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Photo recall

Next time the pub quizmaster asks, “When was flogging and whipping outlawed in New Zealand?”, you can scribble down September 17, 1941. If said quizmaster asks what happened on September 17, 1848, however, you can say … the first recorded attempt at photography on New Zealand soil.

According to his journal, on that day a shade over 172 years ago, Lieutenant-Governor Edward

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