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1953 Tangiwai railway accident
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On 24 December a North Island main trunk express plunged off the Tangiwai bridge into the Whangaehu River. The bridge had been fatally weakened by a lahar from Mount Ruapehu’s crater lake. Of the 285 people on board, 151 were killed. This is New Zealand’s worst rail disaster.
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1959 Holmglen shipwreck
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On 24 November the coaster Holmglen foundered north of Oamaru. All 15 crew were lost.
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1963 Kaimai air crash
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On 3 July a DC-3 airliner crashed in the Kaimai Range, Bay of Plenty. All 23 passengers and crew were killed in what remains the worst air crash within New Zealand.
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1967 Strongman mine accident
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On 19 January an explosion at the Strongman coal mine, near Greymouth, killed 19 miners.
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Malcolm Turnbull
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Prime Minister from 15 September 2015 to 24 August 2018
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