Molecular phylogeny and dating of Asteliaceae (Asparagales): Astelia s.l. evolution provides insight into the Oligocene history of New Zealand

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne L. Birch ◽  
Sterling C. Keeley ◽  
Clifford W. Morden
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

scholarly journals Grassroots of Recordkeeping: an Investigation into  Archival Practices within Rugby Clubs in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christine Marie Edney
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social History ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Association ◽  
Archival Practices ◽  
Insight Into

<p>The sport of rugby has been officially played in New Zealand since as early as 1870. In the early years of rugby, the rugby club was one place where the community gathered to participate and communicate. It was a hub of the local community and a place which revealed some of the social history of that community. It is where some memories of the community could be captured and this history now needs to be maintained. The purpose of this research is to establish what rugby clubs have done to preserve the archives of the club for the future. It is to investigate if these clubs are even aware of what archives they have and what practices they are carrying out to preserve them. It is these records which contain some of the history of the community and they need to be preserved for future generations so that they can get an insight into the past. The research has been carried out with the participation of seven rugby clubs in the Wellington region with a visit to each club. A club official was interviewed and at the same time there was an opportunity to view the club premises. This research established that from those clubs only one had a good understanding of its holdings and had put an archiving plan into action. Another is about to get the assistance of an archivist. The findings of this research have highlighted the need for education and guidance in the correct archival practices to be carried out. All clubs taking part thought the idea of a manual or guidelines would be of great assistance. If this idea is to be carried through it should be led and encouraged by the clubs' main association, the New Zealand Rugby Union [NZRU]. The idea will need to be promoted to the NZRU to get assistance with development and funding.</p>

scholarly journals Grassroots of Recordkeeping: an Investigation into  Archival Practices within Rugby Clubs in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christine Marie Edney
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social History ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Association ◽  
Archival Practices ◽  
Insight Into

<p>The sport of rugby has been officially played in New Zealand since as early as 1870. In the early years of rugby, the rugby club was one place where the community gathered to participate and communicate. It was a hub of the local community and a place which revealed some of the social history of that community. It is where some memories of the community could be captured and this history now needs to be maintained. The purpose of this research is to establish what rugby clubs have done to preserve the archives of the club for the future. It is to investigate if these clubs are even aware of what archives they have and what practices they are carrying out to preserve them. It is these records which contain some of the history of the community and they need to be preserved for future generations so that they can get an insight into the past. The research has been carried out with the participation of seven rugby clubs in the Wellington region with a visit to each club. A club official was interviewed and at the same time there was an opportunity to view the club premises. This research established that from those clubs only one had a good understanding of its holdings and had put an archiving plan into action. Another is about to get the assistance of an archivist. The findings of this research have highlighted the need for education and guidance in the correct archival practices to be carried out. All clubs taking part thought the idea of a manual or guidelines would be of great assistance. If this idea is to be carried through it should be led and encouraged by the clubs' main association, the New Zealand Rugby Union [NZRU]. The idea will need to be promoted to the NZRU to get assistance with development and funding.</p>

scholarly journals A Forum on the Future of Australia’s NBN

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. ii-v
Author(s):  
Mark A Gregory
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Consumer Interest ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Broadband Network ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Insight Into

The future of the $51 billion Australian National Broadband Network (NBN) remains unknown, with the Government still to commit to a course of action after the current build phase. Industry representatives have recently voiced their concerns about a potential future sale of the NBN and how this would occur. In response, the Telecommunications Association is hosting a public forum on the future of the NBN on 31 July 2019 at RMIT University. Papers in the June 2019 issue of the Journal include discussion on consumer interest in 5G in New Zealand, the history of Australian mail handling and technical papers covering a range of interesting topics. This month we include a paper titled Measuring Digital Inequality in Australia: the Australian Digital Inclusion Index that provides an important insight into digital inclusion. The Journal welcomes further contributions on telecommunications and the digital economy.

scholarly journals Phylogeography of the Cran’s bully Gobiomorphus basalis (Gobiiformes: Eleotridae) and an analysis of species boundaries within the New Zealand radiation of Gobiomorphus

2020 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-381
Author(s):  
James J Shelley ◽  
Bruno O David ◽  
Christine E Thacker ◽  
Andy S Hicks ◽  
Matt G Jarvis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Taupo Volcanic Zone ◽  
Species Boundaries ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
The North ◽  
Mitochondrial Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
North And South ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract New Zealand has a complex recent history of climatic and tectonic change that has left variable signatures in the geographic distribution and genetic structure of the region’s flora and fauna. To identify concordant patterns, a broad range of taxa must be examined and compared. In New Zealand’s North Island, a consensus is forming as to the dominant biogeographic barriers in the region although obligate freshwater taxa have not been considered in this framework. We use single-nucleotide polymorphisms to investigate phylogeography in the widespread obligate freshwater fish Gobiomorphus basalis on the North Island. Phylogeographic patterns within G. basalis reveal biogeographic disjunctions that are in some ways consistent and in other ways at odds with established patterns, providing insight into the processes that have shaped the islands’ biogeography. We also use phylogeography to delineate species boundaries within the entire New Zealand radiation of Gobiomorphus and find that it contains several morphologically cryptic species. We resolve two clades within G. basalis that correspond to areas north and south of the Taupo Volcanic Zone. We confirm the distinctiveness of Gobiomorphus alpinus relative to Gobiomorphus cotidianus, as well as the presence of two lineages within Gobiomorphus breviceps that were previously identified based on mitochondrial data.

scholarly journals Unbuilt Sixties: The Unsuccessful Entries in the Christchurch Town Hall Competition

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Ian Lochhead
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
National Competition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Insight Into

The completion of the Christchurch Town Hall in 1972 marked the end of a process which had begun in 1964 with a national competition, the largest and most prestigious of the post-war era in New Zealand and one of the major architectural events of the 1960s. Although Warren and Mahoney's winning design has assumed a prominent place in New Zealand architecture, unsuccessful designs by among others, Pascoe & Linton; Lawry & Sellars; Austin, Dixon & Pepper; Gabites & Beard and Thorpe, Cutter, Pickmere, Douglas & Partners, are virtually forgotten. These designs deserve to be better known since they offer an invaluable insight into the range of architectural approaches being employed during the mid sixties. Standing apart from the short listed designs is Peter Beaven's more widely published entry, which was singled out by the jury as being especially meritorious. The paper will examine unrealised designs for the Christchurch Town Hall in the context of contemporary attitudes towards concert hall and civic centre design. Approaches ranged from the Miesian international modernism of Lawry and Sellars to the sculptural forms of Beaven's proposal in which influences as diverse as Aalto, Scharoun and Mountfort are strikingly integrated. The paper will also assess Warren and Mahoney's unbuilt civic centre design within the framework of the competition entries as a whole. Such unbuilt designs constitute an important, but largely invisible part of the architecture of the 1960s and deserve to be re-inscribed within in the history of the period.

scholarly journals The Prince and the railwaymen: the origins of the 1920 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants' strike

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Revell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

This paper provides an account of the events which culmininated in the 1920 railways strike. Focusing on the period 1913-1920. it exa1nines the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants' (ASRS) executive's attempts to provide for the members needs in the face of ever increasing difficulties. It also provides some insight into the history of other labour groups and illustrates how workers in New Zealand united once rheir problems became too big to handle alone. Nevertheless the policies followed by the ASRS execurive were always those which were expected to yield the most benefits to ASRS numbers despite the feelings of orher labour groups.

scholarly journals The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage in Early Colonial New Zealand: Fitzgerald v Clifford (1846)

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Megan Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

In 1846, the first breach of promise of marriage case was heard by the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Unlike many other breach of promise cases heard throughout the Empire during the nineteenth century, this case was not publicly reported. Rather, it is a case that exists only within the pages of Justice Chapman's judicial notebook, absent from the newspaper court reports of the time. This action was relatively rare in the colony but the testimonies of witnesses examined enable us to gain an insight into matters of class, courtship, family, reputation and social protocols in the mid-nineteenth century. This paper considers the legal history of the action in New Zealand from 1842-1875, focussing on the case of Fitzgerald v Clifford (1846) to explore how private matters of courtship and romance became matters of legal and sometimes public debate. 

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