Search
… at leading British universities. Business studies In the 1930s American economist Edward Chamberlin developed a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Economic thought
… Awanui, but without success. End of the industry In the 1930s cheaper synthetics were developed for making varnish …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kauri gum and gum digging
… The existence of a stable two-party system from the 1930s to the 1990s meant that a single political party …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Constitution
… bridges at downriver Rangitātā Island were built in the 1930s. The Waitaki was bridged at Glenavy in 1877 and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: South Canterbury region
… and tussock and no trees. The road was completed in the 1930s, and crosses land that has been heavily dissected by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… non-Māori was very similar by then. Manufacturing In the 1930s and 1940s there was a marked increase of Māori working …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… to wages and conditions. Rising unemployment during the 1930s economic depression meant there were plenty of people …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes
… there in turn. When wool and stock prices declined in the 1930s George and Ethel ran a boarding house. The French Pass …
Type: Biography
… of Brooklyn, Kilbirnie, Miramar and Seatoun. In the late 1930s this expansion slowed as easily developed land was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington places
… roads undercut the service, and it ceased in 1958. From the 1930s many Māori found work in towns. Today the total river …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui places
… in primary schools, continued throughout these years. In 1930 she became the first local secretary and organiser for …
Type: Biography
… he gained with first-class honours in 1932. On 11 December 1930, at Gebbies Valley in the Port Hills, Alley married … subsidies to rural libraries which had been abolished from 1930, it was described as ‘the beginning of a comprehensive …
Type: Biography
… several of the first WEA summer schools. In the 1920s and 1930s Belshaw wrote extensively on the economic position of … products and import and exchange controls. In the late 1930s he took a strong interest in the difficulties likely …
Type: Biography
… the eviction of families from their homes. On 18 December 1930 Peter Butler married Doris Annie Sevina Cooper at St … From then on he was a committed Catholic. In the 1930s Butler became active in the Labour Party. He was a …
Type: Biography
… services in both wars he was made an OBE in 1949. From the 1930s a wider appreciation of the historical significance of … a brass tablet at the flagstaff at Russell on 9 April 1930. Tau Hēnare , MP, and F. O. V. Acheson , judge of the …
Type: Biography
… primary school before entering Otago Girls’ High School in 1930. She left school in 1933 before matriculating to enrol … classes Lusk attended for several years during the 1930s. Lusk began painting at a time when artists were …
Type: Biography
… to New Zealand in 1927, their friendship lapsed. In the 1930s she was one of the relatively few silent actors to … letters and telegrams praising her efforts. Throughout the 1930s Luxford maintained her involvement with radio. She …
Type: Biography
… High School (1927–30), then at Timaru Boys’ High School (1930–36). He was dismayed by the heavy use of corporal … of the city that continued until his death. From the early 1930s he had been influenced by the literary criticism of I. …
Type: Biography
… development. Numerous development schemes were begun in the 1930s, although not all were successful. Public works Māori …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… Samuel Goldstein, Auckland’s rabbi from 1880 until the 1930s, refused to marry a member of his congregation to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Intermarriage