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… of tutor sister at Porirua Mental Hospital from 1928 to 1930. She was then tutor sister at Auckland Hospital until …
Type: Biography
… Tourist Company of New Zealand, became a public company. By 1930 Wigley had built it into the largest tourist …
Type: Biography
… on writing. A novel, Moonshine , written in the 1930s, was published in 1944, but it was her autobiography, …
Type: Biography
… Women’s Clubs (BPW), set up by the YWCA in the 1930s, was concerned with women’s employment from the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… Professor Jack Drummond at University College from 1930 to 1932. Her husband, James, accompanied her. They … boot and shoe industries, and into Māori diets in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It was of particular concern to Bell …
Type: Biography
… stylistic phase was marked by the publication in London in 1930 of his first book, He shall not rise . By this time … December 1946 the Fairburns moved to Devonport. Since the 1930s family life had accommodated a ceaseless stream of …
Type: Biography
… was recognised by the local doctor, C. M. Mules, who in the 1930s recommended her for an honorary midwife's certificate, … scheme as a consultant and paymaster in the early 1930s. Such schemes, which were fostered by the Native …
Type: Biography
… studied politics, economics and philosophy and graduated in 1930. His study of Kant led him to spend vacations in … and listening to opera. Wilson returned to Bulls in 1930 to find that he had inherited Mount Lees, a 1,000-acre …
Type: Biography
… solar eclipse expedition to Western Australia and in 1930 led an eclipse expedition to Niuafo'ou, in the Tongan …
Type: Biography
… was involved in a range of community groups. In the late 1930s he began a long association with Cholmondeley Memorial …
Type: Biography
… Zealand artists, and were often heard on the radio in the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1950s, the Howard Morrison …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… years and organised popular picnics during the depressed 1930s. Women played a prominent role in Greymouth's …
Type: Biography
… mission style. His more significant structures of the 1930s included the Wellington Show Association stadium, the …
Type: Biography
… An early premier, Julius Vogel , was Jewish. During the 1930s, when countries settled by Europeans such as Australia …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ethnic and religious intolerance
… founders' assembly hall, which opened at the new site in 1930, as the school's 'very heart and centre'. However, the …
Type: Biography
… into the incidence of goitre in New Zealand, and in the 1930s became heavily involved in the children's health camps …
Type: Biography
… was a companion to her elderly father. After his death in 1930 she returned to New Zealand to edit his memoirs, …
Type: Biography
… Museum was an especially active research centre in the 1930s under its director, zoologist Gilbert Archey. Staff …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Life sciences
… was then loaned to the newly formed Transport Department in 1930, where he worked under the commissioner of transport, …
Type: Biography
… century. Although the upper harbour services ceased in 1930 with increasing competition from road transport, a new …
Type: Biography