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… and togs (swimming gear) became form-fitting. By the late 1930s men could bare their chests. After the Second World … beach became a place to show off a beautiful body. From the 1930s, beauty contests became a common part of Boxing Day or …
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Part of story: Beach culture
… in 1929, and junior teams were sent to Australia in the 1930s. Davis Cup New Zealand separated from Australia and … Ball problems Tennis balls were hard to come by during the 1930s economic depression and the Second World War. During …
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Part of story: Tennis
… The economic depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s saw existing voluntary organisations such as the Young … Some major charitable trusts were formed at the end of the 1930s. The McKenzie Trusts, fostered by successive …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… From 1870 to 1930, European settlement advanced into the Whanganui … frozen at works in Whanganui and shipped from the port. By 1930 other industries included railway workshops, woollen …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… government historians, were based there in the 1920s and 1930s. Centennial publications From the late 1930s major anniversaries and war commemorations inspired …
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Part of story: Public history
… 1 The Waikato River was one of the main sources, and in the 1930s over 95% of the whitebaiters on the river were Māori. … only began systematically recording the catch around 1930, and it is not clear whether this data indicated the …
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Part of story: Whitebait and whitebaiting
… running costs. Motorcycle registrations rose to 37,404 in 1930, but fell during the 1930s economic depression (18,362 in 1935) and Second World …
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Part of story: Motorcycles
… year. The number of vineyards leapt to 100 by 1932. The 1930s economic depression took its toll: there were no … restrictions Higher tariffs on imported wine from the mid-1930s boosted the market for the local product for a time, …
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Part of story: Wine
… be released onto the timber market in rotation. From the 1930s, forests in the North Island, south Westland and … its control of the industry. The economic depression of the 1930s spelled the end of many small logging and sawmilling …
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Part of story: Logging native forests
… net migration losses occurred in the late 1880s, the early 1930s, 1975–80, 1985–90, 1995–2000 and 2011–12. These were … result of relatively few people immigrating to New Zealand (1930s). The recent record gains reflect both fewer people …
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Part of story: Population change
… and sister (Patricia). Apart from two periods in the early 1930s spent in Sydney, she lived in Hawera for the rest of … elocution, gaining her LTCL in 1929 and qualifying in 1930 as a fellow of the Trinity College of Music, London. …
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… new forms of entertainment. Cities grew fast, so by the mid-1930s Wellington and Christchurch had more than 100,000 … in 1903, 16,000 people watched the action. In January 1930 more than 5,000 watched Stewie Dempster score New …
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Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… and international tours to Southland and Otago from the 1930s to the 1980s. Born in Nelson on 23 October 1908, Frank … Ursula Ward; there were no children of the marriage. In the 1930s Stapp began bringing shows, circuses and theatrical …
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… trucking industry did not have an easy start. In the 1930s legislation limited road transport to moving stock … by truck began in a small way in the 1920s and grew in the 1930s as trucks became more reliable, with bigger engines, …
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Part of story: Transport of animals
… bookplate collection at the Auckland Art Gallery in April 1930 provided the impetus for the founding of the New … Wiseman was secretary of its Auckland branch from November 1930 until June 1967. Hilda Wiseman designed over 100 …
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… could not draw pensions or family allowances until the 1930s, as they were officially classified as Asiatics. …
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Part of story: Middle Eastern peoples
… confiscated land, sacred sites or other treasures. By the 1930s a settlement sum had been agreed by the government …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Taranaki
… of world cartooning on London’s Evening Standard in the 1930s. Low was one among many cartoonists who have left New … the Auckland Sun , was launched in 1927. When it folded in 1930, ‘Min’ was immediately hired by the Herald and was to … Zealand’s second golden cartooning period, between the mid-1930s and 1949, showed him at his best as he attacked the …
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Part of story: Cartooning
… lecturer in anthropology at Otago University in 1919. In 1930 Henry Ferguson became lecturer in experimental … road accidents. Psychology and anthropology In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s researchers turned their attention to the … a combination of psychology and anthropology. In the 1930s Otago University students carried out a series of …
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Part of story: Social sciences
… areas. This system was used in Northland during the late 1930s, in the central North Island after the Second World … dropped by three stone. Nevertheless, during the early 1930s he worked on several mining projects in the South … was also involved with the Kerikeri hydroelectric scheme (1930–31), the Onekaka Iron and Steel Company’s …
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