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… the UK. Growing trade with US During the depression of the 1930s imports from the UK gained more favoured treatment and …
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Part of story: International economic relations
… principalship, except for a decline in the depressed early 1930s. Buildings and facilities, courses and activities …
Type: Biography
… country. Trethewey was also involved in other work in the 1930s: a sculpture of Maui Pomare, unveiled at Waitara in …
Type: Biography
… expensive, so power was mainly used for lighting. In the 1930s cheaper electricity allowed for greater uptake of …
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Part of story: Washing, cleaning and personal hygiene
… taught gold prospecting to unemployed men. During the mid 1930s the DSIR began new geological and geophysical surveys …
Type: Biography
… in 1926. The Whitakers lived in New Plymouth until about 1930, when they moved to Inglewood. During the 1920s Mabel …
Type: Biography
… travel overseas many times with her husband. When in the 1930s radios became popular, Cyril White experimented with …
Type: Biography
… dux of the school and president of the school council. In 1930 he enrolled at Victoria University College, graduating …
Type: Biography
… non-medical people – responded to this need from the mid-1930s. Family planning Many women desperately wanted …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… St Barnabas, Fendalton (1925–26), and St Paul's, Taitapu (1930–31). St Barnabas, Woodend (1932), has reinforced …
Type: Biography
… with my workmates.‘ 1 Import protection From the late 1930s woollen mills were protected by import restrictions …
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Part of story: Agricultural processing industries
… and the Journal alive despite difficulties during the 1930s. His contribution to New Zealand anthropology was … Point Howard, on Wellington Harbour, purchased in the early 1930s, suitably reconciled study and the outdoors. Kate was …
Type: Biography
… College, but published as a book in England in 1932. In 1930 he began teaching at Wesley College, a Methodist boys’ … was published in 1935 as The silent division . In the early 1930s Burton decided to train as a clergyman. He was a lay …
Type: Biography
… was kept up that Ward would soon return. At last, on 14 May 1930, Ward resigned. The United caucus elected Forbes leader … but acknowledged that he had to do 'a rotten job'. In 1930 Forbes left for the Imperial Conference. In his absence …
Type: Biography
… Hikurangi dairy co-operative company in Northland. In the 1930s Hēnare worked as a bushman, farm labourer and as … He was a lay reader in the Anglican church from the late 1930s, and was later a member of the Auckland synod for over …
Type: Biography
… in Australian literary life particularly in the 1920s and 1930s. She counted among her close friends the writers … the 'flowering' of New Zealand poetry in the 1920s and 1930s. Yet without her and others like her, who created an …
Type: Biography
… Labour candidates made a poor showing. When Pōmare died in 1930 Māwhete was overseas and could not be contacted; Te … the crucial liaison role that he now began to play. By 1930 Rātana was interested in Labour; looking to the bloc …
Type: Biography
… Association, which he had helped form in 1915. In the 1930s, amid rising unemployment, McCullough became active … again in socialist politics. Shortly before his death in 1930 Fred Cooke had bequeathed £80 to re-found the …
Type: Biography
… advocacy. They married at Christchurch on 5 August 1930, following Sophie's divorce from Doyle. Increasingly, … Despite such criticism, he remained, at the end of the 1930s, firmly entrenched as leader of the UMW. By arresting …
Type: Biography
… supporting Geoff Alley's perambulating rural library from 1930; and organising WEA lectures to prisoners, WEA … Canterbury Society of Arts. Under his goad, in the early 1930s Christchurch spawned a briefly flourishing New Zealand …
Type: Biography