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… stoves spread among the houses of the wealthy in the early 1930s. Those who had jobs or savings benefited from lower …
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Part of story: Economic history
… and 6,274 Māori (excluding Rotorua and Taupō). From the 1930s to the 1960s In 1936 the total population of the …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… Perhaps the most visible change in country towns between 1930 and 1960 was that householders cut down their hedges …
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Part of story: Country towns
… of concern. The first surveys of Māori housing in the 1930s showed appalling conditions. A series of fatal fires …
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Part of story: Northland region
… farms (71%) supplied cream to dairy factories. In the 1930s and 1940s a cream truck called at each farm every one …
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Part of story: Dairying and dairy products
… suppliers struggled to meet the demand. In the 1920s and 1930s the government promoted superphosphate, backed with …
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Part of story: Superphosphate
… Christchurch, inspiring a few locals who in the 1920s and 1930s were using solid wooden boards. The surf lifesaving …
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Part of story: Lifesaving and surfing
… Whāiti in the Whirinaki Forest. It was established in the 1930s to provide housing for workers in the Whirinaki native …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… farming methods. Clubs spread quickly in rural areas in the 1930s and a federation was formed. The clubs began to hold …
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Part of story: Rural recreation
… 1923. Ill health plagued him throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, when he produced few paintings. Gossip held him to be … general, Lord Bledisloe , Goldie resumed painting around 1930, creating a distinctive body of work marked by a warmer … letters Goldie published in the Auckland press during the 1930s were critical of local art institutions and …
Type: Biography
… his experiences as a union secretary during the 1920s and 1930s, when economic circumstances were unfavourable to … throughout the economically depressed late 1920s and early 1930s. He was, however, to find it very difficult to … dream of 'One Big Union' was never to eventuate. In the mid 1930s a bitter internal dispute split the Alliance into two …
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… later but retained the Lambton Quay shop until 1959. In the 1930s it became a well-known meeting place for socialists, … house, and were married in Ngaio on 31 August 1932. In 1930 Carman began his long career in local-body politics, … the Tawa Flat branch of the Labour Party, but in the late 1930s became increasingly critical of what he saw as the …
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… and French. He studied full time that year and from 1928 to 1930, eventually graduating BA in 1939. Mason evidently … of some of the earlier poems. Mason's writing after the mid 1930s was mainly political journalism and didactic plays for … transferral of energy from poetry to politics in the mid 1930s was a part of this process. Mason's poetry was …
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… of the Insurance Officers' Guild of New Zealand in 1929 and 1930 respectively. A traditionalist rather than a radical, … male shorthand typists. Notable among these in the 1930s was H. R. C. (later Sir Richard) Wild. By the early 1930s O'Leary was increasingly concerned with Bench work. In …
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… was not yet the answer for New Zealand. Therefore, in July 1930 he obtained approval to design a steam locomotive with … Angus’s achievements was the successful introduction in the 1930s of new railcars on the Wairarapa and New Plymouth …
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… a public relations policy and began a service to schools in 1930, a scheme later adopted by all metropolitan museums. … was to stand the critical test of all later studies. In the 1930s Archey turned to the study of Māori carving and …
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… and another anonymous Roman Catholic author. In 1930, at the Lambeth Conference of bishops, he was to … in the post-war years and those of the depression of the 1930s. The establishment of the diocese of Waikato in 1926 …
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… and expressive face made him a natural actor. From the mid 1930s until 1953 he was head of Ngāi Tūāhuriri Runanga. In … of the Tuahiwi Labour Representation Committee during the 1930s. In 1940 he represented Ngāi Tahu at the New Zealand …
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… Havelock North in 1919 and to Auckland in 1922. By the mid 1930s he was living at Silverstream in the Hutt Valley. His … his skill as a photographer. In Silverstream in the late 1930s Chapman-Taylor installed a well-equipped darkroom in …
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… with Dexter’ were popular in New Zealand. From the late 1930s the Kiwi performer Tex Morton was Australia’s first … went on to win 37 races from 51 starts, including the 1930 Melbourne Cup and the world’s richest race, the 1932 …
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Part of story: Australia and New Zealand