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1924
- January
- Southerly gale causes widespread damage.
- July 19
- New Zealand Miniature Rifle Association (now Smallbore Rifle Association) formed in Christchurch.
- July 26
- Open air classrooms in use at Fendalton Primary School.
- September 1
- New City Council offices in Manchester Street open. The first of the Council’s 2 recycled office buildings, this had been the Canterbury Exhibition Hall, gutted by fire in 1917.
- November 11
- Bridge of Remembrance opens.
- December 3
- Children’s Library opens in Hereford Street.
- (no date)
- Polio epidemic (lasting until 1925) kills 27 people in Canterbury.
- Closure of Quail Island leper colony, New Zealand’s last.
