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… The original staff for the new Department was largely drawn … school was strong enough to survive the economic rigours of the depression years. Recruitment in general into the newly … formed Service almost ceased in those years in spite of a great expansion of work. It was not until after the Second …
… The achievement of these writers, and of some of their … of verse yet published in New Zealand. It contains work of great seriousness (relieved only by the humour and satire of … mood of the country: the early 1930s saw prolonged depression, the later 1930s a drift to war – insecurity was …
… The geology of Wellington is complex, and that of the … is a continuation of the Hutt Valley and is a fault angle depression in the downthrown eastern side of the Wellington … M.SC., New Zealand Geological Survey, Lower Hutt. The Great Harbour of Tara , Adkin, G. L. (1959). …
… nearest neighbour, has at times been substantial. Many of the early settlers were from Australia, and the regular flow … only Australians – that is, persons born in Australia. A great many of the arrivals from Australia, particularly in …
… The 1890s marked the beginning of a recovery for New Zealand and this was … level which lasted through to the fall associated with the great depression. Export prices began to rise in 1936 …
… Nelson comprises rocks more varied in type than in any other New Zealand land district: in age they represent every … Silurian and the Carboniferous. Nelson's rocks include a great diversity of minerals of scientific and possibly, of …
… Ruapehu, the beautiful maid, was married to Taranaki. One day, while … extremity of the North Island, where he rested. There his great weight made the shallow depression which afterwards filled with water and became Te …
… Over the same period, economic uncertainty and disaster hit the … bad came to worse, could at least feed their families; in the depression of the early thirties many townsmen could not do …
… While the development of the North Island was slowed by fighting, … Central Otago, to the Dunstan mountains and the area of the great lakes. Miners from Australia, where the goldfields … at a time when Otago and Canterbury were suffering from depression. But the overall pattern of development was …
… In 1882 the Shaw, Savill Co. and the Albion Lines amalgamated to … establish direct steamship services between New Zealand and Great Britain. Pending the building of specially designed … calls at coaling ports along the way. Despite the world depression, New Zealand's refrigerated cargo trade expanded …