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… electricians took more than a year to resolve in the early 1930s. The employers’ association and the union went in and …
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Part of story: Employer and business organisations
… rate had fallen below the previous all-time low of the 1930s economic depression, and in 1983 the overall rate was …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… local farms. It had sawmills and flax mills until the 1930s. Myross Bush, 11 km north-east of Invercargill, is a …
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Part of story: Southland places
… other parts of the Empire – was maintained for decades. The 1930s economic depression prompted the British to abandon …
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Part of story: Empire and Commonwealth
… opened in 1987, remained after Wigram closed in 1995. From 1930, Ashburton had the first airport in the South Island …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… the railway line. Sawmills operated from around 1900 to the 1930s, by which time most of the millable native trees had …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… tracks. Deer cullers Deer cullers made many new tracks. In 1930 George Yerex, a former captain in Britain’s Imperial …
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Part of story: Walking tracks
… Hobsonville, Whenuapai, West Harbour In the 1920s and 1930s airfields were developed on flat land at Hobsonville …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… Depression and after Whanganui was severely affected by the 1930s depression, but thrived anew in the economically …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… as 'Farmer', William rose to prominence in the 1920s and 1930s as one of Auckland's outstanding mullet-boat skippers. …
Type: Biography
… by netball (then known as outdoor basketball) in the 1930s. The relative ease with which women’s hockey gained …
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Part of story: Gender and sport
… of Internal Affairs as fisheries ranger at Taupo. In 1930 the department became responsible for the destruction …
Type: Biography
… But the economic downturn in the depression of the 1930s meant that small-time farmers were unable to maintain …
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Part of story: Rangitāne
… ready markets. When milk tankers were introduced from the 1930s, the industry was rationalised and many factories …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… to assist China's war effort against Japan. During the 1930s, disturbed by the poverty of the depression, Ah Chan …
Type: Biography
… and provoking the publication of a rival, Kōwhai gold (1930), which emphasised the new poets and styles of the …
Type: Biography
… an important report on marriage and divorce. In the 1930s he was also active in persuading the government to …
Type: Biography
… Silurian and Devonian rock systems. Back in New Zealand in 1930 with a National Research Scholarship, Allan was based …
Type: Biography
… 1950s a group of Wellington poets became critical of the 1930s nationalists. In brilliant lectures poet James K. …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… origin, degree of orthodoxy and cultural background. In the 1930s and 1940s he made strenuous efforts to persuade the …
Type: Biography