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… 1920s–1930s: Norwegian whalers on Rakiura (Stewart Island) During the 1920s and 1930s, Norwegian whalers prowled the Southern Ocean. Summers … house. The settlement was short-lived as the early 1930s were marked by a glut of whale oil and the economic …
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Part of story: Scandinavians
… Electoral surge in the 1930s By late 1930 the effects of the economic depression were being felt … 1928 election, but Labour withdrew its support in December 1930, as United pressed ahead with policies of retrenchment. …
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Part of story: Labour Party
… member of the Kokatahi gun club in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Graham met his wife, Dorothy McCoy, when she moved … Longford Hotel. They married in Christchurch on 22 December 1930, living there for six months before moving to a dairy … Coast. They were to have two children. Through the late 1930s Graham maintained reasonably good relations with …
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… She was also the local correspondent for the Dominion (1930–36), the Weekly News and Weekly Herald (1930–34) and the New Zealand Free Lance (1930–52), and often wrote articles under the pen name Ann …
Type: Biography
… those except for toitoi, which were introduced around the 1930s along with smelt. Brown trout and rainbow trout Brown … a profile among well-heeled, well-travelled anglers. In the 1930s there were too many trout and not enough food, until … Huka Lodge opened on the Waikato River below Taupō in 1930, and the Bridge Lodge at Tūrangi in 1933. The one that …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… of higher taxes was on companies. During the 1920s and 1930s New Zealand taxed companies directly at higher rates … to no avail. Depression taxes A poll tax was introduced in 1930 to fund unemployment relief. Every male over the age of … to the government. Income tax rates were also raised in 1930 taking the top rate to 29.25%. Annual income exempt …
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Part of story: Taxes
… with interruptions, until 1933. During the late 1920s and 1930s Christchurch was in its heyday as an art and cultural … such as Rata Lovell-Smith and Flora Scales . On 13 June 1930, Angus married fellow artist Alfred Herbert Owen Cook … for most of her life. She signed her work Rita Cook from 1930 until 1946, but changed her name by deed poll to …
Type: Biography
… in New Zealand , a 652-page book covering the years 1878 to 1930, appeared in August 1930, and a condensed version of this and Young New Zealand … drafted the final text of the Atmore Report of 15 August 1930, the most substantial review of the system since 1912. …
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… she was to make to Sydney for tuition during the 1920s and 1930s. While there, Carey found herself accepted as a … or part-time art teaching positions; the first, in 1930, was as relieving art lecturer at Auckland Training College. From the mid 1930s she worked at several Hamilton secondary schools, …
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… more pronounced when Kelliher assumed full editorship in 1930. By 1930 Kelliher had become a wealthy man, recently returned … a success, particularly after it was converted in October 1930 into a public company, Dominion Breweries. On …
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… Service down the Buller Gorge resumed in November 1930. That year Jack Newman was promoted to managing … These cars were the mainstays of Newmans until the late 1930s, when the 20–25-seater Internationals were introduced. … He was an original member of the Nelson Aero Club. In 1930 he became a shareholder of the short-lived Dominion …
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… test matches broadcast live to local audiences, and by 1930 radio description of tests had arrived in New Zealand. … to be broadcast was at Carisbrook in Dunedin on 21 June 1930. The commentator was Alfred Canter of Dunedin. … with ‘Goodnight, mother dear.’ Radio’s golden years In the 1930s radio commentary of sports events quickly became …
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Part of story: Sports reporting and commentating
… women workers From the 1920s and into the depression of the 1930s unemployment grew, among both men and women. In the … Mayoresses’ and Women’s Unemployment Relief committees In 1930 and 1931 mayoresses’ relief committees were formed in … personal problems. Down and out Unemployed women in the 1930s were organised by others more often than they …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… Many firms diversified or changed tack in the 1930s and 1940s. The depression of the early 1930s, government policy, and the Second World War all … milking machines, added lawn mowers to its range in the 1930s. During the Second World War, the company also made …
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Part of story: Factory industries
… supported the growing indigenous literary movement of the 1930s. It was here that Frank Sargeson 's short stories … of a number of Popular Front political organisations in the 1930s. He joined the local branch of the Friends of the … and was a frequent speaker at public meetings. In the late 1930s he was instrumental in the establishment of the Left …
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… New Zealand audiences came to modern dance until the 1930s. Performing barefoot, dressed in simple falls of … and movement vocabularies to the art form. In the late 1930s European refugees arriving in New Zealand brought …
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Part of story: Contemporary dance
… John Cullen and John O’Donovan). The community in the 1930s By the 1930s Irish Catholics were still well represented in …
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Part of story: Irish
… who made daily rounds of streets collecting refuse. By the 1930s carts were being replaced by trucks that made weekly … on land taken from Māori under the Public Works Act. By the 1930s rubbish was largely carried in trucks rather than by …
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Part of story: Sewage, water and waste
… Poata The most prominent of all the tohunga tā moko in the 1930s revival of the art form was Tame Poata, who travelled … first Poata used some half-dozen needles, but by the later 1930s refined his technique and only used two. He dipped his …
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Part of story: Tā moko – Māori tattooing
… abortions. Historians have suggested that in the 1920s and 1930s, married women would try to self-abort, while single … how much a woman could pay. The range was wide. In the mid-1930s, Annie Aves carried out 183 abortions and earned …
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Part of story: Abortion