New grapevine plantings at Martinborough’s Devotus vineyard, just before dusk.
Today in NZ history- 28/02/1945 - Kiwi soldier faces firing squadAfter more than a year on the run in northern Italy, New Zealand prisoner of war David Russell was recaptured and executed. His courage in the face of death earned him the first George Cross awarded to a member of New Zealand’s military.
- 29/02/1964 - Opening of first road to Maungapōhatu A milling road provided the first vehicle access to the tiny Urewera settlement of Maungapōhatu – famous as the former home of the prophet Rua Kēnana
- 29/02/1924 - Intelligence tests arrive in New Zealand schoolsFollowing a US study tour by Frank Milner, the rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School, the Education Department began applying the Terman Group Test of Mental Ability to all first-year post-primary school students
- 29/02/2004 - The return of the king wins 11 Oscars Peter Jackson’s last film in the colossal Lord of the rings trilogy, The return of the king, won all 11 Oscars it was nominated for at the 76th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
- 28/02/1945 - Kiwi soldier faces firing squad
