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Stamp for early Pigeon-Gram service.

...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.

...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?