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A US parole board will decide next month if infamous brothers serving life sentences can be freed - after their sentences have been reduced
A US parole board will decide next month if infamous brothers serving life sentences can be freed - after their sentences have been reduced full story An arduous trip the Wellington Phoenix didn't want to make An arduous trip the Wellington Phoenix didn't want to make full story ANZ's reacting staunchly to a Consumer survey ranking them poorly among customers ANZ's reacting staunchly to a Consumer survey ranking them poorly among customers full story    
Quote of the Day
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss." Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, poet and essayist
1866 - Wreck of the General Grant
Sailing from Melbourne to London, the General Grant hit cliffs on the west coast of the main island in the subantarctic Auckland Islands. Fifteen of the 83 people on board survived the sinking, but only 10 of them were ultimately rescued 18 months later.
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1870 - First game of rugby played in NZ?
Around 200 people were on hand at Nelson’s Botanic Reserve to watch a game of football played under Rugby rules.
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1907 - Plunket Society formed
Dr Frederic Truby King helped form the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children at a meeting in Dunedin Town Hall.
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1941 - New Zealand minesweeper sunk near Hauraki Gulf
The minesweeper HMS Puriri was the second victim of mines laid off the Northland coast by the German raider Orion. Five of its crew were killed.
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