Today in NZ history- 26/03/1896 - Brunner mine disaster kills 65At 9.30 a.m., an explosion tore through the Brunner mine in Westland’s Grey Valley. Two men sent underground to investigate were later found unconscious after inhaling black damp, a suffocating mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
- 27/03/1883 - The 'Sallies' come to New ZealandTwo English Salvation Army officers landed at Port Chalmers to set up a New Zealand branch of the Christian evangelical movement.
- 27/03/1984 - Trades' Hall bombingCaretaker and unionist Ernie Abbott was killed on 27 March 1984 when a bomb exploded inside Trades’ Hall on Wellington’s Vivian St.
- 28/03/1923 - Forest and Bird foundedThe New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society was formed at a meeting in Wellington called by a local conservation advocate, Captain Ernest ‘Val’ Sanderson.
- 26/03/1896 - Brunner mine disaster kills 65
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Have-nots paying for the haves
It was good to see Vodafone’s Matt Williams pointing out in the Dominion Post (10 September), that people who live in rural and small town New Zealand would be unfairly penalised by Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) pricing … Continue reading
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