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George Nepia plays last All Blacks test
1930
Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup
1930
First New Zealand-made 'talkie' screened
1931
Bumpy landing for Tasman’s first solo flyer
1931
Deadly Hawke's Bay earthquake
1931
First fatal accident on a scheduled air service in New Zealand
1931
Coalition government formed to combat Depression
1931
Statute of Westminster enacted
1931
Floating dock breaks moorings in Wellington Harbour
1932
Long-distance walker Esther James reaches Bluff
1932
First issue of
New Zealand Woman's Weekly
1932
Unemployed riot rocks Queen Street
1932
Unemployed disturbances in Dunedin
1932
Death of Phar Lap
1933
Lovelock smashes world mile record
1933
New Zealand's first woman MP elected
1933
First flight from North Cape to Invercargill
1934
National Conference of Working Women Report approved
1935
Lovelock wins ‘Mile of the Century’
1935
Labour wins power
1936
Colin 'Pinetree' Meads born
1936
New Zealanders march into besieged Madrid
1936
Jean Batten reaches Auckland after epic solo flight
1936
Lovelock wins 1500-m gold at Berlin
1936
National Party founded
1936
Rātana and Labour seal alliance
1936
Māui Pōmare memorial unveiled
1937
Avalanche kills two workers at the Homer tunnel
1937
New Zealand nurses detained on way to Spanish Civil War
1937
First state house opened in Miramar
1937
Parachuting Santa crashes in Auckland
1938
Social Security Act passed
1938
Electric trains come to Wellington
1938
Kōpuawhara flood kills 21
1938
First official airmail flight to San Francisco
1939
Welfare plan gets baptism of fire
1939
First issue of
New Zealand Listener
published
1939
Death of Paddy the Wanderer
1939
Writer Robin Hyde dies in London
1939
New Zealand declares war on Germany
1939
Prime minister declares New Zealand’s support for Britain
1939
New Zealand Centennial Exhibition opens
1939
Freyberg given command of 2NZEF
1939
Battle of the River Plate
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