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1867, Opening of railway from Invercargill to Bluff
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1920
Fingerprints help convict murderer
In what may have been a world first for a capital crime, the conviction of Dennis Gunn was based almost entirely on fingerprint evidence.
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5 February
1867
Opening of railway from Invercargill to Bluff