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… small service-car businesses started up in the 1920s. By 1930 there were 597 service cars in New Zealand. No licence … In the fierce service-car competition of the 1920s and 1930s, some freelancers made a practice of arriving slightly … had come and gone on the Napier–Gisborne route, and in 1930 20 operators were fighting for customers between …
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Part of story: Coaches and long-distance buses
… large-scale irrigation did not start until well into the 1930s. The Public Works Act 1910 gave the government the … productive farmland. Otago and Canterbury schemes in the 1930s By about 1933, most irrigation came from government … Otago. About 45,000 hectares was irrigated. From the early 1930s through to the post-war period, developing irrigation …
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Part of story: Irrigation and drainage
… kept dropping – to 2.1 births per non-Māori woman by the 1930s. Condoms were imported and sold in tobacconists and … regularly advertised ‘marriage hygiene’ products. In the 1930s the New Zealand Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society … the Auckland Hospital Board.’ 2 The rhythm method From the 1930s the rhythm method, confining sex to the ‘safe period’ …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… swept through European art and design in the 1920s and 1930s, New Zealand graphic design remained largely … influenced New Zealand graphic design. Modernism, 1930s–40s Most graphic design in 1930s New Zealand was a jumble of typefaces and images that …
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Part of story: Graphic design
… blamed. They were declared noxious animals in the early 1930s. Government deer culling In 1930 the Department of Internal Affairs took over the … were long, and the weather was often cold and wet. In the 1930s there was no shortage of men keen to give it a try – …
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Part of story: Hunting
… Zealand government's approach to economic management in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born in Paeroa on 22 September 1896, … becoming chief inspector in 1926, assistant accountant in 1930 and, eventually, assistant secretary in 1935. He was already de facto secretary from the mid 1930s, partly because the secretary, G. C. Rodda, was often …
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… investment had resumed. Through the three decades before 1930, two new forms of energy, oil and electricity, prompted … collapsed again in the world-wide depression of the 1930s. This had a major negative effect on the level of … development. Public works expenditure, over £8 million in 1930–31, was less than £2 million in 1932–33. Public …
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Part of story: Investment
… that ‘there were no Sundays in New Zealand’. In the 1930s, on Kuma Martinovich’s first Sunday in Te Kopuru she … were formed in Dargaville, Auckland and Wellington in the 1930s. Unlike some immigrant groups, Dalmatians married …
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Part of story: Dalmatians
… or candlelight. After financial cutbacks in the 1920s and 1930s, wives worked as cooks and camp organisers. Most … When this was added, animals thrived. An economic focus: 1930s In the late 1930s the government pushed to replace imports with local …
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Part of story: Geological exploration
… multiplier effect. The multiplier effect continued in the 1930s as more and more people reduced their spending in line … Not all suffered New Zealanders’ experience of the 1930s depression varied. Some people were destitute, and … stoves, cars and fashionable clothing increased during the 1930s. The 1930s depression shocked people because for a …
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Part of story: Spending in the economy
… for making carpets. Murray and Board’s Vacreator Until the 1930s New Zealand butter was often tainted with unpleasant … fertiliser. The first attempts took place in the 1930s but were halted by the Second World War. The … to be resourceful during the economic depression of the 1930s, and built his own tractors out of other vehicles. …
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Part of story: Inventions, patents and trademarks
… Auckland. When the WILPF split from the Labour Party in 1930, Cassie was among those who believed the former should … about its decisions and even threatened to resign in 1930. Initially, she refused to attend the party's 1930 conference, because of its 'moderacy' during the …
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… unemployed during the depression of the late 1920s and 1930s, this did not break the strong link between men and … state The welfare state that was created in the 1920s and 1930s strongly supported women as mothers and homemakers, … nights a week.' 1 After Skinner’s father died in the early 1930s, his mother bought a greengrocer’s shop, and continued …
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Part of story: Women and men
… New Zealand's most widely read popular novelist of the 1930s and 1940s, was born in Picton on 15 January 1882, of … and Europe. She made a trip to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. She also became acquainted with many British writers, … from the pioneering era of the 1840s to the late 1930s. They are set against a background of power and …
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… by his wife; she had returned to England by November 1930. Commodore Blake was to face a number of professional … resurgence of the Mau troubles in Western Samoa in January 1930. He was ordered to take the Dunedin to Samoa and arrest … such a reaction in New Zealand. During the 1920s and 1930s there was considerable international debate on naval …
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… offer he rejected. He applied to return to rugby union in 1930, but without success. Reinstatement to that code … the Palmerston North St Patrick's senior club side in the 1930s. However, perhaps significantly, he did not appear in … on his 100-acre farm, Snake Gully, at Glen Ōroua. From the 1930s until his death, cricket matches were played at the …
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… looked outward for construction opportunities. By the 1930s Fletchers was one of the country’s biggest construction companies. During the 1930s and 1940s it built more than 6,000 out of a total … It probably helped save him from going under during the 1930s depression – as did his willingness to travel. Luney …
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Part of story: Building and construction industry
… were single women in the paid workforce. By the end of the 1930s there were 84 Rebekah lodges with 5,211 members. … faltered with the introduction of social security in the 1930s. Soroptimists, Zonta and Altrusa Women’s service … on equivalent groups for men were established from the late 1930s. New Zealand Soroptimists, Zonta and Altrusa were all …
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Part of story: Women’s networks and clubs
… [lice] incidence is lower than ever before.’ 1 By the late 1930s health agencies were claiming credit for reducing the … after electrically heated water became more common in the 1930s. By then, cheap, commercially made soap was readily … at the back. Some had both baths and showers. By the 1930s bathrooms were more centrally positioned and bigger. …
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Part of story: Washing, cleaning and personal hygiene
… closed as road transport improved in the 1920s and 1930s – milk could be taken to larger, more advanced … economic slump in the early 1920s and the depression of the 1930s led to widespread reversion of farmland to scrub and … dairy farms of around 150 hectares were established in the 1930s. Some were later sold and others consolidated into …
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Part of story: King Country region