1973 in New Zealand

1973 in New Zealand
Decades:
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
See also:

Population

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Government

The 37th New Zealand Parliament commenced. Government was by a Labour majority of 55 seats to the National Party's 32 seats.

Parliamentary opposition

Main centre leaders

Events

January

Arts and literature

See 1973 in art, 1973 in literature, Category:1973 books

Music

New Zealand Music Awards

See: 1973 in music

Performing arts

Radio and television

See: 1973 in New Zealand television, 1973 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

See: Category:1973 film awards, 1973 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1973 films

Sport

Athletics

Chess

Horse racing

From January 1973 all races were run at metric distances rather than imperial.

Harness racing

Soccer

Births

Category:1973 births

Deaths

Category:1973 deaths

References

  1. Statistics New Zealand:Historical Population Estimates
  2. Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Lambert & Palenski: The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. ISBN 0-908570-55-4
  4. "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  5. "TVNZ timeline 1960–2005" (PDF). TVNZ. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
  6. List of New Zealand Chess Champions
  7. List of NZ Trotting cup winners
  8. Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz
  9. Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com

See also

For world events and topics in 1973 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1973

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