1970 in New Zealand

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See also: 1969 in New Zealand, other events of 1970, 1971 in New Zealand, and the Timeline of New Zealand history.

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Incumbents 2.1 Regal and Vice Regal 2.2 Government 2.3 Opposition Leaders 2.4 Main centre leaders 3 Events 3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 June 3.6 July 3.7 August 3.8 September 3.9 October 3.10 November 3.11 December 4 Arts and literature 4.1 Music 4.1.1 New Zealand Music Awards 4.2 Radio and Television 4.3 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Commonwealth Games 6.2 Soccer 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

[edit] Summary

The section should contain a paragraph or two about the year.

See: 1970 and Timeline of New Zealand history plus data below.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
• Governor-General - Sir Arthur Porritt

[edit] Government

• Speaker of the House - Roy Jack
• Prime Minister - Keith Holyoake
• Deputy Prime Minister - Jack Marshall
• Minister of Finance - Robert Muldoon
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Keith Holyoake

[edit] Opposition Leaders

• Labour - Norman Kirk (Leader of the Opposition)

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Dove-Myer Robinson
• Mayor of Hamilton - Mike Minogue
• Mayor of Wellington - Frank Kitts
• Mayor of Christchurch - A. R. (Ron) Guthrey
• Mayor of Dunedin - James George Barnes

[edit] Events

See 1970 , 1970 in politics , 1970 in science , Category:1970 in Australia , 1970 in Australia , 1970 in music , 1970 timelines , History of New Zealand , Category:History of New Zealand , Military history of New Zealand , Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand , Timeline of New Zealand history

• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

[edit] January

• 2 January: description

[edit] February

[edit] March

[edit] April

[edit] June

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

[edit] Arts and literature

• Edward Middleton wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1970 in art, 1970 in literature, Category:1970 books

[edit] Music

[edit] New Zealand Music Awards

• LOXENE GOLDEN DISC SOLOIST AWARD Craig Scott - Lets Get A Little Sentimental
• LOXENE GOLDEN DISC GROUP AWARD Hogsnort Rupert - Pretty Girl

See: 1970 in music

[edit] Radio and Television

• The Feltex Television Awards begin.
  • Best Arts: Green Gin Sunset
  • Best Light Entertainment: The Alpha Plan
  • Public Affairs: Gallery for Brian Edwards' interview with Christiaan Barnard.
  • Best Documentary: Three Score Years and Then
  • Professional (TVPDA award): David Gardner

See: 1970 in New Zealand television, 1970 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

See: Category:1970 film awards , 1970 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1970 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

[edit] Commonwealth Games

• New Zealand competed at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh

[edit] Soccer

• Establishment of the New Zealand National Soccer League
• Blockhouse Bay are the first National Soccer Champions.
• Chatham Cup won by Blockhouse Bay

• See: 1970 in sports , Category:1970 in sports ,
• Rugby: Category:Rugby union in New Zealand , Super 14, Rugby Union World Cup, National Provincial Championship , Category:All Blacks , Bledisloe Cup , Tri Nations Series , Ranfurly Shield
• Cricket: Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team , Chappell-Hadlee Trophy , Cricket World Cup
• Golf: New Zealand Open , Check Category:New Zealand golfers in overseas tourniments.
• Horse racing: See Category:New Zealand horse races, list winners.
• Rugby league New Zealand national rugby league team
• Netball: Silver Ferns , National Bank Cup , Netball World Championships

[edit] Births

• 12 January: Brett Leaver, field hockey player
• 13 June: Christopher Cairns, cricketer
• 9 August: Deborah Morris, politician
• 27 Octomer (in Samoa): Alama Ieremia, rugby player

• Catherine Chidgey, novellist
• Simon Power, politician
• Metiria Turei, politician

[edit] Deaths

• 2 June: Bruce McLaren, racing driver and car designer

Category:1970 deaths

[edit] See also