Kiwifruit industry in New Zealand and Growers, who were calling the berries "melonettes", because the local name for the fruit, "Chinese gooseberry", had political connotations due to the Cold War, and to further distinguish it from real gooseberries, which are prone to a fungus called anthracnose. An American importer, Norman Sondag of San Francisco, complained that "melonettes" was as bad as "Chinese gooseberry" because melons and berries were both subject to high import tariffs, and instead asked for a short Maori name that quickly connoted New Zealand. In June 1959, during a meeting of Turners and Growers management in Auckland, Jack Turner suggested the name
New Zealand archaeology Polynesian methods lasted well into the Archaic period. Historical archaeology in New Zealand started late and grew slowly, it was only by the 1960's that European structures were being systematically excavated. Although it has been used to solve some historical questions such as Taranaki Māori political prisoners in the Dunedin Gaol work on Pounamu in the late 1800s. There also interest in Maori post contact sites. Early archaeology in New Zealand was performed by anthropologists and private collectors of Māori artifacts. Many sites where destroyed by caress scavenging or poorly documented research. Systimated research was first conducted by the museums