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In New Zealand in the 1930s, farmers reportedly had trouble with exploding trousers as a result of attempts to control ragwort, an agricultural weed. [1] Farmers had been spraying sodium chlorate, a government recommended weedkiller, onto the ragwort, and some of the spray had ended up on their clothes. Sodium chlorate is a strong oxidizing ...
The Cakekitchen; Edwin Carr; Shayne Carter; Cassandra's Ears; Che Fu; The Checks; The Chicks; The Chills; Clap Clap Riot; Jemaine Clement – member of folk/pop/comedy duo Flight of the Conchords
Nature's Best 2 and Nature's Best 3, 2002, songs 31-65 and 66-100 of the official APRA list; DVD release, 2003, music videos to sixty of the songs from the three albums; Limited edition box set of the three albums and the DVD, 2005 (Nature's Best Box Set) More Nature, 2006, a selection of notable New Zealand songs since 2001
The music of New Zealand has been influenced by a number of traditions, including Māori music, the music introduced by European settlers during the nineteenth century, and a variety of styles imported during the twentieth century, including blues, jazz, country, rock and roll, reggae, and hip hop, with many of these genres given a unique New Zealand interpretation.
New Zealand's first ever Test matches, a home series of four three-day games against England.Series won 1–0 by England 10,11,13 January Lancaster Park, Christchurch.New Zealand (112 and 131) lost by eight Wickets to England (181 and 66/2).
The APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time is a selection of New Zealand songs as voted in 2001 by members of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). The top 30 of this selection was used to create the Nature's Best CD and the rest of the list for follow-up compilations.
Blam Blam Blam were a New Zealand pop/rock/alternative band.Tim Mahon (bass) and Mark Bell (guitar, vocals) had been members of The Plague and The Whizz Kids.After losing their drummer Ian Gilroy to The Swingers in 1980, Tim and Mark joined up with Don McGlashan, a multi-instrumentalist who played drums and sang many lead vocals.
The first known aerial application of agricultural materials was by John Chaytor, who in 1906 spread seed over a swamped valley floor in Wairoa, New Zealand, using a hot air balloon with mobile tethers. [3] Aerial sowing of seed still continues to this day with cover crop applications and rice planting.