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1906
- January 21
- Hailstorm causes widespread damage.
- May 26
- Statue of William Rolleston (outside the Canterbury Museum) unveiled.
- May
- Hon. Sir John Hall, first Council Chairman (see 1862) and former Premier of New Zealand, recalled to be Mayor in Exhibition year.
- September 1
- First Timaru to Christchurch cycle race.
- November 1
- New Zealand International Exhibition (the biggest in the country to that time) opens in Hagley Park. Over 1 million people visited the exhibition during the next few months. A branch railway line was built across North Hagley Park to service the exhibition. The attractions included New Zealand’s first professional symphony orchestra [conducted by Alfred Hill], and the first Dominion pipe band contest which was won by the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band.
- November 2
- Foundation stone laid for the Technical College (now Christchurch Polytechnic).
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- South Island Landless Natives Act gives some new reserves to the Ngāi Tahu. See 1920, 1989.
- City’s first state houses built in Sydenham.
