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A timeline of some Christchurch events in chronological order from 1700s to 1989.
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This week in history
- June 24, 1905
- Railway derailment at Chaneys, near Kaiapoi, kills 2.
- June 24, 1981
- First Metro Refuse transfer station (Sockburn) in operation.
- June 25, 1934
- Death of Harry Ell. The uncompleted Summit Road and Sign of the Takahe projects were taken over by his son. See 1938 and 1949.
- June 25, 1941
- German minelayer "Adjutant" lays mines in the approaches to Lyttelton Harbour. But this German claim is unsupported - no trace of the mines was ever found.
- June 26, 1871
- Christchurch Volunteer Police enrolled.
- June 26, 1884
- New Zealand’s first First Aid examinations held in City.
- June 27, 1846
- Canterbury’s first armed robbery - 3 men hold up and ransack the Greenwood brothers’ farm at Purau.
- June 27, 1904
- Yaldhurst School elects New Zealand’s first all-woman school committee.
- June 27, 1964
- Large crowds for visit of Beatles pop group.
- June 28, 1869
- Velocipede ("boneshaker") bicycle (probably New Zealand’s first) tried out on City streets by its maker, coachbuilder Henry Wagstaff.
- June 28, 1983
- Author Margaret Mahy awarded Britains prestigious Carnegie Medal for her children’s book, "The Haunting".
- June 29, 1951
- First regular South Island trans-Tasman flights begin from Melbourne to Christchurch.
- June 29, 1989
- Minister of Conservation, Phillip Woollaston overturns Department of Conservation veto on the lease of Mt Cavendish Reserve for the Port Hills Gondola project.
- June 30, 1849
- Canterbury’s first “industrial action” - Maori road workers in Evans Pass (constructing a road across the Port Hills) go on strike as a reaction to verbal abuse and dismissals.
- June 30, 1849
- New Zealand Company buys the remaining French interests at Akaroa from the Nanto-Bordelaise Company.
- June 30, 1975
- TV2 transmission starts.
