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… Snow was again a vocal advocate of welfare. In the early 1930s she worked closely with Margaret Thorn, Margaret … husband Clarence Snow died of cancer of the throat in 1930. She had also buried two sons before her own death, on …
Type: Biography
… 1920s in New Zealand and were especially popular during the 1930s depression. Traditional, patriotic, drinking and music … formed the Waiata Maori Choir in the mid-1920s, and in the 1930s it toured New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom …
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Part of story: Choral music and choirs
… All urban marae build on work begun by Āpirana Ngata in the 1930s, which focussed on the marae as the symbol of iwi and …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… creatures. A bushman's trick As a young geologist in the 1930s, Harold Wellman found it impossible to make a fire in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: The New Zealand bush
… refugees from Nazism who arrived in New Zealand in the late 1930s. The philosopher Karl Popper returned to Europe once …
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Part of story: Central and South-eastern Europeans
… , amazing theatre-goers with her vitality and energy. In 1930 she settled in Hollywood, California. Although never …
Type: Biography
… A few other clubs sprang up in northern New Zealand in the 1930s and 1940s. A national body, the New Zealand Big Game …
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Part of story: Recreational sea fishing
… its exports going to Britain reach nearly 90% in the early 1930s. New Zealand was heavily indebted to UK lenders, but …
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Part of story: International economic relations
… were introduced in the late 1920s, and by the mid-1930s had replaced steam threshing mills. At the same time, …
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Part of story: Rural workers
… Some women tattooed with moko kauae in the 1920s and 1930s survived into the 1980s. Their knowledge, accounts and …
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Part of story: Tā moko – Māori tattooing
… to be known as the milk tree. Cheese consumption Before 1930 each New Zealander ate less than 2 kilograms of cheese …
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Part of story: Food
… tug-of-wars or gumboot- and rolling pin-throwing. In the 1930s, Manawatū introduced chariot racing, which became very …
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Part of story: Shows and field days
… reached via Five Mile Track or from the south coast. In the 1930s, people began building huts in the valley, using four …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… Hospital Board from 1913, serving until his death in 1930. He topped the poll in the voting for the local …
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Part of story: Political values
… End of British market From the early 1930s it was clear that Britain could not take unlimited …
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Part of story: Economic history
… speeded up when night observations were introduced from 1930. Taking observations of lamps at the stations proved …
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Part of story: Modern mapping and surveying
… been demonstrated in Italy, and began in New Zealand in the 1930s, through bores reaching water or steam, which rose or …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… islands. They survived in some cities until the 1920s and 1930s. Conservation status Although both species are under …
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Part of story: Bats
… available. They were then sent to Dunedin by rail. In the 1930s Hall worked on two other projects for the Otago …
Type: Biography
… fumaroles of White Island (Whakaari) were mined until the 1930s. Mud pools Mud pools are an icon of New Zealand …
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Part of story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers