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29 September
29 September
1862
New Zealand's first professional opera performance
Dunedin's Royal Princess Theatre was the venue for a performance of Donizetti's
Daughter of the regiment
by the visiting English Opera Troupe, supplemented by local performers.
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1947
Greymouth beer boycott provoked
West Coast publicans soon regretted increasing the price of a beer by 1d.
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1847
Wakefield and Featherston duel
26 March
1896
Brunner mine disaster kills 65
27 March
1883
The 'Sallies' come to New Zealand
28 March
1923
Forest and Bird founded
29 March
1901
Skippers Bridge opened
30 March
1940
Funeral procession for Prime Minister Savage
31 March
1864
Rewi's last stand?