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… 40 years. Distinct changes in rainfall have occurred since 1930. Between 1951 and 1975 there were increased easterly …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Climate change
… at Christ’s College from 1917 to 1926. From 1927 to 1930 he was an articled legal clerk with Duncan, Cotterill …
Type: Biography
… hills were dominated by livestock farming. In the 1930s the first major reforestation project began when …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington region
… 1950 and 1955, manufacturing output rose more than 30%. In 1930 there had been 5,047 factories in New Zealand employing …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Factory industries
… restrictions of a formal school uniform in the 1930s: ‘because of these clothes I saw myself as powerlessly …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… Milling began in the more remote Whirinaki Forest in the 1930s. Protecting the forests The prospect of the indigenous …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… in Southland (1927–28), Hawke's Bay (1929) and Auckland (1930–32). He retired on 14 April 1932 and returned to …
Type: Biography
… of Southlanders is Scottish in origin. The old language The 1930s were the last years in which any significant number in …
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Part of story: Scots
… The forum’s predecessors formed in the 1920s and 1930s. They were regional owner-driver groups (generally …
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Part of story: Employer and business organisations
… analyst at the Dominion Laboratory in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s Seelye came to be recognised as the most …
Type: Biography
… the Hungarian–Australian violinist Robert Pikler during the 1930s. In 1946 she resumed teaching at the Royal Academy of …
Type: Biography
… in the public life of the district. With the onset of the 1930s depression he became an ardent advocate of Douglas …
Type: Biography
… Rātana and Labour leader Michael Joseph Savage in the early 1930s. By 1943 Rātana candidates held all four Māori seats …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Apa
… Mission (which became the Wellington City Mission in 1930) and the St Mary's Guild which provided care for young …
Type: Biography
… destroyed any pot with the slightest blemish. In the late 1930s he imported an electric kiln, which he modified (using …
Type: Biography
… giving legal recognition was passed in 1928. By the early 1930s Lois Suckling had rejected her former religious …
Type: Biography
… dubbed it ‘Ariki Toa’ (brave chief). That era ended in the 1930s when George Forbes moved out. Michael Joseph Savage …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… and legal affairs on Mary's behalf and from the mid 1930s Clifford Plimmer was important as her adviser. …
Type: Biography
… (villages) on the margins of European settlements. In the 1930s, 90% of Māori still lived rurally. Education and …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… calves – unweaned male calves, so called because in the 1930s, they were sold for one shilling (a ‘bob’) the bobby …
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Part of story: Rural language