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… air competition undermined rail’s mail business from the 1930s, and the last RTPO was withdrawn in 1971. Farm freight … tonnes in 1929–30. There were 30,000 trucks on the roads by 1930 and in the next few years they captured much of rail’s …
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Part of story: Railways
… explosion on a Royal Danish Navy ship. He was knighted in 1930. In the 1930s Gillies was joined by two New Zealand surgeons who …
Type: Biography
… accounts since 1892). The ‘junk bond’ king In the early 1930s the coalition government passed special legislation to … collectively. When McArthur’s ventures began failing in 1930, he established his own Investment Executive Trust. …
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Part of story: Business failures and corporate fraud
… to take the hassle out of organising a long trip. In the 1930s the Railways Department cooperated with local councils … numbers of rail passengers declined during the 1920s and 1930s, sales of excursion tickets surged as a result of …
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Part of story: Holidays
… the annual Palmerston North – Wellington road race. In 1930 he was appointed the first vice president of the New … separated in the late 1940s, though they never divorced. In 1930 London was transferred to the Christchurch office of …
Type: Biography
… 1929 she was one of three who gained top equal marks and in 1930 she was the second recipient of the Frances Keith Payne … diploma in hospital administration and teaching in August 1930. Over the next six years she consolidated her education …
Type: Biography
… was built to a hydroelectric dam at the headwaters in the 1930s, the Cobb River deposits were mined on a small scale … to manufacture pipes and corrugated roofing from the late 1930s. Thousands of tonnes were applied to boilers and pipes …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… his genial, fatherly image, enjoyed mass adulation in the 1930s. Religion Religion was politically divisive in the … independence pushed by other dominions at the 1926 and 1930 imperial conferences. The 1931 Statute of Westminster …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… later began making it under licence in Christchurch. In the 1930s the flavour was altered and sugar was added. After … manufacturer of Weet-Bix was bought by Sanitarium in 1930. In the early 2000s Sanitarium had factories in …
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Part of story: Food and beverage manufacturing
… as ships turned to oil in place of coal. By the mid-1930s the Waikato fields were producing as much coal as the … cooperatives and reopened abandoned workings. By mid-1930 there were several hundred such operations. Second …
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Part of story: Coal and coal mining
… Hogg as a gardener at Dunedin Botanic Garden in 1924. By 1930 there were eight female horticulturists at the garden, … in rhododendrons. There was little development between 1930 and 1945, as council funds dried up in the depression …
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Part of story: Public gardens
… during the Second World War. Refugees from Nazism In the 1930s, a significant number of refugees from Nazi Germany …
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Part of story: Germans
… longevity Kiwifruit vines planted in New Zealand in the 1930s were still producing fruit in 2008. In Korea, one …
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Part of story: Kiwifruit
… journal, the Workers’ Vanguard. He was general secretary in 1930–31 and served another term as party chairman in 1936–37. In 1930 he was selected as the New Zealand delegate to a … the 1920s, and by long hours on full-time party work in the 1930s. He fell ill with tuberculosis during his imprisonment …
Type: Biography
… investigated Oxford (which he dubbed Littledene) in the 1930s he discovered that many adults in the community went … For some New Zealand writers and intellectuals from the 1930s on, the moral repressiveness of the country town came …
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Part of story: Country towns
… of the Royal Academy of Dancing which, when formed in the 1930s, started to systematise ballet technique in a manner … her own, although she herself did not marry. From 1926 to 1930 she stayed in England while Joan was establishing …
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… 1946. Diesel buses Diesel buses were introduced in the mid-1930s, and soon replaced the earlier petrol vehicles. The … and Thorndon, but was discontinued in the early 1930s because of a lack of patronage. At this time, …
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Part of story: Public transport
… was cable editor for the Sun at the time of its collapse in 1930. The depression had begun and, unable to find a … and security for the mass of the people’. He saw in the 1930s depression the paradox of under-consumption in the …
Type: Biography
… Co., began producing Cadbury chocolate in New Zealand in 1930. Lewis Berger and Sons, the British paint manufacturer, … arrival of overseas firms in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1926 General Motors opened a plant in Wellington, …
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Part of story: Manufacturing – an overview
… owned by Māori or the Crown. The Māori schemes began in the 1930s and were only partially successful. Title and tenure … pine became the main crop. Planting increased in the 1930s and 1940s. By the 1960s the Forest Service controlled …
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Part of story: Northland region