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… A new fruit that became popular in New Zealand from the 1930s was first named the Chinese gooseberry, because the …
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Part of story: Inventions, patents and trademarks
… part of Māori performing groups’ repertoires until the mid-1930s. Instruments The piano and violin were instruments of …
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Part of story: Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs
… state Following the creation of the welfare state in the 1930s, the state came to be seen as the logical provider for …
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Part of story: Workplace safety and accident compensation
… was concentrated at Hillside and Hutt. In the late 1930s the Hutt workshop produced the Wairarapa-class and …
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Part of story: Railways
… by reports of purges in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, and later by the Nazi–Soviet Pact of August 1939, … associates in the trade union movement since the early 1930s. He believed militants should seek paid office in … of which he became secretary-treasurer. In the late 1930s he strongly advocated the formation of a single …
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… on the Te Teko school committee from 1921 to 1925 and 1930 to 1931. Like his father, Eramiha was a member of the … Taiapa to recruit him. Taiapa visited Eramiha on 10 January 1930; he found him on his Te Teko farm milking the cows and … for the food' she and her husband could give. In February 1930 Eramiha and Te Wairata took up their new duties at the …
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… children. Ormond returned to Wallingford in 1927 and by 1930 was chairman of the Waipukurau branch of the New … Reform and New Zealand National Party candidate during the 1930s; he even flirted with the right-wing Democrat Party. … the two men, whose careers had intertwined since the 1930s, illustrates significant differences in character. …
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… The Scrim–Lee papers , their personal reflections on the 1930s and 1940s. Among his other interests were boxing and aviation: he had gained a pilot's licence in 1930, served as captain of the Auckland Aero Club, and in … the forefront of developments in mass communication. In the 1930s Scrim blended a populist concern for the common people …
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… Herangi led a revival of Māori arts and crafts from the 1930s. Master carver Piri Poutapu had a school at … arts Amateur theatre developed in the 19th century. The 1930s were lively: Hamilton’s Playbox Repertory Society (one …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… of New Zealand, taking up office in Wellington on 19 March 1930. In the course of the ensuing five years he and Lady … of England, of which Bledisloe was president in 1946. In 1930 he had been appointed GCMG and on his return to England …
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… she was made a life member of the Auckland branch. In the 1930s Rhoda Bloodworth's main interest was child welfare. … Tom Bloodworth fell out with the Labour Party in the early 1930s and later took a seat on the Legislative Council as an …
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… was abandoned due to insufficient financial backing. In 1930 Bolt was appointed chief pilot for Dominion Airlines, … the Dutch airline KLM. On his return to New Zealand in late 1930 Bolt flew the Desoutter in a regular passenger service …
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… Martha and Joe had no children of their own, from the 1930s she regularly took in disadvantaged children: some her … she provided the best care in southern Wairarapa from the 1930s to the 1960s. …
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… and High School Old Boys’ and represented Canterbury from 1930 to 1933, impressing onlookers with his swing bowling … team from 1923 and for Canterbury in 1923 and from 1925 to 1930. In 1928 he was selected for the first All Black team …
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… War. Regional schools’ associations were formed from the 1930s. School rowing flourished after the Maadi Cup (won by … won gold in the fours and silver in the eights at the 1930 Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was a …
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Part of story: Rowing
… late 19th century and became widespread in the 1920s and 1930s. However, this was playwriting as a hobby, because … Three p lays of New Zealand was published in 1920. In the 1930s agit-prop-style dramas from a left-wing perspective …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… were happy times, but drought, grasshopper plagues and the 1930s depression soon brought them to an end. Bankrupt, the … machinist for Lichfield Shirts. In the late 1920s and early 1930s May Furey had become increasingly attracted to …
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… were by far the most popular housing type. Two or one? The 1930s state-housing programme supported the New Zealand … designed and two-storey to maximise space. During the 1930s semis returned in state-housing schemes. Since the …
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Part of story: Housing
… town ‘dry’ in 1905; it stayed that way until 1943. 1900 to 1930s A number of suburban districts joined the town in 1909 … after the four main centres. It acquired city status in 1930. Post-war boom: 1945–1975 Southland’s pastoral economy …
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Part of story: Southland places
… Zealand artists over the next half century. The 1920s and 1930s The musicals that swept the world, and were performed … in New Zealand by touring companies until the late 1930s, included No , n o, Nanette ; Chu Chin Chow ; The new …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre