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… competitions between New Zealand and Australia began in the 1930s. Federated Mountain Clubs set up a ski sub-committee …
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Part of story: Skiing
… approved families to build their own suburban home, but the 1930s economic depression forced many new home-owners back …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Housing
… By the mid-1930s, with scheduled air services well established in many …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Aviation
… Expedition (BANZARE) – went to the Antarctic in 1929 and 1930–31. Led by Douglas Mawson of Australia, the group …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Antarctica and New Zealand
… houses The 1920s housing boom turned to bust in the early 1930s when New Zealand was hit hard by a worldwide economic …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Suburbs
… buried in the Havelock North cemetery; Maria Tucker died in 1930. The business passed into the hands of their sons, and …
Type: Biography
… four doctors and two dentists. Second World War During the 1930s, only 10% of the Māori population was urban. Within a …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… the party in 1924, although he remained sympathetic until 1930–31, when he finally severed his links over what he saw … became more critical of the Soviet Union during the 1930s. By the end of the decade he was identified as a … the miners' leader Angus McLagan , and for much of the 1930s they fought 'Big Jim' Roberts of the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… J. G. Barnes (later mayor of Dunedin), he won the title in 1930 and 1931 and twice ran in the New Zealand championship … a New Zealand title, as he gained a Rhodes Scholarship in 1930 and entered Exeter College, University of Oxford, in … story continues to gain from its highly charged context – 1930s Oxford, Anglo-American encounters, the new force of …
Type: Biography
… Cresswell ’s dandyish autobiographies The poet’s progress (1930) and Present without leave (1939) displayed the nerve … and social criticism tended to blur in the nationalist 1930s to 1950s. The centennial of the signing of the Treaty …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… at the training college in 1926, a WEA lecturer, and, from 1930, a part-time assistant lecturer in education at … He graduated MA with first-class honours in education in 1930. The educational policy of the New Zealand Labour Party …
Type: Biography
… the older generation’s values was stifled by the 1930s economic depression , the Second World War and … in ‘moral standards’, especially among youth. In the late 1930s American comics and magazines came under close …
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Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… speaker on the marae. He and Maaki returned to Whanganui in 1930, and Oliver took up pharmacy work, perhaps in 1931, at … been involved with Labour Party politics since the early 1930s. In 1934 he was among a group of Māori Labour …
Type: Biography
… of A treasury of New Zealand verse (1926) and Kōwhai gold (1930) – but greater recognition eluded her, perhaps because … story and a book of verse for children in the late 1930s. The focus on children's literature proved timely. Her …
Type: Biography
… he gained a diploma in social science in 1927 and, in 1930, an MA in economics. George Manning’s commitment and … and patron, and becoming a life member. During the 1930s he had been secretary of the local branch of the …
Type: Biography
… Potemkin and All quiet on the Western Front in the 1930s, and Brighton rock and No orchids for Miss Blandish in … R certificate, which had only been sparingly used since the 1930s, to allow films to be restricted to specific audiences …
Type: Biography
… with 21 provincial associations in 1914. However, by the 1930s netball was the most popular women’s sport. It was … Māori tournaments can be dated back at least to the 1930s. Margaret Hiha, one of New Zealand’s finest players, …
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Part of story: Hockey
… Peren visited research stations in Australia, and in the 1930s contacts were established with institutions in Britain … overseas. Peren foresaw the likelihood of war in the late 1930s, and in 1938 formed a troop of the Manawatu Mounted …
Type: Biography
… year his two-year-old daughter died from diphtheria. By 1930 he had moved to New Plymouth. Within months Salaman was … Six-year-old Lyall Christie, from Fordell, died in August 1930 in a diabetic coma caused by the withdrawal of insulin. …
Type: Biography
… The World's Student Christian Federation conference in 1930 widened his ecumenism and confirmed him in a passion … for social justice. After further study in London in 1930–31 at the Day Training College, he visited the Soviet …
Type: Biography