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… nursery firm of Duncan and Davies for £2,000 in the early 1930s; they marketed it as Kidd's Orange Red. Encouraged by …
Type: Biography
… interests, which she continued after her retirement. In 1930 she and her sister, Helen King, owned shares in Red …
Type: Biography
… – 33% was the lowest top marginal tax rate since the early 1930s, a massive drop. Douglas rejected any idea that wealth …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taxes
… began in 1872, but did not become an annual event until the 1930s. The meeting has a festive ambience, attracting dozens …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wairarapa region
… critic and had some minor amateur acting roles. In the late 1930s he began to move into theatre administration, becoming …
Type: Biography
… Royal Horticultural Society. During the depression of the 1930s she and her daughters stitched grey flannel shirts for …
Type: Biography
… His reputation as a painter continued to grow during the 1930s and 1940s and his calligraphic brush stroke …
Type: Biography
… Zealand's most successful racehorse trainers. During the 1930s horses from her stable won 196 races; only three …
Type: Biography
… seven language groups. The school was opened in February 1930 with 33 boarders. Because of the language difficulties, …
Type: Biography
… three families. One employee of the firm, between 1923 and 1930, was Garfield Todd, later to become prime minister of …
Type: Biography
… was the dominant theme in Māori education policy until the 1930s. The prevailing belief at the time was of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… New Zealand and fought in the cash ranks for five years. In 1930 he beat Billy Grime and Tommy Fairhall, two …
Type: Biography
… and minimum prices. This practice was introduced in the 1930s to protect New Zealand petrol companies against …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… and in 1924 was elected vice president for Auckland. In the 1930s she lobbied medical women to join her at British …
Type: Biography
… adapt the rigid traditions of nursing to the demands of the 1930s enabled Auckland Hospital to build and maintain good …
Type: Biography
… receipts led to the collapse of O'Brien's company, and in 1930 he transferred management of the Civic to Amalgamated …
Type: Biography
… urban centre. Following the economic depression of the 1930s, there was another period of prosperity in the 1950s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast region
… those of the region, faltered during the depression of the 1930s, and for decades afterwards neither the town nor the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui region
… Williams. Holidaymakers The holiday town dates from the 1930s. The restored Treaty House at nearby Waitangi was an …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Northland places
… agency for importing the French petrol pumps and by March 1930, under the name Pallo Limited, was testing them at …
Type: Biography