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… New Zealand from before the First World War until the mid 1930s. The most popular venue was Takapuna racecourse, which … record from 48 seconds in 1923 to 44.8 seconds in 1929. In 1930 Coleman was chosen as New Zealand's first official … retired from competitive motor-cycle racing in the early 1930s, and concentrated on expanding his business. By the …
Type: Biography
… to house the Community Sunshine School. When it opened in 1930 it had two open-air classrooms and a solarium: … children at Ostend on Waiheke Island. In the summer of 1930 she superintended the first camp. Ferner served on the … her death. She died at her Remuera home on 3 November 1930, survived by her husband, two sons and a daughter. Her …
Type: Biography
… Fairburn and the other two men cooled somewhat in the 1930s due to his rejection of Marxism. On 16 September 1933 … Fitzherbert, a journalist, at Auckland. In the late 1930s Patricia studied photography at a portrait studio in … many Aucklanders commissioned portraits. During the 1930s and 1940s his portraits were regularly printed in …
Type: Biography
… introduction of winches in the late 1920s and early 1930s nets, supplejack cray pots and lines all had to be … used to sore hands and bad backs. Trawling In the 1920s and 1930s coastal trawling out of Lyttelton was conducted by … into fishing was not stringently controlled until the late 1930s, when fishing became licensed and the number of …
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Part of story: Fishing industry
… dwellers had limited access to books or libraries until the 1930s. Some wealthy sheep farmers had private libraries, and … began a book club for country people, which ran during the 1930s from a base at Marton. Subscribers received a regular … there were often problems in receiving a signal. From the 1930s, the New Zealand Broadcasting Board attempted to …
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Part of story: Rural services
… poems, ‘Questionings’, was included in Kowhai gold , the 1930 anthology of New Zealand verse, and a children’s book, … for French culture, she spent three years during the early 1930s as a governess in France, seeking to become fluent in … distinction. She returned to Christchurch in the mid 1930s, but little is known of the next two decades of her …
Type: Biography
… painting was paid 2s. 6d. to pose. Her portraits from the 1930s, in marked contrast to her early sentimental work, are … and unexplained, works are her religious paintings of the 1930s. These have a moralistic atmosphere, symbolically … The strong portraits and the religious pieces of the 1930s show her introducing different ideas and making …
Type: Biography
… was abandoned. Economic depression of the late 1920s and 1930s led to education cuts. Teachers’ salaries were slashed … and teachers’ colleges closed temporarily. From the mid-1930s, however, reforms led to a spirit of optimism. With … 5 class at Gladstone Road School in Auckland in the 1930s. She recalled, ‘In Mr Watson’s class, you worked … I …
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Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… around Auckland. In Nelson in the first seven years of the 1930s, the area planted increased by 15%, and the yield per … 11% being air-cured for pipe tobacco. Tobacco tyres In the 1930s some Nelson growers illicitly sold tobacco directly to … considerable uncertainty in the industry during the early 1930s. After some years of lobbying and discussion, the …
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Part of story: Hops, tobacco and hemp
… lower wages for himself during the depression of the 1930s. In the meantime, Tom Bloodworth had begun to … local authority on which Bloodworth served in the 1920s and 1930s was the Auckland Harbour Board. First elected in 1923, … in 1926, and then came third in a by-election in Parnell in 1930. By then, however, Bloodworth's independent spirit was …
Type: Biography
… The New Zealand Wrestling Union was formed in 1930 to administer wrestling, and its first national … Money earner During the economic depression of the 1930s, people continued to pay to attend wrestling. In 1930 gate takings by the New Zealand Wrestling Union were …
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Part of story: Boxing and wrestling
… volumes of verse. Zillah opted for a life in music, and in 1930 gained 190 out of a possible 200 in her LRSM diploma … for schools. Both were passionate about music. In the 1930s, with their sister Mona playing viola da gamba, Zillah … of early and unusual musical instruments. Begun in the 1930s, this has been described as the largest private …
Type: Biography
… mainly imported wheat from Canada and Australia. Since the 1930s domestic use of flour, which is produced from wheat, … New Zealanders mainly ate white bread – in the 1930s it accounted for 60–80% of consumption, and only 6% of … the Diamond pasta factory had opened in Timaru. Also in the 1930s, the Nelson firm of S. Kirkpatrick and Company began …
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Part of story: Food
… Legal background Since the mid-1930s the chairs of commissions have typically had strong legal backgrounds. Prior to the 1930s, only half the chairs came from a legal background. … industries commission had 11 commissioners, the 1930 workers’-compensation commission had nine, and the 1944 …
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Part of story: Commissions of inquiry
… a preference concession for British-manufactured goods. 1930s and imperial preference The financial crisis of the 1930s stimulated rethinking on the tariff question. With the … duty on goods from British Empire countries). But at the 1930 Imperial Conference and the 1932 Ottawa Conference …
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Part of story: Customs and tariffs
… a major role in New Zealand forestry during the 1920s and 1930s. Born Arnold Maria Hansen in Drammen, Norway, on 10 … foresters and did not serve on the executive in 1930, letting his membership lapse in 1934. Another reason … qualifications, had replaced Ellis as director, and in 1930 accepted an appointment as silviculturist at the …
Type: Biography
… organised a Deer Menace Conference in Christchurch in 1930. The Forest Service, conservationists and native-bird … that deer would no longer be protected from hunting. In 1930, the department employed Captain George ‘Skipper’ Yerex … shot by cullers rose from about 8,000 per year in the early 1930s to over 40,000 in 1940. By the 1950s the culling force …
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Part of story: Deer and deer farming
… the 1920s, was being practised in New Zealand by the late 1930s. In domestic architecture, this meant flat – or at … Hall’s Timaru house was a rare example of modernism in 1930s New Zealand. Its cubic form and roof garden were … the émigré architects who fled from Nazism in the 1930s. The émigrés who settled in New Zealand included Henry …
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Part of story: Domestic architecture
… district from the 1920s. During the First World War and the 1930s depression some farmers abandoned their land. By the mid-1930s around half the land cleared for farms reverted to … State Highway 4. A state forest was established at Erua in 1930. In the early 21st century Erua was a base from which …
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Part of story: King Country places
… were used to winch cars across fords in the 1920s and 1930s. Vehicles and roads Cart wheels’ narrow iron rims cut … Otago roadman George Bates recalls working with it in the 1930s: ‘In the winter when the gelignite was frozen, we … dig. In many places roadmen had no lorries until the 1930s. The road user’s experience At first, people …
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Part of story: Roads