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- 1930 First New Zealand-made 'talkie' screened
- 1930 George Nepia plays last All Blacks test
- 1930 Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup
- 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 Death of Phar Lap
- 1932 Unemployed disturbances in Dunedin
- 1932 Unemployed riot rocks Queen Street
- 1932 Long-distance walker Esther James reaches Bluff
- 1932 First issue of New Zealand Woman's Weekly
- 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 Rātana and Labour seal alliance
- 1936 National Party founded
- 1936 Colin 'Pinetree' Meads born
- 1936 Māui Pōmare memorial unveiled
- 1936 Lovelock wins 1500-m gold at Berlin
- 1936 Jean Batten reaches Auckland after epic solo flight
- 1936 New Zealanders march into besieged Madrid
- 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 First official airmail flight to San Francisco
- 1938 Kōpuawhara flood kills 21
- 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 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