1995 in New Zealand

Population

* Estimated Population as of 31 December: 3,706,700 http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/24107FC8-E7B5-4CF2-B17C-15E31CCA7D05/0/HistoricalPop.xls]
* 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 [ [http://www.gg.govt.nz/gg/former.htm] ]

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: ,

*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. [cite web|url=http://cambridgemuseum.org.nz/Npapers/WaikCbInde/indefront.htm|title=Waikato Independent|publisher=Cambridge Museum]
* 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. [http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Kids/NZDisasters/CaveCreek.asp]

Arts and literature

*Elspeth Sandys wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1995 in art, 1995 in literature,

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. [http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz/pdf/tvnz_timeline.pdf]

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

Film

*Bonjour Timothy
*Cinema of Unease
*Forgotten Silver

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

Internet

See: [http://www.wlug.org.nz/NewZealandInternetHistory 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

port

:See: 1995 in sports , , Summer Olympic Games (See and Winter Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games (Check name).

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).
*Rugby: , Super 14, Rugby Union World Cup, National Provincial Championship , , Bledisloe Cup , Tri Nations Series , Ranfurly Shield
*Cricket: Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team , Chappell-Hadlee Trophy , Cricket World Cup
*Gold: New Zealand Open , Check in overseas tourniments.
*Horse racing: See , list winners.
*Rugby league New Zealand Warriors , Bartercard Cup , New Zealand national rugby league team , Rugby League World Cup
*Netball: Silver Ferns , National Bank Cup , Netball World Championships
*Soccer: New Zealand champions (soccer) , New Zealand Football Championship , New Zealand National Soccer League , New Zealand national soccer team , Chatham Cup ,
*Basketball: Tall Blacks , New Zealand Breakers
*Other Sports

Births

* August 17: , actor
* Billy Jackson, actor

Deaths

* 10 June: Bruno Lawrence, actor and musician.
* 5 September: John Britten, engineer and designer.
* 31 October: Sir Wallace (Bill) Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand.

* Erich Geiringer, physician, peace activist, writer.
* Grant Lingard, artist.
* Gordon Walters, painter.

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 1995 not specifically related to New Zealand see": 1995