Today in NZ history- 30/03/1940 - Funeral procession for Prime Minister SavageNew Zealand’s first Labour prime minister, Michael Joseph Savage, died in office on 27 March 1940. His body lay in state at Parliament for two days before his funeral cortège, which was more than 1.6 km long, set off for the railway station at 9 a.m. on 30 March.
- 30/03/2004 - Historian Michael King diesHistorian Michael King (aged 58) and his wife Maria Jungowska died in a car accident in south Waikato. King’s Penguin history of New Zealand became the most popular book of the year, and was the Readers’ Choice at the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
- 31/03/1864 - Rewi's last stand?The last battle of the Waikato War began when the spearhead of a strong British force charged an apparently weak Māori position at Ōrākau, south-east of Te Awamutu. After two frontal assaults failed, the British besieged the pā.
- 31/03/1910 - Hocken Library opened at Otago MuseumThomas Hocken’s priceless legacy of historical material is the most important collection outside Crown ownership in New Zealand.
- 30/03/1940 - Funeral procession for Prime Minister Savage
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