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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)
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
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 ...
The 1995–1996 eruptions of Ruapehu in the North Island of New Zealand left a 7-metre high dam of tephra, consisting of volcanic ash and rock, around the rim of the crater lake. It was realised that as the lake refilled and rose above the level of its normal outlet, the tephra dam would eventually collapse, causing a large lahar.
Canterbury Television was an independent television station broadcasting in Canterbury, New Zealand. The name is synonymous with regional television in New Zealand as it was the name of the first regional broadcaster to operate in New Zealand. CTV produced and screened more than twenty hours of locally based programming every week.
Chase Corp was one of the largest companies on the New Zealand share market. [1] At the end of 1986 Chase Corporation was one of the largest three listed companies in New Zealand (along with Brierley Investments and Fletcher Challenge). [3] Chase Corp also invested in Australia, England and the United States of America.
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 ...
South Canterbury Finance owned 13 companies including fruit packaging and warehousing company Scales Corporation, helicopter and tourism business Helicopters NZ, and a third shareholding in Dairy Holdings Limited, New Zealand's largest dairy farming group. [3] In November 2008, SCF was accepted into the New Zealand Deposit Guarantee Scheme. [8]