Welcome to passengers from the Sun Princess, here in port today.

It's another perfect summer day, with the forecast showing a mostly sunny day ahead with a chance of showers from the afternoon, and light winds.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 29 and an overnight low of 20 degrees. Humidity is 88 per cent.

High tide is at 1.40pm and low tide at 8pm. Sunset is at 8.30pm.

If you're going fishing today the best fish bite time is between 6.30pm and 8.30pm.

This day in NZ history in 1974 was the first day of competition at the Christchurch Commonwealth Games.

The opening ceremony of the ‘Friendly Games' had featured performances by schoolchildren and a Māori concert party.

Next day, Canterbury runner Dick Tayler ensured the success of the Games with a surprise victory for the host nation in the 10,000 m track race.

This day in world history in 1915 Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco made a record telephone transmission.

In 1955 Columbia University scientists developed an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years.

In 1972 Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress, announced her candidacy for president.

In 1984 President Reagan endorsed the development of the first U.S. permanently-manned space station.

Today is the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns, who penned Auld Lang Syne, and Comin' Thro' the Rye.

Born in 1759, he once wrote "Dare to be honest and fear no labour".

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