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… electricity was growing rapidly and during the 1920s and 1930s he was associated with the Wairua Falls hydroelectric … of the Auckland University College Council (1923–29 and 1930–36) acquainted him with the plight of the School of …
Type: Biography
… to play in international matches and was selected again in 1930 and 1935. In 1935, in his 60th year, he was third in … Speaking at the time of his death, Harold Black, the 1930 New Zealand amateur champion, said, 'His playing record …
Type: Biography
… aero clubs were founded from the late 1920s, and in 1930 they were affiliated through the New Zealand Aero Club, … and taught men, and a few women, to fly. From the 1930s they received government funding to train pilots for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Aerial recreation
… a café in Cuba Street, but the depression of the early 1930s proved disastrous: ‘I lost everything I possessed … There were only a few restaurants in Wellington during the 1930s: the main eating establishments were hotels, tea rooms …
Type: Biography
… Electric tractor To increase demand for electricity, in the 1930s Mr H. Kemp, engineer for the Ashburton Electric Power … systems with electric pumps were in use in orchards by the 1930s. Electric refrigeration was advertised for fruit …
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Part of story: Farm mechanisation
… Zealand. The systems were continuously improved into the 1930s. Aerial cableways were developed, and internal … durable, reliable and cost-effective. Tractors From the mid-1930s, imported caterpillar tractors superseded locally made …
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Part of story: Bush trams and other log transport
… at any later stage in its history. From the 1890s to the 1930s the Journal of the Polynesian Society mainly published … in 1918 and Roger Duff at Canterbury Museum in 1938. In the 1930s the director of Auckland Museum, zoologist Gilbert … extensive notes on tribal life. Papakura died suddenly in 1930, before she could present her thesis examination. In …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… transmitted diseases . Declining birth rates, 1870s to 1930s From the 1870s the Pākehā birth rate declined. It reached a low point in the 1930s during the economic depression, when it hovered around … Māori women's fertility rates remained consistent from the 1930 until the 1960s, when there was a significant drop in …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… dance boom intensified during the ‘swing era’ of the late 1930s. Cabarets opened in most cities and provincial towns, … court at Auckland’s Orange Coronation Ballroom from the mid-1930s until 1955, employing many leading players. In the 1930s and 1940s band leader Lauri Paddi alternated between …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Jazz and dance bands
… in Māori art. Research and education During the 1920s and 1930s Auckland Museum employed a range of biological … States. The interwar museum building boom In the 1920s and 1930s a wave of new museums and building extensions … in the 1920s, and in Christchurch and Napier in the 1930s. Dioramas to documentaries While working at the …
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Part of story: Museums
… Its margins were planted in exotic trees in the 1920s and 1930s, and it is now encircled by a walkway. Waikato … At the Victoria Bridge end, the Waikato Brewery, built in 1930 to replace an earlier structure, once produced the … Place, carved, after much debate, out of a hill in the late 1930s. Opposite is the Skycity casino, which opened in 2002 …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… of Connell, Ward and Lucas, a practice that by the early 1930s was in the forefront of English modernism in … was eventually rejected as too expensive. Although the 1930s were a very busy time in Louis Hay's Herschell Street … as Hay's professional opportunities expanded in the 1930s his health deteriorated. After 1940, because of the …
Type: Biography
… Timber milling was important from the 1860s until the 1930s. In 1864 three sawmills operated on the north side of … Sporadic prospecting continued in the range up until the 1930s, but it was never a rich deposit. Death of a fisherman … in North Arm, Port Pegasus, in 1897 operated until the late 1930s. A fish factory set up by Otakou Fisheries operated in …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… International games before 1930 New Zealand cricket had little to cheer about before 1930. National pride became attached to the All Blacks rugby … (later the International Cricket Council) and in January 1930 New Zealand played its first official test against …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cricket
… Plunket training at Karitāne-Harris Hospital, Dunedin. In 1930 she was transferred to Tokaanu, the isolated new centre … including provision for transport by taxi. In December 1930 the nurse instructor, Mary Lambie , reported to the … Ōtaki, Mabel Mangakāhia returned to Tokaanu. In the early 1930s she was the pioneer district nurse of Te Araroa near …
Type: Biography
… baseball. In New Zealand softball became popular in the 1930s. By 2012 Softball New Zealand had over 29,100 … team 8–7. Softball or baseball? In New Zealand during the 1930s the term ‘baseball’ was commonly used to describe both … in the West Coast mining town of Blackball in the early 1930s and also in Whanganui. From 1931 girls at Hutt Valley …
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Part of story: Softball and baseball
… subjects. His output was greatest in the later 1920s and 1930s: he exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts, The … in marble of W. F. Massey at Point Halswell, Wellington (1930), and the bronze portrait statue of James FitzGerald in … contributed to the left-wing journal Tomorrow in the mid 1930s, where his utopian socialism was attacked by the young …
Type: Biography
… chemicals such as arsenic were used in the 1920s and 1930s to control many weeds. Today a licence is required to … chlorate was used extensively in New Zealand between the 1930s and 1970s, especially as a spot treatment for ragwort. … (carbon-based) weed-killing compound, was first used in the 1930s for selective control of weeds in crops, notably peas. …
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Part of story: Weeds of agriculture
… although one of the leading New Zealand painters of the 1930s and 1940s, has been rather neglected by art … in 1929 Weeks began the critical phase of his career. In 1930 he took up a relieving teaching position at the Elam … painting until his retirement in January 1954. Elam in the 1930s was under the leadership of A. J. C. Fisher , who …
Type: Biography
… of Agriculture Plant Research Station. In the early 1930s Grasslands Ruanui ryegrass and Grasslands Huia white … Wright, nurserymen who selected kiwifruit varieties in the 1930s. One of the major successes of the DSIR fruit breeding …
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Part of story: Agricultural and horticultural research