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… she advanced, moving to Christchurch in the mid 1930s to become head of advertising at J. Ballantyne and … posthumously together with her set of etchings from the 1930s. She died on 24 December 1991 at Lower Hutt Hospital. …
Type: Biography
… member of this body. He was appointed a KCMG in 1930, was advanced to GCMG in 1937, and was made an honorary … of the government for short intervals in the period from 1930 to 1941. In 1945 Myers reached the statutory retirement …
Type: Biography
… four years. William Charles Nation died at Levin on 29 May 1930. His wife had predeceased him in 1923, and only four of his eight children survived him. The July 1930 issue of the Message of Life paid tribute to 'Grandpa …
Type: Biography
… Māori custom – in a collection of his writing published in 1930, almost 30 years after his death, he wrote that ‘the … He sang at Covent Garden in London and around Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, and became an international star. Natzke …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country places
… Psychology in 1929. Funded by field-work grants, in 1930–31 he carried out research among the Karadjeri … of justice brought him into conflict with authority. In 1930 he had reported abuses in the treatment of Aborigines …
Type: Biography
… William Muschenheim in 1929. Returning to Vienna in January 1930, Plischke began work on an employment office building … an experimental housing research project, in 1930. He qualified as a civil architect in 1932. However, …
Type: Biography
… from a relative that allowed this ran out by the early 1930s. Mary took a job as a librarian in Te Awamutu; this … articles and stories to magazines and newspapers. In 1930 she was the 'Annual Discovery' of the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… remembered trying to find out about contraception in the 1930s: ‘We had six [children] and we couldn’t afford to look … Wellington obstetricians and gynaecologists in the late 1930s, most opposed birth control. ‘Sometimes we were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… general; a year later he was also minister of justice. In 1930 he represented New Zealand at the Imperial Conference … of George Forbes may have produced his knighthood in 1930. Loyal to the end, in 1931 he resigned from cabinet to …
Type: Biography
… her with access to Te Arawa's rich oral traditions. In the 1930s, while raising her five sons, she found time to write … and to sit on a magistrate’s bench. From the early 1930s Enid had maintained a regular correspondence with the …
Type: Biography
… including a major reform in 1996. Weight training in the 1930s Laurie Hogan, the first New Zealander to hold a … It became an organised sport in New Zealand in the 1930s, the decade when provincial weightlifting …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting
… anti-vivisection society had been set up in Auckland by 1930, and branches of the BUAV were established in other …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Animal welfare and rights
… Gulls in New Zealand slang have a rough reputation. In the 1930s wharf labourers waiting for scraps of work were called …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gulls, terns and skuas
… Shore of Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour in 1926, and around 1930 the Rover Canoe Club, based in Hamilton, began …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canoeing and rafting
… inspector telling him about a new type of bait in the 1930s: ‘D’you know they’re using jam as bait in the South …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rabbits
… manufacturers and suppliers. These had developed since the 1930s, when industry was encouraged with tariff protection, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… fittings. Pharmacies largely looked like this until the 1930s when competition from grocers and department stores …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Shops
… the eastern hill and high country of the South Island. By 1930 about half of the forest area, and a large part of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Farming and the environment
… any other general insurance company in New Zealand. In the 1930s other non-tariff companies emerged offering general …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Insurance
… pay. Membership grew steadily until the depression of the 1930s. It leapt in 1936 when the Labour government …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural workers