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… afternoons. The spread of car ownership in the 1920s and 1930s increased the potential of Sunday as a day of leisure. …
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Part of story: Weekends
… This became a distinct church in 1937. Māramatanga In the 1930s, Hōri Ēnoka (Te Mareikura) led the Māramatanga faith …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… before moving to a 200-acre dairy farm at Kiwitahi. In 1930 Otway bought a 300-acre run-down dairy farm on the …
Type: Biography
… seaplane. An aerodrome was developed at Landguard Bluff in 1930, and over 10,000 people watched the North Island air …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… vindicating his claim. He died at Rēweti on 29 December 1930. Successive generations of his whanau and hapū adhered …
Type: Biography
… international community. Throughout the depression of the 1930s he promoted Christian pacifism, monetary reform (he …
Type: Biography
… Zealand career was marked by his appointment as a CMG in 1930. Active until his last year, he died in Wellington on …
Type: Biography
… the economic depressions of the 1870s and 1880s, and the 1930s. The post-Second World War boom was over by the early …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… was involved in acting and backstage management. During the 1930s he held various offices within the club. On 7 November …
Type: Biography
… member of the New Zealand League of Penwomen (president in 1930), and a member of the Authors', Artists' and …
Type: Biography
… often simply a blackened jam tin with a wire handle. In the 1930s the thermette made its appearance. This New Zealand …
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Part of story: Picnics and barbecues
… gorse and blackberry were noted as pest plants in the 1930s. In the 2000s old man’s beard infested parts of the …
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Part of story: King Country region
… in such initiatives as the welfare-state measures of the 1930s, the introduction of a government accident …
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Part of story: New Zealand identity
… products were sluggish, and fell sharply in the early 1930s. While the population continued to grow – to 31,411 in …
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Part of story: King Country region
… trickle of government funding and support began in the 1930s. From the 1960s onwards private schools received …
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Part of story: Private education
… the United States, the vote for prohibition declined in the 1930s. From 1949 until 1987 the vote for national …
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Part of story: Referendums
… 30 mile (48 kilometre) per hour speed limit was imposed in 1930. The limit was raised as vehicles became more powerful, …
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Part of story: Road accidents
… this competition 22 times, with particular success in the 1930s and 2000s. Wellington won 20 times, with success in …
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Part of story: Cricket
… had married at Hāwera about 1907, died in 1916. On 15 March 1930, at Wellington, he married Vera May Yeates. Puketapu …
Type: Biography
… soil caused a stock illness called ‘bush sickness’. In the 1930s it was discovered that cobaltised superphosphate could …
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Part of story: Waikato places