The Blackball Workingmen's Club in 2008.
More than 50 years after its formation, the Blackball WMC acts as a de facto community centre, and in 2008 it hosted meetings to celebrate the centenary of the 1908 Blackball Miners Strike. Note that the title still includes MSA – Mutual Society of Arts – although the reason for this has long since been forgotten.
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1947 Greymouth beer boycott
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Events
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5 May 1898
Dog Tax War narrowly averted
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5 November 1913
Battle of Featherston Street
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10 April 1973
Labour government cancels Springbok rugby tour
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14 November 1973
DPB legislation introduced
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30 October 1918
Massive prohibition petition presented to Parliament
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7 December 1963
Bassett Road machine-gun murders
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25 July 1981
Anti-Springbok protesters prevent Hamilton match
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29 July 1981
Police baton anti-tour protesters near Parliament
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2 August 1983
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9 September 1976
Wanganui Computer legislation enacted
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12 September 1981
'Flour-bomb test' ends Springbok tour
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24 October 1913
Violence flares on Wellington wharves
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28 December 1929
'Black Saturday' - NZ police open fire in Apia
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2 December 1917
'Six o'clock swill' begins
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9 October 1967
The end of the 'six o'clock swill'
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15 January 1970
Anti-Vietnam War protesters greet US Vice President
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25 May 1978
Bastion Point protesters evicted
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12 May 1971
Anti-Vietnam War protests in Queen Street, Auckland
Biographies
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John A Lee
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Fred Evans
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Samuel Parnell
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Whina Cooper
Articles
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The 1913 Great Strike
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Temperance movement
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1947 Greymouth beer boycott
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Homosexual law reform
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The 1951 waterfront dispute
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Nuclear-free New Zealand
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1981 Springbok tour
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The 1912 Waihi strike
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Wellington cafe culture
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Food in the 20th century
Community contributions