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31 January
31 January
1921
New Zealand's first regular airmail service begins
Piloted by Captain Euan Dickson, the first flight of the Canterbury Aviation Company’s new airmail service left Christchurch at 8 a.m., carrying several hundred letters to Ashburton and Timaru into the teeth of a south-westerly gale.
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New Zealand Constitution Act comes into force