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1905, Special votes cast in general election
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9 October
9 October
1967
First day of ten o'clock closing
Fifty years of six o’clock closing of pubs had ended two days earlier, after a referendum convinced the government to change the antiquated licensing law.
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1928
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5 December
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6 December
1905
Special votes cast in general election
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1963
Bassett Road machine-gun murders
8 December
1932
First issue of
New Zealand Woman's Weekly
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1867
First passengers traverse Lyttelton rail tunnel
10 December
1908
Rutherford wins Nobel Prize