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1999 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 (1999) • 2000 • 2001 • 2002

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
• Governor-General - The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSO^[1]

Government

The 45th New Zealand Parliament continued. until the General election, held 27 November. The governing National Party was defeated. The Labour Party, led by Helen Clark, in coalition with Alliance, led by Jim Anderton, formed the new government.

• Speaker of the House - Doug Kidd then Jonathan Hunt
• Prime Minister - Jenny Shipley then Helen Clark
• Deputy Prime Minister - Wyatt Creech then Jim Anderton
• Minister of Finance - Bill Birch then Bill English then Bill Birch then Michael Cullen
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Don McKinnon then Phil Goff

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 - Winston Peters
• United New Zealand - TBD

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Christine Fletcher
• Mayor of Hamilton - Russell Matthew Remmington
• Mayor of Wellington - Mark Blumsky
• Mayor of Christchurch - Garry Moore
• Mayor of Dunedin - Sukhi Turner

Events

• 3 May: The Daily Telegraph and The Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune merge to form Hawke's Bay Today.^[2]

Arts and literature

• Michael King and Paula Boock win the Robert Burns Fellowship.
• Montana New Zealand Book Awards:
  • Montana Medal: Heather Nicholson, The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand
  • Deutz Medal: Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck
  • Reader's Choice: Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck
  • First Book Awards
    • Fiction: Willian Brandt, Alpha Male
    • Poetry: Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars
    • Non-Fiction: Helen Schamroth, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists

See 1999 in art, 1999 in literature, Category:1999 books

Music

See: 1999 in music

Radio and Television

• TVNZ sells its shareholding in SKY Network Television. [2]

See: 1999 in New Zealand television, 1999 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

• Channelling Baby
• I'll Make You Happy
• Savage Honeymoon
• Scarfies

See: Category:1999 film awards, 1999 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1999 films

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

• See: 1999 in sports , Category:1999 in sports

Athletics

• Phil Costley wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:17:43 on 24 October in Auckland, while Gabrielle O'Rourke claims her second as well in the women's championship (2:38:47).

Basketball

• Tall Blacks
• NBL (Men's) was won by the Auckland Stars

Cricket

Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team

• 1999 Cricket World Cup held in England: New Zealand finished third in its pool and fourth in the super-six round before being beaten by Pakistan in the first semifinal.
• The Shell Trophy for 1998-99 was won by Canterbury, with Northern Districts runners-up.

Golf

New Zealand Open Category:New Zealand golfers

Horse racing

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Homin Hosed ^[3]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Happy Asset ^[4]

Thoroughbred racing

Netball

• Silver Ferns
• National Bank Cup
• Netball World Championships

Rugby league

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

Rugby Union

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand ,

• Super 12
• Rugby Union World Cup
• National Provincial Championship
• Bledisloe Cup
• Tri Nations Series
• Ranfurly Shield

Soccer

• The Chatham Cup is won by Dunedin Technical who beat Waitakere City F.C. 4—0 in the final. ^[5]

Births

None

Category:1999 births

Deaths

• 19 March - Freda Stark, dancer.
• 29 April - Barbara Bevege, cricketer
• 8 May - Jeff Whittington, murder victim.
• 24 July - Rona McKenzie, cricketer.
• 22 October - Martin Donnelly, cricketer.

Category:1999 deaths

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 1999 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1999

References