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History and highlights of rugby in the Hawke's Bay region

Video about the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, which destroyed the cities of Napier and Hastings, and killed over 250 people

'Hauhau' prisoners on Napier foreshore, 1866.

‘Bad enough having play team officially designated New Zealand Natives’, a South African journalist wrote in a report of the match played between the Springboks and a New Zealand Maori XV at Napier.

Hear about Hawke's Bay's rugby team's proud record of holding New Zealand's premier rugby trophy, the Ranfurly Shield.

Ports too small to justify the expense of gantry cranes use wheeled mobile container cranes

Photo album of images from the Hawkes' Bay earthquake

Napier First World War memorial cross.

Spriggs Park Second World War memorial.

New Zealand's deadliest earthquake, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, destroys much of central Napier and Hastings, with the loss of more than 250 lives.

Ahuriri harbour and roadstead in the 1850s.