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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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Fifteen die in mysterious shipwreck

1959 Fifteen die in mysterious shipwreck

All hands were lost when the modern coastal freighter Holmglen foundered off the South Canterbury coast. The cause of the tragedy was never established more...

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New Zealand disasters timeline1959 - key events

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  • 20th-century shipwrecks (Te Ara)
  • Holmglen disaster (1966 encyclopaedia)
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