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	New Zealand
		According to the "New Zealand Official Year-Book" for 1909 (a Government publication) the total number of Catholic schools in the dominion is 152 and the number of Catholic pupils attending is 12,650.
		New Zealand Catholics have never asked or desired a grant for the religious education which is imparted in their schools.
		The history of Catholic journalism in New Zealand is in effect the history of the "New Zealand Tablet," founded by the late Bishop Moran in 1873, the Catholics of this country having followed the principle that it is better to be represented by one strong paper than to have a multiplicity of publications.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/n/new_zealand.html (3220 words)

	New Zealand (09/06)
		New Zealand was declared a dominion by a royal proclamation in 1907.
		New Zealand was a direct beneficiary of many of the reforms achieved under the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, with agriculture in general and the dairy sector in particular enjoying many new trade opportunities.
		New Zealand is an active member of the global coalition in the War against Terrorism, and deployed SAS troops to Afghanistan, and naval and air assets to the Persian Gulf.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35852.htm (4249 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The House of Representatives is a democratically elected body, usually consisting of 120 members (currently 121 due to an overhang), who are known as Members of Parliament.
		New Zealand essentially follows the Westminster system of government, and is governed by a cabinet and Prime Minister chosen by the House of Representatives.
		The House of Representatives was established by the British New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 which established a bicameral legislature, but the upper house, the Legislative Council, was abolished in 1951 so Parliament is now unicameral.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives (1811 words)

	Member of Parliament at AllExperts
		In New Zealand Member of Parliament is the term for a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, although parliament technically consists of both the House and the Queen.
		Before 1951 New Zealand had a two-chambered (bicameral) parliament, and there were two designations — MHR (Member of the House of Representatives, the body which survives today) and MLC (Member of the Legislative Council).
		MPs in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are elected in general elections and by-elections to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system of election, and may remain MPs until Parliament is dissolved.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/me/member_of_parliament.htm (1114 words)

	Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The role of the speaker: The Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives is the highest officer...
		The Office of the Clerk: The position of Clerk of the House of Representatives is one of the oldest...
		The Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives is the highest officer elected by the House.
	www.decisionmaker.co.nz /guide2003/hpw/speaker.html (1133 words)

	A workplace - a history of New Zealand's House of Representatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The refurbishment of Parliament House and the Parliamentary Library in the 1990s (and the Beehive from the early 2000s) changed that, but for a good part of Parliament's history, the buildings, and the chamber especially, could be uncomfortable.
		In the 1870s the chamber was enlarged and new seating installed — double padded leather couches set out in a horseshoe formation, with the government on the right of the Speaker, and the Opposition on the left (in a colder, more draughty area).
		It is made of English oak with a carved headboard, upholstered in green hide, and with New Zealand 's coat of arms at its head.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/parlt-hist/builds-work.html (547 words)

	Carrow's New Zealand Law Links
		The New Zealand firm of Baldwin Son and Carey presents an outline of the costs which will be incurred at each turn of the road in the course of trade mark protection in New Zealand.
		The New Zealand Securities Commission is a statutory corporation whose fundamental purpose is to facilitate capital investment in New Zealand, to encourage, promote and facilitate good securities and corporate practice and to discourage malpractice.
		A New Zealand lawyer may be certified to act both as a barrister and solicitor or as a barrister only.
	www.carrow.com /linkNZ.html (1575 words)

	NZ Vietnam War Veterans Submissions
		The professionalism of New Zealand Vietnam veterans is acknowledged by General Nguyen Minh Ninh, a former commander of the Viet Cong D445 Battalion.
		New Zealand Members of Parliament have been communicated with over many years on the subject of certain diseases and health disorders among New Zealand Vietnam veterans and the alleged association with exposure to chemicals during service in Vietnam.
		The then New Zealand Minister of Defence Hon F D O'Flynn wrote to the Vietnam veterans in January 1985 stating "that there is no scientific evidence to support the contention that exposure to Agent Orange has caused any long-term health problems for veterans or their children." '.
	nzvietnamvets.freeservers.com (13553 words)

	150 Years of New Zealand Parliament, press release -Ministry for Culture and Heritage
		The House is published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the first meeting of the House of Representatives in Auckland on 24 May 1854.
		Written by historian Dr John Martin, The House is a fascinating account of the institution, its practices, the people and colourful personalities who lived and breathed its culture, and of its unfolding political dramas over the past 150 years.
		It charts the early beginnings of the House of Representatives in Auckland and the ensuing political struggles with the Governor and Legislative Council.
	www.mch.govt.nz /pr/parlt-book.html (381 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Member of Parliament
		A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house.
		The British Parliament is divided into the House of Commons and the House of Lords; though it is often assumed that an MP is a member of Commons, they can be a member of either house.
		The representatives from the Dewan Rakyat are elected in the general elections, or by- elections, as opposed to the members of the Dewan Negara who are appointed by the King, in recognition to outstanding service to the country in various fields.The various State Governments also have the power to appoint Senators,propotionate to the state's size.
	singaporemoms.com /parenting/MP (568 words)

	New Zealand Give Vote To Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New Zealand's Upper House, the Legislative Council, approved the Electoral Bill by 20 votes to 18 and it now only requires the signature of the new Governor of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, to allow the historic legislation to pass into the law books.
		New Zealand, a state with less than half a million souls, has, by this measure, shown the way to the rest of the Western World.
		The New Zealand premier appointed known opponents of women's suffrage to the Legislative Council in an attempt to secure the Electoral Bill's defeat.
	www.dailypast.com /oceania/new-zealand-women-vote.shtml (711 words)

	New Zealand Residents Strongly Favor Parental Notification for Abortions
		Statistics New Zealand released figures in June showing that 18,510 abortions were performed in New Zealand in 2003, a 6.5 percent increase over 2002 totals.
		The increase represents the death of some 1130 unborn babies, an alarming figure, according to the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child.
		New Zealand women have proportionately three times more abortions than Germany and the Netherlands, twice as many as Finland and Scotland, and higher rates than France, Denmark, Norway, England, Wales, and Sweden as well.
	www.lifenews.com /nat848.html (309 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives
		The Parliament of New Zealand consists of a single chamber, the House of Representatives, composed of 120 members directly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term of office.
		As a result, New Zealand governments have been coalitions of either of the two major parties with one of the smaller parties, usually supported by other minor parties outside government on the basis of more-or-less formal agreements.
		Meanwhile, New Zealand First was able to secure five seats in Parliament with only 4.2% of the party vote by winning the electorate seat of Tauranga, where party leader Winston Peters was elected with a majority of sixty-three votes out of 33,781 valid votes.
	electionresources.org /nz (2283 words)

	OnlineWomen: New Zealand
		New Zealand’s first woman MP was elected to parliament in 1933.
		It was not until the 1940s that the numbers doubled.29 Table 8 compares the numbers of women elected to each level of government and the percentage of seats they have gained in the last 40 years.
		What the New Zealand case highlighted was the number of complexities that are ignored in critical mass literature and the likelihood that different critical masses are necessary dependent on the outcome sought.
	www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org /nz/nzdocs.htm (577 words)

	New Zealand government information - LEARN - The University of Auckland Library
		Most of the University of Auckland Library's printed material on the New Zealand government is located in the New Zealand and Pacific Collection, Ground Level, General Library.
		The Journals are the official record of the proceedings of the House of Representatives.
		Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand.
	www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/pol/nzoffpol.htm (1154 words)

	The House: a history of New Zealand's House of Representatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The House: a history of New Zealand's House of Representatives
		New Zealand's Parliament is over 150 years old.
		Learn about it in words, sounds, cartoons, postcards and photographs; or take a virtual tour through Parliament Buildings and the grounds in a series of stunning interactive panoramas.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/parlt-hist/index.html (56 words)

	Scoop: PM's Speech For 150th Anniversary Of House
		This new work by historian John Martin records the workings of the House from the time it was first convened in 1854.
		It is well known that New Zealand led the world in 1893 by being the first country where women won the right to vote.
		New Zealand was one of the very few countries in the world which was able to maintain democratic government throughout the turbulent twentieth century.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0405/S00500.htm (2727 words)

	New Zealand Recent Picks
		Greg Ryan examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonisation schemes and Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the gold discoveries of the 1860s.
		The book argues that the published Tribunal reports are taking the writing of New Zealand history in new directions by challenging the legitimacy and legacy of colonisation, from within the limitations of a highly adversarial legal environment.
		This history of the House of Representatives provides an account of the institution and its practices, and the ferment and drama of politics as they were played out against the backdrop of the House in session.
	www.wcl.govt.nz /mylibrarycurrent3/currentnz21.html (1094 words)

	NEW ZEALAND: parliamentary elections House of Representatives, 1993
		Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament on the normal expiry of the members’ term of office.
		In contention for the newly enlarged House of Representatives’ 99 seats were the country’s two traditional opponents – the ruling National Party and the opposition Labour Party – who were challenged for the first time by two new groups: the centre-left Alliance Party, comprising five small parties and headed by Mr.
		In a separate referendum held simultaneously, voters approved (by 54% to 46%) a change in New Zealand’s electoral system to one of mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) instead of simple majority, with the modification to go into effect from the next (1996) elections.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2233_93.htm (386 words)

	Peter's Site - Electoral Reform for the House of Representatives
		These spreadsheets illustrate the results that would have been obtained at each election of the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1988, and also look at differences in results with various parameters (number of electoral divisions, maximum supplementary seats, threshold percentage for top-up seats and ceiling for top-up seats) at different settings.
		Changes to the composition of the House of Representatives would bear some similarity to the changes which have occurred to the composition of the New Zealand House of Representatives under its MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) system, but despite this similarity, there are a number of important differences.
		The House of Representatives shall be composed of members directly chosen by the people of the Commonwealth, and the number of such members shall be, as nearly as practicable, twice the number of senators.
	members.tripod.com /~petergc/ElectRef/Reps.htm (2856 words)

	Cityscope - Wu Bangguo Meets with Speaker Wilson of the House of Representatives, page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She said although the two countries have different social and parliamentary systems, both the NPC of China and the New Zealand House of Representatives have the legislative and supervision powers and to reinforce the exchanges between the two bodies is of great significance to building up the bilateral ties.
		To develop the long-term friendly relations between the two countries is in the fundamental interest of the two countries and their peoples and conducive to regional peace and development as well.
		The purpose of his visit to New Zealand is to push for the progress of China-New Zealand relations including the relations between the NPC of China and the New Zealand House of Representatives.
	www.cityscopeinvestments.com /article.php?article_id=2155 (414 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- The house : New Zealands House of Representatives 1854-2004
		This web site on the history of the New Zealand parliament is published by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage as part of their NZ History.net web site.
		The site is based upon John E Martin's book The House: New Zealand's House of Representatives 1854-2004, but does feature details and topics not touched on in the book.
		Amongst the topics covered is parliament in te reo, the first sitting of parliament, significant milestones and bad language in the house.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=13451 (225 words)

	AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
		Site provides an overview of New Zealand and its government, access to government services information and employment opportunities, as well as government agency contact details.
		Information about the personal representative of the NZ Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II of New Zealand.
		New Zealand Government resource containing information on electronic commerce, including law, trade, tax, privacy, consumer protection, and help for businesses.
	www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Regional/Oceania/New_Zealand/Government (371 words)

	Amazon.com: Bridled Power: New Zealand's Constitution and Government: Books: Geoffrey Palmer,Matthew Palmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This new edition is updated to reflect New Zealand's experience of the MMP system of proportional representation.
		Sir Geoffrey Palmer is a former Prime Minister of New Zealand.
		A national constitution is about power and politics on a grand scale-who exercises the power of the state, how they exercise power, how much can be exercised, whether other people and which people can stop them and how they can do it.
	www.amazon.com /Bridled-Power-Zealands-Constitution-Government/dp/0195584635 (777 words)

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