1946 in New Zealand

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See also: 1945 in New Zealand, other events of 1946, 1947 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 4.2 Radio 4.3 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Cricket 6.2 Horse racing 6.3 Rugby 6.4 Rugby league 6.5 Soccer 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

[edit] Summary

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

See: 1946 and Timeline of New Zealand history plus data below.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George VI
• Governor-General - Sir Cyril Newall, succeeded same year by Lord Freyberg

[edit] Government

The 27th New Zealand Parliament concluded, with the Labour Party in government. Labour was re-elected for a fourth term in the election in November, but with a smaller majority.

• Speaker of the House - Frederick Schramm (Labour)
• Prime Minister - Peter Fraser
• Minister of Finance - Walter Nash
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Peter Fraser
• Attorney-General - Rex Mason

[edit] Opposition Leaders

• National - TBD (Leader of the Opposition)

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - John Allum
• Mayor of Hamilton - Harold David Caro
• Mayor of Wellington - William Appleton
• Mayor of Christchurch - Ernest Andrews
• Mayor of Dunedin - Donald Charles Cameron

[edit] Events

See 1946 , 1946 in politics , 1946 in science , Category:1946 in Australia , 1946 in Australia , 1946 in music , 1946 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 , Category:2002

[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

• See also Current events in Australia and New Zealand

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1946 in art, 1946 in literature, Category:1946 books

[edit] Music

See: 1946 in music

[edit] Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

See: Category:1946 film awards , 1946 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1946 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: 1946 in sports , Category:1946 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 won by Marist (Wellington)

[edit] Births

• 25 February: Grahame Thorne, rugby player, commentator and politician
• 28 February: Graham Vivian, cricketer
• 2 April: Richard Collinge, cricketer
• 24 May: Ian Kirkpatrick, rugby player
• 5 June (in Wales): John Bach, actor
• 8 June: Graham Henry, rugby coach
• 13 June: Geoff Murphy, film director
• 4 August: Paul East, politician
• 30 November: Ken Wadsworth, cricketer
• 2 December: Doug Cowie, cricket umpire

• John Banks: politician, radio host
• George Hawkins, politician
• Sam Hunt, performance poet
• Richard Killeen, artist
• John Luxton, politician
• Bill Manhire, poet

Category:1946 births

[edit] Deaths

• William Nosworthy, politician

Category:1946 deaths

[edit] See also