1937 in New Zealand

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1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939 • 1940

Contents 1 Summary 2 Population 3 Incumbents 3.1 Regal and Vice Regal 3.2 Government 3.3 Opposition Leaders 3.4 Main centre leaders 4 Events 5 Arts and literature 5.1 Music 5.2 Broadcasting 5.3 Film 6 Appointments and awards 7 Sport 7.1 Cricket 7.2 Horse racing 7.3 Rugby 7.4 Rugby league 7.5 Soccer 8 Births 9 Deaths 10 References 11 See also

[edit] Summary

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[edit] Population

• Estimated Population as of 31 December: 1,601,800 ^[1]
• Increase since 31/12/1936: 17,200 (1.09%)
• Males per 100 Females: 103.1

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George VI
• Governor-General - Viscount Galway

[edit] Government

The 25th New Zealand Parliament continued with the Labour Party in government.

• Speaker of the House - Bill Barnard (Labour Party)
• Prime Minister - Michael Joseph Savage
• Minister of Finance - Walter Nash
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Michael Joseph Savage
• Attorney-General - Rex Mason

[edit] Opposition Leaders

See: Category:New_Zealand_Parliament, New Zealand elections

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Ernest Davis
• Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow
• Mayor of Wellington - Thomas Hislop
• Mayor of Christchurch - J. W. Beanland
• Mayor of Dunedin - Edwin Thomas Cox

[edit] Events

• 18 February: A flood drowns 21 Government construction workers when it washes away their camp beside the Kopuawhara Stream in Poverty Bay

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1937 in art, 1937 in literature, Category:1937 books

[edit] Music

See: 1937 in music

[edit] Broadcasting

• May 6 Historic radio link up to cover the arrival of Airship Hindenburg at New Jersey (and hence its destruction by fire). This is probably the first direct international radio broadcast of this nature from such a distance.

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

• New Zealand Review no.1, Holiday Sounds [1]

See: Category:1937 film awards, 1937 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1937 films

[edit] 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

[edit] Sport

• See: 1937 in sports, Category:1937 in sports

[edit] Cricket

[edit] Horse racing

See Category:New Zealand horse races

[edit] Rugby

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, Category:All Blacks

• Ranfurly Shield

[edit] Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

[edit] Soccer

• Chatham Cup competition not held this year.

[edit] Births

• 4 March: Graham Dowling, cricketer.
• 11 March: John Ward, cricketer.
• 21 June: John Kent, cartoonist.
• 02 August: Ron Brierley, businessman.
• 10 August (in England): Ian Bradley, naval officer.
• 30 August: Bruce McLaren, racing driver and car designer.
• 21 September: Dennis Browne, Catholic bishop.
• 19 November: Sir Kenneth Keith, Judge.
• 5 December: Roger Douglas, politician.

• Murray Ball, cartoonist.
• Bev Brentnall, cricketer.
• Patricia Grace, author.

Category:1937 births

[edit] Deaths

• 20 February: Rua Kenana Hepetipa, Māori prophet.
• 19 October: Sir Ernest Rutherford, physicist.

• Thomas Field, politician.
• Sir Frederic Lang, politician - 8th Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Category:1937 deaths

[edit] References

[edit] 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 1930 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1930