1995 in New Zealand

1995 in New Zealand

Other years in New Zealand

1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 (1995) • 1996 • 1997 • 1998

Population

• Estimated Population as of 31 December: 3,706,700^[1]
• Increase since 31/12/1994: 58,400 (1.60%)
• Males per 100 Females: 97.3

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
• Governor-General - The Hon Dame Catherine Tizard, GCMG, GCVO, DBE, QSO followed by The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSO^[2]

Government

The 44th New Zealand Parliament continued. Government was The National Party, led by Jim Bolger.

• Speaker of the House - Peter Tapsell
• Prime Minister - Jim Bolger
• Deputy Prime Minister - Don McKinnon
• Minister of Finance - Bill Birch
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Don McKinnon

Opposition Leaders

See: Category:Parliament of New Zealand, New Zealand elections

• Greens - Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald
• Act - TBD
• New Zealand First - TBD
• United Future - TBD
• Māori Party - TBD
• Labour - TBD (Leader of the Opposition)
• Progressives - TBD
• United Future - TBD

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Les Mills
• Mayor of Hamilton - Margaret Evans
• Mayor of Wellington - Fran Wilde then Mark Blumsky
• Mayor of Christchurch - Vicki Buck
• Mayor of Dunedin - Richard Walls then Sukhi Turner

Events

• April: The Cambridge Independent closes. The newspaper began as the Waikato Independent in 1904.^[3]
• 28 April: 13 polytech students and a Department of Conservation Worker die when a viewing platform collapses into a 40 metre deep gorge at Cave Creek in the Paparoa National Park. [2]
• 9 June: Ansett Flight 703 crashes on approach to Palmerston North, killing 4 of 21 onboard.^[4] Passenger Reginald John Dixon was awarded the New Zealand Cross posthumously.

Arts and literature

• Elspeth Sandys wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.

See 1995 in art, 1995 in literature, Category:1995 books

Music

• New Zealand Music Awards
  • Album of the Year: Supergroove - Traction
  • Single of the Year: Purest Form – Message To My Girl
  • Best Male Vocalist: Dave Dobbyn – Twist
  • Best Female Vocalist: Fiona McDonald
  • Best Group: Supergroove
  • Most Promising Male Vocalist: Brent Milligan (Pumpkinhead)
  • Most Promising Female Vocalist: Sulata Foai
  • Most Promising Group: Sisters Underground
  • International Achievement: Headless Chickens
  • Best Video: Jo Fischer & Matt Noonan – Can't Get Enough (Supergroove)
  • Best Producer: Karl Steven & Malcolm Welsford – Traction (Supergroove)
  • Best Engineer: Malcolm Welsford - Traction (Supergroove)
  • Best Jazz Album: George Chisholm Quintet - Perfect Strangers
  • Best Classical Album: The NZ Symphony Orchestra - The Three Symphonies / Douglas Lilburn
  • Best Country Album: Kevin Greaves –I'm Not Scared Of Women
  • Best Folk Album: Windy City Strugglers - Windy City Strugglers
  • Best Gospel Album: Derek Lind – Stations
  • Best Film Soundtrack: Once Were Warriors
  • Best Songwriter: Dave Dobbyn – Language
  • Best Cover: Alec Bathgate / Chris Knox - 3 EPs (Tall Dwarfs)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Ian Magan

See: 1995 in music

Radio and Television

• Horizon Pacific is launched, taking over CTV.
• Te Mangai Paho launched. [3]

See: 1995 in New Zealand television, 1995 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, TV3 (New Zealand), Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

• Bonjour Timothy
• Cinema of Unease
• Forgotten Silver

See: Category:1995 film awards, 1995 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1995 films

Dance

• Black Grace, a modern dance company, is formed in Auckland.^[5]

Internet

See: NZ Internet History

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

Sport

Athletics

• Chris Mardon wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:24:24 in Christchurch, while Robyn Duncan claims her first in the women's championship (2:57:29).

Horse racing

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Il Vicolo^[6]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Burlington Bertie^[7]

Thoroughbred racing

Rugby league

• The Auckland Warriors became the first New Zealand-based team to compete in the Australian Rugby League's premiership. They finished 10th, missing out on the final eight due to being docked two points for an incorrect substitution in one of their games.
• The North Harbour Sea Eagles defended their Lion Red Cup title, defeating the Auckland Warriors colts 28-21 in the final.
• Auckland ended the season holding the Rugby League Cup, after defeating Canterbury.

• 9 June, New Zealand defeated France 22-6.
• 16 June, New Zealand drew with France 16-all.
• 23 June, New Zealand lost to Australia 8-26.
• 7 July, New Zealand lost to Australia 10-20.
• 14 July, New Zealand lost to Australia 10-46.
• New Zealand competed in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup, losing to Australia 30-20 in extra time in the semi final.

Soccer

• The Chatham Cup is won by Waitakere City who beat North Shore United 4—0 in the final.^[8]

Deaths

• 6 June: Sir James George Barnes, MP and Mayor of Dunedin
• 10 June: Bruno Lawrence, actor and musician.
• 25 August: Erich Geiringer, physician, peace activist, writer.
• 5 September: John Britten, engineer and designer.
• 31 October: Sir Wallace (Bill) Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• 5 November: Gordon Walters, painter.

• Grant Lingard, artist.

Category:1995 deaths

References

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

For world events and topics in 1995 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1995