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… country (a change that finally happened in 1948). In the 1930s economic depression a range of groups provided …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… as production recovered in the UK. The circumstances of the 1930s returned – New Zealand was anxious for secure access …
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Part of story: Overseas trade policy
… Māori origins and culture. Government support grew from the 1930s, and flourished in the 1980s and 1990s. It has …
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Part of story: Public history
… nationalist literary movement beginning in the 1930s influenced writers for several decades. Since then a …
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Part of story: Creative life
… the area where he had grown up. Tales of the Māori coast (1930), Tales of the Māori bush (1934) and Hero stories of … Polynesian Society , the two-volume Legends of the Māori (1930–34) written with Sir Māui Pōmare , and The Māori yesterday and to-day (1930), a reworking of his earlier Māoris of New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… a professional career as a typist and secretary. On 3 April 1930, in Auckland, Mavis Gedye married Lewis Welton Hunt, a … motor salesman. The couple moved to Wellington in the early 1930s, where Mavis joined the Tararua Tramping Club. She had … in the club. Her marriage to Lewis Hunt ended in the late 1930s, and on 25 August 1939, in Wellington, she married …
Type: Biography
… writing, but henceforth it would take second place. In 1930 his first art teacher, Hugh Scott, advised him to enrol … 1936 Toss and Edith married at Dunedin. During the late 1930s and 1940s they and their growing family lived at … of the ways he dealt with it was by writing. Back in the 1930s Ursula Bethell had suggested that he write his …
Type: Biography
… was Nola Millar , who moved from amateur theatre in the 1930s and 1940s to forming a professional company, the New … a journalist while also writing poetry and novels. From the 1930s to the 1960s women painters did better than writers in …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… her family it proved a loving and enduring marriage. Until 1930 they farmed at Kuri Bush between Brighton and Taieri … passionate integrity. The Baxters returned to Brighton in 1930. Archibald remained an active pacifist. With Millicent …
Type: Biography
… published it as The poet's progress to a good reception in 1930. Its success and Cresswell's lionisation by Lady … that marked him as an influential figure in the 1920s and 1930s. …
Type: Biography
… Dyson urged women to study world affairs and in the late 1930s helped set up educational groups. National politics … in fashion as she was in politics, and in the late 1930s the Woman's Weekly ran a Miss New Zealand contest. In …
Type: Biography
… farmer, Finlayson took up the life of a writer in the mid 1930s. He had experimented as a writer of romance as early … occasional journalism in the Auckland papers. In the early 1930s he turned to satire to express his disillusionment …
Type: Biography
… assisted the institute during the depression of the 1930s. In 1934 the Atkinson Observatory was formally given … the building. When he travelled to Europe and America in 1930 one of his greatest pleasures was time spent in art …
Type: Biography
… He retired with the rank of brigadier general in December 1930. In early 1931 the New Zealand government appointed … an active interest in international affairs. During the mid 1930s he spoke out publicly about the threat posed by …
Type: Biography
… unusual at Hay’s, and were rarely disappointed. During the 1930s depression Hay was active in relief work, including … his role as a radio broadcaster (‘Uncle Hamish’) during the 1930s. From its modest start in Gloucester Street, the store …
Type: Biography
… led a deputation to the prime minister, George Forbes , in 1930; however, the canal was never built. Henry Thacker was … on health and diet, which gained a large following in the 1930s. Henry Thacker died at Christchurch on 3 May 1939 …
Type: Biography
… Māori population experienced rapid urbanisation from the 1930s. The first urban kapa haka were formed to provide a … Unlike earlier kapa haka, many of those formed from the 1930s included members from a number of iwi. Ngāti Pōneke …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… time for refrigeration to become established. Only in the 1930s did refrigerated space became widely available, …
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Part of story: Fishing industry
… Highways 98 and 99) was known as Wallace Junction until 1930. The Alliance Group freezing works there is one of the …
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Part of story: Southland places
… labour-intensive to capital-intensive in the 1920s and 1930s, light industries supporting agriculture became a …
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Part of story: Customs and tariffs