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… training – seemingly an impossibility in the depths of the 1930s depression. In 1934, however, Natzke was heard by …
Type: Biography
… From the 1930s refugees from Europe enriched New Zealand’s cultural …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Classical musicians
… world wars. Coal mines were worked in the district from the 1930s, and mining underpinned Ōhura’s economy for the next …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country places
… in Genesis lay 'the seed bed of all biblical themes'. In 1930 Orange became vicar of Sumner. His preaching both in …
Type: Biography
… even more days’ annual leave. Sunshine Jan By the 1930s January was synonymous with a break from routine, as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Holidays
… of Nurses in Toronto. Returning to New Zealand in October 1930, Anne Pattrick found her relationship with the …
Type: Biography
… but proved that an audience for jazz existed. During the 1930s the number of radio receivers in New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… the garage workshop of one in Woolston, Pearse in the early 1930s set about designing and building a second aircraft, …
Type: Biography
… followed by intermittent mining ventures until the late 1930s. A dairy factory operated at Linkwater from 1911 to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough places
… shown for example in 'Silverstream brickworks' (1930) and 'Taranaki' (1931). The dramatic simplification of …
Type: Biography
… or even internationally. Paddy the Wanderer In the 1930s a stray ginger-and-brown Airedale terrier became a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pets
… to found a new fundamentalist student group in Auckland. In 1930 he sponsored the visit of Howard Guinness on behalf of …
Type: Biography
… advisory service, ran from 1936 until 1952. In the late 1930s, pig-meat exports to Britain peaked at over 28,000 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pigs and the pork industry
… in this work. When Hāriata was in hospital in Kaikōura in 1930, thinking she was going to die and desperate not to …
Type: Biography
… George Forbes (prime minister through the depression, 1930–35) businessman Sidney Holland (prime minister, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canterbury region
… were buried beside those of her husband, who had died in 1930, and her sons Te Rakaherea and Naera, at Manukōrihi pā …
Type: Biography
… unstaffed and borrowers were trusted not to steal books. 1930s developments In 1932 the Carnegie Corporation made …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Libraries
… He made a voluntary return visit to New Zealand in the 1930s during a round-the-world cruise. Luckner charmed …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nearshore islands
… farming started nearby in the late 1800s, but from the 1930s many dairy units changed to sheep farming, which was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato places
… councillor (1927–29), Algie Rainbow topped the polls in the 1930s and was deputy mayor from 1933 to 1941. As chairman of …
Type: Biography