1960 in New Zealand

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See also: 1959 in New Zealand, other events of 1960, 1961 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 and Television 4.3 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Cricket 6.2 Horse racing 6.3 Summer Olympics 6.4 Netball 6.5 Rugby league 6.6 Rugby Union 6.7 Soccer 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

[edit] Summary

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

See: 1960 and Timeline of New Zealand history plus data below.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
• Governor-General - The Viscount Cobham GCMG TD

[edit] Government

The 32nd New Zealand Parliament continued. In power was the Labour government under Walter Nash. The general election saw the governing Labour Party defeated by a twelve-seat margin.

• Speaker of the House - Robert Macfarlane
• Prime Minister - Walter Nash then Keith Holyoake
• Deputy Prime Minister - Clarence Skinner then Jack Marshall
• Minister of Finance - Arnold Nordmeyer then Harry Lake
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Walter Nash then Keith Holyoake

[edit] Opposition Leaders

See: Category:New Zealand Parliament , New Zealand elections

• National - Keith Holyoake (Leader of the Opposition) (before 12 December).

• Labour - Walter Nash (Leader of the Opposition) (after 12 December).

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Dove-Myer Robinson
• Mayor of Hamilton - Dennis Rogers
• Mayor of Wellington - Frank Kitts
• Mayor of Christchurch - George Manning
• Mayor of Dunedin - Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey

[edit] Events

See 1960 , 1960 in politics , 1960 in science , Category:1960 in Australia , 1960 in Australia , 1960 in music , 1960 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

• Maurice Duggan wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1960 in art, 1960 in literature, Category:1960 books

[edit] Music

See: 1960 in music

[edit] Radio and Television

• At 7.30pm on Wednesday 1 June 1960, a switch was flicked in a building in Shortland Street in central Auckland and New Zealand's first official television transmission began. [1]. For the first six weeks, programs are limited to two hours a night and two nights a week. [2]. In mid-July, this was extended to four nights a week. A television licence fee of £4 per week was introduced in August.

See: 1960 in New Zealand television, 1960 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:1960 film awards , 1960 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1960 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: 1960 in sports , Category:1960 in sports

[edit] Cricket

• New Zealand cricket team
• Plunket Shield was won by Canterbury (1959-1960 season)

[edit] Horse racing

• Category:New Zealand horse races

[edit] Summer Olympics

• Summer Olympics, Rome - New Zealand entered 38 competitors in 9 sports, winning 2 gold (Peter Snell — Athletics, Men's 800m, Murray Halberg — Athletics, Men's 5,000m) and one bronze (Barry Magee — Athletics, Men's Marathon) medals.

[edit] Netball

• Silver Ferns

[edit] Rugby league

• New Zealand national rugby league team
• Rugby League World Cup

[edit] Rugby Union

• Category:All Blacks
• Ranfurly Shield: Auckland managed successful defences against Thames Valley (22-6) and Counties (14-3) before losing to North Auckland, 17-11. North Auckland managed to defend the shield against Poverty Bay, (24-3) before losing 3-6 to Auckland. Auckland held the shield for the remainder of the season, beating Manawatu (31-8), Bay of Plenty (9-6), Wellington (22-9), Taranaki (25-6) and Canterbury (19-18).

[edit] Soccer

• Chatham Cup won by North Shore United

[edit] Births

• 21 January: Phil Horne, cricketer
• 15 February: Michael James "Jock" Hobbs, rugby player and administrator
• 6 April: Richard Loe, rugby player
• 14 May: Frank Nobilo, golfer
• 7 June: Lianne Dalziel, politician
• 15 July: Gary Robertson, cricketer
• 29 September: Tau Henare, politician
• 26 December: Temuera Morrison, actor

• Jenny Bornholdt, poet
• Ajahn Thaniya, Buddhist nun

Category:1960 births

[edit] Deaths

• 10 September: Sir Harold Gillies, plastic surgery pioneer

Category:1960 deaths

[edit] See also