Today in NZ history- 01/07/1988 - Bastion Point land returnedThe government announced that it had agreed to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that Takaparawhā (Bastion Point) on the southern shore of Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour be returned to local iwi Ngāti Whātua.
- 01/07/1978 - Beatrice Tinsley made professor of astronomy at YaleTinsley became the first woman to be appointed as Professor of Astronomy at Yale University in the United States
- 02/07/1938 - Electric trains come to WellingtonOn 2 July 1938, Minister of Railways Dan Sullivan and Wellington Mayor Thomas Hislop officially opened the electrified rail line between central Wellington and the northern suburb of Johnsonville.
- 03/07/1963 - DC-3 crashes in Kaimai RangeThe 1963 crash of a National Airways Corporation DC3, with the loss of all 23 people on board, remains the worst air accident within New Zealand.
- 01/07/1988 - Bastion Point land returned
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For the past few months I’ve been a voluntary coach at a New Zealand programme called Digital Seniors, which is being piloted here in Wairarapa. Most of our advice and tweaking during the clinics we hold in the region’s towns … Continue reading
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