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… decades. The introduction of the welfare state in the late 1930s was a watershed. Until then taxation mainly involved … Infrastructure was usually funded by borrowing. Since the 1930s, the fundamental dynamic has shifted in stages to a …
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Part of story: Taxes
… a strong following in working-class areas. 20th century The 1930s and 1940s Christchurch’s press, university and art … creative expression in the early 20th century, and by the 1930s the city had a leading place in New Zealand arts. Two …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… and 1940. As economic conditions improved from the late 1930s, wine and spirits drinking remained stable, and beer … 40% until the end of the 1920s, then dropped to 29% in the 1930s. Even then, owners preferred to put money into buying …
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Part of story: Alcohol
… devout Catholic whose work was widely read in the 1920s and 1930s. However, because her work appears untouched by the … vision would strike a chord with the new poets of the 1930s. …
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Part of story: Poetry
… The birth of the New Zealand weekend, 1936–1945 In the 1930s industrial awards increasingly provided for a 40-hour … them a weekly half-holiday starting from noon. During the 1930s a number of local bodies changed their half-holidays …
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Part of story: Weekends
… all government spending. A cabinet minute of 13 October 1930 stated that new proposals being submitted for … million deficit in the government’s accounts expected for 1930–31. Over the next three years Treasury’s senior …
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Part of story: Treasury
… engaged to Mollie Render, a close companion from the late 1930s, at the time of his death. Watson spent most of 1937 … by Elsie Locke, a close friend and comrade since the mid 1930s, it included a range of essays on ideology, New …
Type: Biography
… grandchildren and great-grandchildren, developed. From the 1930s newspapers published photographs of couples, … Like those celebrating 100th birthdays, by the 1930s couples who reached golden wedding anniversaries …
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Part of story: Birthdays and wedding anniversaries
… and gained his ‘A’ licence in October 1935. By the early 1930s Wigley had entered the family firm, the Mount Cook … Southern Lakes Tourist Company (the name adopted in the mid 1930s) increasingly occupied his time and energy. A national …
Type: Biography
… with Gummer and Ford later that year. In the 1920s and 1930s Gummer and Ford was one of New Zealand’s most … of refugee architects who had fled Europe in the late 1930s. Many of those who worked under him became leading …
Type: Biography
… illustrate their patriotic and militaristic origins. 1930s and 1940s During the 1930s depression government assistance for youth movements …
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Part of story: Youth organisations
… R. O. Clark Ltd, which began making tableware in the late 1930s. Crown Lynn sourced its clay from kaolinite deposits …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… in Palmerston North as early as 1884, and another in 1930. Such bands thrived in Feilding and Levin too. A …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… the focus moved to the centre of the strait. In the early 1930s, the oysters were struck by disease and many died. …
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Part of story: Shellfish
… was a factor in delaying government funding until the late 1930s. Academic and sporting competition Students at elite …
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Part of story: Private education
… crops to become significant pests. Grass grub In the 1930s ryegrass and white clover became the basis of New …
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Part of story: Insect pests of crops, pasture and forestry
… 5,000 players in 2011. Origins Futsal originated in the 1930s in Uruguay and Brazil, where two versions of …
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Part of story: Football
… Park. Gliding gained popularity in the late 1920s. By 1930 there were a few clubs, and in 1931 a gliding …
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Part of story: Aerial recreation
… long run’ was pervasive in Pākehā novels until at least the 1930s. Traces of polygenism can also be found in the ‘comic …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… three more families from Csongrád had arrived by the early 1930s. Fastest opening Hungary is a landlocked country, far …
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Part of story: Hungarians