1945 in New Zealand

1945 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948

Contents 1 Population 2 Incumbents 2.1 Regal and Vice Regal 2.2 Government 2.3 Parliamentary opposition 2.4 Main centre leaders 3 Events 4 Arts and literature 4.1 Music 4.2 Radio 4.3 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Archery 6.1.1 National Champions (Postal Shoot) [4] 6.2 Athletics 6.3 Cricket 6.4 Horse racing 6.5 Rugby 6.6 Rugby league 6.7 Soccer 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 References 10 See also

Population

A census was held in 1945. This was a year earlier than the established pattern, to make up for the lack of a census in 1941 due to World War II.

	Male	Female	Total
Usually resident population	830,385 (48.9%)	868,614 (51.1%)	1,698,996
Overseas Visitors	2,451	768	3,222
Total	832,908	869,421	1,702,329

• Estimated Population as of 31 December: 1,727,800 ^[1]
• Increase since previous 31/12/1944: 51,500 (3.07%)
• Males per 100 Females: 98.1
• Large increase is due to demobilization of New Zealanders from military service overseas.

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George VI
• Governor-General - Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Cyril Newall GCB OM GCMG CBE AM ^[2]

Government

The 27th New Zealand Parliament continued, with the Labour Party in government.

• Speaker of the House - Frederick Schramm (Labour)
• Prime Minister - Peter Fraser
• Minister of Finance - Walter Nash
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Peter Fraser
• Attorney-General - Rex Mason

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - Sidney Holland (National Party). ^[3]

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - John Allum
• Mayor of Hamilton - Harold David Caro
• Mayor of Wellington - William Appleton
• Mayor of Christchurch - Ernest Andrews
• Mayor of Dunedin - Donald Charles Cameron

Events

• 2 May: New Zealand 2nd Division accepts surrender of the German Army in Trieste.

• 15 December: Main North Line railway linking Christchurch and Picton is completed and officially opened over seventy years after construction began.

Arts and literature

See 1945 in art, 1945 in literature, Category:1945 books

Music

See: 1945 in music

Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

See: Category:1945 film awards , 1945 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1945 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

Archery

National Champions (Postal Shoot) ^[4]

• Open: W. Burton (Gisborne)
• Women: P. Bryan (Auckland)

Athletics

• Lionel Fox wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:54:09.2 in Wellington.

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 won by Western (Christchurch)

Births

• 5 February: Michael Cullen, politician.
• 21 February: Jim McLay, politician.
• 4 April: Bryan Andrews, cricketer.
• 11 April: David McPhail, comedian, actor, writer.
• 11 April: Winston Peters, politician.
• 5 September: Conal Coad, opera singer.
• 7 September: Vic Pollard, cricketer.
• 15 November: Roger Donaldson, film director.
• 15 December: Michael King, historian.

• Jeanette Fitzsimons, politician and environmentalist.
• Bill Jeffries, politician.

Deaths

• February: David Russell, soldier awarded the George Cross.
• 15 April: Raffaello Squarise, Italian violinist
• 11 December: Albert Moss, cricketer.

• Arthur Bignell, businessman, mayor.
• Edith Joan Lyttleton, writer.

Category:1945 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 environmental history of New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

For world events and topics in 1945 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1945

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