This paper is a broad overview of the current shipping industry in New Zealand, aimed at a readership not directly involved in the sector itself. The paper starts with a section setting out historical developments in ...

In late 1982, the writer was invited to join a coordinating committee set up by the Southland Hospital Board to instigate the establishment of a 'Halfway House' for recovering alcoholics. The following report outlines ...

Local and regional government is a large and vitally important part of the public sector. It touches on almost every aspect of life in New Zealand and provides some of society's most fundamental needs. It employs around ...

We were members of the 1982 Kellogg Rural Leadership Course. A requirement of the course was the completion of a project. We combined our energies, skills and resources to search out, interview and then portray women ...

Civilisation has survived for thousands of years using primitive forms of agriculture but in a few short years it has threatened to self-destruct by introducing chemicals not natural to it's environment. It has done ...

The idea for this project came as the result of a controversy between the Southland Acclimatisation Society and the Southland Catchment Board which was publicly aired in the Southland Times in December 1988. The ...

The process that started this project was an outcome of numerous factors. Firstly my interest in non-formal learning in rural areas, and experiences at Stage I of the N.Z. Rural Leadership Programme. My selected topic ...

This paper aims to outline the advantages of the single seller principle. The example backgrounded is the New Zealand Dairy Board. The New Zealand Apple and Pear Board is another of the producer Boards' that has marketed ...

Between 1973 and 1975 four local pastoral leases applied for and were granted reclassification of their lease to crown renewable lease tenure, which allows the leasee the right to purchase the fee simple (the freehold ...

The problem of providing services for people is an ever present, ever compounding one in New Zealand. The decisions relating to who needs what, how those needs can be filled and how much money should be used to do so ...