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… machines known as lime spreaders were developed in the 1930s. Limestone production surged in the 1960s, reaching …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… Valley branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. Since the 1930s an increase in sheep numbers had led to growing …
Type: Biography
… of New Zealand’s few deciduous plants. Under or over In the 1930s, before deer opened up tracks through leatherwood …
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Part of story: Shrublands
… Bay, were mostly orchard-covered by the late 1920s. The 1930s economic depression brought hard years for apple …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… above Tāhunanui were subdivided for housing in the late 1930s. Stoke and Tāhunanui became popular residential …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… she and her husband faced during the depression of the 1930s. The time she spent in Paris in 1948 was the highlight …
Type: Biography
… (883 metres) and Hauhungaroa (1,078 metres). From the 1930s to the 1970s a sawmill operated at Tīhoi, 60 …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… and their family. Nearby is the library and Plunket rooms (1930), a neo-Georgian-style brick building designed by …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… the pigs that destroyed crops and killed lambs. In the 1930s a government bounty of ‘two bob a snout’ was paid, and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hunting
… and river fords as it could be seen from a distance. In the 1930s the New Zealand Forest Service imported more poplar …
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Part of story: Trees in the rural landscape
… teams in Britain, and the racehorse Phar Lap’s success from 1930 to 1932, ensured the dominance of a few major sports …
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Part of story: Sport and society
… Turbott’s study of East Coast Māori communities in the 1930s revealed levels of malnutrition and poverty that were …
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Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… Taxes only ease slowly From 1930 to 1950 the rise of Labour’s welfare state increased …
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Part of story: Taxes
… of a rugged type of New Zealand male in the period from the 1930s to the 1960s. There are also specialist magazines such …
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Part of story: Hunting
… Ski clubs were set up, and skiing enjoyed a boom in the 1930s. Commercial skifields, however, did not develop until …
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Part of story: Skiing
… emigrating to Australia. During the depression in the 1930s Rita’s chosen career of nursing was interrupted, and …
Type: Biography
… be set up. Lawyers too would set up shop. By the 1920s and 1930s in Oxford, Canterbury, one-seventh of the workforce …
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Part of story: Country towns
… and 728 stationary steam engines on New Zealand farms. By 1930 tractors were becoming more common and the number of …
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Part of story: Farm mechanisation
… In the 1900s Young Maori Party MPs had some impact. In the 1930s the Rātana Church entered an alliance with Labour, and …
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Part of story: Parliament
… by one or two seated lifeguards using paddles. In the 1930s Don Wright of the Piha Surf Life Saving Club designed …
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Part of story: Lifesaving and surfing