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19 February
1938 21 drown in Kopuawhara flash flood
A sudden cloudburst sent a 5-m wall of water surging through a railway construction camp at Kopuawhara, near Mahia, drowning 21 people. more...
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External links
- Kopuawhara flood (Chch city libraries)
- The Kopuawhara flash flood, 1938 (Te Ara)
- Hawke's Bay Floods (1966 encyclopaedia)
1883 Release of Parihaka leaders Te Whiti and Tohu
Parihaka had become the symbol of opposition to the government policy of land confiscation in the aftermath of the New Zealand Wars. Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi were imprisoned without trial after the military occupation of the south Taranaki community in November 1881. more...
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- Pacifist of Parihaka (Puke Ariki)
- Tohu Kakahi of Parihaka (Puke Ariki)
- Te Whiti (1966 encyclopaedia)
- Taranaki resistance (Te Ara)
- Te Whiti biography (DNZB)
- Tohu Kakahi biography (DNZB)
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