It was opening night for The prime of Miss Jean Brodie in Christchurch’s Provincial Council buildings.
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Events In History
1 June 1960
Broadcast from Shortland St in central Auckland, New Zealand’s first official television transmission began at 7.30 p.m.
29 September 1862
Dunedin's Royal Princess Theatre was the venue for a performance of Donizetti's Daughter of the regiment by the visiting English Opera Troupe, supplemented by local performers.
1 March 1862
The British-born tenor Charles Thatcher gave his first New Zealand performance at Shadrach Jones's Commercial Hotel in Dunedin.
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Oswald Cheesman was a pioneer of music radio broadcasting who directed the Kiwi Concert Party in the Second World War before helping to establish New Zealand's first national orchestra.
