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27 April
1893 Death of Premier John Ballance
Ballance was the first Liberal Premier. He laid the foundation for a government that supposedly made New Zealand ‘the social laboratory of the world’. more...
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External links
- John Ballance biography (DNZB)
- John Ballance (1966 encyclopaedia)
1806 Moehanga becomes first Māori to visit England
On 27 April Moehanga (Ngāpuhi) became the first recorded Māori visitor to England when the Ferret berthed in London.
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- Maori overseas - 18th-and 19th-century travellers (Te Ara)
- Maori and the Royal Family (Te Ara)
- Moko; or Maori Tattooing: Mokoed Europeans and Mokoed Visitors to Europe (NZETC)
- Some account of New Zealand (ENZB)
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