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1911, Bookies take last bets on New Zealand racecourses
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1888
New Zealand Natives team plays first game in UK
The privately organised rugby team was the first to wear the silver fern and an all-black uniform.
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30 January
1911
Bookies take last bets on New Zealand racecourses
31 January
1921
New Zealand's first regular airmail service begins
1 February
1842
New Zealand Company settlers arrive in Nelson
2 February
1939
Welfare plan gets baptism of fire
3 February
1868
Killer storm sweeps the country
4 February
1975
First woman swims Cook Strait
5 February
1867
Opening of railway from Invercargill to Bluff