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… after the road (now State Highway 7) was built during the 1930s economic depression, it became the main route from …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canterbury places
… at Factory Road, where she died of heart failure on 20 May 1930 at the age of 85. She was celebrated as a pioneer woman …
Type: Biography
… significantly increased after the introduction in the early 1930s of cabinet incubators, which allowed large numbers of …
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Part of story: Poultry industry
… by British imports. Import-substitution manufacturing The 1930s depression drew attention to New Zealand’s economic …
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Part of story: Economic history
… ( Gambusia affinis ) were introduced, probably in the 1930s, in the hope they would help control mosquitoes. This …
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Part of story: Coarse fish
… of doing things). This was largely the policy until the 1930s. Native-school system policy From 1867 the …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… then the plants cannot provide enough for animals. Between 1930 and 1960, when agriculture in New Zealand expanded and …
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Part of story: Diseases of sheep, cattle and deer
… in Auckland. By 1927 they had moved to Dunedin, and by 1930, Wanganui. Here the Morrises were involved in amateur …
Type: Biography
… The decline continued through the following decades. By the 1930s Pākehā families usually had just two children. Living …
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Part of story: Women and men
… trampled, fouled and wasted, especially in winter. In the 1930s Bill Gallagher in Hamilton invented low-voltage …
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Part of story: Dairying and dairy products
… to attend the 60th agricultural show at Leeston in October 1930 before he died at Lewisham Hospital in Christchurch on …
Type: Biography
… and Lake Manapōuri and in the Waiau River in the 1920s and 1930s, but the fish were poorly conditioned and did not swim …
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Part of story: Trout and salmon
… The term came into use in New Zealand in the early 1930s. By the 1950s motorists’ supremacy over city streets …
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Part of story: Street life
… But in the 19th century and during the depression of the 1930s the general level of prices fell. Relative price …
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Part of story: Prices and inflation
… on the rail workforce. With almost 20,000 employees in 1930 and 27,000 in 1950, the Railways Department was for …
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Part of story: Railways
… a home for children up to 17 years old in Papatoetoe since 1930. Like Cholmondeley, it was built at the behest of an …
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Part of story: Children’s homes and fostering
… A small canning industry operated from 1906 until the 1930s, but the demand for rock lobsters was not high until …
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Part of story: Crabs, rock lobsters and other crustaceans
… Consultative Council of Federation Committees, and in 1930 the first dominion conference was held in Wellington. …
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Part of story: Farmer and grower organisations
… camps were organised locally and informally until the late 1930s, when the 1935 Labour government promoted a …
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Part of story: Camping
… day a week and until 6 p.m. on any other day. In the early 1930s grocers were typically open for 48 hours during the …
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Part of story: Food shops