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… School under Nola Millar (a founder of Unity Theatre in the 1930s) meant it was no longer necessary to go overseas to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Actors and acting
… a successful businessman and farmer in the 1920s and early 1930s. Other descendants of Moriori, notably the Davis and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Moriori
… low peak of Mt Rolleston. She moved to Christchurch about 1930. Later, aged 80, she travelled to Kashmir to visit the …
Type: Biography
… due to cobalt deficiency in the soil was remedied in the 1930s, farming was unprofitable. However, the pumice land …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato places
… in 1898. An Auckland–Thames road link was only built in the 1930s. Sea transport In the absence of land access, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… from his own culture at times, and twice during the 1930s he travelled to Wellington to meet the crews of …
Type: Biography
… they seem to have separated soon after, and divorced in 1930. In a state of 'suppressed excitement', on the outbreak …
Type: Biography
… employment through two world wars and the depression of the 1930s. She eventually became head of her section in the …
Type: Biography
… had longer terms as a result of the First World War, the 1930s economic depression and the Second World War …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Electoral systems
… to the leprosarium at Makogai in Fiji in 1925. In 1930, when age and ill health forced Pratt to withdraw, …
Type: Biography
… last of the kauri swept through the north in the 1920s and 1930s, reducing the forest to the few patches that survive …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kauri forest
… followed in his footsteps and became marine engineers. In 1930–31, with his associates William (Dick) Fossey and …
Type: Biography
… scholarship to Christ’s College, which he attended until 1930. After working as a clerk for a Christchurch …
Type: Biography
… was one of his favourite painting locations. During the 1930s he regularly tramped for three hours to Oteranga Bay, …
Type: Biography
… campaigns of the mid to late 1860s. In the 1920s and early 1930s, a field at Westmere was used as Whanganui’s first …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui places
… as a sawmilling centre in the 1880s. Through the 1920s and 1930s, seven mills worked the timber from both the Longwood …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Southland places
… many prestigious visitors, including royalty. Opened in 1930, this is the third meeting house of that name on three …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast places
… outstanding contributions was the demonstration, in the mid 1930s, that the sudden failure of acid development during …
Type: Biography
… She had begun writing as a young mother in the 1920s and 1930s, penning short stories about family life for the New …
Type: Biography
… clinic at St Helens Hospital, Christchurch, and from 1930 until her retirement in 1937 she was matron of The …
Type: Biography