• Source: 1962 in New Zealand

      • The following lists events that happened during 1962 in New Zealand.


      Population


      Estimated population as of 31 December: 2,515,800.
      Increase since 31 December 1961: 54,500 (2.21%).
      Males per 100 females: 101.0.


      Incumbents




      = Regal and viceregal

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      Head of State – Elizabeth II
      Governor-General – The Viscount Cobham GCMG TD, followed by Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergusson GCMG GCVO DSO OBE.


      = Government

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      Speaker of the House – Ronald Algie.
      Prime Minister – Keith Holyoake
      Deputy Prime Minister – Jack Marshall.
      Minister of Finance – Harry Lake.
      Minister of Foreign Affairs – Keith Holyoake.
      Attorney-General – Ralph Hanan.
      Chief Justice — Sir Harold Barrowclough


      = Parliamentary opposition

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      Leader of the Opposition – Walter Nash (Labour)


      = Main centre leaders

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      Mayor of Auckland – Dove-Myer Robinson
      Mayor of Hamilton – Denis Rogers
      Mayor of Wellington – Frank Kitts
      Mayor of Christchurch – George Manning
      Mayor of Dunedin – Stuart Sidey


      Events


      The Office of the Ombudsman was established


      = January

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      1 January: Samoa (then called Western Samoa) attains full independence, becoming the first independent Polynesian territory.


      = February

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      5 February: Dunedin lawyer James Patrick Ward was killed by a letter bomb sent to his office in what police described as "one of the most callous murders in the history of New Zealand crime".


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      = August

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      11 August: New Zealand Railways's Cook Strait ferry service began, using the GMV Aramoana.


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      = November

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      12 December: The Flag of Wellington is adopted.


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      Arts and literature


      R.A.K. Mason wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.
      See 1962 in art, 1962 in literature, Category:1962 books


      = Music

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      See: 1962 in music


      = Radio and television

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      New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS) is restructured on 1 April to form New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
      An outside broadcast van is in use in Auckland, and similar vans are ordered for Wellington and Christchurch.
      Dunedin gets television service with the launch of DNTV2 on 31 July.
      There are 23,343 licensed television sets in New Zealand.
      See: 1962 in New Zealand television, 1962 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Public broadcasting in New Zealand


      = Film

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      See: Category:1962 film awards, 1962 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1962 films


      Sport




      = Athletics

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      27 January: Peter Snell sets a new world record for the mile of 3m 54.4s, running at Cook's Gardens, Wanganui.
      Barry Magee wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:24:55.4 in Auckland.


      = British Empire and Commonwealth Games

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      = Chess

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      The 69th National Chess Championship was held in Auckland, and was won by G.G. Haase of Dunedin.


      = Horse racing

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      Harness racing


      New Zealand Trotting Cup – Lordship defeats Cardigan Bay in a rain-affected race
      Auckland Trotting Cup – Dandy Briar


      = Lawn bowls

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      The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Christchurch.

      Men's singles champion – Jeff Barron (Miramar Bowling Club)
      Men's pair champions – Frank Livingstone, Bob McDonald (skip) (Onehunga Bowling Club)
      Men's fours champions – W. Humphreys, S. Barlow, H.W. Todd, R. Brown (skip) (Marlborough Bowling Club)


      = Soccer

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      The Chatham Cup is won by Hamilton Technical Old Boys who beat Northern of Dunedin 4–1 in the final.
      Provincial league champions:
      Auckland: Eastern Suburbs AFC
      Bay of Plenty: Rangers
      Buller: Waimangaroa Utd
      Canterbury: Western
      Franklin: Manurewa AFC
      Hawke's Bay: Napier Rovers
      Manawatu: Thistle
      Marlborough: Woodbourne
      Nelson: Rangers
      Northland: Otangarei United
      Otago: Northern AFC
      Poverty Bay: Eastern Union
      South Canterbury: Thistle
      Southland: Invercargill Thistle
      Taranaki: Moturoa
      Waikato: Hamilton Technical OB
      Wairarapa: Lansdowne United
      Wanganui: Wanganui Athletic
      Wellington: Northern
      West Coast: Runanga
      The inaugural Rothmans Cup was played between the champion clubs from Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago as a de facto national championship. The final was won by Northern AFC of Dunedin 3-2 on aggregate.


      Births


      12 January (in England): Terry Wiles, thalidomide survivor.
      4 February: Frank Bunce, rugby union player.
      17 February: Tony Blain, cricketer.
      1 March: Russell Coutts, yachtsman.
      4 March: John Young, composer.
      15 March: Trevor Franklin, cricketer.
      6 June: Grant Fox, rugby player.
      8 June: John Cutler, yachtsman.
      16 June Jonathan Temm, lawyer.
      22 July: Rena Owen, actress.
      5 August: Richard de Groen, cricketer.
      13 September: Brian Fowler, cyclist.
      21 September: Kelly Evernden, tennis player.
      22 September: Martin Crowe, cricketer.
      27 September: Gavin Larsen, cricketer.
      9 October: Paul Radisich, racing driver.
      12 October: Mark S. Olsen, painter.
      7 November: Debbie Hockley, cricketer.
      29 December: Wynton Rufer, soccer player.
      Tim Chadwick, artist and writer.
      Jon Stevens, singer.
      Category:1962 births


      Deaths


      26 April: Jerry Skinner, Labour politician.
      20 June John Houston, historian and writer.
      14 July: Janet Mackenzie, New Zealand teacher
      18 July: G. H. Cunningham, mycologist and plant pathologist.
      18 September: Clyde Carr, Labour politician.
      8 October: Donald Charles Cameron, Mayor of Dunedin
      20 October: Cora Louisa Burrell, politician (MLC).
      28 October: Bill Schramm, Labour politician and 11th Speaker of the House of Representatives.


      See also


      List of years in New Zealand
      Timeline of New Zealand history
      History of New Zealand
      Military history of New Zealand
      Timeline of the New Zealand environment
      Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica


      References

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