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… The invention of New Zealand: art and national identity, 1930–1970 (2009), updated and extended his 1980s critique, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Criticism and the arts
… The first woman driver of long-distance buses, in the 1930s, may have been Jean Hunter of Hunter’s DOT …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Coaches and long-distance buses
… position until 1927, when she became dominion secretary. In 1930 she attended the quinquennial conference of the …
Type: Biography
… her own experiences and the teachings of her elders. In the 1930s Ngata was the first of a long line of prominent Māori …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… New Zealand was almost entirely rural and, until the late 1930s, received lower welfare payments than non-Māori. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… Inspired by the stately gardens of England, in the early 1930s Russell and Mary set about creating an attractive …
Type: Biography
… in New Zealand. After Edith Maxwell's death in April 1930 the preservation of The Elms became even more important …
Type: Biography
… bowls and gardening. He died at Hamilton on 10 April 1930. His wife, Frances, died in 1947. John McCaw had …
Type: Biography
… year began teaching at Wanganui Girls’ College. In the mid 1930s McKenzie decided to become a dietitian. Training was …
Type: Biography
… A little goes a long way As an apprentice geologist in the 1930s, Harold Wellman spent a fortnight mapping and sampling …
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Part of story: Mining and underground resources
… began near Morrinsville in the late 1920s or early 1930s and lasted until 1973. Its members espoused eastern …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… were married at St Stephen’s Church, Ashburton, on 12 July 1930. The couple spent 10 years in England, and their only …
Type: Biography
… need to conserve habitats. Teaching and broadcasting In the 1930s, nature study educator Lance Richdale was known by …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… was appointed to the Legislative Council; he served until 1930. From 1931 to 1935 he was a member of the Government …
Type: Biography
… largest employment category for women from the 1880s to the 1930s. After that the numbers of paid servants declined …
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Part of story: Occupational structure
… was sufficient. During the depression of the 1920s and 1930s Ede Oldbury saw to it that those in need, both Maori …
Type: Biography
… Paul attended St Andrew’s College as a day boy from 1930 to 1938. A loner, he spent time in the bush and was …
Type: Biography
… his beasts whenever officials were nearby. In the mid-1930s, bullocks in one of the last teams on the Wairarapa …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural workers
… scarf and the other a red cravat. Alfred Hill In the late 1930s the Pākehā composer and conductor Alfred Hill lamented …
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Part of story: Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs
… anthropology at Oxford University from 1926 to her death in 1930. Her thesis was published in 1938 as The old-time Maori …
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Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori