1977 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1977 in New Zealand.

Population[]

  • Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,166,400[1]
  • Increase since 31 December 1976: 3000 (0.09%)
  • Males per 100 females: 99.4

Incumbents[]

Regal and viceregal[]

Government[]

1977 was the second full year of the 38th Parliament. The Third National Government was in power.

Parliamentary opposition[]

  • Leader of the Opposition – Bill Rowling (Labour).[4]

Main centre leaders[]

Events[]

  • 5 January – Led by Joe Hawke, members of Ngati Whatua occupy Bastion Point reserve (Takaparawha) to protest crown sales of land taken from Māori.[5]
  • 21 November – God Defend New Zealand becomes the second official national anthem of New Zealand, in conjunction with God Save The Queen.
  • 6 December – The meat pie-based fast food chain Georgie Pie opens its first restaurant in Kelston, Auckland.
  • 23 December – the Wild Animal Control Act 1977 passed into law
  • New Zealand proclaims an Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 nautical miles (370 km) – the seventh largest in the world at 4.3 million km2
  • The new Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament, nicknamed the "Beehive" due to its shape, is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II, despite not being fully complete yet.
  • Mushrooms and typewriters are added to the CPI basket.[6]

Arts and literature[]

  • Keri Hulme and Roger Hall win the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1977 in art, 1977 in literature, Category:1977 books

Music[]

The New Zealand Music Awards were not held this year.

  • Waikino music festival at Bicknel's farm, Waitawheta Valley, between Waihi and Waikino. Attendance 5500.

See: 1977 in music

Radio and television[]

  • April: Fair Go airs for the first time.
  • June: Wellington's Radio Active 89FM first hits the airwaves
  • Feltex Television Awards:
    • Best Current Affairs: 'News at Ten
    • Best Documentary Series: Black Future
    • Best Light Entertainment: Blerta
    • Best Play: The God Boy
    • Best Drama: Moynihan
    • Best Speciality: Country Calendar
    • Best Actor: Ian Mune in Winners and Losers and Moynihan
    • Best Actress: in The God Boy
    • Best Script: The God Boy
    • Best Personality:

Performing arts[]

  • Benny Award presented by the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand to Max Cryer.

Television[]

See: 1977 in New Zealand television, 1977 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film[]

See: Category:1977 film awards, 1977 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1977 films

Sport[]

Athletics[]

  • Terry Manners wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:20:40 in Hawera.

Association football[]

  • New Zealand National Soccer League won by North Shore United
  • The Chatham Cup is won by Nelson United who beat Mount Wellington 1–0 in the final.[7]

Chess[]

Horse racing[]

Harness racing[]

  • New Zealand Trotting Cup: Sole Command[9]
  • There was no 1977 running of the Auckland Trotting Cup as the race was being rescheduled from December (1976) to February (1978)[10]

Thoroughbred racing[]

Births[]

Category:1977 births

Deaths[]

  • 22 January: Toby Hill, watersider and trade unionist
  • 18 February: Ron Jarden, rugby player.
  • 7 June (in England): Sir Rex Nan Kivell, art collector.
  • 15 August: Margaret Escott, novelist and poet.[12]
  • 24 December: Sir Roy Jack, politician and 16th Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Category:1977 deaths

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Historical population estimates tables". Statistics New Zealand.
  2. ^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Lambert & Palenski: The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. ISBN 0-908570-55-4
  4. ^ "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  5. ^ Today in History | NZHistory
  6. ^ "100 years of CPI - Basket changes | Stats NZ". www.stats.govt.nz. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021.
  7. ^ Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com Archived 14 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  10. ^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Sky Sports – Rugby Union – Guinness Premiership – Worcester – Dale Rasmussen". Sky Sports. 14 September 2011.
  12. ^ McLeod, Aorewa. "Escott, Cicely Margaret. First published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol 4, 1998". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

External links[]

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