1960 in New Zealand

Population

* Estimated Population as of 31 December: 2,403,600 http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/24107FC8-E7B5-4CF2-B17C-15E31CCA7D05/0/HistoricalPop.xls]
* Increase since 31/12/1959: 43,900 (1.86%)
* Males per 100 Females: 101.0

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

*Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
*Governor-General - The Viscount Cobham GCMG TD. [Statistics New Zealand: "New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990". ISSN 0078-0170 page 52]

Government

The 32nd New Zealand Parliament continued. In power was the Labour government under Walter Nash. The general election saw the governing Labour Party defeated by a twelve-seat margin.

*Speaker of the House - Robert Macfarlane. Lambert & Palenski: "The New Zealand Almanac", 1982. ISBN 0908570554]
*Prime Minister - Walter Nash then Keith Holyoake
*Deputy Prime Minister - Clarence Skinner then Jack Marshall.
*Minister of Finance - Arnold Nordmeyer then Harry Lake.
*Minister of Foreign Affairs - Walter Nash then Keith Holyoake.
* Attorney-General - Rex Mason, then Ralph Hanan.

Parliamentary opposition

* Leader of the Opposition - Keith Holyoake (National) until 12 December, then Walter Nash (Labour) [Cite web|url=http://www.elections.org.nz/democracy/leaders-opposition.html|title=Elections NZ - Leaders of the Opposition|accessdate=2008-04-06]

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

Events

* Passing of the Waitangi Day Act, 1960, first step towards a national day.
* 26 November: New Zealand general election, 1960

Arts and literature

*Maurice Duggan wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1960 in art, 1960 in literature,

Music

See: 1960 in music

Radio and Television

* At 7.30pm on Wednesday 1 June 1960, a switch was flicked in a building in Shortland Street in central Auckland and New Zealand's first official television transmission began. [http://corporate.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_detail/0,2406,111544-247-252,00.html] . For the first six weeks, programs are limited to two hours a night and two nights a week. [http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz/pdf/tvnz_timeline.pdf] . In mid-July, this was extended to four nights a week. A television licence fee of £4 per year was introduced in August.

See: 1960 in New Zealand television, 1960 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, , , Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

See: , 1960 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand,

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

port

* See: 1960 in sports ,

Athletics

* Raymond Puckett wins his third national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:23:12.6 on March 8 in Invercargill.

Cricket

* The Australian team toured but games against the national side did not have Test status.
* Plunket Shield was won by Canterbury (1959-1960 season)

Horse racing

*

ummer Olympics

* Summer Olympics, Rome - New Zealand entered 38 competitors in 9 sports, winning 2 gold (Peter Snell — Athletics, Men's 800m, Murray Halberg — Athletics, Men's 5,000m) and one bronze (Barry Magee — Athletics, Men's Marathon) medals.

Netball

* Silver Ferns

Rugby league

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

Rugby Union

*
* Ranfurly Shield: Auckland managed successful defences against Thames Valley (22-6) and Counties (14-3) before losing to North Auckland, 17-11. North Auckland managed to defend the shield against Poverty Bay, (24-3) before losing 3-6 to Auckland. Auckland held the shield for the remainder of the season, beating Manawatu (31-8), Bay of Plenty (9-6), Wellington (22-9), Taranaki (25-6) and Canterbury (19-18).

occer

* Chatham Cup won by North Shore United

Births

* 21 January: Phil Horne, cricketer
* 15 February: Michael James "Jock" Hobbs, rugby player and administrator
* 6 April: Richard Loe, rugby player
* April 10 — Rex Wilson, long-distance runner
* 14 May: Frank Nobilo, golfer
* 7 June: Lianne Dalziel, politician
* 15 July: Gary Robertson, cricketer
* 9 September: Chris White, rower
* 29 September: Tau Henare, politician
* 26 December: Temuera Morrison, actor

* Chris Bell, author
* Jenny Bornholdt, poet
* Ajahn Thaniya, Buddhist nun

Deaths

* 10 September: Sir Harold Gillies, plastic surgery pioneer

* Edgar Neale, politician.
* Sir William Polson, politician.

References

ee 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 1960 not specifically related to New Zealand see": 1960