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… range of shops and entertainment. During the 1920s and 1930s, many smaller country towns went into decline and …
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Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… (an outdoor-pursuits organisation) in New Zealand. In the 1930s Lord and Lady Bledisloe gave the Treaty House and …
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Part of story: Governors and governors-general
… then it would have been more successful if the 1920s and 1930s had not been such bad years for agricultural exports. …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… an alternative hair product, was available from the 1930s and became widely used. In the mid-20th century …
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Part of story: Personal grooming
… winning 24, South eight and the sole draw occurring in 1930. The series was discontinued after 1965. The two most …
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Part of story: Rugby league
… but American birds released in the Auckland region in the 1930s proved more suitable. Since then, they have colonised …
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Part of story: Acclimatisation
… as coaches – arrived in the 1920s. Numbers grew in the 1930s and 1940s when the roads had improved enough to carry …
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Part of story: Coaches and long-distance buses
… secondary school Scots College opened in 1919. From the 1930s it was the site of a state housing development. …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… awaited in Cheviot county, Canterbury, in the late 1930s. At a Country Women’s Institute meeting one woman was …
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Part of story: Rural services
… during the years of guaranteed prices between the 1930s and 1980s, with production peaking at 100,000 tonnes …
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Part of story: Southland region
… for its sweet, firm, white flesh. Through the 1920s and 1930s regular exports of southern blue cod were sent from …
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Part of story: Southland region
… Flourmilling Exporting and Agency Company, which in 1930 purchased the Zealandia Milling Company and took its …
Type: Biography
… graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts in the early 1930s. After the Second World War he founded W. …
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Part of story: Graphic design
… The station became a children’s health camp in the 1930s and a naval base in the Second World War. In 1963 it …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… around $500,000. Her husband, John, had left her in the mid 1930s, allegedly because he resented her increasing activity …
Type: Biography
… ‘E pari rā’, ‘Hine e hine’ and ‘Waiata poi’. Duets in the 1930s produced New Zealand hit songs like ‘Honey’ and ‘Home …
Type: Biography
… Zealand repeated its success at the first Empire Games in 1930 by winning the coxed fours. 1978 world championships …
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Part of story: Rowing
… to the northern hemisphere. When visiting New Zealand from 1930, the British and Irish sides formed a united Lions …
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Part of story: Rugby union
… a square-drive screw head was invented, followed in the 1930s by the Phillips head screw. Also invented around 1900 …
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Part of story: Building materials