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… enrolled at Canterbury College. He completed his BSc in 1930, graduating senior scholar in botany. In 1932 he …
Type: Biography
… YWCA’s ‘Girl Citizens’ were active in the 1920s and 1930s, providing a forum for girls to become involved in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Youth organisations
… and secretary to the administration in Western Samoa. In 1930 Clinkard was appointed secretary of industries and …
Type: Biography
… – before the state provided universal social welfare in the 1930s. Pawnshops remained in business into the 2000s because …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Second-hand trade
… most of his research for New Zealand in the making (1930), one of the first economic histories of the country. …
Type: Biography
… Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Pymble, remaining there until 1930. Then, after teaching briefly at another girls’ college …
Type: Biography
… deepening immersion in local body affairs. In the 1920s and 1930s he served on the Auckland Harbour Board, Auckland …
Type: Biography
… and Dora, never married. After their parents died (Emily in 1930, Isidore in 1934) they lived together in London. The …
Type: Biography
… Lenore divine , Dawn beloved and Riven. Bushman Burke (1930) and Poor swine (1932), though set in New Zealand, were …
Type: Biography
… at Christchurch Boys’ High School, where he was dux in 1930, and the University of Otago and Canterbury University …
Type: Biography
… field for the Auckland suburb’s children. During the 1930s economic depression unemployed relief workers also …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Children and sport
… events marred his final years. Emily Hill died in August 1930. The following year a large proportion of Henry's …
Type: Biography
… a commonly held belief in New Zealand right up until the 1930s, despite the fact that the Māori population had been …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Population change
… and the Arihia Memorial Hall was built at Waiomatatini in 1930 to complement Porourangi, the ancestral house of Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… then until 1928 was in business in Sydney and Melbourne. In 1930 he went to London, where he studied and wrote on …
Type: Biography
… Carmelites in Auckland and Christchurch (established in the 1930s), the Brigidine Sisters in the lower North Island …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Communes and communities
… and fortitude she overcame her illness, and in the early 1930s secured a job on a Chatham Islands’ sheep station as a …
Type: Biography
… and began to sell new and second-hand motor cycles. In 1930 he set up Robinson’s Motor Cycle and Bicycle Depot, and …
Type: Biography
… Tangata Rite hockey team and represented Poverty Bay in the 1930s. She was a foundation member of the Waikohu and …
Type: Biography
… a cadet in the Land and Income Tax Department. In the late 1930s he was also active in the scouting movement. Smith …
Type: Biography