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… of Seddon Memorial Technical College, where he taught from 1930 to 1941. On 12 December 1936 he married Elsie Maud Hunt …
Type: Biography
… accepted the prevailing financial stringency. In the early 1930s neither Campbell's tireless constituency work nor his …
Type: Biography
… by the government. Road building and upgrading In the 1930s economic depression, the government used the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Roads
… to suppress independent midwifery in the 1920s and 1930s, and to shift almost all New Zealand deliveries into …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Primary health care
… some supported the right of women to refuse. In the late 1930s, for instance, Justice Henry Ostler stated that ‘a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Family violence
… 1919, 53% of all households owned their own homes. From the 1930s, the state became a very important provider of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Families: a history
… well-being. Osteopathy started in New Zealand in the early 1930s. Early practitioners were often qualified doctors. A …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Alternative health therapies
… attended Sunday school and Bible class. Between 1900 and 1930 the church relentlessly advocated Bible teaching in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Presbyterian Church
… the 1918 influenza epidemic as a preventive. In the late 1930s the appearance of filters further stilled doubts. The …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Smoking
… William Massey at Point Halswell on Wellington Harbour (1930). £10,000 of the £15,000 cost was paid by the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… Feltham studied English at Victoria University College from 1930 until 1933. While completing her BA honours and MA …
Type: Biography
… to the rapid expansion of pastoral production during the 1930s, particularly on dairy farms and on the plains. The …
Type: Biography
… to 1,271 in 1926 – but the economic depression of the early 1930s ended growth. Graduates could not find paid work and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tertiary education
… light operas and musical plays through the 1920s and 1930s. As well as Marama, which was staged in Hastings in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… for house builders but few firms survived the onset of the 1930s economic depression. The creation of the government’s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Housing
… country. It was also very much a family concern and in the 1930s became known as A. A. Corban and Sons Limited. …
Type: Biography
… are thin and tapering. They had been caught as early as the 1930s by coastal trawlers, but were not valued because they …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fishing industry
… better than many other government institutions during the 1930s economic depression. The late 1940s saw a growing …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Prisons
… not surpassed until the late 1940s (partly because of the 1930s economic depression). After the Second World War In …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Otago places
… Rua’s imprisonment in 1916, but was abandoned in the early 1930s. Rātana pā From the 1920s a pan-tribal settlement of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Communes and communities