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… Post-war depression Immediately after the First World War New Zealand … a period of slow growth propped up by offshore borrowing. Great depression The great depression began internationally … Inter-war years and the great depression …
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Part of story: Economic history
… Economics and public affairs In the 1920s economists taught students, and also gave public … debate over unemployment. Overseas examples The 1930s depression brought economists further into public life. New … and dairy industry finance. Things must be bad In the great depression the willingness of the government to turn …
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Part of story: Economic thought
… The ‘Great Depression’ In October 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed after a decade of …
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Part of story: Spending in the economy
… Active government The British colonial government arrived in New Zealand … farmers to sell their produce overseas collectively. Depressions accelerated government involvement. The Liberal … reflecting the distrust of the market which the great depression engendered. The expansion of government …
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Part of story: Economic history
… Electoral surge in the 1930s By late 1930 the effects of the economic depression were being felt throughout the country. Labour … price for dairy products. The Social Security Act 1938 greatly expanded the scope of the welfare state, introducing …
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Part of story: Labour Party
… Ngāti Raukawa history is diverse and complex. The people experienced great change as they wrestled with such momentous events as the First World War and the depression of the 1930s. After the Second World War, people … The 20th century onwards …
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Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… Europeans found precious rocks and minerals on islands. In the 19th century both Kawau and Waiheke islands were mined … The project was abandoned in 1933 because of the economic depression, and the difficulty of working on an active … have been made to farm larger islands such as Waiheke and Great Barrier (Aotea) in the Hauraki Gulf, and Arapawa and …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… The teenage brain During the 1990s and early 21st century, … less likely to do this. Teenagers can be susceptible to depression. They are less able to interpret social … jobs, families and friends. Alcohol and drugs Teenagers are great experimenters – for instance, many try smoking …
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Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… A sedimentary basin is a depression in the earth’s crust into which sediments have … exploration in other basins: Northland, Canterbury, the Great South Basin, western Southland and Westland, but none …
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Part of story: Oil and gas
… Causes of death The leading cause of death for men in 2013 was heart … health problems, which are prevalent but rarely lethal. Depression is the leading cause of mental ill-health in New Zealand men; it is a greatly under-appreciated cause of disability. Mental …
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Part of story: Men’s health
… British dominance of trade From the 1850s until the end of the 1960s the majority of New … Ottawa Agreement, signed in 1932 during the depths of the great depression, continued access for New Zealand exports to …
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Part of story: Economic history
… War The most sustained boom in New Zealand’s economic history began with the recovery from the great depression in 1935, and very strong production during the … Great boom, 1935–1966 …
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Part of story: Economic history
… Urbanisation In the early 20th century Rangitāne turned to farming, … and some horticulture. But the economic downturn in the depression of the 1930s meant that small-time farmers were … in 1998. The 21st century By 2000, Rangitāne had achieved a great deal: they had survived migration from Hawaiki; built …
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Part of story: Rangitāne
… began to arrive in New Zealand in substantial numbers in the 1950s, had a health profile similar to that of Māori. … of death among Pacific Island women. They were affected at greater rates than that for all New Zealand women (but at … rate for Pacific Island men, at 771 per 100,000.) Postnatal depression Extended family played an important role in the …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… born on 2 March 1896 in Waikerikeri valley, Central Otago, the son of Mary Carter and her husband, Michael Joseph … Waitemata Brewery at Ōtāhuhu. In spite of the onset of the great depression, and the indignant opposition of both …
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… The Liberal era The watershed election of 1890 put the … New Zealand troops fought and died on the Western Front. Depression After some prosperous years in the later 1920s, the worldwide ‘ Great Depression ’ hit New Zealand hard. Export prices …
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Part of story: History
… At the beginning of the 20th century Wellington was known as … such as drainage, sewerage and water supply, as well as greatly increasing the size of Wellington. In 1921 the last … It employed over 700 people, many of them women. Economic depression, local revival Economic depression ended the …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… born in Gundry Street, Newton, Auckland, on 25 July 1898, the daughter of Irish immigrant parents Michael Joseph … Fund, which helped unemployed shop assistants during the depression of the 1930s. Purcell's role with the shop … the shop assistants' and related unions expanded rapidly, greatly adding to Purcell's workload. Membership of the …
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… Robert William Lane, better known as the international country music and variety performer Tex … family’s eye. Lane wanted to be an entertainer. During the depression he became an itinerant musician and swagger, … Montreal. By the early 1950s he was transformed into ‘The Great Morton’, setting box-office records in North America …
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… underground, it flows across and corrodes rocky outcrops on the surface. Outcrops form into sculptures of vertically … A karst landscape’s surface is often pocked with closed depressions, especially the bowl- or saucer-shaped hollows … after heavy rain, when the flow of incoming water is too great for the stream-sink to drain. In drier weather, it …
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Part of story: Limestone country