Events In History
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7 January 1931Completion of first solo trans-Tasman flightAustralian Guy Menzies' flight from Sydney ended when he crash-landed his Avro Avian biplane in a swamp at Harihari on the West Coast. Read more...
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11 September 1928First trans-Tasman flightAustralians Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, in their Southern Cross monoplane, landed at Wigram, Christchurch, 14 hours 25 minutes after leaving Sydney. More than 30,000 people gathered to greet them. Read more...
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10 January 1928Pioneer aviators vanish over the TasmanGeorge Hood and John Moncrieff made a gallant but poorly organised attempt to make the first flight across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand. Read more...
Articles
Regional rugby
The passion and parochialism of provincial rugby has helped give the game a special place in New Zealand’s social and sporting history. Read brief histories, highlights and quirky facts about each of New Zealand's 26 regional rugby teams.
- Page 22 - Tasman rugbyHistory and highlights of rugby in the Tasman
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Tasman is a locality among apple orchards on the shores of Moutere Inlet. Small stones are laid out on the inlet’s mudflats at low tide, forming ever-changing names, messages and pictures. Nearby Kina is a small beach settlement on Tasman Bay.
