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This was the final act of the Taranaki wars. [4] There are two separate monuments at the cemetery that commemorate people who died in the incident. [2] With the abolition of provincial government in 1876, the cemetery came under the control of the New Plymouth Borough Council. [2] Today, it is controlled by the New Plymouth District Council. [3]
The paper was founded as the Taranaki News on 14 May 1857, by friends of former Taranaki Province Superintendent Charles Brown. [1] Brown was the first proprietor of the newspaper and he appointed his political supporter and former Taranaki Herald editor Richard Pheney as its editor.
There has been one instance of multiple police deaths, when Stanley Graham gunned down four officers (and two wartime home guardsmen) attempting to apprehend him in 1941, and four double fatalities. Most of the homicides have been a result of gunshot wounds , the accidents mainly due to either drowning or vehicle (car/aircraft) accidents.
Deaths Notes Opepe Massacre 7 June 1869: Taupo 9: Part of Te Kooti's War: Mohaka massacre: 10 April 1869: Mohaka, Hawke's Bay: 68: Part of Te Kooti's War: Pukearuhe massacre 13 February 1869: Pukearuhe, Taranaki: 8: Attack on Pukearuhe Redoubt by a Ngāti Maniapoto war party Ngatapa massacre: 5 January 1869: Ngatapa, Gisborne: 120: Part of Te ...
Deaths Description Date Location Notes 8,600: 1918 flu pandemic: 1918 October–December nationwide [68] 3,623 [69] COVID-19 pandemic: 2020 February–ongoing nationwide Total deaths attributed to COVID-19 as at 17 December 2023. [69] [70] (Statistics updated weekly.) 713: HIV/AIDS pandemic: 1983–ongoing nationwide As of December 2014. [71] 69
23 May 1957 – A rail car hit a car on a private crossing on the Inkson farm at Omihi North Canterbury resulting in the death of Joseph and Sheila Inkson. [101] [102] [103] [full citation needed] 19 February 1957 – Palmerston North shunting accident.
The number of Helene-related deaths in Buncombe County, verified by the medical examiner's office, sits at 42. According to Haight, all decedents found in Buncombe County are included in the ...
Twice, in 1943 and 1969, by-elections were avoided after the deaths in election years of Paraire Karaka Paikea and Ralph Hanan by passing special acts, the By-election Postponement Act 1943 and the By-election Postponement Act 1969. When a death occurs close enough to a general election, the seat is left vacant, to be filled again at the ...