New grapevine plantings at Martinborough’s Devotus vineyard, just before dusk.
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Today in NZ history- 17/11/1925 - New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens Governor-General Sir Charles Fergusson opened Dunedin’s New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in November 1925.
- 18/11/1874 - Cospatrick fire kills 470En route to Auckland laden with immigrants, the Cospatrick caught fire off the Cape of Good Hope. The tragedy has been described as New Zealand's worst civil disaster.
- 18/11/1947 - 41 die in Ballantyne's fireThe fire in Christchurch’s prestigious department store was one of the worst in New Zealand’s history.
- 19/11/2010 - Pike River mine explosion kills 29The mine exploded at 3.45 p.m. on Friday 19 November 2010. Twenty-nine of the 31 men underground died immediately or shortly afterwards from the blast or because of the toxic atmosphere this generated.
- 17/11/1925 - New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens
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