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1905, Racist killing in Wellington's Haining St
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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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1905
Racist killing in Wellington's Haining St