1975 in New Zealand

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See also: 1974 in New Zealand, other events of 1975, 1976 in New Zealand, and the Timeline of New Zealand history.

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Incumbents 2.1 Regal and Vice Regal 2.2 Government 2.3 Opposition Leaders 2.4 Main centre leaders 3 Events 3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 June 3.6 July 3.7 August 3.8 September 3.9 October 3.10 November 3.11 December 4 Arts and literature 4.1 Music 4.1.1 New Zealand Music Awards 4.2 Radio and Television 4.3 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Netball 6.2 Soccer 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

Summary

The section should contain a paragraph or two about the year. See: 1975 and Timeline of New Zealand history plus data below.

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
• Governor-General - Sir Denis Blundell

Government

The 37th New Zealand Parliament continued. Government was by a Labour majority of 55 seats to the National Party's 32 seats. At the 29 November election, the allocation of seats for the 38th parliament was reversed and the National Party formed the new government on December 12.

• Speaker of the House - Stanley Whitehead
• Prime Minister - Bill Rowling then Robert Muldoon
• Deputy Prime Minister - Bob Tizard then Brian Talboys
• Minister of Finance - Bob Tizard then Robert Muldoon
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Bill Rowling then Brian Talboys

Opposition Leaders

• National - Robert Muldoon (Leader of the Opposition) (before 12 December).

• Labour - Bill Rowling (Leader of the Opposition) (after 12 December).

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Dove-Myer Robinson
• Mayor of Hamilton - Mike Minogue
• Mayor of Wellington - Michael Fowler
• Mayor of Christchurch - Hamish Hay
• Mayor of Dunedin - James George Barnes

Events

See 1975 , 1975 in politics , 1975 in science , Category:1975 in Australia , 1975 in Australia , 1975 in music , 1975 timelines , History of New Zealand , Category:History of New Zealand , Military history of New Zealand , Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand , Timeline of New Zealand history

• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

January

• 2 January: description

February

March

April

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Arts and literature

• Witi Ihimaera wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1975 in art, 1975 in literature, Category:1975 books

Music

New Zealand Music Awards

• ALBUM OF THE YEAR John Hanlon – Higher Trails
• BEST SINGLE / SINGLE OF THE YEAR Rockinghorse – Through The Moonlight
• RECORDING ARTIST/ GROUP OF THE YEAR Mark Williams
• BEST NEW ARTIST Space Waltz
• PRODUCER OF THE YEAR Alan Galbraith - Yesterday Was Just The Beginning Of My Life
• ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Phil Yule – Higher Trails
• ARRANGER OF THE YEAR Mike Harvey – Higher Trails
• COMPOSER OF THE YEAR John Hanlon – Higher Trails

See: 1975 in music

Radio and Television

• On April 1, the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation is split into the competing channels Television One and Television Two. Television One begins broadcasting from the new Avalon studio in Lower Hutt.
• May 12: Close to Home first airs.
• June 30: Television Two starts broadcasting. Jenny Goodwin is the first female newsreader in the Commonwealth.
• July 5: Television Two holds the first Telethon in New Zealand. [1]

• Feltex Television Awards:
  • Best Documentary: Show on New Guinea's coming independence
  • First Series Awards: Country Calendar
  • Best Performer: Joe Cot'e
  • Best Actor in TV Drama: Ian Mune as Derek
  • Writing: Michael Noonan in Longest Winter and Michael King in Tangata Whenua

See: 1975 in New Zealand television, 1975 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

• Test Pictures

See: Category:1975 film awards, 1975 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1975 films

Appointments and awards

See: New Zealand Order of Merit , Order of New Zealand

• Archbishop of New Zealand
• Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia , see appointments to Diocese

Sport

• See: 1975 in sports , Category:1975 in sports ,
• Rugby: Category:Rugby union in New Zealand National Provincial Championship , Category:All Blacks , Bledisloe Cup , Ranfurly Shield
• Cricket: Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team , Cricket World Cup
• Gold: New Zealand Open , Check Category:New Zealand golfers in overseas tourniments.
• Horse racing: See Category:New Zealand horse races, list winners.
• Rugby league New Zealand Warriors , Bartercard Cup , New Zealand national rugby league team , Rugby League World Cup

Netball

• The 4th Netball World Championships were held in New Zealand, with Australia winning, England second and New Zealand third.

Soccer

• New Zealand National Soccer League won by Christchurch United
• Chatham Cup won by Christchurch United

Births

• 1 January: Skippy Hamahona, field hockey player
• 2 January: Reuben Thorne, rugby player
• 4 January: Bevan Hari, field hockey striker
• 5 January: Kylie Bax, model
• 3 February: Brad Thorn, rugby league and union player
• 2 March: Daryl Gibson, rugby player
• 17 January: Tony Brown, rugby player
• 27 March: Andrew Blowers, rugby player
• 21 April: Danyon Loader, swimmer
• 2 May: Murray Burdan, swimmer
• 12 May: Jonah Lomu, rugby player
• 7 June: Shane Bond, cricketer
• 10 July: Scott Styris, cricketer
• 17 July: Andre Adams, cricketer
• 20 July: Greg Feek, rugby player
• 7 August: Jason Suttie, kickboxer
• 11 August: Rua Tipoki, rugby player
• 21 August: Mark Robinson, rugby player
• 21 August: Scott Robertson, rugby player
• 23 August: Sean Marks, basketballer
• 27 August: Caryn Paewai, field hockey player
• 31 August: Craig Cumming, cricketer
• 9 September: Anton Oliver, rugby player
• 12 September: Belinda Colling, netball player
• 2 October: Mark Porter, V8 Supercar driver.
• 14 October: Carlos Spencer, rugby player
• 23 October: Temepara George, netball player
• 9 November (in Australia): Mathew Sinclair, cricketer

• (in Britain): Toa Fraser
• Craig McNair, politician

Category:1975 births

Deaths

• 6 February: Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, senior RAF commander
• A.H. Reed, publisher and writer

Category:1975 deaths

See also

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