1937 in New Zealand

All you want to know about 1937 in New Zealand

1937 in New Zealand:
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1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939 • 1940

Population

Estimated Population as of 31 December: 1,601,800 ^[1]
Increase since 31/12/1936: 17,200 (1.09%)
Males per 100 Females: 103.1

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

Head of State - George VI
Governor-General - The Viscount Galway GCMG DSO OBE PC ^[2]

Government

The 25th New Zealand Parliament continued with the Labour Party in government.

Speaker of the House - Bill Barnard (Labour Party)
Prime Minister - Michael Joseph Savage
Minister of Finance - Walter Nash
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Michael Joseph Savage
Attorney-General - Rex Mason

Parliamentary opposition

Leader of the Opposition - Adam Hamilton (National Party). ^[3]

Main centre leaders

Mayor of Auckland - Ernest Davis
Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow
Mayor of Wellington - Thomas Hislop
Mayor of Christchurch - J. W. Beanland
Mayor of Dunedin - Edwin Thomas Cox

Events

16 January: The Hawke's Bay Herald publishes its final issue before merging with the Hawke's Bay Tribune to form the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune (now part of Hawke's Bay Today). It started as the Hawke's Bay Herald and Ahuriri Advocate in 1857. ^[4]
18 February: A flood drowns 21 Government construction workers when it washes away their camp beside the Kopuawhara Stream in Poverty Bay
Milk in schools (a half pint daily for each primary school pupil) started, it was stopped in 1967.

Arts and literature

See 1937 in art, 1937 in literature, Category:1937 books

Music

See: 1937 in music

Broadcasting

May 6 Historic radio link up to cover the arrival of Airship Hindenburg at New Jersey (and hence its destruction by fire). This is probably the first direct international radio broadcast of this nature from such a distance.

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

New Zealand Review no.1, Holiday Sounds [1]

See: Category:1937 film awards, 1937 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1937 films

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

See: 1937 in sports, Category:1937 in sports

Cricket

Horse racing

See Category:New Zealand horse races

Rugby

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, Category:All Blacks

Ranfurly Shield

Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

Soccer

Chatham Cup competition not held this year.

Births

4 March: Graham Dowling, cricketer.
11 March: John Ward, cricketer.
21 June: John Kent, cartoonist.
02 August: Ron Brierley, businessman.
10 August (in England): Ian Bradley, naval officer.
30 August: Bruce McLaren, racing driver and car designer.
21 September: Dennis Browne, Catholic bishop.
19 November: Sir Kenneth Keith, Judge.
5 December: Roger Douglas, politician.

Murray Ball, cartoonist.
Bev Brentnall, cricketer.
Patricia Grace, author.

Category:1937 births

Deaths

20 February: Rua Kenana Hepetipa, Māori prophet.
19 October: Sir Ernest Rutherford, physicist.

Thomas Field, politician.
Sir Frederic Lang, politician - 8th Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Category:1937 deaths

References

^ http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/24107FC8-E7B5-4CF2-B17C-15E31CCA7D05/0/HistoricalPop.xls
^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
^ "Elections NZ - Leaders of the Opposition". Retrieved on 2008-04-06.
^ "Hawke's Bay Herald". National Library of New Zealand.

See also

For world events and topics in 1930 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1930

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