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… speak in Māori unless an interpreter was present. By the 1930s Māori MPs were more determined to use their own …
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… imported and used. Wooden bridges were still built in the 1930s in rural areas and often painted in red oxide. By the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bridges and tunnels
… to problems and meticulous accounting skills. In October 1930 Ernest Vogtherr fell out with his father, and early the …
Type: Biography
… damaged or destroyed in major fires in 1883, 1897, 1904, 1930 and 1967. Western Golden Bay gets more rainfall than …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… High School, and transferred to Gore High School in May 1930. He was dux there in 1931, and began study at the …
Type: Biography
… patron of the New Zealand Aero Club at its inception in 1930. For his services to aviation he was knighted in 1926. …
Type: Biography
… year. Annie Wilson died at Lethenty on 11 February 1930, the matriarch of a prosperous, well-educated family. …
Type: Biography
… life than her predecessors. Hollywood glamour Between the 1930s and 1950s Hollywood glamour influenced New Zealand …
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Part of story: Personal grooming
… a concept imported from England, emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. The name Lyceum came from the Greek word Lykeion – a …
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Part of story: Women’s networks and clubs
… One of the great international aviators of the 1930s, Jean Gardner Batten was born on 15 September 1909 in … a famous one, competing on equal terms with men. Early in 1930, having sold her piano to pay the fares, Jean Batten … arrived on the scene too late. Major airlines by the mid 1930s were already operating routinely. What she could …
Type: Biography
… law draftsman. He became first assistant law draftsman in 1930. On 20 February 1912 Joe Heenan married Hilda May … in language and an appreciation of fine printing. In the 1930s he became a member of the New Zealand Centre of PEN, …
Type: Biography
… with Te Paea Raihe; they had one daughter. About 1930 Te Puea Hērangi arranged a marriage for him with Te … role as King were key elements in the negotiations in the 1930s and 1940s for compensation for the confiscation of …
Type: Biography
… what she read in textbooks and was told at Girl Guides. In 1930 she commenced a BA degree at Auckland University … broader readership. She later reflected that the 1920s and 1930s saw the real (but later forgotten) second wave of …
Type: Biography
… most of limited opportunities for self-improvement; in the 1930s he was to read the Bible – the only literature … skills. There were seven children of this union. By the 1930s Hōne Heke Rankin was taking his place as a leader of …
Type: Biography
… and the pioneering phase of aviation stretched into the 1930s. During these years aerial displays and tours were …
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Part of story: Air crashes
… The settlers formed the Alderton Utility Company, which in 1930 opened a small hydroelectric power scheme, the first …
Type: Biography
… together closely during the difficult years of the early 1930s. A 10 per cent wage cut was imposed on seamen in 1932 …
Type: Biography
… The couple were badly affected by the depression of the 1930s: in September 1932 Jock was sacked from his job as a …
Type: Biography
… ($4,500 in 2016 terms) to £15 in 1900 and less than £10 in 1930. Technology improved in the 1900s with the free-wheel, …
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Part of story: Bicycles
… co-operatives were started in New Zealand during the 1930s, but most failed. The Manawatū venture, by contrast, …
Type: Biography