1962_in_New_Zealand
1962 in New Zealand
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1962 in New Zealand.
Regal and viceregal
Government
Parliamentary opposition
Main centre leaders
- The Office of the Ombudsman was established
January
- 1 January: Samoa (then called Western Samoa) attains full independence, becoming the first independent Polynesian territory.
February
- 5 February: Dunedin lawyer James Patrick Ward was killed by a letter bomb sent to his office in what police described as "one of the most callous murders in the history of New Zealand crime".[5]
March
April
June
July
August
- 11 August: New Zealand Railways's Cook Strait ferry service began, using the GMV Aramoana.
September
October
November
- 12 December: The Flag of Wellington is adopted.[6]
December
- R.A.K. Mason wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.
See 1962 in art, 1962 in literature, Category:1962 books
Music
See: 1962 in music
Radio and television
- New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS) is restructured on 1 April to form New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
- An outside broadcast van is in use in Auckland, and similar vans are ordered for Wellington and Christchurch.
- Dunedin gets television service with the launch of DNTV2 on 31 July.
- There are 23,343 licensed television sets in New Zealand.[7]
See: 1962 in New Zealand television, 1962 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Public broadcasting in New Zealand
Film
See: Category:1962 film awards, 1962 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1962 films
Athletics
- 27 January: Peter Snell sets a new world record for the mile of 3m 54.4s, running at Cook's Gardens, Wanganui.[8]
- Barry Magee wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:24:55.4 in Auckland.
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
More information Gold, Silver ...
 Gold |  Silver |  Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 12 | 10 | 32 |
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Chess
- The 69th National Chess Championship was held in Auckland, and was won by G.G. Haase of Dunedin.[9]
Horse racing
Harness racing
- New Zealand Trotting Cup – Lordship defeats Cardigan Bay in a rain-affected race[10]
- Auckland Trotting Cup – Dandy Briar[11]
Lawn bowls
The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Christchurch.[12]
- Men's singles champion – Jeff Barron (Miramar Bowling Club)
- Men's pair champions – Frank Livingstone, Bob McDonald (skip) (Onehunga Bowling Club)
- Men's fours champions – W. Humphreys, S. Barlow, H.W. Todd, R. Brown (skip) (Marlborough Bowling Club)
Soccer
- The Chatham Cup is won by Hamilton Technical Old Boys who beat Northern of Dunedin 4–1 in the final.[13]
- Provincial league champions:[14]
- Auckland: Eastern Suburbs AFC
- Bay of Plenty: Rangers
- Buller: Waimangaroa Utd
- Canterbury: Western
- Franklin: Manurewa AFC
- Hawke's Bay: Napier Rovers
- Manawatu: Thistle
- Marlborough: Woodbourne
- Nelson: Rangers
- Northland: Otangarei United
- Otago: Northern AFC
- Poverty Bay: Eastern Union
- South Canterbury: Thistle
- Southland: Invercargill Thistle
- Taranaki: Moturoa
- Waikato: Hamilton Technical OB
- Wairarapa: Lansdowne United
- Wanganui: Wanganui Athletic
- Wellington: Northern
- West Coast: Runanga
- The inaugural Rothmans Cup was played between the champion clubs from Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago as a de facto national championship. The final was won by Northern AFC of Dunedin 3-2 on aggregate.[15]
- 12 January (in England): Terry Wiles, thalidomide survivor.
- 4 February: Frank Bunce, rugby union player.
- 17 February: Tony Blain, cricketer.
- 1 March: Russell Coutts, yachtsman.
- 4 March: John Young, composer.
- 15 March: Trevor Franklin, cricketer.
- 6 June: Grant Fox, rugby player.
- 8 June: John Cutler, yachtsman.
- 16 June Jonathan Temm, lawyer.
- 22 July: Rena Owen, actress.
- 5 August: Richard de Groen, cricketer.
- 13 September: Brian Fowler, cyclist.
- 21 September: Kelly Evernden, tennis player.
- 22 September: Martin Crowe, cricketer.
- 27 September: Gavin Larsen, cricketer.
- 9 October: Paul Radisich, racing driver.
- 12 October: Mark S. Olsen, painter.
- 7 November: Debbie Hockley, cricketer.
- 29 December: Wynton Rufer, soccer player.
- Tim Chadwick, artist and writer.
- Jon Stevens, singer.
- 26 April: Jerry Skinner, Labour politician.
- 20 June John Houston, historian and writer.
- 14 July: Janet Mackenzie, New Zealand teacher[16]
- 18 July: G. H. Cunningham, mycologist and plant pathologist.
- 18 September: Clyde Carr, Labour politician.
- 8 October: Donald Charles Cameron, Mayor of Dunedin
- 20 October: Cora Louisa Burrell, politician (MLC).
- 28 October: Bill Schramm, Labour politician and 11th Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- "Historical population estimates tables". Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017.
- Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
- Lambert & Palenski: The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. ISBN 0-908570-55-4
- "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- "Dunedin solicitor killed in bomb blast". Otago Daily Times. 6 February 1962.
- "City of Wellington: city flag". Archives Online. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- "TVNZ Timeline" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2006.
- List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
- Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- McLintock, A.H., ed. (1966). "Bowls, men's outdoor—tournament winners". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
- Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com Archived 14 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
- Hughes, Beryl. "Janet Craig McKutcheon Mackenzie". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.