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...that a pigeon post service ran from Newton to Great Barrier Island from 1896 to 1908. This may have been the world's first regular airmail service.

Stamp for early Pigeon-Gram service.

...that New Zealand fighter ace Keith Caldwell criticised the Royal Flying Corps' leading ace - and his superior officer - for shooting two German aircrew who had crash landed behind British lines.

...that the New Zealand Storm-petrel was believed extinct from 1850 until it was sighted again in 2003?

...that New Zealand's biggest second-hand book sale (pictured) is that held annually at the Regent Theatre, Dunedin?

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