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… parents were both from County Clare and had left Ireland in the wake of the agricultural depression of 1859–64. In Dunedin they belonged to a … in Otago, a French belt-driven machine that caused great excitement when it reached 25 miles per hour. After …
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… born in Karori, Wellington, New Zealand, on 27 April 1870, the son of Jessie Dykes and her husband, William Young, a … directors of the labour weekly the New Zealand Worker . The depression of the early 1920s hit the shipping industry … seaman called Fintan Patrick Walsh . Walsh's reputation was greatly enhanced by his supportive role in the British …
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… economist and public intellectual in New Zealand during the second half of the twentieth century. A refugee from … walls, at a time that Germany was in the throes of the great depression, mass unemployment and political polarisation. …
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… born at Karere, near Palmerston North, on 13 August 1906, the son of Mabel Annie Brooker and her husband, Fernly … a member of a ‘band of hope’ that met regularly during the depression years and that included Percy Martin-Smith, W. B. … honest, balanced accounts of the state of public education greatly assisted the commission, whose report, published in …
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… The behaviour of young people often attracts public … older generation’s values was stifled by the 1930s economic depression , the Second World War and post-war austerity, … brash. My parents did not have a teenage experience.’ 2 A great deal of 1960s popular culture came from the United …
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Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… in Comilla, India (now in Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901, the son of David Finlay and his wife, Emma Matilda Thomson, … in introducing the contract game, tutored during the depression years, and gave radio talks on the subject; he … of Cruelty to Animals. A dominant, confident man of great vitality, who pursued excellence in all he undertook, …
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… Housework In the 19th and early 20th centuries many New Zealand women did much of their own housework. Servants were hard to get, especially … cooking herself. Daughters were usually expected to do a great deal of housework. The 1901 census recorded that …
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Part of story: Unpaid domestic work
… Rīwai, or Kia, as she was more commonly known, was born in the Chatham Islands, on 21 November 1912, to Mere Ngautanga … many years on the board of governors of the college.) The depression denied her the opportunity to advance her … and shared a modest city flat with her mother and great-niece. She would toil most of the night baking goods …
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… shape who in a society is more likely to die by suicide, the method used, how such deaths are regarded, and how they … end of the 19th century and reached a peak just before the great depression, with an average of 18.5 suicides per 100,000 in …
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Part of story: Suicide
… The English choral tradition British settlers brought to New … in New Zealand and were especially popular during the 1930s depression. Traditional, patriotic, drinking and music hall … singing English part-songs and Mendelssohn chorales with great skill and accuracy. Some all-Māori choirs were to …
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Part of story: Choral music and choirs
… Stewart was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 29 July 1878, the fifth child of the lawyer and MHR William Downie Stewart … his colleagues considered necessary to alleviate the depression. It became increasingly clear that he was the odd … Plunket Society. Despite his legal training Stewart had no great love of the business world and he took only a cursory …
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… at Whatiwhatihoe, near Pirongia, on 9 November 1883. Her mother was Tiahuia, daughter of Tāwhiao Te Wherowhero of Ngāti … At this difficult time Te Puea's leadership was of great importance to Tainui. The revival of the Pai Mārire … seasonal wage-labour, and already feeling the impact of the depression. Ngata became native minister at the end of 1928, …
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… was born on 22 January 1896 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of Hannah Reese and her husband, Walter Joseph … Cresswell lived a penurious life in New Zealand during the depression, though he was not backward in seeking financial … he hoped, would eventually vindicate his claims to poetic greatness. But increasingly he was racked by ill health, the …
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… April 1905, but he later claimed he was born in 1908. His father, Peta Piripoi Nēpia, and mother, Riripeti (Peti) … in Napier in September 1921, where he was impressed by the great fullback Gerhard Morkel. That year he was selected for … Māori team to Australia. The financial strains of the depression were reflected in his decision to play rugby …
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… Rawlinson was born in Ha'apai, Tonga, on 1 October 1918, the daughter of Ethel Rose (Rosalie) Jennings and her … by readers enduring the unpleasant realities of economic depression. So popular was her poetry at this time that her … William (Bill) Edge, she had travelled extensively through Great Britain and Europe, and in the early 1960s with an …
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… born on 11 November 1923 in Wallaceville, Upper Hutt. Her mother, Gwladys Ilma Vile, was a state-registered nurse; her … A move to Dunedin enabled her to meet her maternal great-grandmother, Maria Mouat, but she did not discover her … saw her mother disparaging the unemployed during the 1930s depression. Now she became part of a left-wing group of …
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… have been born in Lisbon, Portugal, on 14 April 1812. His father, Lieutenant Colonel George Grey, had been killed eight … them by the landlords. Always thereafter he was opposed to great landed estates. He reached the conclusion that … one vote'. However, in 1878 the country ran into a severe depression, which led to much unemployment. The next year …
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… one of New Zealand’s most distinctive poetic voices from the 1950s to the 2000s. His work, which combined lyricism … with their grandmother in Dunedin. In the depths of the Depression the burden was too great for the elderly woman, who arranged for the children …
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… One of the great international aviators of the 1930s, Jean Gardner Batten was born on 15 September 1909 … always shielding her face under a wide-brimmed hat. Her depression lasted more than three years. At the end of 1969 …
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… born on 29 September 1912 at Ngāhina pā, near Rūātoki, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. His parents were Winiata Piahana … to attend university, he had to find paid work during the depression, and did not enrol at Auckland University College … patterns of authority in the twentieth century, from great tribal chiefs to younger, Pākehā-educated, Christian …
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