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… Waihī streets. During the economic depression of the 1930s the unemployed held regular protest marches. The … numbered several thousand. Political marches By the late 1930s political marches were becoming more common. In 1938 …
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Part of story: Public protest
… he’s won … hurrah! ... Lovelock’s passing the tape.’ 1 The 1930s – rowing and running At the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics … in the coxless pairs. New Zealand’s other medallist in the 1930s was middle-distance runner Jack Lovelock, who won gold …
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Part of story: Olympic and Commonwealth games
… years – until the 1960s. Industrialisation In the 1920s and 1930s the manufacturing sector expanded. The freezing-works … the terms of trade during the great depression of the early 1930s. ‘The slump’, as it was also known, brought widespread …
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Part of story: Economy
… of the Rotorua choir have become collectors' items and in 1930 Mere Amohau recorded Aroha pūmai (I love you truly) . …
Type: Biography
… both of whom fished the Tongariro River in the 1920s and 1930s, raised the profile of New Zealand’s fisheries …
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Part of story: Freshwater fishing
… Apirana Ngata , who was minister for the Cook Islands from 1930 to 1934 and to whom Ayson was responsible. For example, …
Type: Biography
… one of the most heavily regulated in the country from the 1930s to the 1980s. The government’s Wheat Committee, …
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Part of story: Food shops
… died in 1929, and following his retirement in the early 1930s Barr travelled extensively. At his death in Dunedin on …
Type: Biography
… national secretary. She remained active locally through the 1930s, and in 1943–44 was the branch president. She also …
Type: Biography
… between 1929 and 1932, and represented New Zealand at the 1930 British Empire Games in Canada, winning two silver …
Type: Biography
… the New Zealand territorial air force, commanding it from 1930 to 1937. During the Second World War he served in the …
Type: Biography
… in the marketing of New Zealand goods and, from the 1930s, the promotion of New Zealand as a tourist …
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Part of story: Employer and business organisations
… high points of city recreational life. From 1870 to 1930 there was a constant parade of overseas singers, …
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Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… pioneers of apple breeding in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s. Hoping to combine the heavy cropping and attractive …
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Part of story: Apples and pears
… cycles Bicycle theft was a major problem in the 1920s and 1930s, with about 1,000 reports of stolen cycles a year in …
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Part of story: Bicycles
… and transmit diseases, but this is untested. Since the 1930s at least 30 species of exotic mosquito have been …
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Part of story: Sandflies and mosquitoes
… devices. Servants should be obedient During the 1930s depression some women were forced into domestic …
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Part of story: Household services
… buildings, but also influenced domestic architecture in the 1930s, including detached houses and, notably, apartment …
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Part of story: Domestic architecture
… used by all New Zealand schoolchildren in the 1920s and 1930s. 2 The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, based partly …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… on from this it was widely believed, at least until the 1930s, that Māori and British probably shared a north Indian …
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Part of story: Asia and New Zealand