tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305475965656894652024-02-20T10:59:48.867-06:00The New Zealand Journalkuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.comBlogger515125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-28068403423426383362011-06-17T09:02:00.002-05:002011-06-17T09:04:33.418-05:00Kiwi Ingenuity - Getting There from Here...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
Problem: </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. If your home stadium is off-limits for the whole season because of earthquakes so you have to play all your home games somewhere else; and, </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. A cloud of Chilean volcanic dust crosses the Pacific and closes air space to jet travel in your country, </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How the heck do you get to your next away game as the competition heads to the finals? Throw in the towel, start a riot like those Canuck fans??? </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Answer: </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pull an airworthy DC 3 prop aircraft out of the air museum and load the team aboard. Takes a bit longer, a bit noisier but... <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/5152723/Captain-Fantastic-McCaw-rescues-Crusaders">link</a> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, that <u><i>is</i></u> Kiwi ingenuity... </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go Crusaders!</div></div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-78239682060824935082011-04-24T08:14:00.001-05:002011-05-15T08:47:49.770-05:00ANZAC Day, 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ANZAC - Australia New Zealand Army Corps, formed World War I. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ANZAC Day - In remembrance of all those who fell and all those who served...</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To my grandfather and his brothers who served in the "war to end all wars" - or so they were told, and to their sons and son-in-laws - to my father and uncles, who served in the next one: we have not forgotten. May we never have to send our sons and daughters to another one.</span></div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-17267851815531698592010-09-08T08:43:00.000-05:002010-09-08T08:43:40.193-05:00After Shock Jolts Frayed Nerves of CantabriansA 5.1 magnitude aftershock jolted the already frayed nerves of Cantabrians on Wednesday. Reported as a sharp, vertical-movement quake it did some more damage to already unstable structures and infrastructure systems. The closure of the CBD has been extended, but water and power seem to be back to regular levels for all but a small number of residents. The "boil" order for water has been removed.<br />
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On a personal note, am pleased to report an aged aunt has relented and agreed to move elsewhere to be with family after it was found further mortar had dislodged from a precarious chimney following numerous after shocks.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-88933291404595417432010-09-05T22:33:00.000-05:002010-09-05T22:33:18.235-05:00Cold Harsh Reality of Day 3 - Christchurch EarthquakeMultiplied up a thousand times plus a few more, the reports from the extended family of the damage done to property & more importantly people's nerves by the quake detail how the Christchurch quake is impacting a city & Canterbury. One family's house flooded by a rising Avon River & quake damage, an aged aunt's home threatened by an unstable chimney that threatens to come crashing down into the kitchen, another's home with cracked foundations and so the list goes on.<br />
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Curiously, I find myself relaying messages from one branch of the family to another across the city plain at 8,500 miles distance... <br />
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To a city now changed:<br />
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<i>Into my heart an air that kills<br />
From yon far country blows:<br />
What are those blue remembered hills.<br />
What spires, what hills are those?<br />
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That is the land of lost content,<br />
I see it shining plain,<br />
The happy highways where I went<br />
And cannot come again.</i><br />
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- A E Housman, <i>A Shropshire Lad</i><br />
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And a few much more uplifting lines from Coldplay's <i>Don't Panic</i>:<br />
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<i>All in all that I know<br />
There's nothin' here to run from<br />
'Cos yeah, everybody here has<br />
Got somebody to lean on</i>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-82498867221329247252010-09-04T17:50:00.000-05:002010-09-04T17:50:19.441-05:00Diversion Anyone?And if you are sorely in need of diversion from worrying about loved ones, the damage to a beloved city, or how to put body and soul back together, then take a break, find a working tv and watch today's Australia v Springboks test. There's nothing at stake for Kiwis, watch it even if you can't stand rugby, because, well, it's just an exciting game of soaring success, reversal, digging yourself out of a hole, and playing down to the wire. For 80 minutes you'll at least be diverted, distracted, and maybe even enthused.<br />
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We now return to normal transmission - test pattern to be imagined about here. (You have to be reasonably old to know what a test pattern was).<br />
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p.s. I've been scared to ask anyone, because it would seem crass, but what the heck, it's me after all, does anyone know if Lancaster Park, er AMI stadium held up ok? It should given all the new construction!kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-79323667720542793212010-09-04T17:40:00.000-05:002010-09-04T17:40:29.825-05:00Quake Damage to Christchurch Heritage BuildingsSandy in comments under the New Brighton post below gives us this <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch/4097365/Quake-devastates-Christchurchs-heritage">link</a> to preliminary assessments of the earthquake's damage to heritage buildings. Like her I'm saddened by the damage to some of the structures and the reversal of a lot of hard work by many people over the years to preserve these artifacts.<br />
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I'm particularly disheartened for the folks working on restoring the Time Ball Station in Lyttelton. They had made great strides in restoration and strengthening and were according to the article close to completing the work. I've had the opportunity to admire their work firsthand on a couple of occasions in recent years on what must be a tough project given the Time Ball station's location and architecture.<br />
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If living in New Zealand has taught me anything, however reluctantly I've wanted to learn it over the years, is the power of natural forces to make a mockery of our puny human attempts to create permanence and reshape the physical landscape. Whether standing in the front yard of the Time Ball Station surveying the harbour from mouth to its "foot" (far end from entrance) or poring over aerial photos or various types of maps of Banks Peninsula, I've found myself taking the long, long view: the human presence and our follies are but a blink in deep time. We get to pass this way fleetingly as those before us have and those to come will. But we all in common share in our own times that physical environment.<br />
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For all that, I hope what can be saved is saved to hold back the law of entropy at least for one more blink.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-47142573100211782682010-09-04T10:25:00.000-05:002010-09-04T10:25:29.203-05:00Severe Weather Next Test for Christchurch?Severe nor'westerly gales in the next few days followed by a southerly cold front with rain (the usual climatic mood change in Chch) may be the next test for Christchurch's residents.<br />
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The Met Service and emergency services think that the nor'westers may loosen masonry and topple unstable buildings that haven't been made safe by demolition. And, with many damaged buildings exposed to the elements, any rain brought by the southwesterly will likely just compound matters.<br />
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Plenty of aftershocks apparently, but not the one big one of a 6 or so that often hits in the first 48 hours after the major one. Seismologists think the big one may acutally have been three quakes close together, but I'm sure most Chch residents regards that as all academic right now.<br />
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Power must be on in enough places around Chch for me to be getting direct & indirect reports from family & friends that they are safe & well, most have suffered only minor damage to property but folks like Sandy's parents & neighbours in comments to a previous post below obviously have been hit hard.<br />
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"Our man in Burwood" - my big brother - reports a lot of liquefaction of the soil, a phenomenon produced by the quake, has caused a lot of subsidence in east Christchurch of the type Sandy reports in her comment. In addition to buildings being damaged, ruptured water pipes and sewers are the result.<br />
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Some on other sites are commenting that they thought the Big One would be in Wellington, not Christchurch. Wellington will have its Big One again - it had huge ones in the 19th Century, the Wairarapa quake being the worst. But no one should have been under any illusion Chch couldn't have one. The effects would simply be different because the city is essentially a drained swamp and Plains are alluvial flood plains. Growing up in Chch, we were always drilled on earthquake preparations & cover and left under no mis-impression it could help in good old Chch.<br />
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ANYWHERE in New Zealand is fair game (poor choice of term, perhaps) for earthquakes being on the Pacific Ring of Fire - that's quakes, volcanic activity, and tsunami. Did I miss anything out?<br />
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That said, I think if I was to go through a big quake I'd prefer to take my chances in Chch over Wellington, having lived in both cities. Wellington sits on top of several major faults, including the Main Divide fault that bi-sects New Zealand north to south. Dealing with recovery and clean-up on hillsides would likely be more difficult as well compared to the flats of Chch.<br />
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Moreover, access into & out of Wellington is limited to a few choke points that if blocked would hamper the ability to evacuate or get assistance into the city. The airport itself sits on reclaimed land uplifted by the Wairarapa quake in the 19th century. Years ago I read that the then Ministry of Works parked a bulldozer at the top of the Ngauranga gorge each night, ready to start work on clearing a passage in the event the gorge highway is blocked by rock slides caused by a quake. That's provided the driver could get there and her 'dozer hadn't been lost down the hillside...<br />
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But as my late mother, a proud life-long Christchurch resident, would say "don't borrow trouble". Then she'd put a kettle on for a cup of tea for the "poor beggars" who were "worse off than me" and then go grab her broom, mop, and bucket so she could pitch in. For all that, I'm glad Mum didn't go through it. All the best to those who have & now must clean up the mess.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-83988482130004553142010-09-03T17:01:00.000-05:002010-09-03T17:01:21.375-05:00New Brighton - Road Fissures from EarthquakeThe earthquake generated a major fissure - crevasse - just before the road crosses the South Brighton bridge. Looks for pictures online - apparently there is a swarm of rubberneckers taking photos, jumping into the fissure etc. They better hope another quake doesn't close the thing up on them...<br />
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Non-emergency services at area hospitals have been suspended to release staff for emergency work. Go to 24 hour or after hours surgeries for non-emergencies.<br />
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Latrine basics - line a bucket with a bin liner, lots of antiseptic afterwards. Pass the roll...<br />
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Quake has now been revised down to a 7.1.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-27051947952783935962010-09-03T16:49:00.000-05:002010-09-03T16:49:21.310-05:00State of Emergency Declared In ChirstchurchA state of emergency has been declared in Christchurch, according to Mayor Bob Parker. This provides the city the power to close areas or buildings off for public safety reasons.<br />
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Harewood airport is still closed but may be re-opened within a few hours to allow further personnel, supplies & equipment to be brought in. Water may need to be brought in by tankers. Armed forces are mobilizing resources.<br />
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After shocks may dislodge loose masonry created by the major shock. A lot of debris on streets etc.<br />
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Mayor Parker says reports are that the museum, Arts Centre (old university campus) and Christ College buildings - all heritage or historic sites - have only minor damage, thanks perhaps to the major strengthening of those structures to bring them up to code.<br />
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Parker says this is NOT a flattened city but one with some significant damage to older buildings.<br />
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After shocks continue.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-77056506141365807762010-09-03T16:39:00.000-05:002010-09-03T16:39:59.785-05:00Central Business District in Christchurch ClosedThe centre of Christchurch bounded by the four one-way streets - Barbadoes, St Asaph, Kilmore and Montreal has been closed off - to keep rubberneckers, the occasional looter and others out. You are free to leave, of course - with a quick hurry along by the boys and girls in blue. Some arrests have been made.<br />
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A boil water advisory has been issued. Start digging a latrine in the back garden...<br />
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Historic Empire Hotel in Lyttelton is about to collapse.<br />
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No trains are running in the South Island today while Kiwi Rail checks all tracks & bridges.<br />
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Good news - the Radio New Zealand Sound Archive appears intact, according to one of the staff. Historians will be pleased. Not so good for some of the heritage buildings and a lot of shaken up people who will take some time to get back to normal.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-56906182958743691432010-09-03T16:28:00.001-05:002010-09-03T17:03:36.053-05:00Major Earthquake in ChristchurchMajor 7.4 earthquake hits Christchurch, my home town! Most of my family lives there, but I haven't for a long time. Last back there in June - and not even a hint of a shaker ;)<br />
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Earthquake struck at 4:35 am Saturday, epicenter was some 30 km west of Christchurch and was shallow just 10 km down. Not on the major Alpine fault, but a minor one that seismologists didn't expect to cause much trouble. But large, shallow quakes can be damaging, apparently.<br />
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Radio New Zealand is providing very good coverage. Apparently couple of major injuries, no deaths. A lot of close escapes from falling chimneys collapsing into bedrooms.<br />
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Significant damage in centre of city. Water, power, and sewage out in many parts of city. Most damage to older brick buildings. thank goodness for tight building codes. The port of Lyttelton has suffered some significant damage. A few bridges are unstable or otherwise damaged. Suburbs of New Brighton and Brooklands may be evacuated because of flooding and sewage problems.<br />
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Power company is saying an initial assessment suggests the power can be restored to about 90% of the city by nightfall today. The central business district will take longer as they need to isolate individual damaged buildings from the system first. It sounds like the water supply & sewage system will be out for longer.<br />
.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-21435349742968297912010-08-22T11:24:00.001-05:002010-08-22T11:25:01.491-05:00All Blacks Win Tri Nations, Aussies Hang Their Politicians Out to DryWeekend round-up<br />
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New Zealand's All Blacks won a thrilling cliff hanger of a rugby test in South Africa to take the Tri-Nations crown for 2010, adding it to the Bledisloe Cup won a fortnight ago against the Wallabies.<br />
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Meantime, over the ditch in Australia, voters hung their politicians of all persuasions out to dry. Nice one, Aussies! <br />
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All in a weekend's work, as they say.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-48737570745635959402010-08-20T05:54:00.002-05:002010-08-20T05:54:00.199-05:00Marine Biodiversity of Aotearoa New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEfzhlbPTxTEfR7vWxTpDLsPiKfxZAO_3IIEdtPM2lXwfS44u03F53hVgU-fH0TjZ__7hNt09RZB6FxKqIXSlPNqvjtBfXSrI91G3K2e0bFbVF9g70gUC0vSmA9dj6xcMwpbQqvTsm6I/s1600/Bycatch+from+bottomtrawling+NZ+MFish+coyrght.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEfzhlbPTxTEfR7vWxTpDLsPiKfxZAO_3IIEdtPM2lXwfS44u03F53hVgU-fH0TjZ__7hNt09RZB6FxKqIXSlPNqvjtBfXSrI91G3K2e0bFbVF9g70gUC0vSmA9dj6xcMwpbQqvTsm6I/s320/Bycatch+from+bottomtrawling+NZ+MFish+coyrght.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uIyyG6gf2yXZ_Rmo5gevrcJG03Fq-TQ311il75JLRx8AOxmDMscHe3ToScKB-E1FKuKRM_GEm2xnp6XhNHyGOF2moNUF2jhL8ZRM0lfep4PRruvlhlDe62yevQb1YTA6bIwzhEzuS6s/s1600/Bottom+trawling+Bycatch+redCoral+MFish+crwn+cpyrght.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uIyyG6gf2yXZ_Rmo5gevrcJG03Fq-TQ311il75JLRx8AOxmDMscHe3ToScKB-E1FKuKRM_GEm2xnp6XhNHyGOF2moNUF2jhL8ZRM0lfep4PRruvlhlDe62yevQb1YTA6bIwzhEzuS6s/s320/Bottom+trawling+Bycatch+redCoral+MFish+crwn+cpyrght.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Cold Water Coral By-Catch from Bottom Trawling off New Zealand</i></span></div><br />
The Census of Marine Life's results on Marine Biodiversity in New Zealand are published in the Public Library of Science's One Journal of 2 August 2010 <a href="http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010905;jsessionid=FD70EAD6DEF8C2F0D781DA1A0CC27FAA.ambra01">here</a>.<br />
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The Census recorded some 17,135 living species within New Zealand's 200 nautical-mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone or EEZ. This diversity includes 4,315 known undescribed species in scientific collections. Total marine diversity in the EEZ is expected to equal that in the ERMS or European Register of Marine Species region despite the European region being 5.5 times larger than New Zealand's EEZ, indicating New Zealand's marine diversity is much greater than that in the European region.<br />
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The threats to New Zealand's marine biodiversity are several, including fishing, mining, chemical pollution, coastal nutrient and sediment input, habitat loss, aquaculture, invasive species, harmful algal blooms, and climate change.<br />
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"Currently, there are more than 30 marine protected areas established in New Zealand waters. All are “no take” areas, administered by the Department of Conservation....They range in size from about 250 ha (within a harbor) to 745,000 ha (7,450 km<sup>2</sup>) (at the Kermadec Islands). Collectively, they protect 7.6% of New Zealand's territorial sea; however, 99% of this area is in two marine reserves around isolated offshore island groups (Auckland and Kermadec), and the sum of the areas of the remaining reserves in the mainland territorial sea is less than the area of the smallest terrestrial national park. Of New Zealand's total marine environment (EEZ), just 0.3% is protected in marine reserves. Currently the highest level of protection outside the territorial sea is through fisheries closures of trawling on 19 seamounts, initiated in 2001. Additionally, in 2007, the New Zealand government established 17 Benthic Protection Areas in deep water; these protect about 30% of the seabed in the EEZ from deep-sea bottom trawling and dredging activity. There are three marine parks, each having different regulations and generally affording a lower level of protection than marine reserves proper, for example, mainly protecting reef fish." <br />
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<i><u>Much</u></i> clearly remains to be done to manage the marine environment in a sustainable manner.<br />
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For our Australian friends and readers of this blog, you will find a similar Marine Biodiversity of Australia article compiled as part of the Census of Marine Life <a href="http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011831;jsessionid=FD70EAD6DEF8C2F0D781DA1A0CC27FAA.ambra01">here</a>.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-14274341446831175712010-08-19T10:38:00.003-05:002010-08-19T10:50:09.023-05:00Census of Marine Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTXxP8kquLkHO_QQgNzI2PaHGavAnvhyphenhyphenZ7ck8Nx0GGEYHPEdOiRwXxh9i1PcehPkhMC5wpuJGZKkawvs37RCiTcBKar17YDYf_NQa_QepYteR7hQ9BmjWjlinjyMeJix7oza9Mn_N_MU/s1600/orange_roughy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTXxP8kquLkHO_QQgNzI2PaHGavAnvhyphenhyphenZ7ck8Nx0GGEYHPEdOiRwXxh9i1PcehPkhMC5wpuJGZKkawvs37RCiTcBKar17YDYf_NQa_QepYteR7hQ9BmjWjlinjyMeJix7oza9Mn_N_MU/s320/orange_roughy.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Orange roughy, at risk in New Zealand waters</span></i></div><br />
Over the past ten years, more than 2,700 scientists from 82 nations involving 538 field expeditions backed by US$650 million of funding have been conducting a census of global marine life. Now the results are becoming available in final form.<br />
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In October the <a href="http://www.coml.org/">Census of Marine Life</a> will publish more detailed, final results but advance estimates have recently become available. The research has so far counted over 230,000 individual species.<br />
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The Guardian Weekly sums up the Census results nicely (full article <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/02/census-marine-life-sea">here</a>): <span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>"The results show that around a fifth of the world's marine species are crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters, krill and barnacles. Add in molluscs (squid and octopus) and fish (including sharks) and that accounts for up to half of the number of species in the world's seas. The charismatic species often used in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/conservation" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Conservation">conservation</a> campaigning – whales, sea lions, turtles and sea birds – account for less than 2% of the species in the world's oceans. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The surveys have also highlighted major areas of concern for conservationists. "In every region, they've got the same story of a major collapse of what were usually very abundant fish stocks or crabs or crustaceans that are now only 5-10% of what they used to be," said Mark Costello of the Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland in New Zealand. "These are largely due to over-harvesting and poor management of those fisheries. That's probably the biggest and most consistent threat to marine <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/biodiversity" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Biodiversity">biodiversity</a> around the world."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The main threats to date include overfishing, degraded habitats, pollution and the arrival of invasive species. But more problems are around the corner: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/21/uk-sea-quality-improves-defra#start-of-comments" title="rising water temperatures">rising water temperatures</a> and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/25/catlin-arctic-survey-ocean-acidification" title="acidification thanks to climate change">acidification thanks to climate change</a> and the growth in areas of the ocean that are low in oxygen and, therefore, unable to support life."</i></span><br />
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The Guardian UK also has some very useful graphics providing more detailed information on various ecosystems and regions of the world <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2010/aug/03/global-census-marine-life">here</a> and a brief item on just how the census takers count marine species and how they estimate species yet to be discovered <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2010/aug/03/global-census-marine-life">here</a>.<br />
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The advance results of the Census were published in the 2 August issue of the Public Library of Sciences ONE Journal available <a href="http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pcol.v02.i09">here</a>.<br />
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Both New Zealand and Australia have huge marine resources surrounding their coastlines and have equally huge tasks ahead of them in managing those resources in more sustainable ways. Better management requires better knowledge and the Census of Marine Life is an important improvement in that knowledge base.<br />
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A Q Class locomotive of New Zealand Railways at Oamaru, South Island circa 1905. RPPC was sent as a Christmas greeting to family members from the gang at the Oamaru station. Sender remarks that the loco's lamp is one of the latest electric lamps from a workshop in Chicago.<br />
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Many decades later I rode the freight trains at Oamaru with my uncle who was a guard (conductor - yeah, I know no passengers so no tickets to punch; a guard "guarded" the train, not for "security" but "(rail)road" safety). By those times, diesels had taken over. Good times - toasting sandwiches on the pot belly stove in the guard's van. In the steam era, got to ride up front in the cab, shoveling some coal, blowing the whistle, hand on the throttle or whatever they call it, head out the window, cinders in the eye...<br />
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Sadly, kids can't do that anymore thanks to occupational safety and health. Go play a video game, kid. Wouldn't trade those memories for anything (sniff). God bless you Uncle Norman, up there in the big roundhouse in the sky.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-46784811361478293632010-08-14T17:08:00.001-05:002010-08-14T17:09:28.182-05:00I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack - For Now...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc0Kmp_NmcM7n-0A_Q4NOJ3Bo7C-DE_aiz8R9furYYI1IV2ebS9Bkok3jJB-s0D0EP_AKZsPUaEN4dWnsVckAQe8JyJ8Mzh267bJdcBn8S_0WdnncZAMMui6ZbJr-f-D7446ap6lLWYmU/s1600/Maori+Haka+Shotguns+RPPC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc0Kmp_NmcM7n-0A_Q4NOJ3Bo7C-DE_aiz8R9furYYI1IV2ebS9Bkok3jJB-s0D0EP_AKZsPUaEN4dWnsVckAQe8JyJ8Mzh267bJdcBn8S_0WdnncZAMMui6ZbJr-f-D7446ap6lLWYmU/s320/Maori+Haka+Shotguns+RPPC.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Maori haka, circa 1910, real photo postcard</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm baaaaaaaaaaack, for now. And the <i>tangata whenua</i> are up in arms about it. In fact, they are thrilled to bits. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But as <i>manuhiri</i> I'll have to watch my <i>tikanga Maori</i> otherwise it's a slap backside the head with a <i>tewhatewha </i>or double barrels of buckshot in the <i>kumu</i>. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Wait a moment, this spectrum is not subject to a Treaty claim - and I'm tangata whenua on this blog. Welcome again, anyway.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Been listless over the hot & humid northern summer. Let's see if I can get back to blogging more dependably.</div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-77174743455154623152010-06-29T13:26:00.000-05:002010-06-29T13:26:16.068-05:00500th Post on this BlogJust as I was about to write this post, I noticed that this is the 500th post on the New Zealand Journal Blog and next week sees the second anniversary of the blog. I'm not sure I ever thought I would reach 5 or 50 posts let alone 500 but it is without a doubt the longest running "diary" I've ever kept. Though it may not constitute a personal diary in the normal sense, it has become a diary of thoughts of sorts on New Zealand matters.<br />
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In the opening post on this blog of 4th of July, 2008, the blog's purpose was stated as "anything and everything about New Zealand", allowing me the greatest scope to explore and ruminate upon (like a Taranaki dairy cow) anything I wished to related to the country and its people.<br />
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The blog's handful of readers will have observed over the ensuing months that the focus has shifted to a more historical bent, rooted in social history.<br />
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The original intent had been to provide a source for this blogger's American university students who could find short entries on various events and topics on New Zealand. As their attention has waxed and waned through two field tours of New Zealand and a couple of on-campus courses, I've tended to explore issues of more personal and professional interest to me. <br />
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In that bog known as the blogosphere, I've never expected much of an audience nor sought it but a very modest interest appears to have been generated by simply being "out there" in the middle of the bog.<br />
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Based on visit information, it seems some of the more frequently read entries have included the series on the history of the cycling craze in Christchurch in the early 1900s, the North Island Main Trunk Railway Line, Nurse Maude, bank deposit insurance (presumably because of all that "hot money" circulating in global markets looking for a safe haven), Ready Money Robinson and the Cheviot Estate, and more recently, the school dental nurse programme.<br />
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Like many bloggers, my interest ebbs and flows when it comes to posting to the blog and other matters press their claim on one's time ahead of blogging,<br />
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This past month of June has been a particular dry spell for posting here. An unexpected trip to New Zealand at short notice took priority (expats & sharp-witted folks will read the code here), but the good news is that it also gave me the opportunity as a collateral benefit of the trip to gather new material that allows me to complete some small projects that will show up as new posts in the future.<br />
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To those of you who have found something of passing interest here, to those who have left comments or sent emails letting me know of your own interests or offering additional information or thoughts, I offer my thanks.<br />
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On to post number 501.kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-59640042110725568142010-06-05T11:07:00.000-05:002010-06-05T11:07:36.703-05:00Continuance or Prohibition? 1920s New Zealand Campaign Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMiiJzITkaicaLEU2jiAAu2AYZMqAsGbI5VKUC666INg47ovhP-QSY7rUWJ7lWc9OBaMKt6RGbGDJJpUcnr-xsceJga3omAHqvKvbZe9PW-hnnjHGlXNdgr5DLKTPijN4-ITmyoCac0Ko/s1600/Continuance+1920+NZ+poster+Westrup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMiiJzITkaicaLEU2jiAAu2AYZMqAsGbI5VKUC666INg47ovhP-QSY7rUWJ7lWc9OBaMKt6RGbGDJJpUcnr-xsceJga3omAHqvKvbZe9PW-hnnjHGlXNdgr5DLKTPijN4-ITmyoCac0Ko/s320/Continuance+1920+NZ+poster+Westrup.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Circa 1920 New Zealand Continuance poster</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And boy did it fail in the United States... and they did vote for continuance in New Zealand - although there were still some dry licensing districts for years afterwards. </div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-79498966285360949312010-05-27T06:02:00.000-05:002010-05-27T06:02:00.181-05:00Salute the Soldier, Back the Attack - World War II Propaganda Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhHYWq6s86MszGqFVhLgrqMOeMVEyNsT79u6Oj6UL-QXonP-u1l82_PYMcI0rcNGbc4_Buk_UrPBXQ5jsO7GVWNuqTy8pL7jPUqwgeBOlZQThyO-7lkyB32YaiIn_AvZAnr_KRzm5Tkw/s1600/WWII+Salute+the+Soldier+NZ+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhHYWq6s86MszGqFVhLgrqMOeMVEyNsT79u6Oj6UL-QXonP-u1l82_PYMcI0rcNGbc4_Buk_UrPBXQ5jsO7GVWNuqTy8pL7jPUqwgeBOlZQThyO-7lkyB32YaiIn_AvZAnr_KRzm5Tkw/s320/WWII+Salute+the+Soldier+NZ+poster.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>World War II Victory Loan poster, New Zealand</i></span></div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-14465905995162331662010-05-26T05:58:00.001-05:002010-05-26T05:58:00.232-05:00Back Them Up - Protect New Zealand - World War II Propaganda Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHeYvr2UEnY17o0TWX3t-aS91MSlIV8_SzOf0tpy7srrCzjEWf_2FPwiZ0kYZMJz86cv2GLGysjj0lSgLuj8SO35PQ2jIFWOdZ3j_rrxXeUxleAnS9tl8AyFpSnD0094dHolRTAOWDJ8/s1600/WWII+Protect+NZ+Fighter+Aircraft.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHeYvr2UEnY17o0TWX3t-aS91MSlIV8_SzOf0tpy7srrCzjEWf_2FPwiZ0kYZMJz86cv2GLGysjj0lSgLuj8SO35PQ2jIFWOdZ3j_rrxXeUxleAnS9tl8AyFpSnD0094dHolRTAOWDJ8/s320/WWII+Protect+NZ+Fighter+Aircraft.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>New Zealand National Savings Bond Issue - World War II Poster</i></span></div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-62680134272414844422010-05-25T07:57:00.000-05:002010-05-25T07:57:43.494-05:00Back The Attack - Victory Loan - World War II Propaganda Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Kqc8MRHpmzkc8Tpf39-qBBLTCTeShyCM25bEcJnHC7ccvJtYsBXzTA3C0cGCc9rsCk_P4nzS_5K-jM77l3alsjbz2PA5RWniaGC52HYnAt9l5FW2rOhdKlUy3sbpaAEpHqoSCQFTpbU/s1600/WWII+War+Bond+Poster++NZ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Kqc8MRHpmzkc8Tpf39-qBBLTCTeShyCM25bEcJnHC7ccvJtYsBXzTA3C0cGCc9rsCk_P4nzS_5K-jM77l3alsjbz2PA5RWniaGC52HYnAt9l5FW2rOhdKlUy3sbpaAEpHqoSCQFTpbU/s320/WWII+War+Bond+Poster++NZ.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>New Zealand World War II War Bonds Poster</i></span></div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-45206952537331586592010-05-23T07:57:00.018-05:002010-05-23T08:31:19.886-05:00Back Them Up - The Hudson & U-570 - World War II Propaganda Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1BrQJ3bJjNXnP9dGmavw21TZA39ch-wVr03fyqshPLEa-kMJ2VwOIG0V7moPLl3cOiiI4zCe6Pt7uHmCVjVotBI0pICJ89FoMXIhFIxznLuJzCw22_rhyRdEAbCQlhuh1vccfibaTO1E/s1600/WWII+Bomber+War+Bonds+1941-42.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1BrQJ3bJjNXnP9dGmavw21TZA39ch-wVr03fyqshPLEa-kMJ2VwOIG0V7moPLl3cOiiI4zCe6Pt7uHmCVjVotBI0pICJ89FoMXIhFIxznLuJzCw22_rhyRdEAbCQlhuh1vccfibaTO1E/s320/WWII+Bomber+War+Bonds+1941-42.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Back Them Up! National Savings Bond Poster, World War II</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The war had to be financed by all means possible so in addition to taxation and war loans from allies, the public was exhorted to scrape together a few coppers, silver coins would be nicer, and support the war effort through national savings bonds. Such thrift had the additional benefit of suppressing consumption at home. Besides, with war time shortages and priority given to war industries, who could find anything to buy with their weekly pay packet, anyway?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A little research reveals that the Lockheed Hudson of 269 Squadron British Coastal Command pictured in the poster captured the German U 570 U-boat submarine on 27 August, 1941. The crew of the Hudson spotted a U-boat on the surface off Iceland, dropping 4 depth charges on it as it attempted to dive, damaging it so that it re-surfaced. After a good raking with machine gun fire, the U-boat captain surrendered. Next day the crew were removed and the vessel boarded to recover whatever documents that could be useful to the war effort and to attempt to save the submarine for further examination. The U-570 was subsequently towed into harbour in Iceland then taken to the UK after repairs. It yielded a wealth of invaluable technical information to the Allies on the operation of U-boats.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">U-570 had a very short wartime service, commissioned in May or June 1941 it was effectively decommissioned by the late August attack. Allied investigators concluded the submarine actually could have evaded its circling British captors overnight by submerging and sailing away but a panicked and inexperienced crew, already troubled by severe sea sickness, lacked the knowledge and capability to do so. The U-570 crew earned the dubious distinction of being the only U-boat crew to surrender in World War II..</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A wealth of information - photos, plans, and reports on the U-570 capture and examination of its design and operation can be found at <a href="http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-570.htm">U-boat Archive</a>. </span></span></div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-30049873138463660082010-05-20T07:46:00.000-05:002010-05-20T07:46:06.925-05:00Speed Up Production! - WW II War Propaganda Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRaoQsJ0x0MTSjJPj_VXXY_jJxIi-bVN-bATBpWDykdDyKX80X-wOTtMU7_RztCV3c3w14Jh85jJDEHIOfd42vqW_0phBcp32oJCcMG6HJD8jFo23boMp8iz4sJl6jATVHSCpTftMnkM/s1600/Speed+Up+Production+Marcus+King+1940s+WWII.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRaoQsJ0x0MTSjJPj_VXXY_jJxIi-bVN-bATBpWDykdDyKX80X-wOTtMU7_RztCV3c3w14Jh85jJDEHIOfd42vqW_0phBcp32oJCcMG6HJD8jFo23boMp8iz4sJl6jATVHSCpTftMnkM/s320/Speed+Up+Production+Marcus+King+1940s+WWII.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>World War II Propaganda Poster - Speed Up Production, artist Marcus King</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The effort on the home front to keep the troops supplied on the various battlefronts was essential so a little motivation by poster was the order of the day.</div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-59790683902208185302010-05-19T07:07:00.000-05:002010-05-19T07:07:47.368-05:00Don't Talk - New Zealand World War II Propaganda Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdh4kOVYRZqWEje50WV4CBEVheDv9-uvb0C2B6QJYTjH77mCqerkhB5FAd4hbwp2XlkakjCDh5fwm5Ubl9yHMcsk7Qqh6jtbnaOset8lexOA4BTraE5DnCcQxNcKc8h3T6Xd1lvR-uGt4/s1600/WWII+Don%27t+Talk+poster+NZ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdh4kOVYRZqWEje50WV4CBEVheDv9-uvb0C2B6QJYTjH77mCqerkhB5FAd4hbwp2XlkakjCDh5fwm5Ubl9yHMcsk7Qqh6jtbnaOset8lexOA4BTraE5DnCcQxNcKc8h3T6Xd1lvR-uGt4/s320/WWII+Don%27t+Talk+poster+NZ.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Don't Talk - New Zealand World War II Propaganda Poster</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today - in a world of constant babble with people incessantly texting, tweeting, phoning, and emailing - it's hard to imagine just what the wartime experience of self- and imposed censorship would be like."Loose lips, sinks ships" as they said. </span><i> </i></span></div>kuakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01475437546479502512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830547596565689465.post-66766635447509722792010-05-18T05:26:00.002-05:002010-05-19T07:08:36.549-05:00No Matter Where You Hang Out - New Zealand War Propaganda Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEAK03dPU_MUk4GuL1ZmLsoshICMK55tskntY5SiNZuGbnvW_SSr207k0DNQ0u__pJJ4FUlsXKnV1i-9E5TGatroaz9e_HscQ2rfc0qNzDFFkoAli3VCD67Wt90zs2SXJszYdDFkczsw/s1600/WWII+Keep+Quiet+No+Matter+Where+You+Talk+NZ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEAK03dPU_MUk4GuL1ZmLsoshICMK55tskntY5SiNZuGbnvW_SSr207k0DNQ0u__pJJ4FUlsXKnV1i-9E5TGatroaz9e_HscQ2rfc0qNzDFFkoAli3VCD67Wt90zs2SXJszYdDFkczsw/s320/WWII+Keep+Quiet+No+Matter+Where+You+Talk+NZ.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>World War II New Zealand War Propaganda poster</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">One of my personal favourites in war propaganda posters. Take a tinkle on Hitler, Mum's the word!</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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