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… strung – far more than in any other part of the country. By 1930 all settled parts of the province were reticulated. But … was overambitious, and the board went bankrupt in the 1930s depression. The government took over, and Southland … and Goodwin. Transport routes since the Second World War In 1930, when railway traffic peaked in Southland, there were …
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Part of story: Southland region
… first tractors ran on kerosene and petrol, but in the early 1930s diesel engines came into use. Wheeled tractors Wheeled … models with rubber tyres became available in the late 1930s. They allowed farmers to transport loads like stock … were also used in making silage. Trucks In the 1920s and 1930s, improved roads and the introduction of milk trucks …
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Part of story: Farm mechanisation
… for the New Zealand Army division in Germany. Until the 1930s the Diggers was one of the most popular revue … for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC). In 1930 the society’s producer was the Hastings-born, … both Wilkie and Rosemary Rees. George Worthington From the 1930s the cinema devastated the audience for professional …
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Part of story: Theatre companies and producers
… nursing policies. Watt became director general of health in 1930 at a time of retrenchment. When the economy began to … Watt's status and diplomacy also ensured that in the late 1930s the Department of Health was rarely drawn into the … Social Security Act. His third major achievement in the 1930s was to mastermind the establishment of the New Zealand …
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… she and Hector were divorced. They had no children. In the 1930s Hetty Weitzel helped edit Working Woman and its … with whom Weitzel did not always agree. By the late 1930s she was putting most of her energy into the Australian … of communist women radicalised in the late 1920s and 1930s. In New Zealand she is remembered for selling 'naughty …
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… manufacturer, to remain competitive. An amalgamation in 1930 formed Cadbury Fry Hudson, building on Richard Hudson’s … their specialty cake shops. In an innovative move for the 1930s, raw ingredients were checked in a test laboratory …
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Part of story: Food and beverage manufacturing
… site. Families and churches organised most burials. In the 1930s, funeral directors organised themselves into an … homes to be laid out. While funeral directors in the 1930s and 1940s sometimes discouraged the viewing of bodies …
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Part of story: Death and dying
… New Zealand from Knott’s Berry Farm, California, in the mid-1930s. They are deciduous plants. Canes grow during the … at just over 1,000 tonnes. Production declined during the 1930s depression, then slowly recovered until 1970. Then …
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Part of story: Citrus, berries, exotic fruit and nuts
… the first jump in New Zealand from an aeroplane, and in the 1930s a succession of parachutists performed at air … Ups and downs During the economic depression of the early 1930s, some men made parachute jumps in a desperate attempt …
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Part of story: Aerial recreation
… career in a sole-charge country school in the early 1930s recalled ‘On the top of one of the cupboards a globe … leaving age to 15 in 1944 made it more common. In the 1930s, 65% of boys entering farming had left school at the …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… 1900s, 95% of Māori lived in rural communities, and in the 1930s the Māori population was 90% rural. The 1926 census … Land development – from labourers to farmers Until the 1930s Māori struggled to develop their land, as they were …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… art students, from a Christchurch exhibition. During the 1930s and 1940s her work was regularly selected for rota … colour, light and movement. Her most productive period was 1930 to 1950, although afterwards she continued to exhibit …
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… Refugees from Nazism, 1933–39 People fleeing Nazism in the 1930s were subject to New Zealand’s Immigration Restriction …
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Part of story: Refugees
… events as the First World War and the depression of the 1930s. After the Second World War, people left their …
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Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… Pope’s introduction to the poetry anthology Kowhai g old (1930). Later Allan Curnow, in A book of New Zealand v erse … riting in New Zealand . Modernism and literary controversy: 1930s to 1940s In the 1930s a group of young writers, including R. A. K. Mason, …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… elder brother, Pine , had been carving from 1925, and by 1930 was recognised as the star carver at the School of … at Rotorua. By the middle of the depression of the early 1930s John was unemployed, and joined the Rotorua carving … at Wairoa in 1938. At some stage, probably in the late 1930s during work on the house Arohanui ki te Tangata …
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… who launched their careers with the Caxton Press in the 1930s saw themselves as the initiators of a national … New Zealand poetry to a new level of seriousness. The 1930s and early 1940s have been described as the most … a publisher (Caxton), they shared the experience of the 1930s economic depression in their early adulthood, and …
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Part of story: Poetry
… which was time-consuming and could be inaccurate. By the 1930s advances in aerial photography and photogrammetry … New Zealand Aerial Mapping Company It became obvious in the 1930s that the air force would not be able to carry out all …
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Part of story: Modern mapping and surveying
… Island, and was widespread among livestock in the early 1930s. It was known as Morton Mains disease in Southland, … are at their highest. Iodine deficiency In the 1920s and 1930s people in much of New Zealand had mild to moderate …
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Part of story: Diseases of sheep, cattle and deer
… beans and spaghetti in tomato sauce appeared in the early 1930s. Tinned spaghetti and macaroni were probably the only … Islands and became a popular food. A man of action In the 1930s James Wattie was horrified that Hawke’s Bay fruit …
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Part of story: Food and beverage manufacturing