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… Welfare services expand, 1890s–1930s …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… More films began to be aimed at an adult audience. In 1930 the censor banned 102 films out of the 2,626 films … The film All quiet on the Western Front was banned in 1930 on the grounds that it was anti-war propaganda. A group … History of censorship in New Zealand, 1850s to 1930s …
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Part of story: Censorship
… 1 Spanish mission and art deco By the 1920s and early 1930s the revivalist styles were challenged by the … styles. Prouse also designed Wellington’s Hotel St George (1930), which featured rhythmical lines and abstract art deco … New takes on old styles, 1900 to 1930s …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… had a major influence on New Zealand soil scientists in the 1930s and 1940s. An organisational framework Government … Early investigations and bush sickness: 1900–1930 …
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Part of story: Soil investigation
… situation Since the mobile recordings in Rotorua in 1930, there had been no professional recording of music … Wartime music and early recording, 1930s and 1940s …
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Part of story: Popular music
… in a European style. These also sold for many years. In the 1930s acts that wanted to make commercial recordings had to … Billy Hart and Nelson-born country singer Tex Morton. In 1930 three members of the Tāhiwi family from Ōtaki recorded … on Charles Forrest’s radio programme in 1922. Despite the 1930s economic depression, ownership of radios increased …
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Part of story: Popular music
… From the 1840s to the early 1930s some 40 Māori-language newspapers debated ideas, …
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… have been, at best, passive members of clubs. But since the 1930s, clubs have been an important feature of New Zealand … was reflected even more markedly in mountaineering from the 1930s. DIY swags Although A. P. Harper championed the … 1914 and again in the 1920s, and became more active in the 1930s. The Otago section, formed in 1930, became the club’s …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… to power towards the end of the economic depression of the 1930s, and built New Zealand’s welfare state. …
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… known as naturism – was taken up by New Zealanders in the 1930s. They believed it was natural and healthy to go …
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… Every evening in radio’s golden age, from the 1930s to the 1960s, most New Zealanders tuned in to popular …
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… first systematic study of Māori living conditions, in the 1930s, revealed that a high proportion of the population … continued to fight to improve Māori health in the 1920s and 1930s. Māori doctor Māui Pōmare was minister of health from … expenditure on Māori health increased greatly in the 1930s. A programme for controlling tuberculosis in Māori …
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Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… In the late 1920s and 1930s, climbing ceased to be a sport dominated by guides as … Exploring new areas Amateur climbers in the 1920s and 1930s extended the geographic range of climbing. … who personified the new amateur climber, John Pascoe. The 1930s saw Otago climbers frequent the Darran Mountains in …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… was hampered by economic depression in the 1920s and 1930s, and labour shortages in the 1940s caused by the Second World War. Between 1930 and 1950, the growth in sheep numbers slowed, and wool … livestock improvement and better grazing management. In the 1930s, at Massey College, Geoffrey Peren and Francis Dry …
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Part of story: Farming in the economy
… fertility. Most women gave birth at home, but from the 1930s hospital births became the norm. In the early 21st …
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… Zealand first issued its own national currency in the early 1930s – before then, New Zealanders used British and …
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… such as poet Allen Curnow and others who emerged in the 1930s, wanted to create a national culture based on realism …
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… four years. The first British Empire Games took place in 1930 at Hamilton in Ontario, Canada, organised by Canadian … the changing names of the games. The British Empire Games (1930–50) became the British Empire and Commonwealth Games … Caribbean nations. New Zealand at the British Empire Games, 1930–38 New Zealand has sent teams to all of the British …
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Part of story: Olympic and Commonwealth games