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… (1938) and Blenheim (1939); and post offices in Napier (1930), High Street, Christchurch, and Cambridge Terrace, …
Type: Biography
… for two books: Mount Cook and its surrounding glaciers (1930) and The Franz Joseph Glacier, New Zealand (1931). In …
Type: Biography
… schemes were in operation in the region at the end of the 1930s. Nearly 24,300 hectares had been developed, but the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast region
… to have four daughters and two sons. The depression of the 1930s convinced Roly Marks that, in a country where there …
Type: Biography
… on 8 July 1923; John McKenna died at Masterton on 13 April 1930. Their work and devotion to duty had earned them the …
Type: Biography
… and home discussion groups. In the depression years of the 1930s it also took up relief issues and activities. It faded …
Type: Biography
… leaders such as M. J. Savage, and joined the party about 1930. In 1934 the couple moved to Dunedin, and the following …
Type: Biography
… and prospectors' huts, and the pioneering settlers of the 1930s still depended on infrequent coastal shipping. Mercer …
Type: Biography
… insect pests. During the economic depression of the early 1930s, appreciating the need to have public support and …
Type: Biography
… Publicity Office before it stopped making silent films in 1930, the year after 'talkies' arrived in New Zealand. …
Type: Biography
… row of seats and were never called buses or coaches. In 1930 an adventurous party of nuns persuaded one of …
Type: Biography
… in 1926, and was president during various years between the 1930s and 1950s. As its spokesman he was a skilled advocate …
Type: Biography
… a replica townscape of Nelson as it was from the 1880s to 1930s. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nelson places
… was inviting jaded urbanites to step back in time to the 1930s in this ‘rural art deco oasis’. The centennial milk …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Country towns
… golf architect of his era. The economic depression of the 1930s made cheap land and labour widely available and many …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Golf
… of London. Barrer worked on zeolites from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, discovering many of their …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Physics, chemistry and mathematics
… pack-tracks. He later invented a wheeled stretcher, and in 1930 travelled over 100 miles on horseback to help rescue …
Type: Biography
… is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum. From the 1930s Ronald and Zillah Castle of Wellington collected early …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Collecting
… age and the passage of time are recorded from 1886 into the 1930s. The still lifes are not only exercises in …
Type: Biography
… by a leading Presbyterian minister, James Gibb, in 1921. In 1930 he negotiated an agreement with the Bible in State …
Type: Biography