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… containers in knapsacks on their backs, until in the early 1930s a barrel and pump mounted on a horse-drawn cart eased …
Type: Biography
… of the dream world or the fresh vision of a child. From the 1930s there are fewer paintings of people, the human … are important oil-paintings in her oeuvre. Sometime in the 1930s she began to use gouache, which became a favoured … fluidity of watercolour. The gouaches painted from the late 1930s onwards are among her best work. Her drawings, …
Type: Biography
… of a cream truck service between Te Kao and Kaitāia. By 1930 a considerable portion of the board's funds were tied … including six in the Mirror in 1940 on Te Puea's work. In 1930 he published Plume of the Arawas , a romantic adventure …
Type: Biography
… and Children from 1897 until at least 1928. Until the early 1930s she was active in the Women's Christian Temperance … dominion recording secretary from 1916 to 1920 and 1922 to 1930, as president of the Miramar branch, and as associate …
Type: Biography
… being built at Rātana pā. After the death of Māui Pōmare in 1930, Haddon offered himself as the candidate for Western … The Methodist church acquired a parsonage there and in 1930 Haddon, regarded as the chief Māori Methodist pastor, …
Type: Biography
… illustrating fashion for display in drapery stores. In 1930 he attended the University of Otago, intending to … art shared by few artists in New Zealand in the 1930s. As a war artist he followed the traditions familiar …
Type: Biography
… of Aitutaki in the Cook Islands during 1921, and again in 1930 when he reported to the government on the water … and take a greater responsibility with the work. By the mid 1930s Mitchell had become less active; he had been suffering …
Type: Biography
… a haka. Pānapa was appointed as diocesan Māori missioner in 1930, and the first Māori missioner at Auckland in 1932. … the sacredness of marriage were important to him. From the 1930s, when Tai Tokerau established branches with Pānapa’s …
Type: Biography
… his shares had not been kept. During Judge Frank Acheson's 1930 inquiry in the Native Land Court, Rēweti gave evidence … nowhere else to go, continued to reside at Ōrākei in the 1930s, many of them technically squatters on Crown or church …
Type: Biography
… motor-vehicle insurance was usually unprofitable until the 1930s, when premiums stabilised due to a consensus to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Insurance
… The new generation of writers who emerged in the 1930s have been called the ‘Phoenix generation’, the ‘Caxton …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Poetry
… be’ LPs. His various groups emulated the styles of the late 1930s and early 1940s, playing romantic and melodic music. …
Type: Biography
… rugby in Auckland, Gisborne, Murchison and Nelson. In 1930 he returned to Auckland, just as wrestling was becoming …
Type: Biography
… elsewhere. Baring Head was so inaccessible by road, even in 1930, that the Marine Department considered shipping …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Lighthouses
… more cars were imported assembled than unassembled. In the 1930s tariffs increased, but continued to favour unassembled …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… decreasing and Tommy Chan was well regarded locally. In the 1930s he was the only grocer prepared to give credit to the …
Type: Biography
… were planted in front of the Hermitage hotel at Mt Cook in 1930 to cover a rock slide. They soon spread to the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rivers
… 30 Māori branches in the Northland area from the mid 1930s, was the enrolling president for the Whāngārei branch …
Type: Biography
… a spate of inner-city apartment building in the 1920s and 1930s – more than 30 blocks had been built in central …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Inner-city living
… He married Hilda Frances Holme Wiggin on 22 December 1930 in Chelsea, London. They were to have two sons and a …
Type: Biography