Events In History
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2 May 1964NZ's last electric tram tripTram no. 252, displaying the message ‘end of the line’, travelled from Thorndon to Newtown zoo, bringing to an end the use of electric trams in New Zealand. Read more...
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2 February 1939Welfare plan gets baptism of fireA massive fire destroyed the nearly completed three-storey Social Security building. Just seven weeks later a replacement building was opened by prime minister Michael Joseph Savage Read more...
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26 February 1844'Pistols at dawn': deadly duel in WellingtonWellington lawyers William Brewer and H. Ross drew pistols over a legal dispute. Brewer fired into the air but was shot in the groin and died a week later. Read more...
Articles
Housing the Prime Minister
Almost 150 years after the government purchased the first official premier's residence on Tinakori Road, Wellington, the address of Premier House remains the same. But in the intervening years the building has been extended, renamed, abandoned and refurbished.
- Page 3 - Unofficial prime ministerial housesFrom 1935 to 1975 our prime ministers lived in a series of 'unofficial'
