25 September

1951 Māori Women's Welfare League established

Eighty-seven delegates attended the first day of the inaugural conference of the Māori Women’s Welfare League in Wellington. Dame Whina Cooper was appointed as president. Read more...

1819 New Zealand's first grapevines planted?

Missionary Samuel Marsden planted a vineyard on the site of a new Church Missionary Society station at Kerikeri. Read more...