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    Godfrey Bowen

    Bowen helped establish sheep shearing as a legitimate sport and a form of entertainment. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

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New Zealand Company surveyors arrive in Port Nicholson

1840 New Zealand Company surveyors arrive in Port Nicholson

Surveyors arrived in Port Nicholson to lay out plans for the proposed New Zealand Company settlement of Britannia at Pito-one (Petone). This site would prove unsuitable, prompting a move across the harbour to the present-day site of Wellington. more...

Internal links

British and Irish immigration 1840-1914The Port Nicholson purchase

External links

  • Wakefield and the NZ Company (Chch City Libraries)
  • E.G.Wakefield biography (DNZB)
  • Plan of Wellington, 1840 (Te Ara)
  • Te Ati Awa (Te Ara)
First NZ-made 'talkie' screened

1930 First NZ-made 'talkie' screened

Coubray-tone News, the work of the inventive Ted Coubray, had its first public screening at Auckland’s Plaza Theatre. more...

External links

  • Ted Coubray biography (DNZB)
  • Tracking Shots (NZ Film Archive)
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