The end of the 19th century witnessed a sharp recovery of the local economy with increasing international trade and the growth of the city harbour leading to increased exports of several products ( particularly during World War I when Spain was a neutral country ).

This description " eastman " ( from Norway ) has to be seen together with the description " westman " ( From Ireland / Scotland ) which is to be found in local place-names such as " Vestmanna-havn " i. e. " Irish-mens harbour " in the Faroe Isles, and " Vestmannaeyjar " i. e. " Irish-mens islands " in Iceland.

The harbour village of Craster in Northumberland is also famed for its kippers, where they are prepared in a smokehouse, sold in the local shop and exported around the world.

Crevasses and pockets, local topography of the rocks, would hold fine materials and harbour plant roots.

In capturing this city, Scipio gains access to copious stores and supplies, Spanish hostages, the local silver mines, a splendid harbour and a base for an advance farther south.

A local group, The Remembrance Line Association, is actively seeking to retain the harbour branch as a tourist / heritage railway operation.

The Corporation also inspects buoys provided by local harbour authorities.

He also sketched ships in the local harbour.

The remains of a tower on the end of the harbour are all that can be seen now of the much taller building which was part of the overhead equipment which used to convey the local stone from where it was quarried to boats in the harbour.

The local birdlife include Eurasian Curlew, Common Redshank and Sanderling regularly foraging in the lower fishguard harbour and European Stonechat, Great Cormorant and Northern Fulmar can be seen from the coastal path.

This prosperity was caused by the fact that Etten was a centre for the production of peat, and Leur was a local trading port, as it had a harbour.

Mammals which call these places home include the red fox, long-tailed weasel, mink, muskrat, woodchuck, several bat species, bottlenose dolphins, harbour porpoises and possibly river otters which are close to local extinction in Long Island with only an estimated 8 individuals thought to have recently migrated from Connecticut.

Many of them moved to the town from Glasgow, including E A Hornel, George Henry, and Jessie M. King, and their presence led to Kirkcudbright becoming known as " the artists ' town ", although town residents see the town as a " fishing town ": as the town has a harbour, this soubriquet may have originated more from tourist board publicity rather than local usage.

The old quay remained until after the completion of the new harbour, and then, despite its continued favour by local fishermen, was removed for local wall building about 1833.

A lighthouse built at the harbour entrance in 1869 is a local landmark.

Another attraction is the local harbour, which features the Tolbooth, the town's tiny museum of local heritage.

The harbour wall, " The Cobb ", features in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, and in the film and novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by local writer John Fowles.

The centrally located Chake-Chake is perched on a mound with a view to the west on a bay and the tiny Misali island where the tides determine when a dhow can enter the local harbour.

Many artifacts, sculptures and amphorae found in local digs and shipwrecks from the harbour are displayed here.

East Quantoxhead used to have a small harbour which brought in limestone for local limekilns and exported alabaster.

** A cape on Lake Ontario in the municipality of Clarington, Regional Municipality of Durham, to the east of Toronto, which gives its name to a neighbourhood and local park west of the cape and east of the Port of Newcastle harbour.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

There is a need for an expanded Federal effort to provide research and information to help guide state education departments and local school boards in existing programs.

But such a reaction obscures the powerful efforts made in the past by both NAREB and its local boards for the maintenance of restrictive clauses and practices.

From 1830 the state began to fund buildings with grants, then from 1846 it was funding schools by direct sponsorship, and in 1872 Scotland moved to a system like that in England of state-sponsored largely free schools, run by local school boards.

Also in that year, local poor law boards, with a mix of magistrates and elected " guardians " took over the health and social welfare functions of the grand juries.

These include non-English language groups, groups managed by companies or organizations about their products, geographic / local hierarchies, and even non-internet network boards routed into NNTP.

Historically, most roads in New Zealand were funded by local road authorities ( often road boards ) who derived their income from local rates.

To construct the prototype, Alcorn purchased a $ 75 Hitachi black-and-white television set from a local store, placed it into a wooden cabinet, and soldered the wires into boards to create the necessary circuitry.

So, this determination was left up to local school boards.

There are bulletin boards with maps and information about local plants and wildlife, as well as signposts along the trails.

The authority was established to replace a range of joint boards and quangos and provided an elected upper tier of local government in London for the first time since the abolition of the Greater London Council in 1986.

There were many anti-Communist committees, panels, and " loyalty review boards " in federal, state, and local governments, as well as many private agencies that carried out investigations for small and large companies concerned about possible Communists in their work force.

Some low-cost sets ( especially those sold in toy stores ) may use red and black squares and include pieces for both games ; though suitable for informal play, such boards are often not accepted for sanctioned play, depending on the local authority's rules on equipment standards.

* The National Tournament of Academic Excellence ( formerly known as the Panasonic Academic Challenge ) was held since 1988, and is sponsored by the school boards of the local counties and the State of Florida.

With mayors, councils, and boards in place at the local level, newly elected officials, civil society organizations, decentralized technical services, private sector interests, other communes, and donor groups began partnering to further development.

The water boards are also part of the local government.

As the parliament elects the national government, the local assemblies elect their executive committees and their boards.

Members in local committees and boards are elected proportionally by the political parties in the assemblies, giving all the major parties representation.

They also had the power to establish unpaid five-member local boards or town councils in municipalities other than the departmental capital if the population was large enough to warrant such a body.

It could approve budgets, fix the amount of taxes, request the intervention of the Accounts Tribunal for advice concerning departmental finances or administration, and remove from office — at the request of the governor — members of nonelective local departmental boards.

Foresters work for the timber industry, government agencies, conservation groups, local authorities, urban parks boards, citizens ' associations, and private landowners.

One of the outcomes of this redistricting was to create local boards or neighborhood watches ( vigiles ) tasked with fire control, as a response to recent arson in the Forum.

Its responsibilities include: adoption of the City budget ; approval of all tax levies ; adoption of ordinances ; approval of amendments, supplements or repeals to ordinances and the City Code ; and appointment of the City Manager, City Clerk, City Attorney and various local boards, commissions and committees.