Steve McQueen's film The Sand Pebbles was showing at the Patea Civic. It was made in 1966, so had taken a while to get there. * The Hawera stayer Domodossola and another Hawera horse, Dolapal, took out the Totalisator Agency Board double at the Wanganui Jockey Club's summer meeting. * Built very close to a Maori pa of the same name, a new two-storey ward block at the Hawera hospital was named Te Ramanui by the hospital committee who heard the matron, Miss S M Watts, describe the new wards as "heaven". * Maori and pakeha stood shoulder-to-shoulder at Pukearuhe in North Taranaki as they commemorated 100 years of peace between the two races and remembered the death of the Rev John Whiteley on February 13, 1869.

Source: Stuff February 14, 2019 22:52 UTC