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1975 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 (1975) • 1976 • 1977 • 1978

Population

• Estimated Population as of 31 December: 3,143,700 ^[1]
• Increase since 31/12/1974: 51,800 (1.68%)
• Males per 100 Females: 99.5

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
• Governor-General - Sir Denis Blundell GCMG GCVO KBE QSO. ^[2]

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. ^[3]
• Prime Minister - Bill Rowling then Robert Muldoon
• Deputy Prime Minister - Bob Tizard then Brian Talboys.^[3]
• Minister of Finance - Bob Tizard then Robert Muldoon.^[3]
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Bill Rowling then Brian Talboys.^[3]
• Attorney-General - Martyn Finlay then Peter Wilkinson.^[3]

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - Robert Muldoon (National) until 12 December, then Bill Rowling (Labour). ^[4]

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

• 4 February: American Lynne Cox becomes the first woman to swim across Cook Strait, making the north-south crossing in just over 12 hours. ^[5]

• 14 September: Māori land march protesting at land loss leaves Te Hapua.

• October 13: Māori land march reaches Parliament building in Wellington, Whina Cooper presents a Memorial of Rights to the Prime Minister Bill Rowling and Māori Affairs Minister Matiu Rata.

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 – Thru' The Southern 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. Jennie 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

Athletics

• Anthony Reavley wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:19:54.6 on March 1 in Dunedin.

Horse racing

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Lunar Chance ^[6]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Captain Harcourt ^[7]

Thoroughbred racing

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
• The Chatham Cup is won by Christchurch United who beat Blockhouse Bay 4—2 (after extra time) in the final. ^[8]

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.
• 15 May: Danny Hay, soccer 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.
• December 14: Lisa Walton, field hockey player

• (in Britain): Toa Fraser, playwright.
• Craig McNair, politician.
• Chong Nee, musician.

Category:1975 births

Deaths

• 6 February: Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, senior RAF commander
• A.H. Reed, publisher and writer
• Philip Skoglund, politician. ^[9]

Category:1975 deaths

References

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 1975 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1975