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… was a firm believer in cultivating friendships. During the 1930s, on the express between Wellington and Auckland, he …
Type: Biography
… staff had carried the college through the depression of the 1930s and the exigencies of the war years, when full-time …
Type: Biography
… Romania he worked in agriculture and forestry. In the late 1930s, however, with the threat of war and the rising power …
Type: Biography
… a police constable, and his wife, Louisa Murray Betts. By 1930 the family had moved to Manawatū, where Louis attended …
Type: Biography
… to the formulation of Labour's policy in the 1920s and 1930s, and was one of the government's ablest …
Type: Biography
… art subjects. After gaining a diploma in fine arts in 1930, he became life master and lecturer in artistic …
Type: Biography
… in the development of the Blind Institute in the 1920s and 1930s and in the development of a universal Braille system. …
Type: Biography
… declined – from 130 kilograms per person a year in the 1930s to around 91 kilograms in the early 2000s. The drop in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Food
… in the working conditions and welfare of miners, and in 1930 introduced an Invalid Pensions Bill; it eventually …
Type: Biography
… provided prizes for the tournament winners. In the 1930s Ōmana became involved in the Rātana movement. The only …
Type: Biography
… service during the First World War. In the 1920s and 1930s Redwood was forced to lead a divided episcopate on the …
Type: Biography
… his autobiographical writings as Yesterdays in Māoriland (1930), with its boastful account of his abuse of Tāwhiao's …
Type: Biography
… the council of the NZAFA again from 1904 to 1926 and from 1930 to 1935. As a member she was quick to recognise young …
Type: Biography
… devoted and professional young Māori group. During the 1930s the choir travelled throughout the country, helping to …
Type: Biography
… in 1920 there was a steady decline to only 190 in 1930. On 26 June 1933, in his mid seventies, Squarise …
Type: Biography
… of pioneering economic history, New Zealand in the making (1930); and J. R. Elder, who collected the writings of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History and historians
… Tūpaea’s attention shifted to Napier land issues in the 1930s. In 1907, 1916 and 1919 Ngāti Hinepare and Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… then as minister of railways and transport under Forbes (1930–31). In 1931 he lost these portfolios to make way for …
Type: Biography
… at least the early 1900s. Milk bars started to open in the 1930s and became popular spots with young people, who would …
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Part of story: Tea, coffee and soft drinks
… Patrick White, later a Nobel Prize-winning novelist. In 1930 he began lecturing in history at the University of …
Type: Biography