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YEAR: 1970
April 22 - First stage of the new Teachers College opens at Ilam. Complex completed in 1978.
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YEAR: 1969
The Maui oil and gas field is discovered off the Taranaki coast.
First pair of one-way streets (Lichfield & St Asaph) in operation. With traffic signals eventually controlled by a computer, this was the beginning of NZ's first area traffic control scheme.
The Mona Vale estate in Fendalton is bought by the Council and opened to the public.
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YEAR: 1968
An earthquake centered on Inangahua Junction, Westland, kills three and injures fourteen. It struck at 5:24am on 24th May and measured 7.1 on the Richter Scale.
April 11 - Inter-island ferry "Wahine" driven on to Barrett Reef at the entance of Wellington Harbour by a storm. The ship sank with the loss of 51 lives. The same storm (which at the time was Ch-Ch's worst recorded storm) caused one death and widspread wind and flood damage throughout the city.
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YEAR: 1967
February 10 - End of free school milk. The school milk scheme started in 1937 as part of the first Labour government's strategy to improve child health by providing half a pint of milk to each New Zealand child.
February 28- Canterbury cricket team defeats visiting Australians, the first time any NZ team has done so.
July 10 - Decimal Currency introduced.
October 9 - The "Six O'Clock Swill" was consigned to the pages of history with the introduction of 10pm closing of hotel bars. It was introduced as a temrary wartime measure in 1917.
Denny Hulme wins Formula 1 Drivers World Championship driving for the Brabham team.
George Manning retires as mayor after 34 years on the council.
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YEAR: 1966
June 8 - New "Wahine", at the time described as "the largest vehicular ferry in the world", begins on the Lyttelton - Wellington run.
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YEAR: 1965
April 1 - Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL), New Zealand's international air operator, was renamed Air New Zealand Limited.
October - New Brighton Pier demolished.
November 9 - Opening of the city's first parking building on the corner of Manchester & Gloucester Streets.
Prime Minister Holyoake announces support fot the United States in Vietnam, and a small combat force is sent.
Canterbury cricketers defeat Australia.
The BNZ constructs a new building in the sguare.
The construction of the northern motorway is commenced.
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YEAR: 1964
Harewood becomes NZ's first jet airport.
New Zealander, Trevor Norton harpooned the last whale killed in New Zealand waters.
February 27 - Lyttelton road tunnel opens.
June 27 - large crowds for visit of Beatles pop group.
July 17 - The Government Life Building in Cathedral Square was opened. It was the city's first "high rise glass box." The building was subsequently demolished because of damage caused by the 2011 earthquakes.
October 21 - Peter Snell wins second gold in Tokyo.
Snell had successfully defended his 800m title earlier at the Tokyo Olympics before completing the coveted middle-distance double with gold in the 1500m. Fellow Kiwi John Davies won bronze.
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YEAR: 1963
February 16-17 - Visit by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. The New Brighton trotting course was bought by the city to be developed as a sports stadium and re-named Queen Elizabeth II Park in the Queen's honour.
July 3 - A NAC(National Airways Corporation) Dakota DC3 crashes into the Kaimai Ranges: all 23 passengers and crew were killed in what is still NZ's worst inland civil aviation accident
July 27 - Pioneer aviator George Bolt dies. Bolt was an outstanding figure in the development of commercial aviation in this country. He achieved a number of aviation firsts, taking New Zealand's first aerial photographs in 1912 and delivering its first official airmail in 1919
Jazz legend Louis Armstrong visits.
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YEAR: 1962
February 3 - Peter Snell sets new world records for the half mile and 800 metres at Lancaster Park. Earlier, on January 27, at Cooks Gardens, Wanganui he broke the world record for a mile at 3m 54.4.
August 11 - Picton ferry Aramoana enters service. The country's first roll-on roll-off ferry, New Zealand Railways' Aramoana revolutionised transport between the North and South islands
October 9 - Town Hall site chosen in Kilmore Street.
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YEAR: 1961
Capital punishment is abolished (except for treason) when 10 National MPs cross the floor. Eight executions had been carried out since capital punishment was re-introduced in 1951.
The four University Colleges of the University of NZ become separate Universities.
After fifty years, barmaids are allowed to work in bars again.
June 1 - Television transmission begins from CHTV 3, Ch-Ch.
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