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Depression-era cartoon advocating economic nationalism
Norman Thompson drives the 200,000th vehicle off the Petone assembly line in October 1973
Summary of what NZ was like in the 1970s, including our population, economy, popular culture, protest issues, politics and sporting achievements
After the initial enthusiasm of the 1870s, Julius Vogel’s reputation suffered in the 1880s when New Zealand’s economy slumped into a long depression that was triggered by an international banking crisis.
Julius Vogel wasn’t the first colonial politician to promise public works and immigration on the back of borrowed money. But the early 1870s offered better prospects for success.
In June 1870, Vogel unveiled the most ambitious public works and assisted-immigration programme in New Zealand’s history.
Three decades after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s two main islands were like two different countries.
In 1870, Colonial Treasurer Julius Vogel launched the most ambitious development programme in New Zealand’s history. The ‘Vogel era’ was a decisive moment in New Zealand’s 19th-century transformation from a Māori world to a Pākehā one.
Film showing a factory where Universal (Bren) gun carriers were made during the Second World War.
The bad old days: stowing frozen carcasses in one of the Port Caroline’s refrigerated holds. Even in such a gleaming new ship, it was cold, hard work and could be dangerous as well. The Port Caroline was constructed in 1968; this image is from 1971.
The Columbus New Zealand, the first all-container ship to visit New Zealand, at Beach Street Wharf, Port Chalmers
Containers changed everything. Railways ordered fleets of flat deck rolling stock and ‘daylighted’ tiny Victorian tunnels to get them through. Truckers bought heavy duty vehicles and new businesses sprung up to store, clean and repair containers. In warehouses and loading docks all around the country, heavy forklift trucks lifted boxes on and off vehicles.
Cartoon about conditions in New Zealand during the 1921-22 economic recession
A selection of the key events in New Zealand history from 1967
This 1969 cartoon by Eric Heath comments on the effect of the sudden drop in wool prices in the latter 1960s
Summary of what NZ was like in the 1960s, including our population, economy, popular culture, sporting achievements and technology
This diagram shows that muskets were most costly when they were most in demand

Diplomat, economist, public servant, writer

Even before his arrest, trial and acquittal on spy charges in the 1970s, most New Zealanders had heard of Dr W.B. Sutch. He was – as his defence counsel claimed when arguing for name suppression – a prominent citizen, known for his work as an economist, writer, public servant and diplomat.

New Zealand and Australia formally signed the Closer Economic Relations (CER) agreement, strengthening trade ties between the Tasman neighbours.
Premier: 8 Apr 1873 – 6 Jul 1875; 15 Feb1 Sep 1876
Age on becoming premier: 38
Electorate: Auckland City East

Although he spent just 18 years here, journalist, businessman and politician Julius (Sir Julius from 1874) Vogel dominated our politics. The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography describes our first Jewish premier as ‘vastly ambitious’ and ‘clever, impulsive, generous, strong-willed to the point of being domineering.’ Contemporaries might have been less polite.

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