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1943, New Zealand ship torpedoed in Tasman Sea
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19 February
1938
Kōpuawhara flood kills 21
Twenty men and one woman drowned when a cloudburst sent a wall of water surging through a public works camp in the Kōpuawhara Valley, near Māhia.
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