More NZ trivia

My first post of NZ trivia can be found here. I thought I'd give you a little more to wonder about marvel at from this strange interesting place.

• NZ has about 600 museums and art galleries.
• The first white women to arrive were escaped convicts from Australia in 1806.
• 'Cervena' is the trade name for farm-raised NZ deer.
• Prostitution was decriminalized in 2003.
• In 1898, 'old age pension' was introduced in NZ, the first of it's kind in the world. 
• The 'widow's pension' became law in 1911.
• There are 30 species of fleas here.
• NZ's first record-pressing plant opened in Wellington in 1948. The first record produced was 'Buttons and Bows' by Dinah Shore.
• Leonard Deogood was a Charlie Chaplin impersonator who starred in several NZ comedies in the 1920's.
• Color TVs came to NZ in 1973.
• 23,000 NZers worked on the Lord of the Rings movies.
• The international date line passes about 160 kilometers from Gisborne.
• Gavin McCormick formed his own political party, called "The Pull Yourself Together Party".
• New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the right to vote.
• Pygmy pines grow in the alpine regions of NZ.
• Kaimanawa horses are a feral breed that roam in the Kaimanawa mountains of the northern island.