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The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC; Māori: Te Pūhikotuhi o Aotearoa) is a freely accessible online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials that are held by the Victoria University of Wellington Library. It was named the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre until October 2012. [1]
My Story is a series of historical novels for older children published by Scholastic New Zealand which was inspired by Dear America. Each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in New Zealand history . [ 1 ]
The florin is a coin issued for the New Zealand pound from 1933 to 1965, equal to two shillings or twenty-four pence. The coin features a kiwi on the reverse and the reigning monarch on the obverse. The coin features a kiwi on the reverse and the reigning monarch on the obverse.
[2] [9] [10] Its intention was in part to provide educational material for children with a New Zealand focus, although until the 1930s it included extensive content about the British Empire which then encompassed New Zealand; for example, biographies of members of the royal family, articles about famous battles, and moralistic poems.
In 1949, the publisher James Nisbet and Co licensed and republished them in the UK as a series of four books called Janet and John. [2] These had a new Anglicised text by Rona Munro, wife of John Mackenzie Wood who ran Nesbit and Co; she was originally a teacher from New Zealand. [2]
Learning Media Limited (Māori: Te Pou Taki Kōrero) was a New Zealand state-owned enterprise. [1] The company published most of the Ministry of Education's material. A division of the Ministry until 1993, it continued to publish the New Zealand School Journal and Junior Journal magazines and the Ready to Read readers for the Ministry, as well as provide services for other organisations.
After several decades of proposals, the New Zealand government pursued the creation of a domestic coinage the same year. [4] The Coinage Act, 1933, outlined the weights and sizes of the six denominations of New Zealand silver coinage, defining the shilling as a coin with a weight of 5.66 grams. [5] The shilling was worth twelve pence or half a ...
The same year, the Churches Education Commission gave 240,000 free copies of the book to New Zealand primary schools because of its historical significance to both Māori and Christianity in New Zealand. [12] [11] Tarore's story has been described as "the iconic narrative of the early missionary period" in New Zealand. [11]