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… support for sport was focused on children until the late 1930s when adult fitness also became a state concern. Sports … were thought unremarkable. The great depression of the 1930s brought change. The itinerant physical instructors who …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Government and sport
… death she and Gwen continued to live together. During the 1930s and early 1940s Lois White was considered a mainstream … she concentrated on during these years. By the late 1930s the war series were interspersed with religious and …
Type: Biography
… Thatcher, and the modernist aesthetic introduced in the 1930s by European architects such as Ernst Plischke. But …
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Part of story: Creative life
… Cycling took off in the early 20th century. By the late 1930s, New Zealand had one bicycle for every six people. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bicycles
… approximately 120 Czech refugees from Nazism in the late 1930s was Fred Turnovsky. He succeeded in business, but is …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Central and South-eastern Europeans
… in Otago and Southland. By contrast, a second boom in the 1930s and 1940s saw a few large, powerful dredges. Dredging …
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Part of story: Gold and gold mining
… Chinese gooseberries became increasingly popular in the 1930s and 1940s, but remained a novelty crop grown in …
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Part of story: Kiwifruit
… Taranaki, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Each employed their own veterinarian. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Veterinary services
… pressure, notably between 1932 – the low point of the 1930s economic depression – and 1937. This framework came …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Law and the economy
… In the 1930s governments in all countries were being drawn into …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Aviation
… viable. Whanganui and the region suffered severely in the 1930s depression, and grew very slowly in the following …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui region
… the Health Department took them over in the 1920s and 1930s. Hanmer’s hospital became Queen Mary Hospital, and the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… dealing with misdemeanours during her childhood in the 1930s: ‘Every Sunday they would have this gathering of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… few women among the amateurs of the late 1920s and 1930s, Margaret Lorimer and Katie Gardiner (sometimes with …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… how life in a Canterbury rural community was easier by the 1930s. ‘The first settlers … were a long day’s journey by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural services
… and region were hard hit by the depression of the early 1930s. Dunedin’s population fell by 3,000 between 1926 and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Otago region
… most of them three-bedroom designs, were built during the 1930s and 1940s. They were simple weatherboard or brick …
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Part of story: Building and construction industry
… by the government from 1842. From then till the early 1930s some 40 newspapers in Māori were published by the …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… region to breed. Human godwits A New Zealand novel of the 1930s, The godwits fly by Robin Hyde, explored the life of …
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Part of story: Bird migration
… working-age men were overseas), and the depression of the 1930s (when huge numbers were unemployed and immigration …
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Part of story: Workforce composition