Today in NZ history- 11/12/1907 - Parliamentary library escapes fire The country narrowly avoided a great library bonfire in 1907, when fire swept through Parliament Buildings in Wellington.
- 11/12/1931 - Statute of Westminster passed The British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster, confirming the complete autonomy of its six Dominions. Australia and New Zealand held back from adopting this status, but in 1947 New Zealand became the last of the Dominions to do so.
- 12/12/1961 - First Golden Kiwi drawTickets went on sale for New Zealand’s new national Golden Kiwi lottery. All 250,000 tickets sold with 24 hours, with the £12,000 top prize (equivalent to around $500,000 today) four times that offered in previous lotteries.
- 13/12/1642 - First recorded European sighting of New ZealandTowards noon the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted 'a large land, uplifted high', possibly the peaks of the Paparoa Range behind Punakaiki.
- 11/12/1907 - Parliamentary library escapes fire
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False pretences at Facebook?
According to Facebook, a friend of mine (who is also a Facebook ‘friend’) ‘likes’ Vodafone. This was an excuse for the company to place an ad in my Facebook news feed: My friend has never ‘liked’ Vodafone on Facebook. He … Continue reading
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