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1932, Unemployed riot rocks Queen Street
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25 September
1819
New Zealand's first grapevines planted?
Missionary Samuel Marsden planted a vineyard on the site of a new Church Missionary Society station at Kerikeri.
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1951
Māori Women's Welfare League established
Eighty-seven delegates attended the first day of the inaugural conference of the Māori Women’s Welfare League in Wellington. Dame Whina Cooper was appointed as president.
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This Week in History
12 April
1902
Railway accident in South Africa kills 16 New Zealand soldiers
13 April
1896
National Council of Women formed
14 April
1932
Unemployed riot rocks Queen Street
15 April
1868
First Māori MPs elected to Parliament
16 April
1892
NZ Rugby Football Union founded
17 April
1820
General Gates
sent to Sydney under guard
18 April
1840
Samuel Revans prints first newspaper