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New Zealand was a heavily forested country and forestry, the cutting down and milling of trees for timber, is one of New Zealand's oldest industries and still a major industry today. The sport of woodchopping, a sport in which New Zealand has experienced a great deal of success internationally, grew out of this industry and is very popular in areas closely associated with the forestry industry.

Q: Why is wood chopping important to New Zealand?

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Ellsworth, Oliver (1745-1807), one of the nation's founding fathers and third Chief Justice of the United States, received half of his undergraduate education at Yale, and half at Princeton, where he graduated in 1766. In his junior year he and others founded the Well Meaning Club, which later became the Cliosophic Society.

Returning to his home in Windsor, Connecticut, he studied theology and then law, and was admitted to the bar in 1771. At first his law practice was so unremunerative that he had to support himself by farming and occasional woodchopping, and on days when the court was sitting he was obliged to walk from his farm in Hartford and back, a round trip of twenty miles, since he was too poor to keep a horse.

In 1775 he moved to Hartford. There his rise at the bar was rapid, and before long there were few important cases in Connecticut in which Ellsworth did not represent one side or the other.

He was a delegate to the General Assembly of the state that met soon after the Battle of Lexington, and throughout the Revolutionary War was a member of the Continental Congress. He was one of the delegates from Connecticut in the Federal Constitutional Convention, one of the first two senators from Connecticut, and, on appointment of President Washington, served as Chief Justice of the United States from 1796 to 1800.

At the Federal Constitutional Convention, William Pierce, a delegate from Georgia who kept careful notes about all his colleagues, said Ellsworth was ``a gentleman of a clear, deep, and copious understanding, eloquent in . . . public debate . . . very happy in reply, and choice in selecting such parts of his adversary's arguments as he finds makes the strongest impressions, in order to take off the force of them so as to admit the power of his own.'' Ellsworth employed these talents to support the Connecticut Compromise, which broke the deadlock between the large states, represented by James Madison 1771 of Virginia, and the small states, represented by Ellsworth's fellow Well Meaner and Cliosophian, William Paterson 1763 of New Jersey.

Ellsworth made his greatest contribution while serving in the United States Senate by drafting the Judiciary Act of 1789; the court system it established has continued to the present with little change.

Yale conferred an honorary LL.D. on him in 1790; Princeton, in 1797.

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§ Actors - Simon Baker, Bob Cooke, Errol Flynn, Alison Whyte, Jaason Simmons, Rachael Taylor, Chris King, Robert Grubb, Lucky Grills, Essie Davis, Phillip Borsos, Don Sharp

§ Choreographers - Graeme Murphy

§ Composers - Maria Grenfell, Don Kay, Constantine Koukias, Douglas Knehans, Peter Sculthorpe, John Joseph Woods

§ Musicians - Eileen Joyce, Striborg, Psycroptic, The Bedroom Philosopher, The Innocents, The Paradise Motel

§ Comic artist - Sols (Alan Salisbury)

§ Fictional - Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes)

§ Painters - Geoffrey Dyer, John Glover,

§ Photographers - Peter Dombrovskis, Olegas Truchanas

§ Television - Charles Wooley, Peter Cundall

§ Writers - Richard Davey, Richard Flanagan, Peter Conrad, Christopher Koch, Margaret Scott, Nan Chauncy

§ Fashion designer - Alannah Hill

Historic

§ Alec Campbell, longest surviving war veteran from the Battle of Gallipoli

§ Harold Gatty, navigator and aviation pioneer

§ Ettie Rout, journalist and wartime sexual health campaigner

§ Truganini, last full-blood Tasmanian aborigine

§ Jane Franklin early Tasmanian pioneer.

§ Martin Bryant, perpetrator of the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre

§ John Gellibrand, Founder of Legacy Australia

§ George Clarke (New Zealand pioneer), University of Tasmania's first vice-chancellor May 1890 to May 1898, and chancellor from May 1898 to May 1907

§ William Field (Australian pastoralist), convict turned businessman

Politics

§ Federal - Michael Ferguson, Mark Baker, Dick Adams, Lance Barnard, Neal Blewett, Bob Brown, Brian Harradine, Dame Enid Lyons, Joseph Lyons, Michael Hodgman (later a state politician), Ken Wriedt, Kevin Newman, Jocelyn Newman

§ State - Jim Bacon, Paul Lennon, Eric Reece, Will Hodgman, Michael Field, Ray Groom (previously federal), Robin Gray, Doug Lowe, Bill Neilson

§ Other - Andrew Inglis Clark, Richard Jones

Sport

§ Australian rules football - Matthew Richardson, Darrel Baldock, Ian Stewart, Peter Hudson, Laurie Nash, Paul Williams, Roy Cazaly, Steven Febey, Nick Riewoldt, Jack Riewoldt,Russell Robertson, Brad Green, Daryn Cresswell, Rodney Eade, Royce Hart, James Manson

§ Chess - Ian Rogers

§ Cricket - David Boon, Ricky Ponting, Max Walker, Ben Hilfenhaus

§ Eight Ball - Adam Johnson.

§ Motor racing - Marcos Ambrose, John Bowe

§ Netball - Natasha Chokljat

§ Rowing - George Quinlan Roberts

§ Other - David Foster (Woodchopping)

Science

§ Elizabeth Blackburn, first woman from Australia to win a Nobel Prize

§ Bill Mollison

Recent Notables

§ Mary Donaldson, now the Crown Princess Mary of Denmark

§ Mathew Goggin, Professional Tasmanian golfer on US PGA Tour

§ Regina Bird, winner Big Brother Australia 2003

§ Tim Lane, Journalist and Sports Commentator

§ Phillip Aspinall, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and Primate of Australia

§ Eric Philips OAM, Polar Adventurer and Guide

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