The Great Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand
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The 1929 stock market crash in New York triggered off the Great Depression. This set covers the economic, social and political impact it had on Aotearoa NZ in the 1930s, such as the rise in unemployment, protests, soup kitchens, relief camps, the new Labour government and the introduction of the Social Security Act in 1938. SCIS no. 5415403
Unemployment relief work during the Depression
Alexander Turnbull Library
The Longest Winter - Early Days (Episode One)
NZ On Screen
Crowd gathered on the steps of Parliament
Alexander Turnbull Library
No depression in New Zealand
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Rag Rug, with abstract design
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
New Zealand's forgotten depression: The Long Depression
Radio New Zealand
Long-distance walker Esther James reaches Bluff
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Social Security Act passed
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The Years Back - 3, The Thirties (Episode Three)
NZ On Screen
The Great Depression
Services to Schools
Great Depression
Services to Schools
Economic history: Inter-war years and the great depression
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The New Zealand Legion - The New Zealand Legion
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Coalition government formed to combat Depression
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Forbes, George William
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
10: Boom & Bust
Radio New Zealand
Stock Markets, U.S. Finance, and the Great Depression
Services to Schools
A penny restaurant
Services to Schools
Harvey’s Mineral Tonic for men with Depressionitis
Services to Schools
Unemployed camps
Services to Schools
Butter prices — a story in verse
Services to Schools
Discrimination against Māori citizens
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Lessons of the Sugarbag Years
Services to Schools
Examines the effectiveness and importance of the NUWN and NUU — two leading unemployment organisations during the early 1930s.
Isolation, Ideology and Impotence: Organizations for the Unemployed during the Great Depression, 1930-1935, by R. T. Robertson, p 149-164
The University of Auckland Library
Māori in the Depression
Services to Schools
The 'hidden depression' that never really went away
Services to Schools
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Services to Schools
The New Zealand Unemployed Workers Movement, 1931-1939: Gisborne and the Relief Workers' Strike, by Paul Harris, p 130-142
The University of Auckland Library
‘Waste not, want not’ philosophy of the Howick community
Services to Schools
Taxes: First Labour government taxes – 1935 to 1949
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The 1930s Depression
Services to Schools
Depression era money-saving tips
Services to Schools
Pūtiki during the Great Depression
Services to Schools
Starlight Hotel
NZ On Screen
Our People Our Century - Winning and Losing
NZ On Screen
[New Zealand Labour Party] :"This! - in God's own country!" Relief workers cheaper than horses! [1931].
Alexander Turnbull Library
A report from the Evening Post 1932 on the riot that followed the demonstration in the streets of Wellington.
SEQUEL TO BIG DEMONSTRATION (Evening Post, 11 May 1932)
National Library of New Zealand
