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… After some years in Wellington and Whanganui, in the mid 1930s he settled in Hamilton, where he established his own …
Type: Biography
… salt. Bill Higgins, Bill Richards and other guns of the 1930s and 1940s also refined the art of shearing, which was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Shearing
… production In the protected environment from the late 1930s to the 1980s, clothing firms proliferated, and some …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Clothing and footwear manufacturing
… for the joker. Depression-era gaming The depression of the 1930s meant enforced idleness and economic hardship for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… the Bulletin. Alfred George died at Hastings on 13 October 1930; Euphemia George died in April 1933. His job-printing …
Type: Biography
… the course. Until steel-shafted golf clubs appeared in the 1930s, hickory-shafted clubs were used, with descriptive …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Golf
… in Christchurch (1924), the Massey Memorial in Wellington (1930), the Church of the Good Shepherd, Tekapo (1935), St …
Type: Biography
… job; her annual income rose from £175 in 1913 to £270 in 1930, when she finally retired. Although she did not achieve …
Type: Biography
… at the Wellington Registrar's Office on 18 February 1930; they were to have four sons and a daughter. Hammond …
Type: Biography
… of Hastings roughly equalled that of Napier by the 1930s, and the two have remained very close in numbers ever …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… the advent of talking pictures, and the depression of the 1930s resulted in a substantial drop in receipts; Hayward …
Type: Biography
… collecting Māori artefacts from 1903, and in the 1920s and 1930s it and the growing number of regional museums also …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public history
… were widespread during the economic depression of the 1930s, and the Second World War, developing into the habits …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts
… having weathered the lean architectural years of the 1930s and the Second World War. He died at Waiuku on 3 …
Type: Biography
… root rot, a soil disease that became common from the early 1930s. Government involvement In 1939 the government …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hops, tobacco and hemp
… developments Levin grew slowly in the 1920s and 1930s, but rapidly throughout the 1940s to 1960s. Industry …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… larger ships, exports of apples took off. In the 1920s and 1930s the Cawthron Institute’s scientists addressed many …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nelson region
… A few grand hotels had been erected in the 1920s and 1930s, but most hotels were older, with cramped rooms and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hotels and motels
… taxation (1924), chairman of the committee on unemployment (1930), and a member of various agricultural boards. He was …
Type: Biography
… The hostel was well-frequented and survived into the 1930s. The colonial housing market While the government …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Housing and government