I took my camera to our office roof to shoot some weird clouds. They looked best reflected on a nearby building.
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Today in NZ history- 22/09/1906 - Domestic workers call for 68-hour weekAt a meeting in Wellington, Marianne Tasker and supporters established a domestic workers’ union, hoping to use the Liberal government’s Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act to force employers to improve pay and conditions. Central to their demands was a 68-hour working week.
- 22/09/1931 - Coalition government formed to combat DepressionUnited Party Prime Minister George Forbes had convened an inter-party conference with the goal of forming a coalition government that would ‘share the responsibility’ of dealing with the Depression.
- 23/09/1887 - Tongariro mountains gifted to CrownIn February 1887 newspapers reported Ngāti Tūwharetoa’s proposal to gift the British Crown the mountaintops of Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu to form the basis of a national park.
- 24/09/1905 - Race killing in Wellington's Haining StThe murder of Joe Kum Yung in Wellington’s Haining St highlighted the hatred some felt towards New Zealand’s small Chinese community. His killer, Lionel Terry, committed the brutal act to promote his crusade to rid New Zealand of the so-called ‘yellow peril’.
- 22/09/1906 - Domestic workers call for 68-hour week
That’s an excellent photograph.
That is a very good picture. That should be in a book.