By feasting on freshly killed pork from the ship's menagerie washed down with ‘extra rations of wine’
With a meal of ‘Goose pye’ (made with gannet)
With a reading from the Bible
With a programme of Christmas carols followed by an early night
6 February 1840 The Treaty of Waitangi is signed
7 February 1863 Sinking of HMS Orpheus - NZ's worst shipwreck
8 February 1931 First fatalities on a scheduled air service in NZ
9 February 1900 Wanganui Opera House opened
10 February 1967 End of free school milk
11 February 1864 Charles Heaphy recommended for VC
12 February 1909 SS Penguin wrecked in Cook Strait
