RELATED TO POLICE OFFICER AND SEARCH VOLUNTEERS AT TANGIWAI
Events
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26 July 1863
Floods kill 25 miners in Central Otago
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4 September 2010
Fox Glacier plane crash
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19 November 2010
Pike River mine explosion kills 29
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30 September 1878
Great Flood hits South Island
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7 March 1988
Cyclone Bola strikes
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24 September 1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident
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11 September 1880
Rail tragedy on the Rimutaka Incline
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31 August 1841
The wreck of the Sophia Pate
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4 August 1923
Ōtira rail tunnel opened
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20 June 1943
US Navy tragedy at Paekākāriki
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24 May 1968
Three die in Īnangahua earthquake
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20 May 1865
Loss of the City of Dunedin with all hands
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14 May 1866
Wreck of the General Grant
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4 May 1937
Avalanche kills two workers at the Homer tunnel
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29 April 1881
131 perish in worst civilian shipwreck in NZ waters
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15 April 2008
Mangatepopo canyoning disaster
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16 April 1912
News of Titanic sinking reaches NZ
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22 February 2011
Christchurch earthquake kills 185
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3 February 1868
Killer storm sweeps the country
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10 September 1914
Eruption on White Island kills 10 people
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12 September 1914
Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
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20 July 1892
Steam locomotive sets world speed record
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4 September 2010
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Canterbury
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3 November 1886
Manawatū rail link opened
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24 April 1941
Sinking of the Hellas
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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23 January 1951
Disastrous centennial yacht race begins
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19 December 1941
HMS Neptune lost in Mediterranean minefield
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15 December 1951
Belmont viaduct blown up
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28 November 2008
Air New Zealand A320 crashes in France
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23 July 1851
The Maria wrecked near Cape Terawhiti
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15 October 2007
'Anti-terror' raids in Urewera
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23 October 1948
Mt Ruapehu air crash kills 13
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8 May 1926
New Zealand Railways Magazine launched
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21 December 1971
Full steam ahead for Kingston Flyer
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25 October 1971
End of the line for steam railways
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15 August 1951
Troop ship Wahine wrecked en route to Korean War
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15 April 1885
First sod dug for North Island main trunk
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2 July 1938
Electric trains come to Wellington
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6 February 1947
Liner Wanganella refloated after 18 days on Barrett Reef
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5 February 1867
Opening of railway from Invercargill to Bluff
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26 January 1984
Floods devastate Southland
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3 July 1963
DC-3 crashes in Kaimai Range
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7 August 1908
First train runs length of main trunk line
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6 July 1923
Main trunk express train disaster
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25 August 1948
Killer twister hits Frankton
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29 October 1894
SS Wairarapa wrecked on Great Barrier Island
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29 July 1981
Police baton anti-tour protesters near Parliament
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23 November 1947
Civic funeral for 41 Ballantyne's fire victims
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28 December 1929
'Black Saturday' - NZ police open fire in Apia
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6 November 1908
Last spike for North Island main trunk line
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26 March 1896
Brunner mine disaster kills 65
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10 April 1968
Sinking of the Wahine
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10 June 1886
Eruption of Mt Tarawera
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28 November 1979
257 killed in Mt Erebus disaster
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7 May 1846
Devastating landslide at Lake Taupō
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4 June 1943
Rail tragedy at Hyde
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3 February 1931
Hawke's Bay earthquake strikes
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7 February 1863
Sinking of HMS Orpheus - NZ's worst shipwreck
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8 February 1931
First fatalities on a scheduled air service in NZ
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12 February 1909
SS Penguin wrecked in Cook Strait
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19 February 1938
21 drown in Kopuawhara flash flood
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19 January 1967
19 killed in Strongman Mine explosion at Rūnanga
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23 January 1855
Massive earthquake hits Wellington region
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18 November 1874
Cospatrick fire kills 470
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24 November 1959
Fifteen die in mysterious shipwreck
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24 December 1953
Tangiwai railway disaster
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21 February 1879
Kaitangata mining disaster
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