1950 in New Zealand

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Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg 1950 in New Zealand: Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg

Other years in New Zealand

1947 • 1948 • 1949 • 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953

Contents 1 Summary 2 Population 3 Incumbents 3.1 Regal and Vice Regal 3.2 Government 3.3 Other Party Leaders 3.4 Main centre leaders 4 Events 5 Arts and literature 5.1 Music 5.2 Radio 5.3 Film 6 Appointments and awards 7 Sport 7.1 Athletics 7.2 Cricket 7.3 Horse racing 7.4 Rugby 7.5 Rugby league 7.6 Soccer 8 Births 9 Deaths 10 References 11 See also

[edit] Summary

Major events in 1950:

• Newly Elected National government of Sydney Holland.
• Entry into the Korean War - a total of 4,700 New Zealanders will serve in Korea.
• Vote to abolish New Zealand Legislative Council
• Involvement in the Malayan Emergency
• 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland
• Wool prices boom, tripling during the year, due to U.S. stockpiling as a reaction to the Korean war. This is offset somewhat by increases in the prices of other (imported) commodities, but begins the biggest economic boom of the 20th Century in NZ.^[1]

[edit] Population

• Estimated Population as of 31 December: 1,927,700 ^[2]
• Increase since 31/12/1949: 35,600 (1.88%)
• Males per 100 Females: 100.7

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George VI
• Governor-General - Lieutenant-General The Lord Freyberg VC GCMG KCB KBE DSO

[edit] Government

The 29th New Zealand Parliament continued. In power was the newly elected National government under Sidney Holland.

• Speaker of the House - Robert McKeen then Mathew Oram
• Prime Minister - Sidney Holland
• Deputy Prime Minister - Keith Holyoake
• Minister of Finance - Sidney Holland
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Frederick Doidge
• Attorney-General - Clifton Webb

[edit] Other Party Leaders

See: Category:New Zealand Parliament , New Zealand elections

• Leader of the Labour party, and Leader of the Opposition: Peter Fraser until August 5 1950, then Walter Nash

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - John Allum
• Mayor of Hamilton - Harold David Caro
• Mayor of Wellington - William Appleton then Robert Macalister
• Mayor of Christchurch - Ernest Andrews then Robert M. Macfarlane
• Mayor of Dunedin - Donald Charles Cameron then Leonard Morton Wright

[edit] Events

• January 4: Start of the 4th British Empire Games in Auckland.

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1950 in art, 1950 in literature, Category:1950 books

[edit] Music

See: 1950 in music

[edit] Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

See: Category:1950 film awards , 1950 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1950 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: 1950 in sports , Category:1950 in sports

[edit] Athletics

• George Bromley wins his third national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:55:07 in Napier.

[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 won by Eden (Auckland)

[edit] Births

• January 3: Robert Oliver, road and track cyclist.
• 5 January: Matt Robson, politician.
• 26 February: Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1999-
• 6 April: Muriel Newman, politician.
• 29 April: Paul Holmes, radio and television broadcaster.
• 24 May: Allison Durbin, singer.
• 1 August: John Britten, engineer and inventor.
• 12 August: Ken Shirley, politician.
• 26 September: Andy Haden, rugby player.
• 9 November: Parekura Horomia, politician.
• 10 December: Simon Owen, golfer.
• 13 December: Ruth Richardson, politician.

• (in Hungary): George Baloghy, painter.
• David Benson-Pope, politician.
• Godwin Bradbeer, painter.
• Alan Duff, writer.
• Stephen Franks, politician and political commentator.
• David Henderson, businessman.
• Pete Hodgson, politician.
• Greg McGee, screenwriter and playwright.
• John McKinnon, diplomat and public servant.
• Judith Mayhew, lawyer and academic.
• Stephen Parke, physicist.
• Kura Te Waru Rewiri, painter.
• Lee Tamahori, film director.

[edit] Deaths

• 14 July: Apirana Ngata, Māori politician and lawyer.
• 11 December: Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer.
• 12 December: Peter Fraser, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand.

• William Twigg-Smith, painter.

[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 1950 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1950