Events on this Day – 1 February

The Fifeshire arrived in Nelson with immigrants for the New Zealand Company's first settlement in the South Island.

Janet Mackenzie became the first teacher in what was to become the Correspondence School for Back-block Children

Trans-Tasman sporting relations hit a new low at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when Australian captain Greg Chappell ordered his brother Trevor to bowl the final delivery of a 50-over cricket international against New Zealand underarm (along the ground).