Today in NZ history- 06/02/1840 - Treaty of Waitangi signedMore than 40 Māori chiefs signed a treaty with the British Crown in the Bay of Islands. The Treaty of Waitangi remains controversial.
- 06/02/1871 - First public girls' secondary schoolThe first public girls’ secondary school in the southern hemisphere was Otago Girls’ High School, which opened eight years after the local public boys’ high school.
- 06/02/1947 - Liner Wanganella refloated in Wellington HarbourThe liner, carrying 400 passengers, struck Barrett Reef in Wellington Harbour on 19 January. Only an unusually long spell of calm weather - dubbed 'Wanganella weather' by locals - saved it from becoming a total wreck.
- 07/02/1963 - Fifteen die in Northland bus tragedyFifteen people were killed and 21 injured, many severely, when a bus returning to Auckland from Waitangi Day celebrations in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip lost its brakes on Brynderwyn hill
- 06/02/1840 - Treaty of Waitangi signed
Monthly Archives: January 2018
How dare they mock him? (How could they not?)
Today’s World Wide Web is full of reaction to Donald Trump’s pronouncement that he’s a “very stable genius”. You might wonder at a man who is so unaware that he can’t understand that such a twitterclaim would dump him straight … Continue reading
Martinborough Musings 