Events on this Day – 22 October

The first working women’s conference aimed to link women with working-class organisations, and was supported by the Communist Party of New Zealand.

In 1967 Denny Hulme became the first – and so far only – New Zealander to win the Formula One World Championship.

Acknowledged as one of New Zealand’s most accomplished poets, Baxter devoted the last years of his life to social work with alcoholics and drug addicts. He died in Auckland, aged 46.