The arctic fox is classed as a " prohibited new organism " under New Zealand's Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 preventing it from being imported into the country.

There is a particularly strong tradition of them in southern New Zealand's main city Dunedin, of which Burns ' nephew Thomas Burns was a founding father.

Both the terms coast and coastal are often used to describe a geographic location or region ; for example, New Zealand's West Coast, or the East and West Coasts of the United States.

Regarding relations with New Zealand, Cuban ambassador Jose Luis Robaina Garcia said his country had " admiration for New Zealand's independent foreign policy ".

The measure resulted in ten percent of New Zealand's active blood donors at the time to become ineligible to donate blood.

However, there were several well-documented cultures that engaged in regular eating of the dead, such as New Zealand's Māori.

Māori warriors fighting the New Zealand government in Titokowaru's War in New Zealand's North Island in 1868 – 69 revived ancient rites of cannibalism as part of the radical Hauhau movement of the Pai Marire religion.

* Hager, Nicky ; Secret Power, New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network ; Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson, NZ ; ISBN 0-908802-35-8 ; 1996

For instance, New Zealand's landmark reform in 1989, during which schools were granted substantial autonomy, funding was devolved to schools, and parents were given a free choice of which school their children would attend, led to moderate improvements in most schools.

Meanwhile, New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that New Zealand would double its annual aid to Fiji, from NZ $ 4 million to NZ $ 8 million.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters ( who replaced Goff in late 2005 ) flew into Fiji on 8 February 2006 for three days of talks with Fijian government officials.

New Zealand's top diplomat in Fiji at the time was Todd Cleaver.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully said that " Diplomatic relations with Fiji are roughly the same they have been for the last couple of years unfortunately " and that " we have had our ups and downs and unfortunately today they are down ".

The event marked the third time that New Zealand's top diplomat in Fiji has been expelled since the 2006 coup.

* 1909 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.

* 1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7. 30 pm from Auckland.

* 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987

* 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight ( from Australia to New Zealand ) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

A top official of the New Frontier who kept a record of his first weeks on the job here gives this report of his experiences:

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

Years later, franks-in-buns were accepted as the `` first to go '' at the New York Polo Grounds.

The first program was sponsored by Abraham & Strauss, Hempstead, New York, under the direction of Special Events director Jennings Dennis.

The battle of the drib-drool continues, but most of New York's knowing sophisticates of Abstract Expressionism are stamping their feet impatiently in expectation of V ( for Vindication ) Day, September first, when Augustus Quasimodo's first one-man show opens at the Guggenheim.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

Palfrey told his wife of his intentions for the first time, and left for New Orleans apprehensively invoking a special blessing of Providence that he might be allowed to see his family again.

In the evening the former Oregon State science teachers met for dinner at the New Tokyo Restaurant where I had my first raw fish and found it good.

Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New York Yankees.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Significantly, the initiation and leadership of a major proportion of the reform movements, especially those in the first half of the nineteenth century, came from men and women of New England birth or parentage and from either Trinitarian or Unitarian Congregationalism.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

A new work on the program was Nikolai Lopatnikoff's `` Festival Overture '', receiving its first New York hearing.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

He dates back to the days before the first sailing ship pulled into New Orleans.

This vision bore fruit and schools in New Zealand have long planted native trees on Arbor Day.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

New York: Arbor House.

* Arbor Day ( New Zealand )

Then, during the total solar eclipse of 29 July 1878, two experienced astronomers, Professor James Craig Watson, the director of the Ann Arbor Observatory in Michigan, and Lewis Swift, an amateur from Rochester, New York, both claimed to have seen a Vulcan-type planet close to the Sun.

Lake Arbor was originally known as Newbridge, a development of Levitt & Sons, developers of the early planned communities of Levittown in Pennsylvania and Long Island, New York, respectively.

Piscataway is often segmented into unofficial sections by local residents which include Bound Brook Heights " the Heights "), New Brunswick Highlands, Lake Nelson, Randolphville, Arbor, New Market, North Stelton, Fellowship Farm and Possumtown.

The Arbor and New Brunswick Highland sections of Piscataway were historically African American neighborhoods.

New London has been designated Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.

Ken Burns was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, according to his official website, though some sources give Ann Arbor, Michigan, and some, including The New York Times, give both Brooklyn and Ann Arbor.

* April 24 – The New Barbarians open their US tour at Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The center's headquarters moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan to New York City in 1958 and the organization became known as the National Educational Television and Radio Center ( NETRC ).

* James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement ( New York: Arbor House, 1985 ).