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… sometimes led to political interference. In the late 1930s A. E. Robinson, chair of the Auckland branch of the …
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Part of story: Rural media
… factories compared with 111 privately owned companies. In 1930 there were over 400 cooperatives, but amalgamations and …
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Part of story: Farming in the economy
… about their activities to church gatherings. By the late 1930s all the churches involved had agreed to this. For many …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… settlers. Evangelical reforms Between the 1870s and the 1930s Scottish Presbyterians joined forces with other …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… his interest in Maori culture and design. Between 1908 and 1930 Richardson became well known as a printmaker and stamp …
Type: Biography
… interests. The company of W. Richmond Limited was formed in 1930 with Richmond as chairman and managing director. Before …
Type: Biography
… young women of Kaihū and young men of Te Puna. From 1923 to 1930 Wiremu Rikihana was a member of the Legislative …
Type: Biography
… resistance. Ceramic tiles Most state houses of the 1930s and 1940s were built with concrete or ceramic roofing …
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Part of story: Building materials
… to the causes he believed in. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he had worked with Hilda Ross and W. H. Paul to set up …
Type: Biography
… under the pseudonym 'Industrial Tramp'. By the end of the 1930s, however, Rosser's star was on the wane. In 1938, …
Type: Biography
… The arrival of the New Zealand warship Dunedin in January 1930 was aimed at crushing what remained of the Mau …
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Part of story: Pacific Islands and New Zealand
… to their son, Rolfe, who was killed at Gallipoli. In 1930 Percy Sargood founded the Empire Art Loan Collections …
Type: Biography
… in New Zealand sculpture. Francis Shurrock In the 1920s and 1930s some of New Zealand’s most significant sculpture …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… England. Plans for further development were thwared by the 1930s economic depression and the Second World War. On 17 …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… the prestigious Freyberg Cup in 1948 and 1950. In the early 1930s Paul Silva apparently took up farming in south …
Type: Biography
… to tour overseas, visiting New South Wales. In the late 1930s, disappointed at the lack of coverage of women’s …
Type: Biography
… had the same success. Three basses to emerge from the late 1930s to 1960 were among the greatest of their eras: Oscar …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… Association, serving as its secretary from 1927 to 1931. In 1930 he published a textbook, Māori pronunciation , and gave …
Type: Biography
… ‘cheers’. Grown/growen A change first noted in print in the 1930s is the disyllabic (two-syllable) pronunciation of past …
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Part of story: Speech and accent
… played in Otago in the early 1870s. Its heyday was the late 1930s and 1940s, when the Ranfurly Shield was held by either …
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Part of story: Otago region