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… Gordon was born at Timaru, New Zealand, on 20 July 1873, the daughter of Anna Eglington and her husband, George … with responsibility for poor and needy families. The depression years were to greatly increase this work and she organised a food bank. In …
Type: Biography
… The people who settled New Zealand came to a dramatic and … boundary between the plates lies off the East Coast along a depression, the Hikurangi Trough, at the edge of the … the West Coast. It then continues south-westward along the great Alpine Fault, and runs back out to sea near Milford …
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Part of story: Geology – overview
… Although the first shipment to Britain of frozen meat was in 1882 it … land. Smaller farms were less self-sufficient than the great sheep stations, and rural servicing towns flourished. … Liberal boom The North Atlantic economies moved out of depression in the mid-1890s. Refrigerated exports became …
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Part of story: Economic history
… Beginnings of the trade The first shipment of frozen meat was sent from … history, and for sheep farming. At first, an international depression kept prices low, and the trade was not … was elected in 1890 with a policy of ‘bursting up’ the great estates (dividing them into smaller farms). In the …
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Part of story: Sheep farming
… Lake Taupō, the largest lake in New Zealand, owes its existence and … about 26,500 years ago, formed the 30-kilometre wide depression at the northern end of Lake Taupō. Since then there have been 28 separate eruptions, ranging greatly in size. The latest (Taupō) eruption occurred about …
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Part of story: Volcanoes
… Resources Like the first Polynesian settlers, 19th-century Europeans … became more marginal, especially in the long economic depression in the 1870s and 1880s, when many went elsewhere. … after the collapse in the terms of trade during the great depression of the early 1930s. ‘The slump’, as it was …
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Part of story: Economy
… Threats to department stores The 1930s economic depression and the rise of chain and speciality stores … and intimate coffee bars that opened in cities. The great tearooms gradually emptied. Many stores leased or …
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Part of story: Department stores and shopping malls
… At its peak in the mid-Victorian age, the British Empire was a legacy of … centuries of maritime and colonial activities around two great trading networks focused on the West Indies (which at … the Empire – was maintained for decades. The 1930s economic depression prompted the British to abandon free trade. At an …
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Part of story: Empire and Commonwealth
… born in Wellington, Somerset, England, on 23 November 1892, the son of a master baker, Herbert John Adams, and his wife, … developed into a staff superannuation scheme. During the depression, when many companies were retrenching staff, he … and the people who worked in it, until his death. He took great pleasure in witnessing the repurchase of Adams Bruce …
Type: Biography
… of New Zealand’s early colonial settlements were built on the coast. European settlers, like Māori before them, relied … (1925) and Bay of Plenty (1928) lines. The economic depression of the early 1930s prompted the first significant … deviations and improvements elsewhere), New Zealand’s great rail-building days were over. Waves of branch-line …
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Part of story: Railways
… Ronald Alan Candy was born in Wanganui on 25 August 1903, the second child of Hubert Edward Candy, a farmer of Manaia, … on William Nicholson’s dairy farm at Springdale in Waikato. The following year he moved to a farm his father had bought … leading figures in the dairy industry during a period of great progress and change and of major problems in the …
Type: Biography
… North Otago, New Zealand, one of six children of Dorathea Mee and her husband, Angus Ross. Her father came from … the girls of today to realise their own importance in the great scheme of things, and to begin to equip themselves … of her salary she helped her brothers on a poor farm, in depression years, with mortgage payments and the purchase of …
Type: Biography
… Gloster Sullivan was born in Auckland on 30 March 1910, the son of Dennis Sullivan, a stationer, and his wife, Ellen … St Columba Church, Grey Lynn. Faced by the demands of the depression, he responded with compassion and protest; the … a service attended by the cast of the musical Hair , he had great respect for the traditions and history of the …
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… were built in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in the 1920s. Comprising both grass and hard courts, they were … games. Symbolism of tennis Politician Apirana Ngata saw great leadership qualities and hope for the future in Māori … Tennis balls were hard to come by during the 1930s economic depression and the Second World War. During the war, …
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Part of story: Tennis
… Depletion of resources The process of extracting geothermal fluids (which include … Geyser Valley, one of the first features to vanish was the great Wairākei geyser, which used to play to a height of 42 … (H 2 S). Both are denser than air and can collect in pits, depressions or confined spaces. These gases are a recognised …
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Part of story: Geothermal energy
… Hay was born on 17 June 1903 at Collie, Western Australia, the daughter of Emma Jane Langridge and her husband, William … to become a specialist teacher, but retrenchment during the depression meant she had to return to classroom teaching. … of her church congregation, Jean Hay was remembered with great fondness. She was outgoing, cheerful and capable. The …
Type: Biography
… was born at Edendale, Southland, on 12 January 1890, the second of seven children of Catherine Kavanagh and her … in Wellington. When the Niederers lost their farm in the depression, Otto became a paid area organiser for the NZFU … in 1943. Although co-operative retail trading succeeded greatly in Palmerston North, elsewhere in New Zealand it …
Type: Biography
… Forming the landscape Immense changes which have occurred in the … from the mountains to lowland areas, and dumping it in great ridges, called moraines, along the flanks and front … maximum around 18,000 years ago. As ice has retreated, the depressions behind some of these moraines have filled with …
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Part of story: Geology – overview
… and peat substrates. Channels of water are common, and the water table is often above the ground in places. Swamps … dips or hollows that lack a surface outlet, in areas with great variation in seasonal rainfall and evaporation. … central North Island, with turf and sedgeland) kettle-hole depressions on old glacial moraine (Glenmore, Lake Tekapo, …
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Part of story: Wetlands
… During the First World War strict emergency regulations banned … conditions. Rising unemployment during the 1930s economic depression meant there were plenty of people to take the … first Federation had disappeared after the disastrous 1913 Great Strike. Hotbeds of rebellion For staff at Auckland …
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Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes