Christchurch Chronology 1960 - Heritage - Christchurch City Libraries

1960

February 2: Burnside High School opens. For a long time it was the biggest high school in the Southern Hemisphere.
February 11: Mrs H.L. Garrett appointed New Zealand’s first jury forewoman.
February 22: New airport terminal (designed by Paul Pascoe) opens.
May 23: Tsunami (tidal wave) causes water level range of nearly 6 metres in 2 hours at Lyttelton.
Christchurch railway station, Moorhouse Avenue - 1960 September 24: Jellie Park Pool opens.
November 1: New railway station opens. The building had been designed before W.W.II.
December 2: Rehua meeting house opens, the first new meeting house in the South Island for over 100 years.
(no date): End of New Zealand’s longest lawsuit, which had begun the previous year and lasted 151 days: Pyramid Machines v W.H. Price and Son Ltd.