The following lists events that happened during 1962 in New Zealand.

1962
in
New Zealand

Decades:
See also:

Population edit

  • Estimated population as of 31 December: 2,515,800.[1]
  • Increase since 31 December 1961: 54,500 (2.21%).[1]
  • Males per 100 females: 101.0.[1]

Incumbents edit

Regal and viceregal edit

Government edit

Parliamentary opposition edit

Main centre leaders edit

Events edit

January edit

  • 1 January: Samoa (then called Western Samoa) attains full independence, becoming the first independent Polynesian territory.

February edit

  • 5 February: Dunedin lawyer James Patrick Ward was killed by a letter bomb sent to his office in what police described as "one of the most callous murders in the history of New Zealand crime".[5]

March edit

April edit

June edit

July edit

August edit

September edit

October edit

November edit

December edit

Arts and literature edit

See 1962 in art, 1962 in literature, Category:1962 books

Music edit

See: 1962 in music

Radio and television edit

  • New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS) is restructured on 1 April to form New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
  • An outside broadcast van is in use in Auckland, and similar vans are ordered for Wellington and Christchurch.
  • Dunedin gets television service with the launch of DNTV2 on 31 July.
  • There are 23,343 licensed television sets in New Zealand.[7]

See: 1962 in New Zealand television, 1962 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film edit

See: Category:1962 film awards, 1962 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1962 films

Sport edit

Athletics edit

British Empire and Commonwealth Games edit

  Gold   Silver   Bronze Total
10 12 10 32

Chess edit

  • The 69th National Chess Championship was held in Auckland, and was won by G.G. Haase of Dunedin.[9]

Horse racing edit

Harness racing edit

Lawn bowls edit

The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Christchurch.[12]

  • Men's singles champion – Jeff Barron (Miramar Bowling Club)
  • Men's pair champions – Frank Livingstone, Bob McDonald (skip) (Onehunga Bowling Club)
  • Men's fours champions – W. Humphreys, S. Barlow, H.W. Todd, R. Brown (skip) (Marlborough Bowling Club)

Soccer edit

  • The Chatham Cup is won by Hamilton Technical Old Boys who beat Northern of Dunedin 4–1 in the final.[13]
  • Provincial league champions:[14]
    • Auckland: Eastern Suburbs AFC
    • Bay of Plenty: Rangers
    • Buller: Waimangaroa Utd
    • Canterbury: Western
    • Franklin: Manurewa AFC
    • Hawke's Bay: Napier Rovers
    • Manawatu: Thistle
    • Marlborough: Woodbourne
    • Nelson: Rangers
    • Northland: Otangarei United
    • Otago: Northern AFC
    • Poverty Bay: Eastern Union
    • South Canterbury: Thistle
    • Southland: Invercargill Thistle
    • Taranaki: Moturoa
    • Waikato: Hamilton Technical OB
    • Wairarapa: Lansdowne United
    • Wanganui: Wanganui Athletic
    • Wellington: Northern
    • West Coast: Runanga
  • The inaugural Rothmans Cup was played between the champion clubs from Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago as a de facto national championship. The final was won by Northern AFC of Dunedin 3-2 on aggregate.[15]

Births edit

Category:1962 births

Deaths edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Historical population estimates tables". Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017.
  2. ^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
  3. ^ 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. ^ "Dunedin solicitor killed in bomb blast". Otago Daily Times. 6 February 1962.
  6. ^ "City of Wellington: city flag". Archives Online. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  7. ^ "TVNZ Timeline" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2006.
  8. ^ NZhistory.net
  9. ^ List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  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. ^ McLintock, A.H., ed. (1966). "Bowls, men's outdoor—tournament winners". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  13. ^ Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com Archived 14 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
  15. ^ Rothmans Cup
  16. ^ Hughes, Beryl. "Janet Craig McKutcheon Mackenzie". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.