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Whanganui mayor shoots poet
1920
Prince of Wales arrives for New Zealand tour
1920
White New Zealand policy introduced
1920
First flight across Cook Strait
1920
New Zealand's first female Olympian
1920
Alexander Turnbull Library opens
1920
Fingerprints help convict murderer
1921
New Zealand's first regular airmail service begins
1921
First school dental nurses begin training
1921
First Rotary club in New Zealand founded
1921
Springboks play New Zealand Māori for first time
1922
Correspondence School founded
1922
New Zealand's first poppy day
1922
Catholic Bishop found not guilty of sedition
1922
Chatham Islanders vote in first election
1923
First Chatham Cup football final
1923
New Zealand makes claim to Ross Dependency
1923
Rail tunnel pierces the Southern Alps
1923
Baby-farmer Daniel Cooper hanged
1923
Forest and Bird founded
1923
Death of Katherine Mansfield
1923
Main Trunk Line express train disaster
1924
Intelligence tests arrive in New Zealand schools
1924
'Tom Watson' wins bronze for New Zealand
1924
First trans-global radio transmission to London
1925
Death of William Massey
1925
Te Haahi Rātana established as church
1925
New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens
1926
New Zealand Railways Magazine
launched
1926
Kawarau Falls dam becomes operational
1926
Anna Pavlova dances in New Zealand for the first time
1928
Pioneer aviators vanish over the Tasman
1928
Kiwi boxer fights for world heavyweight title
1928
First trans-Tasman flight touches down
1928
First Bishop of Aotearoa consecrated
1928
Luna Park opens in Auckland
1929
First 'talkie' draws crowds in Wellington
1929
Controversial ex-mayor killed in Berlin riots
1929
'Black Saturday' in Samoa
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