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- 1930 First NZ-made 'talkie' screened
- 1930 George Nepia plays last All Blacks test
- 1930 Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup
- 1931 Completion of first solo trans-Tasman flight
- 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake strikes
- 1931 First fatalities on a scheduled air service in NZ
- 1931 Coalition formed to combat Depression
- 1931 Statute of Westminster passed
- 1932 Death of Phar Lap
- 1932 Unemployed disturbances in Dunedin
- 1932 Unemployed riots rock Queen Street
- 1933 Lovelock smashes world mile record
- 1933 NZ's first woman MP elected
- 1933 First flight from North Cape to Bluff
- 1935 Lovelock wins ‘Mile of the century’
- 1935 First Labour government takes office
- 1936 Rātana and Labour seal alliance
- 1936 NZ National Party founded
- 1936 Colin 'Pinetree' Meads born
- 1936 Lovelock wins 1500-m gold at Berlin
- 1936 Jean Batten conquers UK-NZ route
- 1936 NZers march into besieged Madrid
- 1937 Avalanche kills two workers at the Homer tunnel
- 1937 NZ nurses detained on way to Spanish Civil War
- 1937 First state house opened in Miramar
- 1937 Parachuting Santa crashes in Auckland Domain
- 1938 First official airmail flight to San Francisco
- 1938 21 drown in Kopuawhara flash flood
- 1938 Electric trains come to Wellington
- 1938 Social Security Act passed
- 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 PM declares NZ's support for Britain
- 1939 NZ Centennial Exhibition opens
- 1939 Freyberg takes command of NZ Expeditionary Force
- 1939 Battle of the River Plate