Pekama Kaa was an officer in the Pioneer Battalion who was killed on the Western Front on 14 August 1917
He roamed from Post Office Square to the wharves, where black mysterious little waves suck under sea-rotted, weed-twined piles, from the wharves back again to various haunts of publicans and sinners. Passport to Hell, by…
Thomas Mackenzie, New Zealand's High Commissioner in London, visiting New Zealand troops in France during the First World War, with Peter Buck.
These Tongan and Samoan women working on an Auckland factory's fish processing line in 1977 were part of a wave of Pacific immigrants after the Second World War. Production lines in factories absorbed many of the new arrivals, and in some industries they were the majority. This made...
Auckland schoolchildren sewing and knitting clothing for the British and Belgian Relief Fund and New Zealand troops serving overseas, July 1915.
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Australia throw New Zealand's bid to reach the World Cup semi-finals off course as they beat their old rivals by 86 runs.
New Zealand - Aviation - On April 4, 1951, Wright Stephenson & Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, chartered a Skymaster to convey the first airborne bulk freight of clover seed (6 and 3⁄4 tons) flown from New Zealand to Australia
In the early 20th century, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau became New Zealand possessions. Their citizens were therefore free to enter New Zealand as British subjects and, after 1948, as New Zealand citizens. This right of free entry remains, even though each country has attained a measure of ...
Learn more about our military history and discover the real war stories of our Kiwi soldiers as they served New Zealand in wars and battles around the world.
New Zealand - Mining Industry - The steel armada in the photo wins over half-a-million tons of coal a year from the Kopuku opencast mine, south of Auckland. Each year four million cubic yards of overburden is stripped to expose a seam 330 feet below the surface which underground miners once picked by hand. Most of the coal goes by a six-mile aerial ropeway to feed the Meremere power station.
Patriotic World War I postcard.
NASA's Aqua satellite has been producing amazing images of Earth for 10 years, collecting 29 million gigabytes of data and far outliving its life expectancy of three to five years. Here are some of Aqua's most spectacular images, including shots of erupting volcanoes, plankton blooms and forest fires.
