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… in the 1920s. Annual registrations dropped during the 1930s depression, but by 1939 they were well ahead of the …
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Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… by men serving overseas. She was the first president and in 1930 was made a life member. She was a founder of the …
Type: Biography
… of the origin of craters on the moon. In the 1920s and 1930s he contested the view that they were volcanic in …
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Part of story: Astronomy – overview
… and moved to Remuera, Auckland, in the late 1920s. Around 1930 Norman was transferred to Hamilton by his firm, the …
Type: Biography
… gifting of large areas of land to various causes. In the 1930s he donated some 70 acres to establish the Raukawa …
Type: Biography
… list of around 60,000 in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Farm Home Journal section of the magazine was …
Type: Biography
… the Hastings High School Old Boys’ Football Club into the 1930s. Jim Burton worked for the Department of Lands and …
Type: Biography
… extensive damage. After a ‘Deer Menace’ conference in 1930, organised culling began, and continued for the next 30 …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… and they operated the company’s Gisborne petrol outlet. By 1930 the partnership had proved so successful that it was …
Type: Biography
… and Teacher (1963), taught in schools in the Bay from the 1930s to the 1960s. Barry Crump (1935–1996), who hunted …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… described his working-class upbringing in Feilding in the 1930s. Local wits Cartoonist and humorist Tom Scott has …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… but may have been devised earlier. The darts craze The 1930s saw a ‘darts craze’ that spread from the United …
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Part of story: Billiards, snooker, pool and darts
… Disabled servicemen The economic depression of the early 1930s condemned thousands of disabled New Zealand veterans …
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Part of story: Veterans’ assistance
… church schools were based on specific denominations. In 1930 a visit from British evangelist Dr Howard Guinness led …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… by most Pākehā. Surveys of Māori housing in the late 1930s noted that Māori rural dwellings commonly lacked a …
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Part of story: Ethnic inequalities
… opened on an isolated site in Mechanics Bay. During the 1930s economic depression, relief workers (state workers on …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… died of heart failure on a train at Marton on 12 February 1930. She had never married. …
Type: Biography
… fish consumption was around 10 kilograms per person in the 1930s, probably mainly in the form of fish and chips. …
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Part of story: Food
… coastal trawlers have exploited the gurnard since the 1930s, and by the 1970s it was the fourth most important …
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Part of story: Coastal fish
… snails, then included in the genus Paryphanta , in the 1930s. When some of the snails were moved into a separate …
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Part of story: Snails and slugs