24 August 1857
Evans Pass road over the Port Hills opens.
25 August 1920
First flight over Cook Strait (Christchurch to Trentham) by Captain Euan Dickson in a Canterbury Aviation Company plane. Read more in Peter Aimer, 'Aviation - Early flying feats', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 13-Jul-12.
26 August 1939
Official opening of City Council’s pensioner housing project in Barnett Avenue, Sydenham; the first local body pensioner housing in New Zealand.
28 August 1890
“Great maritime strike” (the first of New Zealand’s 3 major waterfront strikes) spreads to Lyttelton.
More August events in the Christchurch chronology: a timeline of Christchurch events in chronological order from pre-European times to 1989.
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