I did not want to belong to the Horowhenua Pony Club as they were too competitive and would get into the same scenario that had afflicted all the other Pony Clubs that I knew of. Anyway the Commissioner for the Horowhenua Pony Club heard that we had held a meeting and formed a Social Pony Club and considered that we should join them and it would be mutually beneficial. We called a meeting in the Plunket Rooms and it was decided that we should have a Shannon Pony Club. I was to be the President and Mrs. McCullum would be the Secretary and that we would have a get-together on a Sunday afternoon on Sparrows property on Pretoria Road. I know that in Margery Laws&rsquo; &ldquo;History of Shannon&rdquo; Tony Cottle has been named as the person who formed the Shannon Pony Club but that is not right. The Pony Club that he got involved with after we left Shannon actually had their Pony Club grounds up behind East Road on the Dalziell property. Anyway, we progressed and when we went to Te Horo from Shannon the boys really got into the Pony Club business. They both got better horses. The little pony that Greg started off on was sold and Greg&rsquo;s grandfather sent him a horse from Rotorua, a mare named Polly. She was a young horse, but a real doll. She had been reared in Gisborne and used as a pack horse on the cattle drive to the Ngongataha Sale yards. My father in law bought her and when he sold his farm in favour of a dairy farm he sent Polly down to Shannon. We took her over to the neighbours, the Laws, who had a very good Arab stallion and mated her. We got a foal from her. This foal became a Pony Club horse, it became an area trialist horse, and it was used by the Clerk of the Course at the local race meetings. It went on to play Polo cross and then when we bought a forestry block at Shannon we used the horse called either Star or Southern Mist. He was finally put down when he was 36 years old. Polly was the first horse given to the Levin Branch of Riding for the Disabled based at Kimberley Centre. The frontage on Heights Road or rather the majority of it had not been fenced. There were gates across the road at the boundary fences. About 200 yards passed the homestead there was a gate and perhaps another two kilometers, certainly another kilometer up the road, there was no fence on our side of the road. There was a fence on the lower side and there was a fence at Laws&rsquo; boundary. Laws, over the years, had fenced their frontage. Heights Road traversed the front hills of the Tararua Range for three miles from the Levin-Shannon Road it was very tortuous but even graded. Rumour has it that the road was cut out of rock by prison labour. After the road climbed to 1,000 feet above sea level it flattened off. At the top of the block there was 400 acres of flat to easy rolling country. It was peat in places and other places it was just a clay loam. History has it that there was a very good stand kahikatea (white pine) trees on the flat. The concrete block for the saw mill was still there. There had been a sawmilling operation there at the turn of the 20th century. After that there were three dairy farms up on the flat area, but there was certainly no power to the farms and the cows were hand milked unless there was some auxiliary method. After being separated from the milk the cream had to be taken down four kilometers to the main road which is now Highway 57 and picked up by the truck. I believe they did this every second day and no doubt the three farmers took turns in doing that job.

2010-03-13T06:31:56.795Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:434897

A new event where 200 people visited central park at dusk and looked at the moon through telescopes. The moon looked amazing close up.

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a picture can tell a thousand words and this one is worth is millions

2010-03-13T06:31:09.664Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:220269

Kerry and Ernestine challenge retailers A little pink pig on the counter of an Oxford Street coffee bar is showing the way for Levin retailers. Kerry Henderson owner of Caffeinate Too was so taken with the plans for the updated cenotaph in the Levin Public Gardens that he has diverted plans for the money mounting up in his tips piggy bank. "I think the new design for the memorial is beautiful and i want it to happen," he said. Mr Henderson remembers the appeal 15 years ago for Levin woman Lyn Maclean to have a liver transplant when $100,000 was raised in a very short time. "There were signs in all the shops and a big barometer showing progress," he said. "The place was really buzzing." He thinks the town can do the same for the memorial and challenged the rest of Levin's retailers to make a donation. "If everybody gets on board $100,000 is easy to raise." Now Ernestine's &lsquo;fly me to the moon' tag has been ditched for a poster promoting the cenotaph upgrade and mr henderson is promoting the project to his customers. Ernestine was a heavy wee pig before Mr Henderson's change in plans and she has been receiving plenty of coins as well as notes since Monday. "It's something I can do and it comes from the heart," he said. Photo and story courtesy of The Chronicle, Levin

2010-03-13T06:25:02.042Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:218050

And the best is red and dark.

2010-03-13T06:22:07.795Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:218049

Getting smaller.

2010-03-13T06:22:07.735Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:218048

28.08.07 a lovely clear night and we in Levin saw it for free from our homes.

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28.08.07 a lovely clear night and we in levin saw it for free from our homes

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The night sky above Levin.

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Moon Staff (from Horowhenua Lodge) Crescent moon made of aluminium attached to black painted wooden pole by 2 screws. Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit &#8220;Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.&#8221;

2010-03-13T06:20:54.706Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:216341

Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink: &#8220;P 53&#8221; Written below pictures 1 and 2, as caption: &#8220;The whares left by Mr P. Bartholomew after the removal of his sawmill. 11.1.14.&#8221; Written below picture 3, as caption: &#8220;The old sawmill site from the terrace near the main gate leading into Leighton paddock. 11.1.14.&#8221; Written on back with black ballpoint pen - The Bartholomew sawmill occupied this site by the Makahika river from 1906. Late in 1913 the machinery was removed to a new site near the Makaretu junction with Ohau. G.L. Adkin renovated the whare next the low knoll (The &#8216;Kopje&#8217;) so that he could camp there while developing North Block. After he had married Maud Herd ( in December 1915) they spent nearly three months living here while &#8216;Woodside&#8217; homestead was built on Section 42, Queen Street East. They called it &#8216;Sonoma&#8217;, after &#8216;The Valley of the Moon&#8217; in Jack London&#8217;s novel of that name. (Adkin Coll, A.T.L) Stamped on back with black ink &#8211; Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date Three photographs of the old sawmill site, Makahika River, Horowhenua, 1 November 1914. Picture (1) top &#8211; Whare (door open) and saddled horse. Picture (2) centre &#8211; Same whare (left) and 2nd whare (right). Picture (3) bottom &#8211; Remains of sawmill site &#38; the whares. 1 B&#38;W photo print copy, mounted (composite) Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit &#8220;Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.&#8221;

2010-03-13T06:14:19.180Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:192796

&#8216;Actifed&#8217; advertisement on large poster-map of &#8216;The Earth&#8217;s Moon&#8217; 1 B&#38;W photo print Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit &#8220;Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.&#8221;

2010-03-13T06:14:12.345Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:150107

Inscription on front reads: &#8220;Horowhenua Lake&#8221;. Enlarged copy of the Boating Carnival (?1909) at Lake Horowhenua. A number of unidentified men and children appear both in the water and in boats. Chinese lanterns are strung along the jetty and out across the lake. A full moon is seen amongst clouds. Inscription on front reads: &#8220;Horowhenua Lake&#8221; Covered with plastic Same scene as 2000.356.0001 &#38; 2000.356.0002 Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit &#8220;Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.&#8221;

2010-03-13T06:10:54.889Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:150106

Inscription on front reads: &#8220;Horowhenua Lake&#8221;. Inscription on reverse reads: &#8220;Copy of postcard imported from Saxony &#38; sold by Thoimpsons Book Arcade, Levin. Estimated 1909. The launch at the far right is &#8216;The Pimple&#8217; owned by Vince Barnett. Trips across the lake were then 1/- with refreshments. Functions were held in the boathouse at night then&#8230;..remainder illegable&#8221;. Horowhenua Lake &#8211; Boating Carnival (1909?) Copy of postcard (2000.356.0001) of the Boating Carnival (?1909) at Lake Horowhenua. A number of unidentified men and children appear both in the water and in boats. Chinese lanters are strung across the jetty and out across the lake. A full moon is seen amongst clouds. Inscription on front reads: :Horowhenua Lake&#8221;. Inscription on reverse reads: &#8220;Copy of postcard imported from Saxony &#38; sold by Thompsons Book Arcade, Levin. Estimated 1909. The launch on the far right is &#8216;The Pimple&#8217; owned by Vince Barnett. Trips across the lake then were 1/- with refreshments. Functions were held in the boathouse at night then&#8230;..Remainder illegible&#8221; Same scene as 2000.356.0001 and 2000.356.0003 Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit &#8220;Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.&#8221;

2010-03-13T06:10:54.809Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:150105

Inscription on front reads: &#8220;Horowhenua Lake&#8221;. Inscription on reverse reads: &#8221; Mrs J Harvey. Carnival Lake. Ramp into boat shed&#8221;. Postcard of the Boating Carnival (?1909) at Lake Horowhenua. A number of unidentified men and children appear both in the water and in boats. Chinese lanterns are strung along the jetty and out across the lake. A full moon is seen amongst clouds. Inscription on front reads: &#8220;Horowhenua Lake&#8221; Inscription on reverse reads: &#8220;Mrs J Harvey. Carnival Lake. Ramp into boat shed&#8221;. Same scene as 2000.356.0002 &#38;2000.356.0003 Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit &#8220;Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.&#8221;

2010-03-13T06:10:54.729Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:215824

On 28 August 2007, Levin moon-watchers had a clear view of this phenomenon and took some wonderful pictures.. A total lunar eclipse will not happen for another 7 years. Did you take photos? Link them by adding them as a related image to this topic; we&#39;ll keep the best

2010-03-13T06:04:00.307Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:215783

The sunshine coast ......... but some times not !. Wild weather, sometimes you need to record it,because you might never see it again.

2010-03-13T06:03:57.497Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:215594

Minute books and other records of the Ancient Order of Druids Lodges (Horowhenua, Otaki, Whareroa), ritual book, certificate of merit, certificate of thanks, and ritual. Minute books and other records of the Ancient Order of Druids Lodges (Horowhenua, Otaki, Whareroa), ritual book, certificate of merit, certificate of thanks, and ritual staffs.

2010-03-13T06:03:44.919Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:215054

Friday, 6 April 2007. Levin had wonderful balloon flying weather with balloons taking off early morning, and again in the late afternoon.. *** If you can identify any of the people, or the balloons, please register, log-in and add your comments. *** AND please feel free to add any photos you might have - its easy and free.

2010-03-13T06:03:05.508Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:215041

Large box of photos used in the Chronicle years, approx. 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, incomplete.

2010-03-13T06:03:04.193Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:147205

2010-03-13T06:01:36.940Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:147203

2010-03-13T06:01:36.810Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:146445

Penciled on back - Mr J.H. Berry plotting the course of Apollo 11 carrying Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin &#38; Michael Collins. Fri. July 18, 1969. Stamped on back with black ink - Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. 137 Date. Mr Berry plotting Apollo 11 course, Levin, 1969 1 B&#38;W photo print Mr J.H. Berry, plotting the course of Apollo 11 (carrying &#8211; Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin &#38; Michael Collins) on large wall poster &#8211; &#8220;The Earth&#8217;s Moon&#8221;. Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit &#8220;Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.&#8221;

2010-03-13T06:00:43.820Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:146222

Written on back with blue ballpoint pen &#8211; Armstrong Neil Armstrong (American Astronaut) 1 B&#38;W photo print, copy First human to set foot on the moon. Seated, elbows on desk with hands together below chin. American flag hangs at left. Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit &#8220;Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.&#8221;

2010-03-13T06:00:27.312Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1433859

Showing street of the dead. San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexican Ry.

2010-03-13T05:44:01.471Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1074604

This outstanding residual, elliptical in plan, lies north-west of the Siberia Hill-Crater mass, at the south-western extremity of Half-moon Spur. ( Plate 14, fig. 1 .) The summit of the mountain may be described as flat-topped, though in its length of about 18 chains, it is quite narrow and rises almost 100 feet from the north-eastern end to the hi...

2010-03-13T05:41:56.334Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1070643

During January, 1941, I noticed fewer Titi Wainuis in the air at night, and this diminution in numbers was especially marked after the moon early in the month. The same condition prevailed in January, 1942, when on the 16th of the month I observed that the numbers of this species had suddenly decreased. Full moon occurred on January 3. The procedur...

2010-03-13T05:34:45.743Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1070642

The effect of the moon on the Titi Wainuis is interesting and will be studied from two angles. In the first instance I shall make records concerning its effect on adults feeding their young, and in the second, its influence on the behaviour of the unemployed population. In table XXII below my time on the island in both seasons is divided into 5-day...

2010-03-13T05:34:45.683Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1070347

The effect of the moon on the Storm Petrels is interesting and will be studied from two angles—first of all as it effects adults feeding their young, and secondly as it influences the unemployed population. On ordinary dark nights these small petrels fill the air like a cloud of butterflies, while at the same time they emit the dominating noises of...

2010-03-13T05:34:36.563Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1070345

[Footnote] † means full moon. [Footnote] NF means not fed during night. [Footnote] * means amount of food given to chick during the day by a guarding parent. [Footnote] — i.e., a minus sign, prefixed to a figure indicates that the morning weight was less than the previous evening weight. [Footnote] ‡ Chick lost due to depredations of a Titi Wainui....

2010-03-13T05:34:36.503Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1070118

The regularity with which spawning periods coincide with the appearance of full and new moon is so marked in the years 1938 and 1940 that it would appear necessary to find some reason to account for it and for the irregularity in the year 1939. In the first place, however, the question of what induces spawning must be discussed. Individuals of Cryp...

2010-03-13T05:34:25.683Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1067332

Type: Marama murdochi Marwick. a. Subgenus Marama s. str. Shell oval, inflated. Lunule oval, very large, anterior part pouting strongly, bounded by incised line; escutcheon inconspicuous. Sculpture of fine regular concentric lamellae densely crowded on type, but on earliest species spaced and high. Left hinge with long, straight, posterior cardinal...

2010-03-13T05:32:22.756Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1065783

Stewart Island .—At Half-moon Bay, above the brown-algae formation, the rocks are sprinkled with small Elminius modestus , among which Cellana strigilis, C. radians , and Monodonta aethiops are the most conspicuous shells. The upper portion of this association contains the greatest variety of species. Elminius modestus is still dominant, but there ...

2010-03-13T05:31:01.487Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1065372

An exhibit was made of photographs, taken at the Lick Observatory, of the moon and surrounding stars, to determine with great accuracy the position of the moon. This work was undertaken to enable Professor E. W. Brown, the eminent mathematical astronomer at Yale, to check his new tables of the moon. On the original plates stars as faint as the tent...

2010-03-13T05:30:43.458Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1064467

[ Read before the Otago Institute, 7th September, 1915 .] Pukeokaoka is one of the mutton-bird islands situated in Foveaux Strait. It lies about ten miles from Half-moon Bay, and is passed on the trip from Bluff to Stewart Island. It is roughly triangular in shape, and its greatest diameter is only about half a mile. It lies between Motunui and Her...

2010-03-13T05:25:31.175Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1062517

[ Note by the Editor .—The section of the moon's shadow, as it swept over the earth's surface, was in the shape of an ellipse, 190 miles in length by 90 miles in width. The only land crossed by the shadow was that part of New Zealand lying in the vicinity of Cook Strait, so that the total phases could only be observed there; the line of centrality ...

2010-03-13T05:24:03.546Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1061399

Rise up quickly, O thou Moon! make haste to get above me, that I may give vent to my sighing, and utter my laments! Now, indeed, for the first time, do I feel the pangs of love; it is as if a demon, or a lizard, were within me gnawing. If, indeed, my people, you are not willing to dwell with me, and bear me company in my distress,—you had better se...

2010-03-13T05:23:12.137Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1060623

We will now suppose the moon to be in her place, where she will effect some changes upon the water which is on the surface of our globe, but before we proceed with this we will take a short time with the moon herself. It is supposed that at one time the moon revolved on her axis, and had oceans and tides on her surface. At that time she would be go...

2010-03-13T05:22:36.567Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1060622

We will now take into consideration the ocean currents, and in doing this we are still supposed to be without the moon; but, as she has very little to do with those currents, we will proceed without her. The instability of water is so apparent that some philosopher converted this peculiarity into a proverb: “Unstable as water.” This instability and...

2010-03-13T05:22:36.517Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1060621

[ Read before the Auckland Institute, 2nd August, 1897 .] Some three years ago I read a modern book, the subject of which was the moon, the tides, and ocean currents. I came to the conclusion that the reasons given for the various phenomena were in some cases obscure, and in others doubtful affirmatives were made. However, I let the subject drop, u...

2010-03-13T05:22:36.457Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1059949

Maui, the demi-god, and Hine-nui-te-Po, Goddess of Hades or the under world, strove together as to whether death should be allowed to assail mankind. Maui held that man should but die as the moon dies—that is, that when his strength and faculties waned he should return to youth and vigour by bathing in the life-giving waters of Tane. But Hine said,...

2010-03-13T05:22:03.908Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1058837

[ Read before the Otago Institute, 4th August, 1914 .] On the 27th November, 1913, I visited this island, which lies in Foveaux Strait, about five or six miles from Half-moon Bay. As it is one of the few islands upon which Senecio Stewartiae grows, and is, moreover, the most northerly known habitat of both that plant and Poa foliosa , a few notes o...

2010-03-13T05:21:07.789Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1058540

Rona is known in New Zealand, not only by the Maori, but also by some Europeans, as “the man in the moon,” and for that reason I must not pass him over, though it is rather a rude tale. One day, while Rona was out fishing, his wife went out of the house and called, “Hoka! come down; we two—.” Hoka answered, “I dare not. Rona is a jealous being. Let...

2010-03-13T05:20:52.521Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1057508

If any apology be necessary for bringing the following paper before the Society it will be found in the fact that there will be a good occultation of the planet Venus on the evening of the 13th instant. Conjunction of ♀ with the Moon takes place at 4h. 49m. p.m., New Zealand standard time, and the planet's hour-angle is then 2h. 45m.; so that, whil...

2010-03-13T05:15:39.837Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1055093

Since this address was written and delivered, I have had the advantage of reading “General Astronomy,” by Professor Young, of New Jersey College, in which he explains very clearly the procession of the equinoxes on the principle of the gyroscope. He shows (pp. 134, 135) that the attractions of the sun and moon on the parts of the equatorial protube...

2010-03-13T05:13:44.009Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1053558

1. Stewart Island A small colony of white throated or little river shags ( Phalacrocorax brevirostris or P. melanoleucos ) occurred on Thompson's Nugget, a small sea-girt stack in Half Moon Bay. The birds had formerly nested in low Metrosideros lucida (M. umbellata ) bushes (Traill in lit.) but these had been killed as a result of their presence, a...

2010-03-13T05:12:32.680Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1052923

The moon's influence in causing high- and low-water gravity tides preponderates over all other causes, so that it will be better to comment only on the moon's tides. When referring to the tides it is generally considered that it is the attraction of the moon which causes them. This is not quite correct, as it is the attraction of the earth which do...

2010-03-13T05:12:05.726Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1048683

Nga korero o era rangi, mahue noa ake ! Promises of other days, wholly left behind! “Never trust to fine promises.” He marama koia kia hoki rua ki Taitai ? If indeed thou wert like the moon to return a second time to its place of shining? Lit. A moon indeed! to return twice to one place (or to Taitai = name of place)? Said to a person who promises ...

2010-03-13T05:04:36.470Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1048045

[ Read before the Auckland Institute, 6th December , 1905.] “ Even as the moon dies, and then, having bathed in the waters of life, returns to this world once more young and beautiful, so let man die and revive.” Such were the words of Tane, offspring of Rangi, the Sky Father, and Papa, the Earth Mother, to Hine-nui-te-Po, Goddess of Death and Hade...

2010-03-13T05:04:09.270Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1047527

The Maoris have several theories to explain the process of conception. By some tribes the pregnant state is attributed to the moon-god, who is, as we have already pointed out, “the true husband of all women.” Others believe that during sexual intercourse the male transmits to the female the life-principles ( hau and wairua ) of the fœtus, the woman...

2010-03-13T05:03:46.041Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1047526

The Maori terms for menstruation are paheke and mate marama . The former term is used also as a verb ( cf. heke , to drip); the latter literally means “monthly sickness” ( marama , the moon, the lunar month). The term atua is also sometimes applied to the menses. This word, which generally signifies “god,” or more correctly “ancestral spirit,” is a...

2010-03-13T05:03:45.972Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1047479

The mediæval physician and the astrologer of old believed that an intimate association existed between the heavenly bodies and those of men. The various organs of the human body were supposed to be governed by certain stars and planets of the Zodiac. Thus the heart was held to be in sympathy with the elements of the sun, the brain with the moon, th...

2010-03-13T05:03:43.981Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1045715

New member .—H. A. Gordon, F.G.S. Papers .—1. “Notes in Reference to the Prime Causes of the Phenomena of Earthquakes and Volcanoes,” by W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S. ( Transactions p. 331.) Mr. Crawford doubted if volcanoes were chiefly situated in tropical regions. He had been surprised to hear of late that the supposed craters in the moon were really...

2010-03-13T05:02:27.132Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1044526

Pinnotheres novae-zealandiae Filhol, Miss. de l'Ile Campbell , p. 395. Very common in the larger mussels. Lampris guttatus Brunnich: The Opah, Moon Fish, or Red Fish. Fig . 2 (A) Normal Blue Cod Head. From stuffed specimen in Otago University Museum. [Photo. by Bathgate . Fig . 2 (a). Abnormal Blue Cod Head from The Bertiers. Deposited in Otago Uni...

2010-03-13T05:01:36.443Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1042786

The President delivered his inaugural address, taking as his subject “The Sun and the Moon, with a Descriptive Account of the late Total Eclipse of the Sun.” The address was illustrated by a number of lantern-slides. By W. Dinwiddie Papers. —1. “Hawke's Bay Fisheries,” by W. Dinwiddie. By J. Caughley 2. “Exploration,” by J. Caughley. Papers. —1. “T...

2010-03-13T05:00:21.385Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1042365

Papers .—1. “On Ancient Tidal and Sea-Lore,” by W. Colenso, F.R.S. ( Transactions , p. 418 .) 2. “On a Stereoscopic Aspect of the Moon,” by J. Hardcastle. ( Transactions , p. 428 .) Exhibits .—Mr. Colenso exhibited some interesting specimens, among them were two samples of naturally variegated wool, sent to him by Mr. Balfour, of Glenross. Also a c...

2010-03-13T04:55:46.980Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1042030

By the Ven. Archdeacon Stock . (Communicated to the Wellington Philosophical Society by Dr. Buller, C.M.G., F.L.S.) [ Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 7th August , 1875.] At Dr. Buller's request I send the following observations:—“In 1854 (time of year uncertain), at half-an-hour after sunset, and moon at full, I saw, at Paikakarik...

2010-03-13T04:55:34.631Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1041668

* This paper was a review of the progress recently made in our knowledge of the subject, and especially the bearing of Nasmyth and Carpenter's examination of the moon's surface, and the work by Mattieu Williams on the “Fuel of the Sun.” The author [Footnote] * The author desires it to be stated that, since reading the above paper, he has found that...

2010-03-13T04:55:23.101Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1035216

By D. L. Poppelwell . [ Read before the Otago Institute, 12th June, 1917; received by Editors, 22nd December, 1917; issued separately, 24th May, 1918 .] On the 10th April, 1917, in company with Mr. G. Biggar, of Croydon, I had the opportunity, by courtesy of Mr. Henry Hansen, of Half-moon Bay, of spending a few hours on the above island—one of thos...

2010-03-13T04:51:44.445Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1034829

By D. L. Poppelwell . [ Read before the Otago Institute, 7th September, 1915 .] Pukeokaoka is one of the mutton-bird islands situated in Foveaux Strait. It lies about ten miles from Half-moon Bay, and is passed on the trip from Bluff to Stewart Island. It is roughly triangular in shape, and its greatest diameter is only about half a mile. It lies b...

2010-03-13T04:51:33.365Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1034433

By D. L. Poppelwell . [ Read before the Otago Institute, 4th August, 1914 .] On the 27th November, 1913, I visited this island, which lies in Foveaux Strait, about five or six miles from Half-moon Bay. As it is one of the few islands upon which Senecio Stewartiae grows, and is, moreover, the most northerly known habitat of both that plant and Poa f...

2010-03-13T04:51:21.226Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1032760

By Professor W. B. Benham , D.Sc., F.R.S., Otago University. [Read before the Otago Institute, 7th December, 1909.] Some time last year I was informed by Mr. F. W. Murdoch, of Half-moon Bay, that he had discovered the bones of a couple of moas, one larger than the other, in the sandhills at Mason Bay, on the west coast of Stewart Island; and recent...

2010-03-13T04:50:32.427Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1032662

By L. Cockayne , Ph.D. [ Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th November , 1908.] Trichomanes reniforme , Forst. f. This is an extremely rare fern in Stewart Island. Kirk (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xvii, p. 230) gives Paterson Inlet and Half-moon Bay as its habitats, writing, “Restricted to a few square yards above high-water mark...

2010-03-13T04:50:29.477Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1031742

By Elsdon Best. [ Read before the Auckland Institute, 6th December , 1905.] “ Even as the moon dies, and then, having bathed in the waters of life, returns to this world once more young and beautiful, so let man die and revive.” Such were the words of Tane, offspring of Rangi, the Sky Father, and Papa, the Earth Mother, to Hine-nui-te-Po, Goddess o...

2010-03-13T04:45:41.613Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1030298

The President delivered his inaugural address, taking as his subject “The Sun and the Moon, with a Descriptive Account of the late Total Eclipse of the Sun.” The address was illustrated by a number of lantern-slides.

2010-03-13T04:45:00.354Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1029281

Papers .—1. “Description of a New Species of Coprosma ,” by D. Petrie, F.L.S. ( Transactions , p. 433 .) 2. “The Tides, the Ocean Currents, and the Moon,” by W. Buchanan. ( Transactions , p. 79 .) The author endeavoured to show that the theories generally accepted respecting the tides and the ocean currents were not in all cases satisfactory, and c...

2010-03-13T04:44:31.444Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1028862

By W. Buchanan . [ Read before the Auckland Institute, 2nd August, 1897 .] Some three years ago I read a modern book, the subject of which was the moon, the tides, and ocean currents. I came to the conclusion that the reasons given for the various phenomena were in some cases obscure, and in others doubtful affirmatives were made. However, I let th...

2010-03-13T04:44:19.629Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1028394

Papers .—1. “Two Coming Eclipses,” by Professor H. W. Segar. This paper gave an account of an eclipse of the moon (partial) to come off on the evening of the 3rd September, and a partial eclipse of the sun to take place on the 19th September.

2010-03-13T04:44:06.005Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1027905

By Major-General Schaw , C.B., R.E. [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 17th October, 1894.] The reflection of light from smooth water or water agitated by gentle ripples is a natural phenomenon which is familiar to to us all, whether the light be that of the sun, or moon, or a brilliant planet like Jupiter, or of artificial lights l...

2010-03-13T04:43:51.705Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1024990

By J. Hardcastle . [ Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute , 15 th August , 1887.] The full moon presents the appearance of a disc, not of a sphere, to most if not all people, and I have never met with any other description of her appearance. But, by a little ingenuity, a truly stereoscopic view of our satellite may be had. If, when t...

2010-03-13T04:42:29.497Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1024948

New member .—H. A. Gordon, F.G.S. Papers .—1. “Notes in Reference to the Prime Causes of the Phenomena of Earthquakes and Volcanoes,” by W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S. ( Transactions p. 331.) Mr. Crawford doubted if volcanoes were chiefly situated in tropical regions. He had been surprised to hear of late that the supposed craters in the moon were really...

2010-03-13T04:42:28.267Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1021111

From the time of the publication of Mr. Bailly's paper, in 1836, on the luminous prominences seen round the limb of the moon during a total eclipse—and which were thence named “Bailly's beads”—down to the eclipse of 1870, total eclipses of the sun were looked to by astronomers and physicists with the greatest anxiety; and expeditions were fitted ou...

2010-03-13T04:40:33.849Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1021104

New Members .—F. G. Ewington, D. Fallon, A. Rubery. 1. “Notes on the approaching Eclipse, to take place on 18th September, 1876,” by T. Heale. From the time of the publication of Mr. Bailly's paper, in 1836, on the luminous prominences seen round the limb of the moon during a total eclipse—and which were thence named “Bailly's beads”—down to the ec...

2010-03-13T04:40:33.559Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1525028

Cartoon showing George Fisher wading through the water off Thorndon Quay, and, in a boat, another man, possibly a self-portrait of ex-Mayor William Hutchison. Several ducks are also paddling in the water. The reference in the associated doggerel is to the Government's failure to proceed on time with the Thorndon Reclamation, and to build a wharf close to Thorndon Quay. In the background are the Government Departmental Buildings, St Paul's Pro-Cathedral and Thorndon Railway Station with a steam train.

2010-03-13T04:35:51.645Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1524270

The scene shows the inside of a church. Through the window the moon shines bright and before the alter stands Don Brash, Leader of the National Party, looking increasingly anxious as he waits for his prospective bride Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First and his bridesmaid Peter Dunne, Leader of United Future. A cleaning lady comments as she vacuums round his feet that it's midnight and she doesn't think they will show up now. Refers to Don Brash's failed negotiations in an attempt to create a viable government after the 2005 elections.

2010-03-13T04:35:27.085Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1520382

One face of Keith Holyoake looks benignly down on ordinary citizens, while the dark side, with his hat still on, glares at civil servants and makes them jump. The story was that if he sat down at his desk with his hat still on, it was going to be a rough day for officials.

2010-03-13T04:33:57.047Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1020127

By the Ven. Archdeacon Stock . (Communicated to the Wellington Philosophical Society by Dr. Buller, C.M.G., F.L.S.) [ Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 7th August , 1875.] At Dr. Buller's request I send the following observations:—“In 1854 (time of year uncertain), at half-an-hour after sunset, and moon at full, I saw, at Paikakarik...

2010-03-13T04:31:49.910Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1019454

By T. Heale . [ Read before the Auckland Institute , 10 th November , 1873.] All the methods in use for ascertaining the longitude, independently of chronometers, depend upon the observation of the moon's position at a certain instant of time at the place, then ascertaining from the tables of the moon in the nautical almanac, or other similar publi...

2010-03-13T04:31:31.150Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1018997

The author explained that total or annular eclipses could only take place when the line of syzigies coincided with the line of nodes, and partial eclipses of the sun and moon when their angular distances did not exceed 12° and 15° respectively; that since nineteen synodical revolutions of the nodes occupy 6585.78 days, and 223 revolutions of the mo...

2010-03-13T04:31:17.971Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1018386

The instrument used for the observations to obtain the longitude at the Hutt Observatory, as given in the accompanying table, is a 24-inch transit of a new construction, by Troughton and Simms. The standards are half-moon shaped and hollow, two inches radius at the base and tapering slightly towards the Ys; they are fixed on a massive brass plate w...

2010-03-13T04:30:58.761Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1018381

by Henry Jackson, Chief Surveyor of the Province of Wellington. This valuable paper, with the attached tables, is to be printed in full by the Government, but the following abstract has been furnished by the author for immediate publication. The result of the observations so far, when reduced to the longitude of the Wellington Observatory, only mak...

2010-03-13T04:30:58.630Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1018327

2. “On the Moon and the Weather,” by J. S. Webb. After pointing out that observations made by the Earl of Rosse confirm the opinion that the heat radiated from the moon has very little to do with the changes of weather, Mr. Webb proceeds to say :—The following facts, however, tend to the conclusion that the moon does exercise some influence on the ...

2010-03-13T04:30:57.211Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1512116

Shows Buller River, between high cliffs at night, the moon breaking through clouds and a canoe containing three or four figures being poled along

2010-03-13T04:24:48.558Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1507002

Raglan, 12 February 1917. Photograph taken by the Gilmour Brothers. View shows Raglan, with the Harbour beyond. The business premises of the Gilmour Brothers (Raglan Stores) and Moon & Cameron are visible, and the Harbour View Hotel is seen in the centre.

2010-03-13T04:23:20.550Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1501122

Shows the Speaker of the House as a donkey wearing the speaker's wig and robe. He is tip-toeing out under the moon. Refers to the Legislature Act 1908, the anomalies of laws and the accountability of members of parliament.

2010-03-13T04:21:40.591Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1499345

Text, with cover showing two identical panels depicting a woman standing at the deck rail of a ship, watching another ship steam by. It is night and there is a half-obscured moon in the sky. The flag of the Oceanic Steamship Company is at top left.

2010-03-13T04:21:10.492Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1492228

Montage of three photographs showing Te Uku Post Office and the postmaster, Ernest C Moon, who suffered a physical disability. One photograph shows Ernest Moon writing with his foot. Photographs incorporated into postcard ca 1910s by F G Radcliffe. The photograph of Te Uku Post Office was taken by Gilmour Brothers in 1910. The two photographs of Ernest Moon were taken by unknown photographers.

2010-03-13T04:14:53.960Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1491275

Shows arrangement of text over various dramatic scenes from the story, showing the moon and stars, an elegantly dressed woman,, a ball, a train, a blind man, a sea rescue, and bats flying.

2010-03-13T04:14:36.970Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1488539

Original caption reads: "Command Post personnel of E Troop, 163 Bty, post outside their Command Post after one of the first snowfalls of the New Year. L to R: Gnr Trevor McGregor, Feilding; Gnr Brian Moon, Avondale; Lt Murray Stanaway, Tangowahine; Gnr Allan Lawson, Christchurch". Photograph taken in Korea, ca January 1952, by Ian Mackley.

2010-03-13T04:13:50.201Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1485062

Raglan, from the top of Bow Street, 1 July, 1910. Photograph taken by the Gilmour Brothers. The business premises of the Gilmour Brothers and Moon & Cameron, and also the Harbour View Hotel are all visible left centre.

2010-03-13T04:12:48.783Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1482665

An overweight, badly dressed, sweating and stressed member of the New Zealand Flat Earth Society writes to complain about the newspaper's printing of a photograph of the Earth taken from the Moon. This is a comment about truth and relates to the row about the publishing of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers.

2010-03-13T04:11:58.469Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1482647

There are two frames. The first, which is labelled 'The evil empire' shows a large image of a hammer and sickle. A voice from an unseen person instructs a little man with a paintpot who is standing on a ladder to paint out the sickle handle and modify the hammer. In the second frame, in which the image is labelled 'The evil empire, Islam', we see that the person giving the instructions is United States President George Bush who comments 'That's better' as the hammer and sickle is transformed to the sickle moon and star of the Islam flag. Refers to the paranoia that causes the United States to designate the current bugbear, 'the evil empire'. Once it was Russian Communism and now it is Islam.

2010-03-13T04:11:57.374Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1478481

A three-quarter length portrait of Taratoa seated on a hillside in front of a palisade fence on the skyline 60 paces away. A flag flies on the flagpole by the fence. The flag has a red background, with (top left to bottom right) a Christian cross, an inverted new moon, and a 5-pointed star. Taratoa wears a rural European grey smock and bark (grey?) neckerchief.

2010-03-13T04:10:05.982Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1471771

There are three small cartoons. [1] Two older men observe a young man spray painting on a wall. A reference to Labour's educational policy that aims to keep youth in school until the age of 18. [2] A couple sit in chairs reading. The man comments after reading the paper about youth crime rates rising. A reference to Annette King's comments that the rise in youth crime rates is due to hot weather and the full moon. [3] Helen Clark stands behind a podium on which is written, 'State of the nation.' She says that her plans to talk about law and order have been foiled, because someone took her notes. A reference to the fact that both National and Labour had very similar policies and talking points.

2010-03-13T04:04:32.193Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1465720

Cadastral map of the Whaingaroa River from Raglan Harbour, showing the township, Kaikatea Bush, Native Land, several named land lots, some of which give acreage. Named land lots include Davy, Chamberlin, Turton, Johnston, Johstone [sic], Wallis, Cox, Sutton, Moon, A.B.G., Jo. Harota, Stewart, Purgusson, J. Moon, G. Moon, Cogswell, J. Shimmin, Kescet, Sole and Forman.

2010-03-13T04:03:05.614Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1465459

Title inscribed on a crest with a rising moon and cupid. A commemoration of the artist's marriage to his wife Maud. The marriage was in 1884 not 1885.

2010-03-13T04:03:00.944Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1461116

Shows two birds on a tree, overlooking a town, and silhouetted against the moon.

2010-03-13T04:02:03.977Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1459406

General view of Raglan with Raglan Harbour beyond. The business premises of Gilmour Brothers Raglan stores, and Moon & Cameron, are visible, as well as the Harbour View Hotel. Taken circa 1911 by 'G B', probably Gilmour Brothers of Raglan. Dated from images in the same sequence of numbers.

2010-03-13T04:01:41.376Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1456108

Raglan, viewed from Green Street, 1 August 1910, photographed by the Gilmour Brothers. The Harbour View Hotel is seen centre right, with the sign for Moon & Cameron's business premises to the right. A church building is in the right foreground.

2010-03-13T04:00:39.217Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1452276

Shows man as hunter leading a wolf across the desert. The man talks about the need for wolves to learn respect of man. As the sun goes down and the moon rises a pack of wolves close in on the man and then spring to the attack. The man runs.

2010-03-13T03:55:16.374Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1449650

Original caption reads: "Lobby groups Not in Our Name and the Kawanatanga Network. From left, Jan Logie, Rona Bailey, Mary Moon, Phillip Tremewan, Race Relations Conciliator John Clarke, Gwenda Paul and Barbara Lambourne. Two pakeha race relations groups have met Conciliator John Clarke to pressure him to speak out on the fiscal envelope..." (Evening Post, 28 March 1995).

2010-03-13T03:54:35.465Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1447803

Shows a fairy holding flowers and riding through the air, standing on the back of a bat, and passing over a sprig of blossom and a blossom fairy. There is a large moon in the background.

2010-03-13T03:54:05.024Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1431063

Invitation card to a ball. The name of the invitee is not filled in. The border incorporates the figure of a woman holding up the announcement, and there is a black cat sitting on a new moon in the top right corner.

2010-03-13T03:53:21.676Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1430466

Shows a tramper standing beside a small stream in a shallow gully.

2010-03-13T03:53:10.857Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1430364

Shows two sailing boats at the Bay and a house in the background

2010-03-13T03:53:09.217Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1429313

Raglan, from the top of Stewart Street, 1 July, 1910. Photograph taken by the Gilmour Brothers. The business premises of the Gilmour Brothers and Moon & Cameron, and also the Harbour View Hotel are all visible centre right.

2010-03-13T03:52:51.457Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1424797

Eileen Mayo's Christmas card for a date between 1953 and 1962, when her address was 33 Holdsworth Street, Neutral Bay, Sydney. It shows a dark side and a light side, with combined sun and moon at the top, mistletoe, holly and ivy down the left, Australian flora down the right and a dark and a light hand grasping the other at the base. The colouring is white and maroon

2010-03-13T03:51:34.278Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:25055

A little boy puts a cat in front of his father’s telescope installed to observe the moon. When his father looks through the telescope he sees the silhouette of a cat on the moon. Convinced that cats live on the moon, the man invites his colleagues to show them his big discovery. The trick is discovered and the boy punished for his folly. Video excerpt (2.5 MB; 000:51)

2010-03-13T03:46:07.975Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:199875

Whilst the moon shines brightly The weapons are placed in battle array ; And we are determined, while you are fearful . Our spears did not take effect , Nor did yours, for ye came not nigh . Are ye coming to the contest ? Ah ye will be driven hence , For know that even the drowsy Ones of the fortress await your attack .

2010-03-13T03:40:16.792Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:199366

The city closes round me. Though the moon is high I hear no morepork cry. There is no quiet bay where I can gather pipis to cook upon the sands with driftwood…. The pavement is hard, My feet long for the soft earth tracks of the bushland. The city is noisy Bright lights dim the stars. A far away village calls, ‘Hoki, hoki,’ Marie Andersen

2010-03-13T03:35:21.538Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:199030

No one comes by way of the doughy track through straggly tea tree bush and gorse, past the hidden spring and bitter cress. Under the chill moon's light no one cares to look upon the drunken fence-posts and the gate white with moss. No one except the wind saw the old place make her final curtsy to the sky and earth: and in no protesting sense did iron and barbed wire ease to the rust's invasion nor twang more tautly to the wind's slap and scream . On the cream lorry or morning paper van no one co...

2010-03-13T03:35:00.799Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:198884

(Translation) Oh, my loved ones, let's come together, For now the sting of pain is racking, Tugging at the heart strings of the select, The stars and the moon have fallen, What has brought you down so low, If not a storm that raged in heaven? Not the Lord, but a huia of recent flight, Seen flying over the hills Why have you not risen above the horizon? Your fame has gone forth to evoke love at home, And to assuage poignant sorrow, Go in your greatness to the nether world, There to be greeted by ...

2010-03-13T03:34:51.819Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:197941

Silver as no metal Ever shone Does the full moon Fall upon Still water. With the touch Of shining wonder All dross of day Fades away And dies in sheer Enchantment. Enraptured now, Caressed, Kissed, Wind-fondled, The trembling bay Bares her beauty To the black sky, To the winking stars And the glowing moon. Cool-fingered light Probing the soft cloud Finds the virgin sea, Touches her In secret places. Thus the moon And the sea And the beauty without end. Beauty before I was, Beauty when I am not. ...

2010-03-13T03:33:53.080Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:197368

Go down, old friend, to warm beaches where the sand still speaks of your young love; where the smoke of ancient fires still stings in the nostrils. Go down, old friend, where heaps of long opened shells glitter in the light of old moons; where the music of forgotten songs lingers in the listening ear. Go down, old friend, to the circle of familiar faces which opens to make room for you. Tell the old tales in their first flush of fresh and bawdy life; make music again on broken strings. Leave us,...

2010-03-13T03:33:20.991Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:197225

When the kowhai is in bloom the kina tongues are yellow and full, but sour; when the pohutukawa is in bloom, they are red, full and sweet. Kina may be harvested during the months of October, November, December, January and February. The best times to harvest them are at low tide on the first, second and third days after the full moon. There are two better known varieties: Kina ariki, a long-spiked variety, and Kina korako, a short-spiked variety. A screwdriver with a long wooden handle, tied to ...

2010-03-13T03:33:12.391Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:196739

Na Mone Taumaunu na Turanga Nga Marama Pipiri Hono-noi Here-turi-koka Mahuru Whiringa-nuku Whiringa-rangi Hakihea Kohi-ta-tea Hue-ta-nguru Poutu-te-rangi Paenga-whawha Haratau Hei Whakamaori i tenei e mau ake nei— No. 1 (Whiro) Ko te raii muri iho o ta te pakeha new moon. a No. 15 (Rakaunui) Ko te ra i muri iho o ta te pakeha full moon. The Months June July August September October November December January February March April May To read this Calendar— No. 1 (Whiro) falls on the day after a ne...

2010-03-13T03:32:42.081Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:196647

Columbia 33MS 7565. 10. 33 £1/3 LP This disc features eight songs of New Zealand sung by Doug King (Ko Latene) with Dick Carr and his Drifters. For example there are such well-known favourites as ‘Ah-e-re-mai’ which proved to be Sam Freedman's ‘Haere mai, everything is kapai’ (the disc describes it as trad. arr. Freeman) and ‘Ah-e-re-ra’ which is heaven knows what. Nice try, Doug, but come out and visit us sometime and you might learn a few things. However, I must give this disc its due. If you ...

2010-03-13T03:32:36.461Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:195309

(Translation) Oh, my loved ones, let's come together, For now the sting of pain is racking, Tugging at the heart strings of the select, The stars and the moon have fallen, What has brought you down so low, If not a storm that raged in heaven? Not the Lord, but a huia of recent flight, Seen flying over the hills Why have you not risen above the horizon? Your fame has gone forth to evoke love at home, And to assuage poignant sorrow, Go in your greatness to the nether world, There to be greeted by ...

2010-03-13T03:31:16.513Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1352412

I tangohia tēnei whakaāhua o te rerenga o Tamanui-te-rā i tētahi waka ātea. Mai i runga ki raro ko Takero (Mercury), ko Tāwera – (hei te atatū), ko Meremere-tū-ahiahi rānei (hei te ahiahi), ko Kōpū (Venus); kei raro iho ko Te Ao me te Marama (earth and moon), ko Matawhero (Mars), ko Pareārau ko Hine-i-tīweka ranei (Jupiter); hei ētahi ko Pareārau anō te ingoa mō te aorangi e kīia ana e te Pākehā ko Saturn. Nā te tawhiti pāmamao o Uranus, o Neptune, kāore e tareka te kite ā-kanohi, kāore he ingoa...

2010-03-13T03:24:03.472Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1352238

Ka monoa te Māori ki te kōtare nā te mea ka kimi kai ana a ia kāore mō te nekeneke, kaore mō te aha, kia hihiko rawa te rere ki te kai. Koirā te take ka whakaritea te tūtei mataara ki te kōtare.

2010-03-13T03:23:52.292Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:202609

myself that which I like, and I shall hold to it even to the world of darkness. I am not yet the wife of Ponga, but if my parents and people like to visit this pa when the moon is full, my husband will prepare a feast for my parents. If my parents come guided by the god of war I will not blame myself; if that is the manner in which they come, they will not see me alive. I shall meet them in the world of the spirits.’ She went up again to the pa, and as she climbed the canoe still floated there, ...

2010-03-13T03:23:27.452Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:202526

For the rest of that day Turongo was in a turmoil. Would the great Ariki, or High Chief, Tuaka, consent to his beloved daughter marrying a stranger? With this thought his spirits fell; but he, too, was of ariki line, ran his thoughts, and his spirit rose again. That night Turongo hurried to their trysting-place. For a long time he waited. Would she never come? Presently the moon rose, and Mahinarangi had not come … Perhaps he was mistaken … It might be someone else. Then, as the full moon lit up...

2010-03-13T03:23:22.233Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:202477

For the rest of that day Turongo was in a turmoil. Would the great Ariki, or High Chief, Tuaka, consent to his beloved daughter marrying a stranger? With this thought his spirits fell; but he, too, was of ariki line, ran his thoughts, and his spirit rose again. That night Turongo hurried to their trysting-place. For a long time he waited. Would she never come? Presently the moon rose, and Mahinarangi had not come … Perhaps he was mistaken … It might be someone else. Then, as the full moon lit up...

2010-03-13T03:23:19.003Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:202101

first heaven is the path along which travel the sun and the moon. The heaven above this first one, that is the second heaven, is the home of the rain, fog and water. Above this is the third heaven, where the winds live; the fourth heaven has the spirits of men (wairua), and the fifth heaven is that of the world of daylight. The heavens above these ones are those of the great gods of the sun. The tenth heaven is the heaven of Rehua, and is the most glorious of them all. But some of our own priest...

2010-03-13T03:22:54.933Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:202068

The following is the Legend of Rona. One bright moonlight night Rona was sent to fetch some water from a stream; in her hand was a basket, which contained a gourd. On her way to the water the moon suddenly disappeared behind a cloud, and the road being bad, she kicked her foot against some of the shrubs. This made her angry, and in her rage she cursed the moon, saying, “Wicked moon, not to come forth and shine.” This conduct of Rona's displeased the moon very much, who at once came down to the e...

2010-03-13T03:22:52.863Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:201970

When the kowhai is in bloom the kina tongues are yellow and full, but sour; when the pohutukawa is in bloom, they are red, full and sweet. Kina may be harvested during the months of October, November, December, January and February. The best times to harvest them are at low tide on the first, second and third days after the full moon. There are two better known varieties: Kina ariki, a long-spiked variety, and Kina korako, a short-spiked variety. A screwdriver with a long wooden handle, tied to ...

2010-03-13T03:22:46.544Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:201747

The following is the Legend of Rona. One bright moonlight night Rona was sent to fetch some water from a stream; in her hand was a basket, which contained a gourd. On her way to the water the moon suddenly disappeared behind a cloud, and the road being bad, she kicked her foot against some of the shrubs. This made her angry, and in her rage she cursed the moon, saying, “Wicked moon, not to come forth and shine.” This conduct of Rona's displeased the moon very much, who at once came down to the e...

2010-03-13T03:22:32.054Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:201211

do a thing, she will accomplish her purpose. Farewell, I will return to my people, and when the moon is full I and my people will be at your pa-kuwha [marriage] feast.’ All this time Puhihuia was standing listening to what her mother said; but as soon as her mother had finished, she went and pressed noses with the young women whom she had defeated, and then with the others who had not risen to fight her; then she waved her hand to Ponga, and when he reached her side, she said, ‘Let us go to the ...

2010-03-13T03:21:58.025Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:201210

In the December ‘Te Ao Hou’ there is a photograph of an old flag which used to belong to Te Kooti. You mention two of the symbols on this flag (the cross and the crescent moon), but you do not say anything about the letters ‘W I’ which also appear on it. Have you any information as to the meaning of these two letters? P. EDWARDS

2010-03-13T03:21:57.965Z