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New Zealand logo of metrication.
New Zealand started metrication in 1969 with the establishment of the Metric Advisory Board (MAB) and completed metrication on 14 December 1976 [1].
Although New Zealand has now officially completed metrication, there is still a decreasing tendency to use the old imperial units for birth weight, human height, and aircraft altitude in day-to-day talk, particularly by the older generations.[2]
[edit] External links
Weights and Measures Act 1987
[edit] References
- ^ NZ Government Press release accessed 5 July 2007
- ^ Dignan, J. R. E., & O'Shea, R. P. (1995). Human use of metric measures of length. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 24, 21-25.