1964 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967

[edit] Population

• Estimated Population as of 31 December: 2,617,000 ^[1]
• Increase since 31/12/1963: 50,100 (1.95%)
• Males per 100 Females: 100.8

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
• Governor-General - Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergusson GCMG GCVO DSO OBE. ^[2]

[edit] Government

The 34th New Zealand Parliament commenced, with the second National Government in power.

• Speaker of the House - Ronald Algie . ^[3]
• Prime Minister - Keith Holyoake
• Deputy Prime Minister - Jack Marshall. ^[3]
• Minister of Finance - Harry Lake. ^[3]
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Keith Holyoake. ^[3]
• Attorney-General - Ralph Hanan. ^[3]

[edit] Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - Walter Nash (Labour) until 31 March, then Arnold Nordmeyer (Labour). ^[4]

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Dove-Myer Robinson
• Mayor of Hamilton - Dennis Rogers
• Mayor of Wellington - Frank Kitts
• Mayor of Christchurch - George Manning
• Mayor of Dunedin - Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• 2 January: description

[edit] February

[edit] March

[edit] April

[edit] June

• 21-27 June: The Beatles tour New Zealand.^[5]

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

[edit] Arts and literature

• Maurice Gee wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1964 in art, 1964 in literature, Category:1964 books

[edit] Music

See: 1964 in music

[edit] Radio and Television

• Coronation Street is shown for the first time on New Zealand television.
• Television licences reach 168,000.
• A Māori broadcasting section of NZBC is established.
• NZBC begins plans for the Avalon studio. [1]

• New Zealand Television Workshop awards:
  • Best Factual: Focus
  • Best Light Entertainment: Music Hall
  • Best Documentary: The Distant Shore

See: 1964 in New Zealand television, 1964 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

• Runaway

See: Category:1964 film awards, 1964 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1964 films

[edit] 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

[edit] Sport

See: 1960 in sports , Category:1960 in sports

[edit] Athletics

• Peter Snell — Olympic Gold Medal, Men's 800 metres
• Peter Snell — Olympic Gold Medal, Men's 1500 metres
• John Davies — Olympic Bronze Medal, Men's 1500 metres
• Marise Chamberlain — Olympic Bronze Medal, Women's 800 metres
• Raymond Puckett wins his fourth national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:17:38.6 on March 7 in Lower Hutt.

[edit] Cricket

• New Zealand cricket team
• Plunket Shield was won by Auckland (1963-1964 season)

[edit] Horse racing

• Category:Horse racing in New Zealand

[edit] Summer Olympics

• Summer Olympics, Tokyo - New Zealand sent a team of 69 competitors, winning 3 gold and 2 bronze medals.

[edit] Netball

• Silver Ferns

[edit] Rugby league

• New Zealand national rugby league team
• Rugby League World Cup

[edit] Rugby Union

• Category:All Blacks
• Bledisloe Cup: New Zealand beat Australia by 2 tests to 1
• Ranfurly Shield: Taranaki was successful in all defences, with 8 wins and 1 draw.

[edit] Soccer

• Chatham Cup won by Mount Roskill

[edit] Yachting

• Helmer Pedersen, and Earle Wells — Olympic Gold Medal, Men's Flying Dutchman class

[edit] Births

• 10 February - John Campbell, broadcaster.
• 23 March: John Mitchell, rugby player and coach.
• 7 April: Russell Crowe, actor.
• 12 May: Matthew Palmer, legal academic.
• 27 May: Joel Hayward, military historian.
• 10 June: Tony Martin, comedian.
• 12 June: Lorraine Downes, beauty queen.
• June 19: Michael Kenny, heavyweight boxer.
• July: Shayne Carter, musician.
• 11 August: Grant Waite, golfer.
• 27 August: Lynley Hannen, rower.
• 23 October: David Penfold, field hockey player.
• 29 October: Anthony Mosse, swimmer.
• 3 November: Bryan Young, cricketer.
• 16 December: John Kirwan, rugby player and coach.
• 24 December: Nick Smith, politician.

• Steve Braunias, journalist.
• Glenn Colquhoun, poet.
• Shane Cotton, painter.
• Brad McGann, filmmaker.
• Andrew Niccol, film director.

Category:1964 births

[edit] Deaths

• 2 January: Somebody, description

Category:1964 deaths

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

For world events and topics in 1964 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1964