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… a bulk distribution system from the mid-1920s to the 1930s. They used tankers to freight oil to New Zealand, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Energy supply and use
… in 1955 Dairy Research Institute In the late 1920s and 1930s the Dairy Research Institute investigated problems in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Agricultural and horticultural research
… haemorrhoidalis ), first found in New Zealand in the 1930s, has a wide host range that includes avocados and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Insect pests of crops, pasture and forestry
… reached a low point during the economic depression of the 1930s, when they were just above replacement level (2.1 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Population change
… life was not easy, especially in the depression of the 1930s, but the marriage was happy. There were three sons and …
Type: Biography
… such as transmission of newspaper photographs from the 1930s, but use was not widespread until the 1980s. The prior …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Telecommunications
… member of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry formed in 1930. He was particularly influential in the affairs of the …
Type: Biography
… printed without contradiction in the New Zealand Worker in 1930. However, this account was false. Major centres in New …
Type: Biography
… by anti-German sentiment during the First World War. By the 1930s he was producing port, sherry and madeira. Wine labels …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast places
… religious commitment which had inspired her career. From 1930 she lived a reclusive life as Anchoress Mary Etheldred …
Type: Biography
… and the family benefit were the only income. From the 1930s Tūtekohi Rangi began to establish a reputation as a …
Type: Biography
… edifices that had caused so many deaths. Many of these 1930s buildings have since been restored, and are now major …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… dance bands played in Wellington during the 1920s and 1930s at the St Francis Hall, the Adelphi Cabaret and …
Type: Biography
… of them. While surveying road routes near Haast in the 1930s, Alan Dawber played a game with his mates: ‘We used to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sandflies and mosquitoes
… subsequently served as show secretary for 25 years. In the 1930s she was captain of the local Girl Guides. As a member …
Type: Biography
… of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand (1930–31) and president of the Rotary Club of Auckland …
Type: Biography
… among their fellow Christians and the wider society. In the 1930s the Christian Socialists, Christian Pacifists and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… the development of art in Canterbury in the 1920s and early 1930s. She exhibited at the Salon in Paris between 1909 and …
Type: Biography
… Society; he is no longer listed as a member after the mid 1930s. He declined an offer to become a fellow of the Royal …
Type: Biography
… than today. Franz Josef began a rapid retreat in the mid-1930s. A lake formed in front of the glacier between 1939 …
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Part of story: Glaciers and glaciation