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In New Zealand in the 1930s, farmers reportedly had trouble with exploding trousers as a result of attempts to control ragwort, an agricultural weed. [1] Farmers had been spraying sodium chlorate, a government recommended weedkiller, onto the ragwort, and some of the spray had ended up on their clothes. Sodium chlorate is a strong oxidizing ...
In New Zealand, glyphosate is an approved herbicide for killing weeds, [6] with the most popular brand being Roundup. [6] [7] Genetically modified crops designed to resist glyphosate are absent in New Zealand. [6] Crops applied with glyphosate must be regulated under the HSNO Act 1996 and ACVM Act 1997.
1930s in New Zealand by city (4 C) / 1930s disestablishments in New Zealand (8 C) 1930s establishments in New Zealand (11 C, 1 P) 0–9. 1930 in New Zealand (3 C, 5 P)
He was New Zealand's first Test captain, and led the team in their first seven Test matches between January 1930 and August 1931. He played first-class cricket from 1918 to 1937. [ 1 ] He was a farmer and racehorse breeder in Hawke's Bay , who served as president of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association from 1951 to 1965.
On the Friendly Road is a 1936 film from New Zealand which told a story of New Zealand in the Depression. [1] [2] It was made in and around Auckland, using local actors and locally-made cameras. [3] It is one of four films made in 1935 (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and Hei Tiki ) which lay
Commander Gordon Bridson, DSO, DSC (2 December 1909 – 6 December 1972) was a New Zealand swimmer who won two silver medals at the 1930 British Empire Games.He was also in the New Zealand Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and in the Second World War, he served in the Royal New Zealand Navy.
James Stevens Fraser Shepherd (29 February 1892 – 11 July 1970) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago from the 1912–13 season to 1930–31. He played five times for New Zealand in the days before New Zealand played Test cricket. [1] Shepherd was born at Reefton in the Buller District of New Zealand's West ...
Frederick Theodore Badcock (9 August 1897 – 19 September 1982) was a New Zealand first-class and Test cricketer. Perhaps the best all-rounder in New Zealand in the inter-war period, he played seven Test matches for New Zealand between 1930 and 1933, including New Zealand's inaugural Test in 1930. He was the first players capped by New Zealand.