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… Island. His experience was acknowledged overseas: in the 1930s he advised on remedial measures after a major …
Type: Biography
… were built new. There was a burst of building from 1900 to 1930, then again in the 1950s when halls erected as war …
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Part of story: Rural recreation
… of Māori in leadership; although they were allowed in the 1930s to serve as district presidents, there were few able …
Type: Biography
… and writer Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who arrived in the 1930s, have forged successful arts careers. Nicknamed …
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Part of story: Cook Islanders
… used colonial settings. Cultural nationalism From the mid-1930s a cultural nationalist movement sought to establish a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand identity
… much of that time. Her 23 publications during the 1920s and 1930s included treatises on fireblight and black-spot of …
Type: Biography
… of Dance’s teaching certificate (first offered in the 1930s). The types of dance taught varied – ballet, tap, …
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Part of story: Arts education and training
… Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, in 1928. In 1930 he moved to Christchurch, and in 1936 he was appointed …
Type: Biography
… But remote areas of the alps were not explored until the 1930s. …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… Chinese women who emigrated to New Zealand before the late 1930s. Because they were so few in number these women were …
Type: Biography
… largely centred on such work. He left the Public Works in 1930 to work with the Hansford and Mills Construction …
Type: Biography
… musical instruments, Alfred Eady was promoting radio. In 1930 the firm established its own station in the Queen …
Type: Biography
… paintings. Eise was consistently well reviewed in the 1930s. She was a member in the late 1940s of the New Group, …
Type: Biography
… agitation, Elliott turned to publishing and commerce. In 1930 he founded the New Zealand Financial Times , which he …
Type: Biography
… and Rotorua. Growing demand for electricity in the late 1930s created shortages, inspiring a state hydro dam …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato region
… to report on women’s national golf championships, and about 1930 she persuaded the editor of the Press to increase the …
Type: Biography
… the consequences of war and the impact of modernity in the 1930s. Escott's next novel, Show down , was set in New …
Type: Biography
… and morris-dance groups, for example, were active in the 1930s and 1940s (a New Zealand English Folk Dance and Song …
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Part of story: Cultural dance
… the New Zealand Crippled Children Society, and, in the late 1930s, he was closely involved with the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… and 108 and 1,327 respectively in 2023. Working life In the 1930s, larger fire stations built accommodation for …
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Part of story: Fires and fire services