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… honorary aide de camp to the governor general from 1925 to 1930 and commander of the Central Coast Artillery Group from … Union Airways. The architect of the revival in the late 1930s of the Union Company, Norrie Falla had been the …
Type: Biography
… in 1920 he received the Hutton Memorial Medal and in 1930 the Hector Memorial Medal and Prize. In 1923 he … catered first to the needs of his students, but between 1930 and 1944 he published nine papers, five on ferns. …
Type: Biography
… party. As a consequence of the economic depression of the 1930s many people could not afford to pay for medical … Dock Street Mission medical clinic opened in 1930. In 1932 Alice Horsley answered a call from the mission …
Type: Biography
… consultation fees were too expensive for many. In the early 1930s the standard fee was 10 shillings and sixpence – this … implement the population-based primary health system in the 1930s and 1940s had dramatic implications for health-care …
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Part of story: Primary health care
… practice in 1920, retaining his surgical speciality. In 1930 he gained his MD, and was made a fellow of the College … and his prominence in the social security debate in the 1930s earned him widespread respect and affection. Janet …
Type: Biography
… of the senate of the University of New Zealand, and from 1930 to 1944 a member of the academic board. He was chairman … Committee of Management of the Dominion Museum in the late 1930s and early 1940s. As a teacher Kirk inspired his …
Type: Biography
… refresher courses over the following years. In September 1930 he was promoted to squadron leader and appointed … in several false starts in the commercial sphere. In 1930 alone he was technical director of the short-lived …
Type: Biography
… in his successes (37 wins from 51 races, including the 1930 Melbourne Cup) and expressed a collective sadness at … cause for national celebration in New Zealand in the 1930s. His achievement was followed by a triumphant national …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sport and the nation
… mouths, small, short-handled ‘pot’ nets are used. In the 1930s West Coasters improvised whitebait nets with … were being canned on the West Coast at Paringa. By 1930 the firm of Irvine and Stevenson had canneries at …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whitebait and whitebaiting
… art. As left-wing politics became more sharply drawn as the 1930s wore on, the eclecticism of the magazine’s early years … part of an intellectual community in Christchurch in the 1930s and 1940s, along with the Caxton Press, the Left Book …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… investigations that he is best remembered. In the late 1930s he spent two years working for an oil company in New … argument with his old teacher, Patrick Marshall, in the mid 1930s became a cause célèbre in the Wellington Philosophical …
Type: Biography
… have been selected for Empire and Commonwealth Games since 1930, and have won four bronze medals, all in the 3-metre … of Esther Williams. Synchro began in New Zealand in the 1930s and from the 1940s there were women’s groups in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Swimming
… 28 million passengers a year. After a downturn during the 1930s economic depression, passenger traffic reached an … was another prestigious passenger train. From the late 1930s diesel railcars, similar to buses on rails, also …
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Part of story: Railways
… no advertising as such. Commercial broadcasting During the 1930s radio receivers became common in New Zealand homes. In … and then offered them to advertisers. From the late 1930s commercial radio became more popular, especially in …
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Part of story: Advertising
… director of the Cawthron Institute. In the early 1930s he was director of the soil reconnaissance survey of the central North Island, and from the mid 1930s he was for nine years officer for the Soil Survey …
Type: Biography
… in 1931, established relief committees during the 1930s depression, and was a serving sister and later … an honorary child welfare officer for Hamilton in the early 1930s, and in 1939 a justice of the peace, in which capacity …
Type: Biography
… stints as an electrician, baker and salesman. During the 1930s he accumulated 17 criminal convictions, mainly for … and false pretences. His first conviction, at Onehunga in 1930, was for fraudulently obtaining £14 from two men by …
Type: Biography
… managed the Lake House Hotel at Ōhinemutu. In early 1930 he opened a music shop in Arawa Street opposite the old … his Melody Boys were broadcast over station 2ZJ. By the mid 1930s the depression was affecting the musical and tourist …
Type: Biography
… and a Brisbane newspaper company. Returning to Auckland in 1930, he worked as a sales executive for New Zealand … married Marjorie Joyce Ormiston in Auckland on 22 January 1930. Known as Marnie, she became a director of her …
Type: Biography
… was popular with children and adult men especially from the 1930s, while women have generally been less avid collectors. … stamp’s quality. Because of the economic depression of the 1930s, the 1931 health stamp issue only sold 74,802 of the …
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Part of story: Postage stamps