1947

February 26

First ticketed airline flight from New Zealand - Lancastrian City of London flies from Harewood to Sydney.

March

First issue of literary magazine Landfall published by Caxton Press.

May 14

Mabel Howard (Sydenham) becomes Minister of Health, the country’s first woman Cabinet Minister.

July 22

Visit by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery.

November 18

Disastrous fire in Ballantynes Department store. 41 lives lost in New Zealand’s worst fire tragedy. The fire led to drastic revisions of fire safety codes throughout the country.

(no date)

Municipal tepid baths close (opened 1908).

First women’s pipe band in New Zealand formed in City.

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