1997 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1997 in New Zealand.

Population[]

  • Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,802,700[1]
  • Increase since 31 December 1996: 40,400 (1.07%)
  • Males per 100 Females: 97.1

Incumbents[]

Regal and viceregal[]

Government[]

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

Parliamentary leaders[]

  • Labour – (37 seats) Helen Clark (Leader of the Opposition)
  • Alliance – (13 seats) Jim Anderton
  • ACT New Zealand – (8 seats) Richard Prebble
  • United New Zealand- (1 seat) Peter Dunne

Main centre leaders[]

Events[]

  • 8 February: Stephen Anderson, 24, shoots 11 people, killing 6 of them (including his wife and parents) at Raurimu.[3]
  • 16 July: List MP Alamein Kopu resigns from the Alliance Party but remains a member of parliament. This causes controversy because Kopu has signed contracts with the party that she would resign from Parliament should she leave the party.[4]
  • 10 September: Parliament's privileges committee finds that Alamein Kopu is entitled to remain an independent MP.
  • Argentina reopens its embassy in Wellington (closed since 1982).[5]

Arts and literature[]

  • Paddy Richardson wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards:
    • Book of the Year/Cultural Heritage: Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert
    • First Book Awards
      • Fiction: Dominic Sheehan, Finding Home
      • Poetry: Diane Brown, Before the Divorce We Go To Disneyland
      • Non-Fiction: Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert

See 1997 in art, 1997 in literature, Category:1997 books

Music[]

New Zealand Music Awards[]

Winners are shown first with nominees underneath.[6][7]

  • Album of the Year: Strawpeople – Vicarious
    • Emma Paki – Oxygen of Love
    • Garageland – Last Exit to Garageland
    • OMC
    • The Mutton Birds – Envy of Angels
  • Single of the Year: DLT Featuring Che Fu – Chains
    • Bic Runga – Bursting Through
    • Garageland
    • Strawpeople – Taller Than God
    • The Mutton Birds
  • Best Male Vocalist: Che Fu – Chains
    • Jeremy Eade (Garageland)
    • Jon Toogood (Shihad)
  • Best Female Vocalist: Bic Runga
    • Emma Paki
    • Fiona McDonald (Strawpeople)
  • Best Group: Garageland
    • Shihad
    • The Mutton Birds
  • Most Promising Male Vocalist: Daniel Haimona (Dam Native)
    • Andrew Tilby (Breathe)
    • Ed Cake (Bressa Creeting Cake)
  • Most Promising Female Vocalist: Lole Usoalii
    • Andrea Cook
    • Maryanne Antonuvich (D Faction)
  • Most Promising Group: Dam Native
    • Bike
    • Bressa Creeting Cake
    • Cinematic
  • International Achievement: OMC
    • Crowded House
    • Jane Campion
    • Peter Jackson
  • Best Video: Sigi Spath & Joe Lonie – if I Had My Way (Supergroove)
    • Kevin Sprig – La La Land (Shihad)
    • Jonathan King – Behold My Kool Style (Damn Native)
  • Best Producer: Malcolm Welsford / Karl Steven – Backspacer (Supergroove)
    • Alan Jansson – How Bizarre
    • Eddie Raynor – ENZSO
  • Best Engineer: Rick Huntington / Alan Jansson – How Bizarre (OMC)
    • Chris Van Der Geer (Strawpeople)
    • Malcolm Welsford – Backspacer (Supergroove)
  • Best Jazz Album: Bluetrain – No Free Lunch
    • Jazz in the Present Tense – Jazz in the Present Tense
    • Nairobi Trio – Shelf Life
  • Best Classical Album: the Nzso, Janos Furst, Michael Houston – Live : Tower Beethoven Festival
    • New Zealand String Quartet – Bartok String Quartet 1–5
    • Alexander Ivashin & Tama Vesmas – Sergie Prokofiev
  • Best Country Album: Coalrangers – Coast to Coast
    • Dennis Marsh – Out of Nashville
    • Bartlett, Dugan, Vaughan – Together Again
  • Best Folk Album: Wild Geese – Betwixt Time and Place
    • Michael Scorey – Angel Station
    • Bob Bickerton – Music in the Glen
  • Best Gospel Album: Max Jacobson – Found
    • The Lands – Arbor Day
    • Evan Silva – Aint No Two Ways About It
  • Best Mana Maori Album: Emma Paki – Oxygen of Love
    • DLT – The True School
    • Dam Native – Behold My Kool Style
  • Best Mana Reo Album: St Josephs Maori Girls College – a Gift of Song
    • Te Kura Tuatahi Me Te Ropu Kapahaka O Ranana – Te Wainui A Rua
    • Turakina Maori Girls College – Mana Wahine
  • Best Childrens Album: Universal Childrens Audio – Waiata Karahere
    • Helen Willberg – Ranona Moemoea
    • Love To Sing Choir – Love My First Songbook
  • Best Polynesian Album: Annie Crummer – Seventh Wave
    • Felise Mikaele -Se Taitau
    • The Five Stars – Samoa Ea
  • Best Songwriter: Dl Thompson, C Ness, A McNaughton, K Rangihuna – Chains (DLT Feat Che Fu)
    • Paul Casserley, Fiona McDonald, Greg Johnson – Boxers (Strawpeople)
    • Bic Runga – Bursting Through
  • Best Cover: Wayne Conway – ENZSO (ENZSO)
    • Jeremy Takacs, Karl & Jon – Shihad
    • Rick Huntington And Alan Jansson – How Bizarre (OMC)

See: 1997 in music

Performing arts[]

  • Benny Award presented by the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand to Paul Bennett.

Radio and television[]

  • CanWest takes complete ownership of TV3 and launches TV4.
  • TVNZ broadcasts MTV.
  • July: Prime Television in Australia purchases 34 licences covering all major New Zealand centres.

See: 1997 in New Zealand television, 1997 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, TV3 (New Zealand), Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film[]

See: Category:1997 film awards, 1997 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1997 films

Internet[]

See: NZ Internet History

Sport[]

Athletics[]

  • wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:20:49 on 8 March in New Plymouth, while claims her first in the women's championship (2:55:20).
  • Beatrice Faumuina became the first New Zealander to win an event at a World Athletics Championships.[9]

Basketball[]

Cricket[]

  • Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team

Golf[]

Horse racing[]

Harness racing[]

  • New Zealand Trotting Cup: Iraklis[10]
  • Auckland Trotting Cup: Kate's First[11]

Thoroughbred racing[]

Netball[]

Rugby league[]

Main article: 1997 New Zealand rugby league season
  • The Auckland Warriors competed in the breakaway Super League and finished 7th out of 10 teams.
  • Waikato won the Super League Challenge Cup, defeating Canterbury 34–18 in the final. Waikato also won the Rugby League Cup.
  • 25 April, New Zealand lost to Australia 22–34
  • 26 September, New Zealand defeated Australia 30-12

Rugby union[]

Shooting[]

Soccer[]

  • The Chatham Cup is won by Central United who beat Napier City Rovers 3–2 in the final (after extra time).[13]

Births[]

January–February[]

March–April[]

May–June[]

July–August[]

September–October[]

November–December[]

Deaths[]

January–March[]

  • 1 January – Nora Crawford, police officer (born 1917)
  • 2 January – Keith Hay, construction company founder, politician, conservative activist (born 1917)
  • 10 January – John Rodgers, Roman Catholic bishop (born 1915)
  • 15 January – Ted Smith, rower (born 1922)
  • 29 January – Sir Clifford Richmond, jurist (born 1914)
  • 2 February – Ray Dalton, rugby union player (born 1919)
  • 26 March – Sir Norman Alexander, physics academic, university administrator (born 1907)

April–June[]

  • 8 April – Lord Module, standardbred racehorse (foaled 1974)
  • 10 April – Sir Robert Aitken, medical academic, university administrator (born 1901)
  • 14 April – Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, poet, pretender to the Polish throne (born 1903)
  • 17 April – Henry Lang, public servant, economics academic (born 1919)
  • 24 April – Hugh McLean, rugby union player (born 1907)
  • 3 May – Bruce Beetham, politician (born 1936)
  • 7 May – Owen Jensen, musician, composer, music critic and broadcaster (born 1907)
  • 17 May – James Newhook, veterinary science academic (born 1915)
  • 21 May – Sir Tristram, thoroughbred racehorse (foaled 1971)
  • 22 May – Rachael Zister, Māori community leader (born 1893)
  • 2 June – Oscar Garden, aviator (born 1903)
  • 14 June – Sir Jack Hunn, public servant (born 1906)
  • 15 June – Kim Casali, cartoonist (born 1941)
  • 26 June – Dent Harper, cricketer (born 1937)
  • 28 June – Jack Hinton, soldier (born 1909)
  • 29 June – Ian Clarke, rugby union player, referee and administrator (born 1931)

July–September[]

  • 3 July – Ron Westerby, rugby league player (born 1920)
  • 6 July – Brun Smith, cricketer (born 1922)
  • 8 July – Ray Speed, association football player (born 1914)
  • 12 July – Frank Shuter, speedway rider (born 1943)
  • 23 July – David Warbeck, actor (born 1941)
  • 25 July
    • Jack Davies, swimmer (born 1916)
    • Matiu Rata, politician (born 1934)
  • 31 July – Sir Hepi Te Heuheu, Māori leader (born 1919)
  • 15 August – Dave Solomon, rugby union and league player (born 1913)
  • 16 August – Kitty Kain, dietician, WAAF leader (born 1908)
  • 21 August – Jean Horsley, artist (born 1913)
  • 25 August – James Gould, rower (born 1914)
  • 5 September – Emily Schuster, master weaver (born 1927)
  • 17 September – Trevor Redmond, speedway rider (born 1927)
  • 22 September – Silver Lad, thoroughbred racehorse (foaled 1973)
  • 23 September – Christopher John Lewis, criminal (born 1964)
  • 26 September – Geoff Gerard, politician (born 1904)

October–December[]

  • 8 October – Desmond Scott, fighter pilot (born 1918)
  • 11 October – Sidney Koreneff, French resistance worker, newspaper managing director, Anglican priest (born 1918)
  • 18 October
    • David Seath, politician (born 1914)
    • Geoff Walker, canoeist, surf lifesaver (born 1952)
  • 31 October – Adrian Rodda, public servant (born 1911)
  • 16 November – Roy Sheffield, cricketer (born 1906)
  • 21 November – Stanley Dallas, radio technician and recording engineer (born 1926)
  • 27 November – Jim Kershaw, association football player (born 1906)
  • 6 December – Eva Rickard, Māori land and women's rights activist (born 1925)
  • 10 December – Ted Coubray, filmmaker (born 1900)

See also[]

For world events and topics in 1997 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1997

References[]

  1. ^ "Historical population estimates tables". Statistics New Zealand.
  2. ^ The Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys, GNZM, GCMG, QSO gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 April 2012
  3. ^ CNN report on Raurimu massacre
  4. ^ Privileges committee report on the Kopu case Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "New Zealand and Argentina". NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
  6. ^ "Awards 1997". Listing. NZ Music Awards. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  7. ^ "1997 New Zealand Music Awards". Web page. RIANZ. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Lost Valley, the".
  9. ^ "Beatrice Faumuina wins athletics world championship gold".
  10. ^ "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  11. ^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "New Zealand champion shot / Ballinger Belt winners". National Rifle Association of New Zealand. Archived from the original on 25 January 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  13. ^ Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com Archived 14 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine

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