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… Control Act There had been some erosion surveys in the 1930s, along with growing concerns about erosion. In …
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Part of story: Soil erosion and conservation
… particular the 18-foot patiki M class) and power craft. By 1930 Logan was doing little building but much yacht …
Type: Biography
… After the war and during the economic depression of the 1930s Edith Macfarlane continued her community work and …
Type: Biography
… to housing and welfare. Māori cultural groups During the 1930s a number of young Māori moved to Wellington to work. …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… was a vice president for a number of years in the 1920s and 1930s. When the first Plunket nurse, Joanna MacKinnon, …
Type: Biography
… Henderson in 1919. More Dalmatian wineries started in the 1930s and 1940s. These included Selaks (planted by Marino …
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Part of story: Wine
… Commercial mushroom cultivation in New Zealand began in the 1930s when the Brightwell brothers of Avondale, Auckland, …
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Part of story: Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi
… for electricity slowed during the depression of the early 1930s, then shot upwards in the latter half of the decade. …
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Part of story: Hydroelectricity
… change Lord Bledisloe, governor-general of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935, did not like the new vice-regal flag that was …
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Part of story: Flags
… which went around city shops asking for food. During the 1930s economic depression the jobless protested about their …
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Part of story: Parades and protest marches
… Gwen Somerset did pioneering social research there in the 1930s, referring to it as ‘Littledene’. Puketeraki Range One …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… sometimes using the lids of banana boxes as bats. In the 1930s sports associations were founded in Auckland and …
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Part of story: Indians
… a purpose-built clinic was erected in the school grounds in 1930. Along with other dental nurses trained in the 1920s, …
Type: Biography
… and Europe before returning to Christchurch, where from 1930 Helen taught English language and literature at …
Type: Biography
… Rotorua, Te Aroha, Waitomo Caves and Waihī Beach. In the 1930s, with New Zealand now one of the most motorised …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… was set up in Christchurch, where it was based until 1930. Trotting began at Lancaster Park in 1886, and …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… then until 1922, 36 batches of possums were imported. By 1930, these animals and their descendants had been let loose …
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Part of story: Possums
… in the 60,000–150,000 range. Best and brightest In the 1930s Margaret Mead, a visiting American anthropologist …
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Part of story: Kiwis overseas
… fertiliser used on New Zealand’s pastoral farms since the 1930s. The trade began after large reserves of rock …
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Part of story: South Pacific economic relations
… element cobalt. When this was added to the soil, from the 1930s, the land became productive pasture. From 1929, the …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region