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… work by Mona Tracey and Percy Jones in the 1920s and 1930s, very little was done in folk-song scholarship until …
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Part of story: Folk, country and blues music
… as president. He disliked some of the fashions of the 1930s and 1940s with which younger architects were …
Type: Biography
… One well known whāngai was Mākereti (Maggie) Papakura (1873–1930), a Tūhourangi woman of mana, Rotorua hot-lakes guide …
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Part of story: Children’s homes and fostering
… approach that had characterised city planning since the 1930s Labour government. Deregulation Further change came …
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Part of story: City planning
… It used footage shot by Pākehā film-maker Jim Manley in the 1930s. Support came from the New Zealand Film Archive (now …
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Part of story: Documentary film
… of Australasian public entertainment until well into the 1930s. When he died at Auckland on 9 May 1923 – survived by …
Type: Biography
… the Jessie Hope Gibbons Maternity Hospital. In the late 1930s they gave the site for the Whanganui Children's Health …
Type: Biography
… David Gillies again lived in Auckland, where David died in 1930. Janet Gillies died there on 24 July 1947. Her efforts …
Type: Biography
… He also designed the Massey Memorial, Wellington (1928). In 1930 Gummer won the competition to design the national war …
Type: Biography
… his appointment as King's counsel was announced on 14 April 1930. He was an impressive figure both in stature (he was …
Type: Biography
… with cadet units. He was posted to the retired list in 1930. After he returned to New Zealand Hanson qualified as a …
Type: Biography
… the 3rd New Zealand Infantry Brigade between 1925 and 1930. In 1931 he narrowly succeeded in taking the …
Type: Biography
… speed and courage. The next batch of champions came in the 1930s, with Indianapolis (three times winner of the New …
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Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… all sheepdogs imported into New Zealand between 1910 and 1930 have a dog known as Old Hemp somewhere in their …
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Part of story: Farm dogs
… a copy to Queen Victoria in 1897. National song In the 1930s, as New Zealand’s centennial year approached, James …
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Part of story: National anthems
… in September 1926, he returned to Lower Moutere around 1930 to take over a small farm and orchard there. In 1935, …
Type: Biography
… to Te Aute College and two sons to other schools. In the 1930s Hēmi supported Apirana Ngata's Horohoro Native Land …
Type: Biography
… James Brackenridge Mudgway, a ‘shoe artist’, on 13 December 1930. Although Flo claimed to be 18 at the time, she was in …
Type: Biography
… Competitive ice skating events have their origins in the 1930s. The New Zealand Ice Skating Association (NZISA) was …
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Part of story: Ice sports
… number of serious mountaineers is smaller, and until the 1930s many were foreign visitors led by professional guides. …
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Part of story: Sports and leisure