Portal:New Zealand/Did you know/14
...that Pākehā Māori missionary Thomas Kendall was sacked for gun running?
...that Edgar James Kain - known to all as "Cobber" - was the first RAF Ace of World War II ?
...that the All Blacks lost two test matches on the same day in 1949?
...that quartz miners at Bullendale and Reefton in the 1880s were the first users of electricity in New Zealand?