New grapevine plantings at Martinborough’s Devotus vineyard, just before dusk.
Today in NZ history- 06/10/1769 - Young Nick sights landShip’s boy Nicholas Young received a gallon of rum and had a headland named after him for being the first aboard HMS Endeavour to spot land in the south-west Pacific.
- 06/10/1769 - Young Nick sights landShip’s boy Nicholas Young received a gallon of rum and had a headland named after him for being the first aboard HMS Endeavour to spot land in the south-west Pacific.
- 07/10/1917 - German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in New ZealandFelix Graf von Luckner earned the epithet Der Seeteufel (the Sea Devil) for his exploits as captain of the German raider SMS Seeadler in 1916–17.
- 08/10/1941 - Stan Graham's killing spree on West CoastDairy farmer Stanley Graham killed seven people in Kōwhitirangi on the South Island’s West Coast.
- 06/10/1769 - Young Nick sights land
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