Events In History
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8 September 1906New Zealand's first fatal car accidentJanet Meikle became the first person in New Zealand to be killed in an accident caused directly by a car when her 8-hp De Dion Bouton went over a bank on the family farm. Read more...
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15 May 1901Early motoring offenceNicholas Oates appeared in the Christchurch Magistrate's Court charged with driving ‘a motor car within the city at a speed greater than four miles an hour’ on Lincoln Road, Christchurch. Read more...
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Until the late 1960s New Zealand's governors-general were British, mainly minor aristocrats, or admirals or generals.
- Page 7 - The governor-general on the moveHow the governors-general moved about the
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