This was partly in response to a perceived threat of losing Norfolk Island to the French and partly to establish an alternative food source for the new colony.

Though unaware of the British intention to settle Norfolk Island, which was not announced until 5 December 1786, Forster referred to “ the nearness of New Zealand ; the excellent flax plant ( Phormium ) that grows so abundantly there ; its incomparable shipbuilding timber ”, as among the advantages of the new colony.

This implicit threat to the viability of the Royal Navy became apparent in mid-September ( a month after the decision had been taken to settle Botany Bay ) and caused the Pitt Administration to begin an urgent search for new sources of supply, including from Norfolk Island, which was then added to the plan to colonise New South Wales.

The new Duke and Duchess of York lived in York Cottage on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, and in apartments in St James's Palace.

Known as Kett's Oak, it has been preserved by Norfolk County Council, and a new plaque was unveiled in 2006.

A new wooden pulpit was acquired from a Norfolk church and installed in 1974.

After the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), William Mahone, a civil engineer and hero of the Battle of the Crater, was the driving force in the linkage of 3 railroads, including the V & T, across the southern tier of Virginia to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia in 1870.

Richard was sent to the Tower of London by the new king, Richard III, in mid-1483, thus ending his claim to both York and Norfolk.

After the Financial Panic of 1873, the AM & O fell into default on its debt, and was purchased in the early 1880s by new owners who renamed it the Norfolk and Western ( N & W ).

In 1963, the new independent city of Chesapeake was created when the former independent city of South Norfolk consolidated with Norfolk County.

The county jail, once located in the courthouse, is now located in a new facility in the same location where the Norfolk and Western rail depot used to stand near U. S. 23.

Road traffic was diverted onto a new bridge in 1970, and it was acquired by Norfolk County Council in 1994.

His work on another new Roman Catholic church at Sheringham, Norfolk showed his preference for simple Gothic frontages.

Following a review of parliamentary representation in Norfolk in 2007, the Boundary Commission for England created a new constituency of Broadland based on the local government region of that name.

However, the boundaries of the constituency do not match the local authority with six wards ( The Raynham, Wemsum, Walsingham, Astley, Fakenham South and North ) now removed from the North Norfolk Constituency and placed in to the new Broadland seat.

Today, approximately six trains travel through Mechanicsburg each day, which has recently increased due to new operations on the local sub-line owned by Norfolk Southern.

The Norfolk & Western branch was acquired by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad which build a new connection on the left side of the river to CSX which severed the old line across the bridge.

The new Town of Altavista was created in 1905 during the construction of the east-west Tidewater Railway between Giles County ( on the border with West Virginia ) and Sewell's Point in what was at the time Norfolk County.

In March, the Tidewater Railway was formally rechartered by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as " The Virginian Railway Company " and William Nelson Page was elected president on April 15, 1907 at the first new board meeting in Norfolk.

Unfortunately for Claremont, the A & D decided to connect its western leg with a new eastern terminus in West Norfolk on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and the line to Claremont, which was never standard-gauged, went into semi-abandonment.

The Davidson and Bailey family had to sell a portion of their land when in 1882, Captain John Fields, of the Norfolk and Western Railway pioneered the area and began building a new railroad through the hills of Bluefield.

Notwithstanding its corporate location on the C & O, agents for the new Tidewater Railway quietly surveyed and secured rights-of-way many miles away from the C & O across southern Virginia, roughly paralleling the Norfolk and Western Railway ( N & W ).

With the help of local leaders in Norfolk, ( and more funds from Rogers ), a route was obtained set which passed around the City of Norfolk ( and the N & W ) in a wide, 13-mile long circular path through rural Norfolk County to be headed almost due west again when it reached the site for a new coal pier on the harbor at Hampton Roads at Sewell's Point.

The Industrial Division published, in 1960, a new, attractive industrial brochure, `` Rhode Island -- Right For Industry '', and prepared copy for a new edition of the Directory Of Manufacturers ( to be printed shortly ), and for a new space catalogue.

The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of the Premier League ).

On the pitch, the team had fared little better, coming close to relegation to the Third Division for the first time, but in 1983 manager John Neal put together an impressive new team for minimal outlay.

In May 2007, HP announced in a press release a new logo for their Compaq Division to be placed on the new model Compaq Presarios.

Tymshare took over NLS and the lab that Engelbart had founded, hired most of the lab's staff including its creator as a Senior Scientist, renamed the software Augment, and offered it as a commercial service via its new Office Automation Division.

Then he was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of the new Operations Division ( which replaced WPD ) under Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, who spotted talent and promoted accordingly.

Davros is the head of the Elite Scientific Division, created to devise new military strategies in order to win the war.

Ft. Lewis Washington and the 9th Infantry Division was the testing unit to employ HMMWV in the new concept of a Motorized Division to counter the Russian Motorized units.

A new definition of hypnosis, derived from academic psychology, was provided in 2005, when the Society for Psychological Hypnosis, Division 30 of the American Psychological Association ( APA ), published the following formal definition:

In August 1919, Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation's new General Intelligence Division — also known as the Radical Division because its goal was to monitor and disrupt the work of domestic radicals.

A new battalion, 1st Kenya Rifles, was created entirely from 340 Lanet soldiers who had been cleared of participation in the mutiny by the Kenyan Criminal Investigations Division ( CID ).

By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.

The Twins dominated the Central Division in the first decade of the new century, winning the division in six of those ten years (' 02, ' 03, ' 04, ' 06, ' 09 and ' 10 ), and nearly winning it in ' 08 as well.

The 2nd Lieutenant John P. Bobo Class ships are new construction ships delivered to MSC in the mid-1980s from General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, Mass.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division ( United States ) ( Airmobile ), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone ( the Central Highlands ).

* 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

This is a pilot operation sponsored by a new entity chartered in Delaware as the Tri-State Pipeline Corporation, with principal offices in New York State.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

Both immediately resigned from their respective offices and Alexander had difficulty in forming a new cabinet.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

The house was quickly found to be too small, and John and William Smith were commissioned in 1848 to design new offices, cottages and other ancillary buildings.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

The censors were also in charge of the membership roll of the Senate, every five years adding new senators who had been elected to the requisite offices.

* The Adaptive Execution Office ( AEO ) is one of two new DARPA offices created in 2009 by the previous DARPA Director, Regina Dugan.

David McTaggart lobbied the Canadian Greenpeace Foundation to accept a new structure which would bring the scattered Greenpeace offices under the auspices of a single global organization.

Under the new structure, the local offices would contribute a percentage of their income to the international organization, which would take responsibility for setting the overall direction of the movement with each regional office having one vote.

Among the new features are a number of management features for branch offices, file serving, printing and company-wide identity integration.

From July 2012 a new registration system will be enacted: all residents ( both Japanese and resident foreigners ) will be recorded by municipal offices in the jūminhyō system.

The role of the new ministry, which took over palatial accommodation in the 18th-century Leopold Palace on Wilhelmstrasse, just across from Hitler ’ s offices in the Reich Chancellery, was to centralize Nazi control of all aspects of German cultural and intellectual life, particularly the press, radio and the visual and performing arts.

As time went by, Ribbentrop took to restructuring the Foreign Office by creating new offices like the Agency for News Analysis which fought with the Propaganda Ministry for control of German propaganda abroad, and by creating an inner circle of loyalists, many of whom had come from the Dienststelle.

Downtown, the center of the city, is currently undergoing major redevelopment with new condos, apartments, offices and The Power & Light District ( shopping / entertainment development ) complete with bars, restaurants, a grocery store with a roof-top pool club called The Jones, a performing arts center, and The Sprint Center.

A first Constitution of Monaco was adopted in 1911 and a new one, awarded by Prince Rainier III on December 17, 1962, outlines legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government, which consist of several administrative offices and a number of councils.

Funds are used, for example, to finance the conversion of existing manufacturing processes, train personnel, pay royalties and patent rights on new technologies, and establish national ozone offices.

On May 15, 1981, the Vikings moved into a new facility in suburban Eden Prairie that houses the team's offices, locker room and practice fields.

Launching his new line from his existing company's offices at 330 West 42nd Street, New York City, New York, he officially held the titles of editor, managing editor, and business manager, with Abraham Goodman officially listed as publisher.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.

Invariably short of money, he institutionalized simony at the papal court, creating new titles of offices that were discreetly auctioned.

Duncan Hall is the latest addition to this quad, providing new offices for the Computer Science, Computational and Applied Math, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics departments.

A new Rec Center is being built on campus, which will house the intramural sports offices and provide an outdoor pool, training and exercise facilities for all Rice students, while athletics training will solely be held at Tudor Fieldhouse and the Rice Football Stadium.

The king's religious powers were given to two new offices: the Rex Sacrorum and the Pontifex Maximus.