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Blue Squad member Pete Carrington gives a police view of the first test against the Springbok rugby team in 1981.
Crowds welcome the royals as they arrive by train. Local officials and the Royal couple stand on a balcony while the Mayor conducts the crowd in a rendition of 'Hip hip, hooray!'.
After the colour and controversy of the 1850s, election days in New Zealand have generally been orderly affairs. Even so, election nights could still be lively occasions.
William Deans and his brother at Riccarton, Christchurch, 1843.
Crowd gathered in Cathedral Square, Christchurch after the Armistice procession on 12 November 1918.
While attending Christchurch Girls' High School, Pauline Parker met Juliet Hulme and formed the friendship that was to radically change the course of both their lives. In 1954 the pair were convicted of murder in a sensational case, later dramatised in Peter Jackson's film Heavenly creatures.
The Beatles' concerts in Dunedin on 26 June were some of the wildest of the New Zealand tour.
Kennedy's Bush was the first Summit Road reserve established by Henry Ell in 1906.
Ell was a promoter of the Port Hills Walkway and a campaigner for preservation of scenery and protection of native birds.
Two boys ride their bikes around a 'cluster' state-house development in Hornby, Christchurch, in 1978. Safety issues are raised by the absence of helmets; something that could result in a fine today.
Leonard Cockayne and Ebenezer Teichelmann survey manuka forest.
Canterbury College memorial window. From the memorial window at Canterbury College (now the Arts Centre), Christchurch. The artist was an Englishman, Martin Travers, and the whole window is in the shape of Britain.