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Only one portion of the fuselage of the Air New Zealand DC-10 remained intact on the icy slopes of Mt Erebus.

Blue Squad member Pete Carrington gives a police view of the first test against the Springbok rugby team in 1981.

For 56 days in July, August and September 1981, New Zealanders were divided against each other in the largest civil disturbance seen since the 1951 waterfront dispute. The cause of this was the visit of the South African rugby team – the Springboks.

On 'Black Tuesday', 12 November 1912, in the midst of a bitter six-month strike by miners in the small New Zealand goldmining town of Waihi, striker Fred Evans was killed - one of only two fatalities in an industrial dispute in New Zealand's history.

How police responded to the disasters, particularly Tangiwai, Wahine and Erebus

For a few short months the Burgess gang embarked upon a crime spree along the west coast of the South Island that would culminate in the murder of five men on the Maungatapu Track.

South Africa's apartheid policies and attitudes created obvious problems for New Zealand rugby, given the prominence of Maori in the sport.

Joseph Sullivan claimed to have acted solely as a lookout for the gang, and informed the police about the killing of James Battle, incriminating the others

Keeping sport and politics separate was becoming increasingly difficult. In July 1969 HART (Halt All Racist Tours) was founded by Auckland University students with the specific aim of opposing sporting contact with South Africa.

The All Blacks accepted an invitation to tour South Africa in 1976, a time when world attention was firmly fixed on the republic because of the Soweto riots.

The tour supporters were determined that the first Springbok visit to New Zealand since 1965 would not be spoiled. The anti-tour movement was equally determined to show its opposition to it.

How locals and police responded to New Zealand's worst railway disaster

Itinerary of the 1981 tour by the Springbok rugby team

The police, emergency services and civilians rescued passengers and crew from the inter-island ferry Wahine in Wellington Harbour in April 1968.

A team of New Zealand Police officers and a Mountain Face Rescue Team were immediately dispatched to the scene of the Erebus disaster.

In Hamilton the protestors occupying the pitch had chanted 'The whole world is watching'. The same applied to New Zealand as a nation. Some believed the tour was an opportunity to address racism in New Zealand and show solidarity with the oppressed black majority in South Africa.

A rescue party at Tangiwai carries the body of a deceased passenger of the Wellington–Auckland express.

Rescue party at a wrecked carriage of the Wellington–Auckland express at Tangiwai

Constable Ngaere W. Lankow was one of two policewomen singled out for praise for laying out the dead in the mortuary at Waiouru.

Collapsed life-rafts from the Wahine are hauled up by police and others on the eastern shore of the harbour, 10 April 1968.

Wahine survivors are rescued from life-rafts on the eastern shore. Some people who had survived everything else died when dashed against the rocks.

The court of inquiry that met 10 weeks after the sinking pinpointed the build-up of water in the vehicle deck as the reason the ferry finally capsized.

Police cadets (in berets) and all other available police members were called in to help.

Wahine survivors are carried off Seatoun Wharf, 10 April 1968.

Police with batons keep close guard at Waitangi Day celebrations in 1983.

The Royal Humane Society Gold Medal was presented to the New Zealand Police in recognition of heroic efforts in saving life from the Wahine disaster.

With the death of so many people, it is not surprising that the investigations into the tragedy became a source of great debate and controversy.

A series of images relating to the pursuit and arrest of Mau in January 1930

Portrait of Fred Evans by Dick Scott. Evans was killed during the 1912 Waihi strike.

Police search Minnie Dean's garden at The Larches.

Senior Sergeant Brent Craig displays a mock-up of an offender and an array of facial characteristics from his photofit kit.

Tony Taylor, professor of clinical psychology at Victoria University, describes the effects of the disaster on police.

This photo, taken by Ian Mackley of the Evening Post, shows anti-tour protestors facing a row of police officers in Palmerston North.

Members of the recovery party stand in front of the wreckage of the Air New Zealand DC-10 on the slopes of Mt Erebus, Antarctica.

John Blumsky reports from Mt Erebus after the disaster.

The recovery operation on Mount Erebus was hampered by the constantly changing weather.

The bodies of the victims of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 were flown by Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules aircraft to Whenuapai Air Base in Auckland.

This police map shows the location of Air New Zealand Flight TE901's crash site on Mt Erebus, Antarctica, in 1979.

Wayne Mowat interviews Superintendent Jim Morgan, 11 March 1988, about the police experience on Erebus.

By the time the second flight carrying bodies from the Erebus disaster crash site arrived on 10 December 1979 the pathology teams tasked with determining cause of death had completed post mortem examinations on the first 114 bodies

Hear Ena Ryan talk about the Military Police and Sydney prostitutes.

The wreckage of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 litters the slopes of Mt Erebus.

The tail of the DC-10 airliner remained largely intact and still shows the distinctive Air New Zealand koru symbol.

Some felt that the New Zealand Rugby Football Union should have to pay the bill for policing the tour out of the profits they made from the matches.

A member of the Erebus recovery team attends to the victim's personal effects, which are stored in plastic bags and awaiting transportation.