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  New Zealand Encyclopedia Article @ GetitFreeHere.com (Get It Free Here)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
New Zealand was initially administered as a part of the colony of New South Wales, and it became a separate colony in November 1840.
New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the Australian colonies.
New Zealand director Peter Jackson shot the epic The Lord of the Rings film trilogy in various locations around the country, taking advantage of the spectacular and relatively unspoiled landscapes, and Mount Taranaki was used as a stand-in for Mount Fuji in The Last Samurai.
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 New Zealand general election, 1951 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1951 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 30th term.
The most significant issue in the 1951 elections was the growing industrial unrest of the time, particularly the ongoing dockworkers dispute.
The 1951 election saw the governing National Party re-elected with a twenty-seat margin, a substantial improvement on the twelve-seat margin it previously held.
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 New Zealand Labour Party - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is currently the dominant party in the country's ruling coalition, holding fifty-one of the 120 seats in the New Zealand Parliament.
Almost immediately, the new Labour Party became involved in the acrimonious debate about conscription, which arose during World War I — the Labour Party strongly opposed conscription, and a number of its leaders were jailed for their stand against it.
The New Zealand Labour Party of 2005 has less socialist militancy, sparser trade union support and a broad agenda of centre-left co-operation with the Progressives while toying with notions of the Third Way and of social democracy.
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 Water Encyclopedia Article @ Befall.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Confronted by this lack of water, Jordan is preparing new techniques to use non-conventional water resources, such as second-hand use of irrigation water and desalinization techniques, which are very costly and are not yet used.
The water reserves are being quickly depleted and polluted, while the glacier feeding the sacred Hindu river is retreating hundreds of feet each year because of global warming and deforestation in the Himalayas, which is causing subsoil streams flowing into the Ganges river to dry up.
Water is mentioned in the Bible 442 times in the New International Version and 363 times in the King James Version: 2 Peter 3:5(b) states, "The earth was formed out of water and by water" (NIV).
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 New Zealand - History - Hotel Near   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Under New Zealand's constitution, enacted in 1852, Maori were excluded from political decision-making and prevented from setting up their own form of government; although British subjects in name, they had few of the practical benefits and yet were increasingly expected to comply with British law.
New Zealand was becoming aware that Britain was no longer the guardian she once was.
New Zealand signed the 1977 Gleneagles Agreement requiring it to "vigorously combat the evil of apartheid" and yet in 1981 the New Zealand Rugby Union courted a Springbok Tour, which sparked New Zealand's greatest civil disturbance since the labour riots of the 1920s.
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 The 1951 Waterfront Lockout.
For five months since the 17th of February, 1951, New Zealand was in the throes of one of the longest and bitterest Trade Union struggles in its history.
Therein the cause of the waterfront disputes was attributed to the attitude of "Barnes and Hill" on the various waterfront Commissions, and to the machinations of the Communists.
The New Zealand Government is to seek an early dissolution of Parliament to test public opinion on its handling of the dispute.
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 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dispute, sometimes referred to as the waterfront lockout or waterfront strike, lasted 151 days—from 15 February to 15 July 1951.
The distance of New Zealand and Australia from their traditional markets, meant that ports played a pivotal role in the economies of the countries.
The waterfront inevitably became point of conflict between workers and their unions on one side, and capital (the employers) and the state on the other.
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 1951 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the Commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
June 15 - July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of acres (several km²) of forests were destroyed in fires.
September 1 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States").
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 Stevedore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stevedores on a New York dock loading barrels of corn syrup onto a barge on the Hudson River.
In usual present-day USA waterfront word usage, a stevedore is a man or a company who manages the operation of loading or unloading a ship.
New Zealand usage is highly similar to the Australian version; waterfront workers are also known as "wharfies." The 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute, involving New Zealand stevedores, was the largest and bitterest industrial dispute in the country's history.
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 New Zealand History - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Father of the atom, Ernest Rutherford, is awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry and New Zealand’s population reaches one million.
The influenza epidemic killed an estimated 8,500 in New Zealand.
New Zealand Parliament adopts the Statute of Westminster recognising New Zealand as a fully independent state, although owing allegiance to the British King.
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 The Militant - January 7, 2002 -- 151 days -- the 1951 waterfront struggle in New Zealand
In 1949, in the middle of a dispute in which the carpenters had won widespread solidarity, the government deregistered their union and encouraged the formation of a scab outfit.
In the wake of that setback for the labor movement, the FOL leaders split the federation around a government-supported demand that the watersiders leave the World Federation of Trade Unions--dubbed the "voice of Moscow" by reactionary politicians from Washington to Wellington.
With large-scale victimization on the wharves, only 4 percent of the new waterfront union in Auckland were veterans of the old union.
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 History : New Zealand : Internet Gateway : Reference - Christchurch City Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
New Zealand's worst disease outbreak, the lethal influenza pandemic of 1918.
New Zealand Gazette Archive comprises searchable and browsable PDF (portable document format) copies of issues of the New Zealand Gazette and related publications from 1841.
Rangiātea church, New Zealand's oldest Māori church, was utterly destroyed by fire in October 1995.
library.christchurch.org.nz /Resources/NewZealand/History/index.asp   (2184 words)

  
 1951_in_new_zealand info here at en.16-yo.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
See also: 1950 in New Zealand, other advents of 1951, 1952 in New Zealand, und the Timeline of New Zealand history.
The year of achievement was dominated by the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute
See 1951, 1951 in politics, 1951 in science, Category:1951 in Australia, 1951 in Australia, 1951 in music, 1951 timelines, History of New Zealand, Category:History of New Zealand, Military bygone times of New Zealand, Timeline of environmental bygone times of New Zealand, Timeline of New Zealand history
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 1951 in New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1950 in New Zealand, other events of 1951, 1952 in New Zealand, and the Timeline of New Zealand history.
See 1951, 1951 in politics, 1951 in science, Category:1951 in Australia, 1951 in Australia, 1951 in music, 1951 timelines, History of New Zealand, Category:History of New Zealand, Military history of New Zealand, Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand, Timeline of New Zealand history
Experimental television broadcasts had been allowed from 1951 (as long as they included nothing that could be classed as 'entertainment').
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 workSite: Working the New Zealand Waterfront
While the focus of this book is not exclusively upon waterfront unions or upon the events of 1951 it does demonstrate that the unions played a central role in the organisation of work and the wider life of wharfies.
The distance of New Zealand and Australia from their traditional markets, and the fact that the facilitation of imports and exports took place on the waterfront, made it no surprise that wharf would become a pivotal point of friction between workers and their unions and capital and its ally, the state.
While this book is focused upon the New Zealand waterfront, the international nature of capital ensured that the men who worked the wharves were themselves international in outlook and solidarity.
www.econ.usyd.edu.au /wos/worksite/green.html   (850 words)

  
 New book examines waterfront dispute
With picket lines going up around the country’s ports, a new book that examines the history behind the infamous 1951 waterfront dispute, may offer lessons to stop history repeating itself.
During the 1900s New Zealand was entirely dependent upon the carriage of goods by sea, with the nation’s ports playing a central role in the country’s economy.
This is the first book that provides a comprehensive overview of the waterfront industry and a detailed account of the long-term factors that lead up to the 1951 dispute.
www.waikato.ac.nz /news/index.shtml?article=114   (278 words)

  
 Research - Television Interviews, 1951-1955
From June 11, 1951, the date of the earliest surviving issue, the show was broadcast Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings through April 29, 1955, with one hiatus from June to August 1953.
Topics: Coudert's New York congressional district and constituency and his campaign for reelection, opinion of Eisenhower as a campaigner, the state vote, and possibility of a balanced budget and reduced taxes.
Topics: New Zealand's opposition to the spread of communism in the Pacific, Britain's recognition of People's Republic of China, New Zealand's recognition of Formosa, New Zealand's opposition to rearming Japan, and New Zealand beef and its impact on the American market.
www.archives.gov /research/formats/tv-interviews-1951-to-1955.html   (16936 words)

  
 1951 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar.
February 6 - A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge, New Jersey.
April 1 - Australia, New Zealand, United States security treaty signed in San Francisco.
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 1951 Waterfront Dispute - Protest and Dissent in the 1940s and 1950s - NZHistory.net.nz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ships lie idle in Wellington Harbour during the waterfront industry dispute of 1951
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NZHistory.net.nz is produced by the History Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
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 1951
1951 (''' MCMLI ''') was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar.
September 8 - Treaty of San Francisco : In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
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 New Zealand, Accountants, Firms, Accounting and Business Directory Categories and Links @ CarGrab.com (Car Grab)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Michael Bassett - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dr Michael Bassett is probably New Zealand’s best-known political historian.
He has taught history at the University of Auckland and held a visiting professorship at the University of Western Ontario.
He is the author of books about the 1951 waterfront dispute and the Third Labour Government, and has published a large work entitled The State in New Zealand, 1840-1984.
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 Fragrant WebSite 1951   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
1951 (Roman numerals) was a common year starting on Monday; see common year starting on Monday.
- June 15 - July 1 - In New Meхico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of acres (several km²) of forests were destroyed in fires.
- September 1 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States").
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 April, March, February, United, British, August, actor, first, Nobel, author, Prize, National, Irish - 1951   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
* June 15 - July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of hectares (many square miles) of forests were destroyed in fires.
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 1951 infoTurkish.com Herşey Hakkında Türkçe Bilgi
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September 8 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
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 1951 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 25 - The first test of an atomic bomb "boosted" by the inclusion of thermonuclear materials, in the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the U.S.A. June 14 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
June 15 - July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of hectares (many square miles) of forests were destroyed in fires.
June 28 - Lloyd Maines, American musician and record producer
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