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Godfrey Bowen

Bowen helped establish sheep shearing as a legitimate sport and a form of entertainment. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

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12 September

1981 'Flour-bomb test' ends Springbok tour

The third and deciding test at Eden Park, Auckland, is perhaps best remembered for the flares and flour bombs dropped onto the pitch from a light plane. Outside the ground, violence erupted on an unprecedented scale. more...

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Tour diary - 1981 Springbok tour Eden Park - from swamp to sports ground

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1981 Springbok tour (Factbites)
Anti-Apartheid protestors, Hamilton (Te Ara)
Protestors and rugby fans conflict (Te Ara)

1914 Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly

At 7.20 am an explosion at Ralph's mine on Raynor Road rocked Huntly. It was caused by a miner's naked acetylene cap-lamp igniting firedamp (methane gas given off by coal) more...