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… and blackbirder, in the Pacific islands. In the 1920s and 1930s he wrote articles for the New Zealand Herald under the …
Type: Biography
… a substantial library of horticultural volumes. On 20 March 1930 Cook married, in Auckland, Claire Leyland Bourne, who …
Type: Biography
… the All Blacks against the touring British Isles team in 1930. In 1931 Cooke was accused of being drunk at a training …
Type: Biography
… secondary schools adopted them. In the 1920s and 1930s there was debate over whether all secondary students …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… and dam. In the depths of the depression of the early 1930s men on unemployment relief were also sent to work on …
Type: Biography
… Threats to department stores The 1930s economic depression and the rise of chain and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Department stores and shopping malls
… through some key events in New Zealand’s history – the 1930s depression , the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake , the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Older people
… as ‘Dusty Deste’, she lived in digs in Bloomsbury. About 1930 she left for New Zealand and lived briefly in Dunedin; …
Type: Biography
… The situation improved during the 1920s but in the early 1930s the government subsidy for river maintenance was …
Type: Biography
… has actually decreased. In the depression in the early 1930s, and again in the recession of the early 1990s, the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Investment
… Butler, who attended Auckland primary schools in the 1930s, remembered the strict regimes: ‘We lined up in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… over the introduction of social security medicine in the 1930s, he was uncompromisingly in favour of preserving …
Type: Biography
… to have two sons, one of whom was stillborn. In the late 1930s Emmett attended a talk on radiesthesia, or medical …
Type: Biography
… was one of the most influential. Between 1900 and the mid-1930s, he and his staff landscaped over 40 rural and city …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Gardens
… M. Bisley and Company made agricultural machinery from the 1930s. Truscotts (NZ), an Australian company operating in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato region
… Otago and Canterbury universities in the 1920s. By the late 1930s there were clubs in the four larger cities and some …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Archery, fencing, shooting and military re-enactment
… the rapid soil erosion of the steeper hill country. By the 1930s he was manager of Makiri station at Waimata, which …
Type: Biography
… Dominion Breweries emerged as the other major player in the 1930s. Overseas ownership Large companies that serviced New …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Large companies
… known as Holland) between 1846 and 1930 headed westwards, chiefly to the United States. A few …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Dutch
… or 1926 he moved to Timaru, where he died on 14 October 1930, survived by Ellen Fleming and their two sons, as well …
Type: Biography