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19 February
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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This Week in History
27 June
1936
Māui Pōmare memorial unveiled
28 June
1881
First registered female pharmacist
29 June
1862
Wreck of the
White Swan
30 June
1939
First issue of
New Zealand Listener
published
1 July
1988
Bastion Point land returned
2 July
1938
Electric trains come to Wellington
3 July
1963
DC-3 crashes in Kaimai Range