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1995 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 (1995) • 1996 • 1997 • 1998

Population

• Estimated Population as of 31 December: 3,706,700 ^[1]
• Increase since 31/12/1994: 58,400 (1.60%)
• Males per 100 Females: 97.3

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
• Governor-General - The Hon Dame Catherine Tizard, GCMG, GCVO, DBE, QSO followed by The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSO^[2]

Government

The 44th New Zealand Parliament continued. Government was The National Party, led by Jim Bolger.

• Speaker of the House - Peter Tapsell
• Prime Minister - Jim Bolger
• Deputy Prime Minister - Don McKinnon
• Minister of Finance - Bill Birch
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Don McKinnon

Opposition Leaders

See: Category:New Zealand Parliament, New Zealand elections

• National - TBD (Leader of the Opposition)
• Greens - Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald
• Act - TBD
• New Zealand First - TBD
• United Future - TBD
• Māori Party - TBD
• Labour - TBD
• Progressives - TBD
• United Future - TBD

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Les Mills
• Mayor of Hamilton - Margaret Evans
• Mayor of Wellington - Fran Wilde then Mark Blumsky
• Mayor of Christchurch - Vicki Buck
• Mayor of Dunedin - Richard Walls then Sukhi Turner

Events

• April: The Cambridge Independent closes. The newspaper began as the Waikato Independent in 1904.^[3]
• 28 April: 13 polytech students and a Department of Conservation Worker die when a viewing platform collapses into a 40 metre deep gorge at Cave Creek in the Paparoa National Park. [2]
• 9 June: Ansett Flight 703 crashes on approach to Palmerston North, killing 4 of 21 onboard. Passenger Reginald John Dixon was awarded the New Zealand Cross posthumously.

Arts and literature

• Elspeth Sandys wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1995 in art, 1995 in literature, Category:1995 books

Music

• New Zealand Music Awards
  • Album of the Year: Supergroove - Traction
  • Single of the Year: Purest Form – Message To My Girl
  • Best Male Vocalist: Dave Dobbyn – Twist
  • Best Female Vocalist: Fiona McDonald
  • Best Group: Supergroove
  • Most Promising Male Vocalist: Brent Milligan (Pumpkinhead)
  • Most Promising Female Vocalist: Sulata Foai
  • Most Promising Group: Sisters Underground
  • International Achievement: Headless Chickens
  • Best Video: Jo Fischer & Matt Noonan – Can't Get Enough (Supergroove)
  • Best Producer: Karl Steven & Malcolm Welsford – Traction (Supergroove)
  • Best Engineer: Malcolm Welsford - Traction (Supergroove)
  • Best Jazz Album: George Chisholm Quintet - Perfect Strangers
  • Best Classical Album: The NZ Symphony Orchestra - The Three Symphonies / Douglas Lilburn
  • Best Country Album: Kevin Greaves –I'm Not Scared Of Women
  • Best Folk Album: Windy City Strugglers - Windy City Strugglers
  • Best Gospel Album: Derek Lind – Stations
  • Best Film Soundtrack: Once Were Warriors
  • Best Songwriter: Dave Dobbyn – Language
  • Best Cover: Alec Bathgate / Chris Knox - 3 EPs (Tall Dwarfs)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Ian Magan

See: 1995 in music

Radio and Television

• Horizon Pacific is launched, taking over CTV.
• Te Mangai Paho launched. [3]

See: 1995 in New Zealand television, 1995 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, TV3 (New Zealand), Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

• Bonjour Timothy
• Cinema of Unease
• Forgotten Silver

See: Category:1995 film awards, 1995 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1995 films

Dance

• Black Grace, a modern dance company, is formed in Auckland.^[4]

Internet

See: NZ Internet History

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

• Chris Mardon wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:24:24 in Christchurch, while Robyn Duncan claims her first in the women's championship (2:57:29).

Horse racing

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Il Vicolo ^[5]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Burlington Bertie ^[6]

Thoroughbred racing

Soccer

• The Chatham Cup is won by Waitakere City who beat North Shore United 4—0 in the final.^[7]

Births

• August 17: Olivia James-Baird, actor
• Billy Jackson, actor

Deaths

• 6 June: Sir James George Barnes, MP and Mayor of Dunedin
• 10 June: Bruno Lawrence, actor and musician.
• 25 August: Erich Geiringer, physician, peace activist, writer.
• 5 September: John Britten, engineer and designer.
• 31 October: Sir Wallace (Bill) Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• 5 November: Gordon Walters, painter.

• Grant Lingard, artist.

Category:1995 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 1995 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1995