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… in appalling conditions on the Kāingaroa plains in the 1930s. She wrote: ‘My father, though he was a bushman … The labour force was boosted in the depression of the early 1930s, and at times more than 1,500 men were on unemployment …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… and the Yugoslav Workers' Educational Club in December 1930, both opposed to the kingdom and its official … in protest against an amendment to the Unemployment Act 1930, which provided for a special tax to supply relief …
Type: Biography
… to Nelson, and the Lewis Pass route was completed in the 1930s. South Westland remained relatively isolated until the … have been used for transporting people and cargo since the 1930s. The first scheduled commercial air service in New …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… kauri gum were dug out of Northland swamps between 1850 and 1930, for use in making varnishes and linoleum. Wood The … it was also popular for boats. Supplies decreased from the 1930s, and kauri was subsequently used only as a speciality …
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Part of story: Conifers
… power arrived, largely replacing animal power. From about 1930 the internal combustion engine was used: tractors …
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Part of story: Bush trams and other log transport
… of the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCW) in 1930. But the decisive influence on her life was the … teachers, to the association's conference in Honolulu in 1930. She was overwhelmed by the occasion and the women she … Elsie Andrews was one of the foremost women of the 1930s. She was an inspirational speaker, with a gift for …
Type: Biography
… stream of British and American evangelists in the 1920s and 1930s included French Oliver, Aimee Semple McPherson and … The Evolution Protest Movement that flourished in the 1930s represented the more ‘fundamentalist’ end of the … emerged in the 19th century. In the depression years of the 1930s missions for the unemployed included the colourful …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… Aero Club and gained their private pilot's 'A' licences in 1930. The following year they both won prizes in events at the club's sky pageant at Māngere airfield. In 1930–31 the brothers joined the New Zealand Air Force … products and modest growth continued through the late 1930s. In 1937 net profit on trading was £884 and the two …
Type: Biography
… domestic fashion tips for housewives. Bedroom beauty In 1930 Truth advised: ‘Bedrooms can be dignified or gay in … in a room with Venetian glass mirrors and candlesticks.’ 2 1930s New electrical appliances and art deco glamour influenced 1930s domestic interiors. The electric heater, standard …
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Part of story: Furniture
… moved to Sydney, where he operated a hire-car business. In 1930 a directionless Garden was sailing back to Britain when … DH60 Gipsy Moth, which he named Kia Ora. On 16 October 1930 he set off from Croydon for Australia with the sole … since 1975 as the Oscar Garden Trophy.) In the early 1930s Garden spent time with John Tranum’s flying circus, …
Type: Biography
… were established by the New Zealand male writers of the 1930s and 1940s. A prime example is Barbara Anderson’s … the biblical story, Sister Hollywood (1989) is set in the 1930s, Risk (2012) is a thriller, and The necessary angel … the small-town male culture so familiar from fiction of the 1930s and make it even darker and more claustrophobic. His …
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Part of story: Fiction
… 9% of deaths among women. Between the late 1870s and the 1930s the rate moved up and down between just over 3% and … sharply to 3.4 per married woman in 1921, and 2.1 in the 1930s. With each child the risk of death for the mother … the rigorous application of antiseptic measures (1920s and 1930s), and the introduction of antibiotics (1940s). …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… the proposed choice of poems. The anthology, published in 1930, showed a lack of discrimination in its selection (Pope … articles on New Zealand writing to the Bulletin into the 1930s; otherwise he was now done with literature. He had married Isabel May McLennan at Wellington on 29 October 1930; they were to have two sons and a daughter. He …
Type: Biography
… export income fell. 1890 to 1945 Between 1890 and 1930 export income usually exceeded import payments. … again introduced policies to alleviate the problem. In 1930/31 export income collapsed, but banks and the …
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Part of story: Balance of payments
… in production of machine-made goods in the 1920s and 1930s created a huge demand for advertising photography, and … to obscure the impact they would have had in the 1920s and 1930s as supreme advertising images. Gordon Burt's …
Type: Biography
… of women players almost equalled the number of men by 1930, and during the world wars women members enabled a … who won her first New Zealand match-play title in 1930 and went on to take several Australian and trans-Tasman …
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Part of story: Golf
… Wellington. She then resumed district Plunket nursing. In 1930 Chapman was granted a year’s leave of absence to go to … charge of a metropolitan area during the depression of the 1930s was no easy task, with many cases of 'advanced …
Type: Biography
… 1920s, 1950s and 1970s. However, few were appointed in the 1930s, 1990s and 2000s. 1930s to 1950s From 1932 to 1941 there were only two …
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Part of story: Commissions of inquiry
… comprising mainly syndicated American strips, arose in the 1930s. The occasional local series made an appearance, such … The advent of the American adventure strips in the late 1930s aroused public fears about the supposed danger of …
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Part of story: Comics and graphic novels
… grass and clover cover would hold soil in place. But in the 1930s concern mounted about loss of soil as grassland pushed … from the United States and its ‘dustbowl’ experience of the 1930s economic depression. There, wind blew away the …
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Part of story: Economy and the environment