1880 First inter-city brass band contest
About 2500 people attended the first inter-city brass band competition in the Christchurch Drill Hall. The inaugural winners were the Invercargill Garrison Band. Read more...
17 April
This Week in History
12 September
1914
Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
13 September
1933
NZ's first woman MP elected
14 September
1938
Social Security Act passed
15 September
1969
First steel produced from local ironsand
16 September
1905
'Originals' kick off All Black tradition
17 September
1941
Death penalty abolished ... for the time being
18 September
1937
First state house opened in Miramar