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… reader from a young age. Between leaving school and about 1930 he had a series of jobs – in a solicitor’s office, and … was not a prominent member until she was sent to Moscow in 1930 to study for nearly a year at the Lenin School for … work, although remaining a member of the party. From around 1930 Sid Scott devoted most of his energy to political work: …
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… and a daughter. The company did well in the late 1920s and 1930s, establishing agencies throughout the upper North … to Opotiki and Taumarunui. Tariff policy in the early 1930s made it cheaper to import ‘completely knocked down’ … to the reserve of officers. For most of the period from the 1930s to the early 1960s the New Zealand motor industry …
Type: Biography
… through the pipe band fraternity, from the 1870s until the 1930s, when raids by excise men shut most of the stills …
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Part of story: Scots
… and goodwill visits and trade increased in the 1920s and 1930s. Banno Brothers, who had been importing in the …
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Part of story: Japanese
… farming sector, a key area for self-employment. From the 1930s the state became a major employer. The growth of …
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Part of story: Workforce composition
… as he formulated his critical and poetic manifestos in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s were poets and poet-critics such as …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… with the PM The Kareti Club was formed by students in 1930 to act as a guardian of student social life. This …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… part of international economic thinking until the 1920s and 1930s. Knight’s sophistication had no direct international …
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Part of story: Economic thought
… Maunganui Surf Club was formed in 1914 and incorporated in 1930. Some houses clustered at the foot of the mountain, …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… By the first forestry planting boom in the 1920s and 1930s, it had been adopted as the species of choice. It …
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Part of story: Radiata pine
… before the Second World War. Family migration in the 1930s In the 1930s, the practice continued of allowing some non-British …
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Part of story: Immigration regulation
… were to have three daughters and two sons. By the late 1930s most of Babich's income was derived from wine-making. … was heavily involved in community affairs, and from the 1930s to the 1950s was frequently on the committee of the …
Type: Biography
… practice of James Rankin Bartholomew in Alexandra; about 1930 it became Bodkin and Sunderland. Bodkin specialised in … and a good speaker, and served as chairman of committees in 1930–31. Bodkin’s political influence diminished during the …
Type: Biography
… establishing his religious movement in the 1920s. In the 1930s the Rātana Church established seven brass bands. These … another golden age. With the tough economic times of the 1930s bands struggled to survive. The new medium of radio …
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Part of story: Brass and pipe bands
… the lettering on the Auckland War Memorial Museum. In 1930 he became an associate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The economic depression of the early 1930s reduced the amount of architectural work available in …
Type: Biography
… Frank Gavan Duffy became chief justice of Australia in the 1930s. John Callan senior moved to Dunedin in 1877 and … Zealand law societies, and was president of the former. In 1930–31 he was instrumental in promoting, through the New …
Type: Biography
… (1904) and Auckland (1911), and Dunedin’s finally opened in 1930. The Theatre Royal remained a key venue in … international touring shows continued until at least the 1930s economic depression, providing a succession of farces, …
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Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… sterile before entering the womb'. During the 1920s and 1930s May Cottrell suffered from 'nervous disorders' and … ', they found ready acceptance in women's magazines. In 1930 a romantic epic poem appeared in an English shipping …
Type: Biography
… exports by 1890. By 1920 this had risen to 22%, and in 1930 to 42%. Butter was crated in wooden boxes or barrels, … lasted until 1954. And then there were… In the 1920s and 1930s there were 240 cooperative dairy companies in New …
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Part of story: Dairying and dairy products
… and cricket) Lansdowne Park in Blenheim, which opened in 1930 with a rugby game between the British Lions and … were built at Carisbrook and Eden Park in the 1920s and 1930s; and there was another burst of such improvements at …
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Part of story: Sports venues