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… – a nugget here and there helped develop farms. In the 1930s a government scheme paid unemployed men to try their … was built to a hydroelectric dam at the headwaters in the 1930s, the Tākaka River deposits were mined from 1940 to … Planning for the Cobb hydroelectric scheme began in the 1930s. A private company began the venture but the …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… North Island. Her last novel, Martin Thorn – adventurer (1930), ranges from Norfolk Island to Dusky Sound in … characters led to a series of radio broadcasts in the mid 1930s on 3YA; the scripts were later gathered together in … yesterdays , published posthumously in 1960. During the 1930s she was secretary of a Christchurch refugee committee, …
Type: Biography
… was critical to the settlements along the coast until the 1930s. Boats carried people, mail and goods in, and … through the Waioeka Gorge opened in 1932. In the 1920s and 1930s, with passable roads, but no rail, the East Coast … at Tāneatua. A coast route south was delayed by the 1930s economic depression the loss of 21 lives in a 1938 …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… Travellers' Male Voice Choir, a position he held until 1930, and in 1919 was appointed conductor of the Royal … for regular community singing in the town hall during the 1930s, gave organ recitals and conducted carol services at … his help in establishing Easter dawn services. In the 1930s Temple White formed new choirs: the Wellington Apollo …
Type: Biography
… to succeed W. W. Sedgwick. He was consecrated on 9 February 1930. Although he, like his father and grandfather, was … Williams's difficulties were of a different order. The 1930s were financially trying times for the church: in the early 1930s the depression deepened and in 1931 the Hawke's Bay …
Type: Biography
… Maori, explaining Labour's policies to them in Maori. In 1930 her fruitful association with the branch ended … leaders, which was published in the Samoa Guardian in May 1930. She had signed the letter using her official title, … was formally expunged from the minutes. For a time in the 1930s she associated with members of the Communist Party of …
Type: Biography
… the Social Credit Association, was created in the early 1930s as a monetary-reform organisation. Its members set up … Among its members were leaders within unions and, in the 1930s, the unemployed workers movement. Others took part in …
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Part of story: Political parties
… hunters and anglers. Deer came under government control in 1930 after their numbers grew hugely and they became a pest. … even after wild populations had become established. In the 1930s, scientist Derisley Hobbs’s studies of trout …
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Part of story: Acclimatisation
… allowed to open on Sundays. During the depression of the 1930s many people built a room onto the front of their … commonly applied to small grocery shops from the late 1930s. Before then a small shop selling groceries would have …
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Part of story: Food shops
… a few exceptions, he used it from that time onwards. In 1930 Gil Dech spent three months in New Zealand directing … to his recording assignments, the early years of the 1930s were taken up with concert tours as piano accompanist …
Type: Biography
… a key feature of New Zealand international trade from the 1930s to the 1970s. Trade dependent As a small economy, … 1 Import licensing A surge in imports in the late 1930s led the Labour government to restrict imports by …
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Part of story: Overseas trade policy
… purchased a second-hand microscope from London. In 1930, aged 42, she published her first scientific paper. … table, Amy Hodgson published more than 30 papers between 1930 and 1972. She described two new families of liverworts …
Type: Biography
… to family and social groups, and during the 1920s and 1930s some thermal resorts constructed large swimming pools. … Ward swimming baths became extremely popular from the early 1930s. Mōrere and Te Puia on the North Island’s east coast, …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… Writers’ and Artists’ Society. Her job ended in the early 1930s when the business failed during the depression. Rather … manner, a popular theme for embroidery patterns from the 1930s. Her shop flourished until she decided in 1952 to sell …
Type: Biography
… but this was slowly declining – from 48% in the late 1930s, to 43% in 1960, and down to 30% in 1970. This was due … to 14.5%. In 2007 they were less than 3%. In the late 1930s Britain took more than 80% of New Zealand exports. By …
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Part of story: Overseas trade policy
… (1929), the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company's Taupata (1930), and the Northern Steam Ship Company's Toa (1927) and Waka (later Clansman ) (1930). A vessel he built in 1932 on his own account, the …
Type: Biography
… asbestos deposits. The scheme was taken over in the late 1930s by the government. The river was dammed and water … worked the area, their numbers rising briefly during the 1930s when a government work relief scheme bankrolled them. …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… unemployed shop assistants during the depression of the 1930s. Purcell's role with the shop assistants' union was … of the wage cases for the grocers' assistants in 1930 and the retail chemists' employees in 1937. She was …
Type: Biography
… more than about one metre. No gold was recovered. Early 1930s Brokers survived the 1930s economic depression well. There was a frantic …
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Part of story: Stock market
… Paving projects that started in the 1920s slowed in the 1930s as a result of the economic depression. The depression … streets that had seen little maintenance since the late 1930s. New town-planning legislation led to the need for …
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Part of story: Streets and lighting