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1930
- March 1
- Majestic Theatre opens - the city’s first steel frame building.
- March 25
- New Zealand’s first country library service begins as Canterbury adult rural education scheme under the auspices of the W.E.A.
- November 6
- Weekly air service (New Zealands first regular service) begins to Dunedin.
- December
- South Island’s first traffic lights installed at the intersection of Cashel and Colombo Streets.
- (no date)
- Marion Saunders begins New Zealand’s first speech therapy classes at the Normal School.
