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… early retirement of Commissioner W. B. McIlveney on 30 June 1930, Wohlmann applied for the position, noting he was the … of the superintendents. He became commissioner on 1 August 1930, at a time of growing economic depression, government …
Type: Biography
… Australasian College of Surgeons. The neo-Georgian house of 1930 on the Pitt Street–Wadestown Road corner and his vast … Wren; and the new Wellington railway station (designed in 1930 and opened in 1937). This is a powerful building and a …
Type: Biography
… legal case in New Zealand history. This began in the 1930s with petitions and court action; these led in the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui tribes
… a New Zealand ceramic artist, first encountered clay in the 1930s as he sat under a pōhutukawa tree on Westmere beach, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… development programmes of Apirana Ngata in the 1920s and 1930s. There are a number of meeting houses, among them …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… spur, near Sumner, Christchurch, where she lived until 1930. Baughan's essay on the Milford Track, 'Finest walk in … use of probation. Baughan moved from Clifton to Akaroa in 1930. She made her home an unofficial halfway house, … a first-hand study of both male and female prisoners in the 1930s, and recorded some of her successes and failures in a …
Type: Biography
… conditions, but became unfashionable with the ascent of 1930s English revival styles. Verandahs were revived in the … cottage styles. The last idiom became synonymous with the 1930s Labour government’s state-housing scheme, whose houses … The modernist style was introduced from Europe in the 1930s. It eschewed ornamentation and promoted clean straight …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Housing
… city dump. Animal deaths were frequent – for example, in 1930 over a third of Auckland Zoo’s animals died. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Zoos and aquariums
… with two major interruptions – the early 1920s and early 1930s depressions, when prices fell by around 10% in some …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Prices and inflation
… was interrupted only by a final burst of spending in the 1930s. A growing liability Maintenance was extremely costly. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… paddocks. Solo slaughtermen and the chain Before the 1930s solo slaughtermen, who were highly skilled butchers, … moved carcasses around and cleaned up the mess. From about 1930 ‘the chain’ was introduced – which moves carcasses … fertiliser and glue. British buy works By the 1930s British companies with retail butcher’s shops – …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Agricultural processing industries
… of the world professional heavyweight rankings in the late 1930s. Honest answer In 1969 Morris Strickland was asked if … Lani Daniels in 2019. Spectators The 1920s and early 1930s were boxing’s heyday as a spectator sport in New Zealand. In 1930 almost 18,000 people watched a bout in Wellington …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Boxing and wrestling
… of Apirana Ngata’s cultural renaissance programme in the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the finest examples of Māori art … and then as a writer of popular romances in the 1920s and 1930s. David Ballantyne, who grew up partly in Hicks Bay and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast region
… own postgraduate training course. After her retirement in 1930 it was reported that her 'visits were a source of … in 1913; six years later she joined the central council. In 1930 she convened a public health section of the Auckland …
Type: Biography
… the passing of an amendment to the registration act in 1930 to allow for training in private hospitals. This … contributing to the NCW's policy on health, and in the mid 1930s she suggested that the two organisations should work …
Type: Biography
… telegrams were sent from the early 20th century. By the 1930s a person turning 100 would receive birthday wishes … for many New Zealand families in the 20th century. From the 1930s the idea of being given ‘the key to the door’ – the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Birthdays and wedding anniversaries
… Plenty (1928) lines. The economic depression of the early 1930s prompted the first significant branch-line closures, … for the first time. Construction resumed in the late 1930s and 1940s, with new lines completed between Napier and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Railways
… knees gave way beneath them’. 2 Nightlife goes private: the 1930s In the late 1920s the cabaret boom contracted in the … licence, where members and their friends could drink. A 1930 court case noted a precise legal meaning: a cabaret …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nightclubs
… Sunbathing or swimming naked in public was illegal in the 1930s when the nudist movement began in New Zealand. Though … the same rules as tennis. Miniten was invented in the 1930s, when nudist clubs often did not have enough room for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Naturism
… use of electricity for home lighting increased. By the mid-1930s electrical appliances were standard in the homes of … was highlighted. Coverage in rural areas In the 1920s and 1930s closely-settled and well-to-do farming areas, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Energy supply and use