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1971, Anti-Vietnam War protests in Auckland
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25 September
1819
New Zealand's first grapevines planted?
Missionary Samuel Marsden planted a vineyard on the site of a new Church Missionary Society station at Kerikeri.
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1951
Māori Women's Welfare League established
Eighty-seven delegates attended the first day of the inaugural conference of the Māori Women’s Welfare League in Wellington. Dame Whina Cooper was appointed as president.
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This Week in History
6 May
1869
Colonial troops invade the Urewera
7 May
1846
Devastating landslide at Lake Taupō
8 May
1926
New Zealand Railways Magazine
launched
9 May
1907
First
School Journal
published
10 May
1897
NZ's first woman barrister and solicitor appointed
11 May
1945
Charles Upham presented with first Victoria Cross
12 May
1971
Anti-Vietnam War protests in Auckland