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Item A preliminary investigation of the Pohangina Valley river terraces : a dissertation ... for the degree of B.A. (Hons.) in Geography at Massey University(Massey University, 1976) Challands, Keith In/aItem Unrealised plans : the New Zealand Company in the Manawatu, 1841-1844 : a research exercise presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Diploma in Social Sciences in History at Massey University(Massey University, 1988) Krivan, MarkThe New Zealand Company was formed in August 1839 following the amalgamation of two earlier colonising bodies. The Company was the instrument with which Edward Gibbon Wakefield hoped to give practical expression to his theories of colonisation, and it was representative of a Victorian trend toward colonisation by which the British ' ••• commercial classes and many of the British Ministers (worked) toward the expansion of British trade and shipping in the Far East.•1 Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theories of systematic colonisation and the activities of the New Zealand Company in New Zealand have been well documented and described in the literature.2 This essay is in the form of a regional case study, as it examines the Company's plans to open up the Manawatu and Horowhenua districts for European settlement by purchasing a vast tract of land from one Maori tribe with rights of landownership. [From Introduction]Item Saving the children in New Zealand : a study of social attitudes towards larrikinism in the later nineteenth century: A research exercise presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History at Massey University.(Massey University, 1975) Gregory, Penelope AnnA concern for the wayward nature of the younger generation would seem to have been a fairly constant theme in the history of society. This research exercise explores the attitudes of articulate New Zealanders towards the problem as it appeared to them in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [From Preface]Item Essentially a woman's question : a study of maternity services in Palmerston North, 1915-1945 : a research exercise presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Batchelor [i.e. Bachelor] of Arts with Honours in History at Massey University(Massey University, 1987) Smith, GaynorItem A fragment of a better order? : the Manawatu Co-operative Society Ltd, 1935-1939 : a research exercise presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History at Massey University(Massey University, 1995) Morgan, Karen JThe world experienced the 1930s as a time of economic depression, with increasing political unease about the situation in Germany, and wars in Spain and China. The economic depression triggered by the collapse of Wall Street in October 1929 was felt in New Zealand from 1930. Unemployment rose, wages and farm prices fell, and New Zealand saw an increase in relief work and soup kitchens. In 1932 there were riots in the main cities. A coalition of the United and Reform parties won the 1931 election, but voters found the government was unable to improve conditions materially. The first Labour Government won power in November 1935, and although New Zealanders saw good times ahead, the economy did not fully recover from the slump until demand for the country's products improved with the Second World War. Although New Zealanders are generally proud to be individualists, experiences of the 1930s encouraged many to work together to mitigate the prevailing conditions. Women's unemployment relief committees were established up to help women without family or government assistance, by providing food and training in domestic skills. Churches became increasingly involved in economic and social problems, and previously evangelical city missions assumed a welfare role. Similarly, the State's place in the domestic economy changed from the late 1920s. The Government made housing loans available, eased mortgage payments and increasingly provided work schemes and benefits for unemployed men. Labour's election in 1935 led to previous government welfare initiatives being consolidated in the 'welfare state', and compulsory unionism was introduced. There was a general rise in collectivism in society at this time, and within this, the model of international cooperation, and especially British consumers' co-operation, attracted attention in New Zealand. [From Introduction]
