RELATED TO BRITISH IMMIGRANT CHILDREN ON THE RANGITATA
Events
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2 May 1868
First shipment of salmon and trout ova arrives
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17 August 1942
Attack on the Nino Bixio
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20 May 1865
Loss of the City of Dunedin with all hands
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29 April 1881
131 perish in worst civilian shipwreck in NZ waters
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16 April 1912
News of Titanic sinking reaches NZ
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3 February 1868
Killer storm sweeps the country
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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27 November 1940
Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
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15 August 1951
Troop ship Wahine wrecked en route to Korean War
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15 September 1976
Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
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20 September 1954
Mazengarb report released
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25 October 1949
Foundation of IHC
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11 August 1962
Picton ferry Aramoana enters service
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5 July 1881
Poll tax imposed on Chinese
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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6 September 1948
New Zealand citizenship established
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12 August 1895
Baby-farmer Minnie Dean hanged
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15 December 1944
Poll tax on Chinese immigrants abolished
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18 November 1874
Cospatrick fire kills 470
Articles
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Schools and the First World War
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The Vogel era
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HMNZS Leander
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Royal NZ Navy's Bird-class ships
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Container shipping
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Merchant marine
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Pencarrow Lighthouse
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Baby farmers
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Oamaru Harbour
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Wahine disaster
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New Zealand disasters timeline
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Children and adolescents, 1930-1960
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Assisted immigration, 1947-75
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British & Irish immigration, 1840-1914
Community contributions