Ninety-nine Not Out

By digikidz

  • Birth

    Sydney Ward born in 1907. The same year the school journal began.
  • Period: to

    Ninety-Nine Not Out

  • mount cook

    Freda du Farur becomes the first woman to climb mount cook.

  • Started School

    Teachers were strict got hit with ruler
    Had to pass Proficiency certificate to keep going at school

  • Came to nz

    Sydney Ward came on a boat to nz in 1917

  • work

    When he went to work for his farther he was a watch maker.

  • solo flight

    Jean Batten makes first solo flight from England to nz.

  • second world war

    Sydney and his brother Nelson both were in the war his brother was in the army and Syndey was in the air force.

  • mount Everest

    Sir Edmud Hillary and Tenzing Norgay cilmbed mount Everest.

  • kiwifruit

    In 1959 the Chinese gooseberry was rename the kiwifruit.

  • Elvis

    Elvis Presey dies.

  • Air nz

    In 1979 a air nz plan crashes into mount Eerbus in Antarctica killing 257 peaple on board.

  • Maori

    Te reo Maori becomes the official language of nz

  • Treaty of waitangi

    nz celebratates the 150th anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Waitangi.

  • 100th birthday