The Labour Party's Elizabeth McCombs became the first woman Member of Parliament, winning a by-election in the Lyttelton seat caused by the death of her MP husband James McCombs.

The third and deciding test at Eden Park, Auckland, is perhaps best remembered for the flares and flour bombs dropped onto the pitch from a light plane. Outside the park violence erupted on an unprecedented scale.

Australians Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, in their Southern Cross triplane, landed at Wigram, Christchurch, 14 hours 25 minutes after leaving Sydney. More than 30,000 people thronged to greet them.

This exhibition was a milestone in the Maori cultural renaissance. After being hugely successful in New York, St Louis, San Francisco and Chicago, it returned to tour New Zealand to great acclaim.

'Big Brother is watching?': the Wanganui Computer Act established the New Zealand government's first centralised electronic database. This raised questions about the state's ability to gather information on its citizens.

The South-East Asia Collective Defence Treaty, or Manila Pact, aimed to contain the spread of communism in the region. The South-East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) was the institutional expression of this Treaty.

Von Tempsky was killed during the assault on Titokowaru's pa in south Taranaki. His paintings and accounts of the New Zealand wars had made him a folk hero to European settlers.

Prior to this act coming into effect all New Zealanders were classified as British subjects. Separate New Zealand citizenship was possible from 1 January 1949, when the act came into effect. This was a change New Zealand did not initiate.