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… 1931, although few letters were sent by air until the later 1930s. The first official airmail from Australia to New …
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Part of story: Postage stamps
… of educational methods has occurred periodically since the 1930s, with both parents and employers calling for more …
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Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… New-found domesticity saw Stanich come ashore around 1930 as assistant harbourmaster with the Waikokopu Harbour …
Type: Biography
… consignments of devalued stock overseas, and by the end of 1930 Stewart was insolvent. He lost his financial interests …
Type: Biography
… leader and administrator the College ever had’. On 9 April 1930 he married Margaret Isabel Massey in London; they were …
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… was replaced by an emphasis on self-discipline. In 1930 the prize system was abolished. Strachan's innovations …
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… to building booms on city edges. Except for a period in the 1930s and 1940s, when the first Labour government’s …
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Part of story: City history and people
… 1895, the guide has sold over a million copies. During the 1930s economic depression, free vegetable seeds and manure …
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Part of story: Men and women in the city
… editing its magazine and acting as president from 1925 to 1930. By 1931 he had apparently gained a doctorate in …
Type: Biography
… sickness, a fatal stock disease, in the Mairoa area. In 1930 he joined L. I. Grange , who had been mapping in the …
Type: Biography
… was completed in 1886. Its popularity waned from the 1930s, but some hot pools were modernised in the late 20th …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… confiscation of Waikato lands unjust. Negotiations from the 1930s brought limited compensation in 1946. This was …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… in genealogy, oratory and Māori leadership. By the mid 1930s he was widely recognised as a leader of Wairarapa …
Type: Biography
… shift from ‘Aryan Māori’ to ‘Caucasian Māori’ in the 1930s, and the memory of New Zealand’s Aryanism was …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… Other artists also explored city life. Louise Henderson’s 1930 scene of Christchurch’s Addington railway workshops …
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Part of story: City images
… elsewhere in the West, from the crisis of capitalism in the 1930s and from the Soviet Union’s heroic effort in the war …
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Part of story: Cold War
… production there was. The Government Publicity Office (1923–1930) made more than 200 silent films. After a break, …
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Part of story: Screen industry
… Radio broadcasting began as a private activity. From the 1930s it came increasingly under state control. Reforms in …
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Part of story: Radio
… on Auckland. The National Broadcasting Service From the 1930s to the early 1960s the National Broadcasting Service’s …
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Part of story: Radio