1998 in New Zealand

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See also: 1997 in New Zealand, other events of 1998, 1999 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 May 3.6 June 3.7 July 3.8 August 3.9 September 3.10 October 3.11 November 3.12 December 4 Arts and literature 4.1 Music 4.2 Radio and Television 4.3 Film 4.4 Internet 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Basketball 6.2 Soccer 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

[edit] Summary

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

See: 1998 and Timeline of New Zealand history plus data below.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
• Governor-General - The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys

[edit] Government

The 45th New Zealand Parliament continued. Government was The National Party, led by Jenny Shipley, in coalition with New Zealand First, led by Winston Peters.

• Speaker of the House - Doug Kidd
• Prime Minister - Jenny Shipley
• Deputy Prime Minister - Winston Peters then Wyatt Creech
• Minister of Finance - Bill Birch
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Don McKinnon

[edit] Opposition Leaders

See: Category:New_Zealand_Parliament , New Zealand elections

• 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

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Les Mills then Christine Fletcher
• Mayor of Hamilton - Margaret Evans then Russell Matthew Remmington
• Mayor of Wellington - Mark Blumsky
• Mayor of Christchurch - Vicki Buck then Garry Moore
• Mayor of Dunedin - Sukhi Turner

[edit] Events

See 1998, 1998 in politics, 1998 in science, Category:1998 in Australia, 1998 in Australia, 1998 in music, 1998 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] May

• 2 May: By-election in Taranaki-King Country after the former Prime Minister Jim Bolger resigned. Shane Ardern retained the seat for National.

[edit] June

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

[edit] Arts and literature

• Michael King wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.
• Montana New Zealand Book Awards:
  • Montana Medal: Harry Orsman (ed.), Dictionary of New Zealand English
  • Deutz Medal: Maurice Gee, Live Bodies
  • Reader's Choice: Malcolm McKinnon(ed.), New Zealand Historical Atlas
  • First Book Awards
    • Fiction: Catherine Chidgey, In a fishbone church
    • Poetry: Kapka Kassabova, All Roads Lead to the Sea
    • Non-Fiction: Genevieve Noser, Olives: The new passion

See 1998 in art, 1998 in literature, Category:1998 books

[edit] Music

See: 1998 in music

[edit] Radio and Television

• 30 August: Prime Television New Zealand begins transmission.

See: 1998 in New Zealand television, 1998 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, TV3 (New Zealand), Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

• Memory and Desire
• Saving Grace

See: Category:1998 film awards, 1998 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1998 films

[edit] Internet

See: NZ Internet History

[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: 1998 in sports , Category:1998 in sports

[edit] Basketball

• the NBL was won by the Nelson Giants

• Winter Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games

• Cricket: Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team , Chappell-Hadlee Trophy , Cricket World Cup
• Gold: New Zealand Open , Check Category:New Zealand golfers in overseas tourniments.
• Horse racing: See Category:New Zealand horse races, list winners.
• Netball: Silver Ferns , National Bank Cup , Netball World Championships
• Rugby league New Zealand Warriors , Bartercard Cup , New Zealand national rugby league team , Rugby League World Cup
• 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

[edit] Soccer

• The second National Summer Soccer League was won by Napier City Rovers
• The New Zealand national soccer team won the OFC Nations Cup tournament held in Australia, beating the host nation 2-0 in the final.
• Chatham Cup won by Central United of Auckland.

[edit] Births

• 2 January: Somebody, description

Category:1998 births

[edit] Deaths

• 10 March: Dr C. E. Beeby, educationalist
• 30 August: Toss Woollaston, painter and writer

Category:1998 deaths

[edit] See also