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Annual Shareholders’ Meeting Voting Results
Auckland, 22 December 2004 – Tenon announces that all resolutions put to its annual shareholders’ meeting held in Auckland on 22 December 2004 were passed by shareholders. Details of the voting will be announced to the market in due course.
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University of Canterbury: Proglacial Lakes Are Accelerating Glacier Ice Loss
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