1954

Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme

January 19-22

Visit by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh (the first New Zealand visit by a reigning monarch).

June 22

Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Parker’s mother in Victoria Park. Their subsequent trial was one of the most sensational in the city’s history.

September 11

Last tram journey in Christchurch.

December

Christchurch Regional Planning Authority formed.

Notes

• Information for this resource was based on the second edition of John Densem’s Christchurch chronology: a history of settlement. Environmental Policy and Planning Policy Unit, Christchurch City Council, 1990.
  More about the Christchurch Chronology.
• This resource includes links to various other local history resources on our websites and images from our photographs collection - clicking on the image will take you to a larger version of that image.