tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post2247749917529127965..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: This Is New Zealand - American EditionGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-43271362566907397642011-07-13T07:26:27.377+12:002011-07-13T07:26:27.377+12:00Reading that IPENZ brochure...whatever happened to...Reading that IPENZ brochure...whatever happened to electrification of the railways, and the benefits cited in the brochure??? The wires are still there form Hamilton southwards...but where's the ambition gone?Steve Reevesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-24112100599197268142011-07-10T21:06:03.392+12:002011-07-10T21:06:03.392+12:00Thanks for the post. Fascinating.Thanks for the post. Fascinating.AngonaMMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18167831557506704796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-41689000740089036252011-07-06T19:00:07.725+12:002011-07-06T19:00:07.725+12:00I meant to follow it up as well - the book briefly...I meant to follow it up as well - the book briefly describes the Stewart Island project. That's... chilling.<br /><br /><b>Daleaway</b>. I would be <i>delighted</i> to do that. Judging by something you mentioned on Deborah's blog a while back it sounds like I'd be very interested in your writings as well. I just don't know how to contact you - can you email me at giovanni.tiso (atGiovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-85126100245407879202011-07-06T17:28:07.054+12:002011-07-06T17:28:07.054+12:00Salmon farming - made me wonder, and while I haven...Salmon farming - made me wonder, and while I haven't totally confirmed...<br /><br />"The first sea-cage salmon farm was established in 1983 in Stewart Island’s Big Glory Bay by BP New Zealand Ltd."<br />http://www.salmon.org.nz/aboutsalmon.shtml<br /><br />"A portion of Big Glory Bay in New Zealand became hypoxic after salmon farming cages were set up but began recovering whenLyndonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622953598107216261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-83549692913549664802011-07-06T14:52:06.813+12:002011-07-06T14:52:06.813+12:00The writers had it right: why would you bother tel...The writers had it right: why would you bother telling a US readership about your rugby prowess? A waste of breath: they could not tell rugby from petit point.<br /><br />I am happy to tell you about New Zealand in the 1960s and earlier. Name the gathering place and I'll see if I can make it. <br /><br />It's the smallness of the population (2 million in the 1950s), the security, and the Daleawaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-89316798413106351742011-07-06T06:03:20.407+12:002011-07-06T06:03:20.407+12:00"I like what they did with the Supreme Court ..."I like what they did with the Supreme Court building but it also looks like it's been camouflaged. I think yours is a compelling theory."<br /><br />I was looking at the SC building last week and thinking the outside looks like the kind of tangle of vines I've seen in the Kaimais. <br /><br />Fascinating pamphlet, by the way. Those were very different times.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02397480700716013852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-64808706607642464202011-07-05T21:54:01.034+12:002011-07-05T21:54:01.034+12:00Anyhow, looking for traces on the web I found this...<i>Anyhow, looking for traces on the web I found this wonderful document: Engineering to 1990</i><br /><br />You did. You know I was supposed to be doing my tax return tonight, yes?<br /><br /><i>It's interesting to consider the man who styles himself as NZ's next Prime Minister wore white gumboots and wielded a knife to pay his way through university.</i><br /><br />And our current PrimeGiovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-21821345955394511902011-07-05T21:38:17.428+12:002011-07-05T21:38:17.428+12:00It's interesting to consider the man who style...It's interesting to consider the man who styles himself as NZ's next Prime Minister wore white gumboots and wielded a knife to pay his way through university. The sheep of the shoulder might be a rhetorical trick, but he belongs to a generation that encapsulated all of this, before deciding it wasn't enough.George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-51258499134827453692011-07-05T21:14:37.416+12:002011-07-05T21:14:37.416+12:00Robyn's comment brings to mind the NZ Expo Cen...Robyn's comment brings to mind the NZ Expo Centre in Mangere, with its bush laden boardwalks, and fiberglass glow-worm caves. We went there on a school trip some time in the early 90s.<br /><br />I'm trying to reconstruct it from memory, to talk about it properly, but it's overlaid with its later incarnations. After years of neglect it became an empty space filled with 2000s dance George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-61379538519014016772011-07-05T11:25:58.948+12:002011-07-05T11:25:58.948+12:00This supports my theory that New Zealanders feel w...<i>This supports my theory that New Zealanders feel wholly guilty about constructing buildings and will decorate them to look like virgin native forest.</i><br /><br />I like what they did with the Supreme Court building but it also looks like it's been camouflaged. I think yours is a compelling theory.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-61563788829113029252011-07-05T11:06:35.986+12:002011-07-05T11:06:35.986+12:00"the coordinated colour scheme creates a rest...<i>"the coordinated colour scheme creates a restful, earthy effect reminiscent of the land on which the economy of this essentially farming nation rests"</i><br /><br />This supports my theory that New Zealanders feel wholly guilty about constructing buildings and will decorate them to look like virgin native forest. Today we see NZers decorating their suburban homes and urban Robynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278675946018423652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-9129450519970774022011-07-05T09:54:49.319+12:002011-07-05T09:54:49.319+12:00Then talk face to face we definitely should.Then talk face to face we definitely should.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-1845382599064916692011-07-05T08:06:02.212+12:002011-07-05T08:06:02.212+12:00Your brilliant post made me feel like Forest Gump....Your brilliant post made me feel like Forest Gump. We need to talk face to face because that is the only way I can tell you about the further meaning behind wearing white gumboots, what it was like to be picked out by BP, watching firsthand police beating civilians mercilessly, Muldoon's coffin being haka'd by a Maori gang and so much more.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.com