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1906, Domestic workers call for 68-hour week
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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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This Week in History
18 September
1937
First state house opened in Miramar
19 September
1893
Women win the right to vote
20 September
1954
Mazengarb report released
21 September
1834
Rescue of
Harriet
survivors begins
22 September
1906
Domestic workers call for 68-hour week
23 September
1887
Tongariro mountains protected
24 September
1905
Racist killing in Wellington's Haining St