November 4, AUCKLAND: Ground parties battled atrocious weather in the Kaimai Ranges near Matamata all yesterday in a fruitless search for a National Airways Corporation Skyliner that went missing on an early morning flight from Auckland to Tauranga.
June 5: Fire swept through McKenzies department store in George street last evening causing damage estimated at £150,000. It was the worst Dunedin blaze since the Arthur Barnett store fire of December, 1959.
February 15: It was a Royal day Dunedin will never forget - a garden party of colour and fashion and a magnificent under-four-minute mile by the world's top miler. These made the day for the Queen and for Dunedin.
November 25, WASHINGTON: President Lyndon Johnson leads the American people in mourning for President John Kennedy, whose body is lying in the White House.
July, 29: Power failed, roads were blocked, cars and buses abandoned, telephone and toll services disrupted - these were some of the wounds inflicted on Otago during the weekend when the most violent snowstorm since Dunedin was isolated in 1939, struck with fury.
March 4: The last cable car to Mornington, No 101, wended its way up High Street at 3.15 p.m. on Saturday decorated with flags and bunting, and for the final part of its journey preceded by four pipers of the Dunedin Ladies' Pipe Band playing a lament.
November 21: The flood defences of Balclutha have withstood the battering of the overcharged Clutha River, but a collapse of the stopbanks above Stirling caused the evacuation of the town, and it is expected that parts of Kaitangata may also be flooded by this morning.
September 29: The idea of a Blossom Festival Week in Alexandra became a spectacular reality during the weekend when crowds at the opening functions gave support unprecedented in the town's history.
JUL 20: In Kaitangata - so nearly a ghost town, but now to live again - they did some celebrating last night.
MAY 9: Vandalism was at its worst on Saturday night when young men and youths tried to wreck the last tram to the Gardens. Glass strewed the path of this disgusting mockery of what should have been a memorable occasion, as "last trippers" vied with each other to smash windows.
NOV 2: AUCKLAND: A bright "flying light" travelled alongside a National Airways DC3 plane for about five minutes last night.
Feb 14, Wellington: A complete stoppage of work at all New Zealand ports looms as the result of a proposal by employers to suspend all waterside workers who refuse to work overtime.
October 25: New Zealand is at war. At this very moment there may be fellow countrymen, fellow citizens, under fire.
October 27: The city's affection for one of its historic transport services was witnessed last night when cars made their last run over the Roslyn line, bringing to an end a service that had been in operation since 1881.
June, 26: Seoul radio today announced that North Korea formally declared war on South Korea, effective from 1am today.
December, 11: Thirteen weeks and five days after the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr Holland, announced that a force would be sent to assist the United Nations forces in Korea, New Zealand's contribution, K Force, sailed from Wellington yesterday.
August, 19: On Thursday morning, hail and sleet were falling on the high ground of the Invermay Experimental and Research Station at North Taieri. The following morning superphosphate came sprinkling down from the sky during what was the first aerial top-dressing demonstration held anywhere in the district.
London (August 14): The Swiss radio says "Japan has accepted the capitulation offer. The Japanese information office announced, on the basis of a report from the Japanese Ministry of War, acceptance of the Allied capitulation formula."
LONDON (May 1): The death of Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer and dictator of Germany, was announced by the German Home Service to-day. The announcement said: "Our Fuhrer fell at his battle post in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, fighting to his last breath against Bolshevism".
Washington (Aug.6): An atomic bomb, more powerful than 20,000 tons of T.N.T., and producing a blast 2000 times greater than the largest bomb previously used, was dropped to-day on Hiroshima by the United States Army Air Force.
