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1888, First British rugby tourists take the field
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29 September
29 September
1862
New Zealand's first professional opera performance
Dunedin's Royal Princess Theatre was the venue for a performance of Donizetti's
Daughter of the regiment
by the visiting English Opera Troupe, supplemented by local performers.
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1947
Greymouth beer boycott provoked
West Coast publicans soon regretted increasing the price of a beer by 1d.
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This Week in History
22 April
1936
Rātana and Labour seal alliance
23 April
1979
Blair Peach killed in London
24 April
1920
Prince of Wales arrives for New Zealand tour
25 April
1915
Gallipoli landings
26 April
1943
New Zealand ship torpedoed in Tasman Sea
27 April
1806
Moehanga becomes first Māori to visit England
28 April
1888
First British rugby tourists take the field