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In 1996 New Zealand composer John Dylan wrote an orchestral piece, "Cave Creek 95 - An Elegy" in recognition of the event. The section of track to Cave Creek from the intersection with the Inland Pack Track was renamed the Cave Creek Memorial Track/Kotihotiho in 2020, as part of the 25 year remembrance of the disaster. There is a memorial on ...
An inquiry by the New Zealand Parliament estimated losses at over $3 billion that affected between 150,000 and 200,000 depositors. [2] The most high-profile collapses were South Canterbury Finance, Hanover Finance and Bridgecorp Holdings. The collapse radically reduced the size and importance of the non-bank finance sector in New Zealand
The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, 46 km (29 mi) northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island following a methane explosion at approximately 3:44 pm (NZDT, UTC+13).
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703: air accident 9 Jun 1995: Tararua Range, near Palmerston North: 4 2023 Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods: flood 27 Jan 2023 – 2 Feb 2023: upper North Island 3 1968 Inangahua earthquake: earthquake 24 May 1968: near Inangahua Junction: 3 2023 Auckland shooting: shooting 20 Jul 2023: Auckland CBD: 2 1966 Air New ...
Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission – report into the collapse of the CTV Building; Translations of section 9 of volume 6 of the report are available in Thai, Korean, Japanese and (simplified) Chinese; Collapse of accountability, an in-depth report on the building's collapse by the New Zealand Listener (September 2014)
South Canterbury Finance was New Zealand's largest locally owned finance company when it collapsed in August 2010, triggering a $1.6 billion bail-out of investors deposits by the New Zealand Government; [1] almost $1 billion was recovered by receivers.
The Tangiwai disaster was a deadly railway accident that occurred at 10:21 p.m. on 24 December 1953, when a railway bridge over the Whangaehu River collapsed beneath an express passenger train at Tangiwai, North Island, New Zealand.
The 2010 Canterbury earthquake (also known as the Darfield earthquake) [7] struck the South Island of New Zealand with a moment magnitude of 7.1 [1] [2] at 4:35 am local time on 4 September, and had a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. [1]