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… Retailers flourished until the economic depression of the 1930s, which hit hard. To stay afloat many owners had to lay …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Shops
… artists from overseas to appear alongside locals. Until the 1930s ‘Fullers’ was a household name for entertainment in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Theatre companies and producers
… to conceal trousers or riding breeches beneath. By the 1930s more comfortable baggy shorts and woollen shirts were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tramping
… and socially divisive, especially between the 1830s and 1930s, despite the idea that New Zealand left Old-World …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… unprofitable. Mining by companies continued until the early 1930s. Some smaller-scale mining lasted into the 1940s. Flax …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… attended the Teachers’ Training College, Wellington, from 1930 to 1932, taking an extra year to study the special …
Type: Biography
… – Arepa Cup, between provincial Māori teams (in the mid-1930s). In 2011, as part of Māori inter-regional …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… Brothers in 1912 and the studio space leased back. In the 1930s Frank shifted the studio to smaller premises along …
Type: Biography
… honorary curator of the museum from 1925 until the mid 1930s. He also served on the borough library committee. …
Type: Biography
… a private railway to Putaruru in 1905. Until the late 1930s, the timber industry was probably the biggest employer …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… From 1919 the government made a direct annual grant. By 1930 there were 224 classes and 7,355 students. Classes were …
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Part of story: Adult education
… frame, was invented by US gymnast George Nissen in the 1930s. Since 2000 individual trampoline has been included in …
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Part of story: Indoor sports
… environment. One of his major achievements in the late 1930s was the Savage Crescent development in Palmerston …
Type: Biography
… Much of the land remained in Māori ownership. In the 1930s government-funded development of multiply-owned Māori …
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Part of story: Northland places
… and Children (NZSPWC), for whom she went to work in the 1930s when Frederick Hutchinson was made redundant from the …
Type: Biography
… but these were turned into mainly private housing from the 1930s. Avalon Studios (film and television) and the …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… 1840s. The government compulsorily acquired the land in the 1930s, building new homes for Te Āti Awa people. Waiwhetū …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… research bodies were established in the 1920s and 1930s. These included: the New Zealand Obstetrical Society, …
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Part of story: Medical research
… After the death of his wife, Elizabeth, in September 1930, Frank Jolly remained at Windermere with his daughter …
Type: Biography
… of the main road north and the railway to Ōpua. Since the 1930s Wellsford has served hundreds of dairy farms extending …
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Part of story: Auckland places