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… acquired a small derelict farm on the Hauraki Plains in the 1930s. The farm was managed by an experienced farmer while …
Type: Biography
… press gallery in 1926. He died at their home on 15 April 1930. In 1934 Forrest Ross published Mixed grill , …
Type: Biography
… League. With the dominance of fascism in Austria in the 1930s left-wing politics was increasingly clandestine. …
Type: Biography
… Ngāhuia Matengaro. After the death of Māui Pōmare in 1930, Te Tāite, whom Pōmare had designated his successor, …
Type: Biography
… work in British daily papers for several decades from the 1930s. Low claimed that New Zealand’s two most important …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Newspapers
… Harold Arthur Turbott was born in Gisborne on 16 December 1930, the second child of Eveline Lillian Arthur and her …
Type: Biography
… he gained experience of malaria, hookworm and leprosy. His 1930s work with Māori had also enhanced his reputation as an …
Type: Biography
… agriculture at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, in 1930. For the next six years he worked on high country sheep …
Type: Biography
… of the new Department of Health until his retirement in 1930, with the title of director general of health. During …
Type: Biography
… appointed to the Senate of the University of New Zealand in 1930, remained a member until its dissolution in 1961, and …
Type: Biography
… was a vocal anti-communist for the rest of his life. In the 1930s he served as secretary of the Wellington Woollen-mills …
Type: Biography
… his future lay in England. The poetry he wrote during the 1930s, which he described as his first ‘real’ poetry, is …
Type: Biography
… to King’s Preparatory School. At King’s College (1930–33), latterly as a boarder, his interest in natural …
Type: Biography
… communities for the Medical Research Council in the late 1930s. Other initiatives included banning the sale of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public health
… the emigration of her parents to New Zealand in the mid 1930s. In 1941 the Henderson family moved to Wellington. …
Type: Biography
… supporter of the New Zealand Labour Party from the early 1930s. He attended annual conferences and assisted its Māori …
Type: Biography
… in 1962 accepted a knighthood, which he had declined in the 1930s. He died at London on 19 September 1963, survived by …
Type: Biography
… with the writers Robert Graves and Laura Riding (who in 1930 were to publish No trouble , a book of his experimental …
Type: Biography
… successor to the sitting member, Māui Pōmare . In the early 1930s, under the influence of Te Puea and Apirana Ngata , he …
Type: Biography
… gave him the chance to sharpen his debating skills. In 1930 he won the public-speaking contest of the Wellington …
Type: Biography