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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 ...
New Zealand's first ever Test matches, a home series of four three-day games against England.Series won 1–0 by England 10,11,13 January Lancaster Park, Christchurch.New Zealand (112 and 131) lost by eight Wickets to England (181 and 66/2).
3 February – The Hawkes Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst, kills 256 people, mainly in Napier and Hastings; 8 February – A Desoutter aircraft of Dominion Airline crashed near Wairoa, killing all three people aboard. This is the first fatality on a scheduled air service in New Zealand. [6]
New Zealand portal Architecture portal This category is for railway stations in New Zealand closed in the decade 1930s , i.e. in the years 1930 to 1939 .
The 24th New Zealand Parliament continued with the coalition of the United Party and the Reform Party. In November the 1935 New Zealand general election resulted in a massive win for the opposition Labour Party. Speaker of the House – Charles Statham; Prime Minister – George Forbes then Michael Joseph Savage
This category is for organizations, places, companies or other things that ended or were disestablished in the 1930s in New Zealand. 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s;
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag. The moment reminds his father of Patrick’s graduation from college, and he takes a picture of his son with his cell phone.
6 February: Treaty house and grounds at Waitangi dedicated as a national reserve. 5 March: A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Pahiatua, Manawatu-Wanganui, at 11.46pm. 28 June: Third session of the 24th Parliament commences.