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1959
- Population reaches 200,000.
- April 8
- Billy Graham crusade draws 50,000 to Lancaster Park.
- August
- Totem pole carved in the state of Oregon, USA. The pole was presented to Christchurch and erected in North Hagley Park. See also 1980.
- August 31
- Princess Margaret Hospital opens.
- November 15
- City Council grants charter to the Canterbury Regiment.
- November 26
- Memorial Avenue (a memorial to airmen killed in W.W. II) officially opens.
- (no date)
- Rev Phyllis Guthardt ordained in Wellington — New Zealand’s first woman minister. She was initially assigned to the Riccarton Parish which covered the Lincoln Road Methodist Church, Halswell and Sockburn. See 1984.
