1994 in New Zealand

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See also:	Other events of 1994 Timeline of New Zealand history

Population

• Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,648,200
• Increase since 31 December 1993: 50,400 (1.40%)
• Males per 100 Females: 97.2

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State - Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
• Governor-General - The Hon Dame Catherine Tizard, GCMG, GCVO, DBE, QSO

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

• Act - Roger Douglas
• New Zealand First - Winston Peters
• United Future - TBD
• Labour - Helen Clark (Leader of the Opposition)
• Progressives - TBD

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Les Mills
• Mayor of Hamilton - Margaret Evans
• Mayor of Wellington - Fran Wilde
• Mayor of Christchurch - Vicki Buck
• Mayor of Dunedin - Richard Walls

Events

• 13 August: By-election in Selwyn after the National MP Ruth Richardson retired from politics. David Carter retained the seat for National.

Arts and literature

• Christine Johnston wins the Robert Burns Fellowship

See 1994 in art, 1994 in literature, Category:1994 books

Music

New Zealand Music Awards

Winners are shown first with nominees underneath.

• Album of the Year: Straitjacket Fits – Blow
  • Strawpeople – World Service
  • The 3Ds – Venus Trail
• Single of the Year: Headless Chickens – Juice / Chopper
  • Strawpeople – Love Explodes
  • Straitjacket Fits – Cat Inna Can
• Best Male Vocalist: Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits)
  • Jon Toogood (Shihad)
  • Chris Matthews
• Best Female Vocalist: Fiona McDonald (Headless Chickens)
  • Annie Crummer
  • Shona Laing
• Best Group: Headless Chickens
  • Strawpeople
  • Straitjacket Fits
• Most Promising Male Vocalist: Matty J (Matty J and the Soul Syndicate)
  • Michael Gregg & Brendan Gregg
  • Jason Ioasa
• Most Promising Female Vocalist: Emma Paki
  • Jan Preston
  • Rima Te Wiata
• Most Promising Group: Urban Disturbance
  • Holy Toledos
  • 3Ds
• International Achievement: Crowded House
  • Straitjacket Fits
  • Headless Chickens
• Best Video: Matt Noonan / Josh Frizzell – System Virtue (Emma Paki)
  • Fane Flaws – The Beautiful Things (Front Lawn)
  • Johnny Ogilvie – Mr Moon (Headless Chickens)
• Best Producer: Strawpeople – World Service
  • Stuart Pearce – Pacifico (Kantuta)
  • Jaz Coleman – Churn (Shihad)
• Best Engineer: Malcolm Welsford – Churn (Shihad)
  • Malcolm Wellsford – You Gotta Know (Supergroove)
  • Graeme Myhre – Travellin' On (Midge Marsden)
• Best Jazz Album: Freebass – Raw
  • Bluespeak – Late Last Night
  • Nairobi Trio – Through The Clouds
• Best Classical Album: Dame Malvina Major – Casta Diva
  • NZ Symphony Orchestra – The Three Symphonies/ Douglas Lilburn
  • Tamas Vesmas – Eastern European Piano Music
• Best Country Album: Al Hunter – The Singer
  • The Warratahs – Big Sky
  • Patsy Riggir – My Little Corner of the World
• Best Folk Album: Steve McDonald – Sons Of Somerled
  • Adam Bell – Summerland
  • Beverly Young – It's Then I Wish
• Best Gospel Album: Stephen Bell-Booth – Undivided
  • Woodford House Chapel Choir – Celebration
  • Monica O'Hagan – His Love
  • Andrew & Saskia Smith – The Gemcutter
• Polynesian Album of the Year: Pasifik MX – Manuiri
  • Andre Tapena – It's Raro
  • Mana – Mana
• Best Songwriter: Emma Paki – System Virtue
  • Stephen Bell-Booth – Undivided
  • Greg Johnson – Winter Song
• Best Cover: Brett Graham – Te Rangatahi
  • Johnny Pain & Jonathan King – Drinking With Judas (Hallelujah Picassos)
  • Chris Knox – Duck Shaped Pain and Gum

See: 1994 in music

Radio and Television

• TV 2 begins 24-hour/7-day programming.
• Newstalk ZB begins broadcasting nationwide.
• The Classic Hits brand is rolled out nationwide when heritage stations operated by Radio New Zealand are rebranded as Classic Hits originally retaining local programming.

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

Film

• Bread and Roses
• Heavenly Creatures
• Once Were Warriors

See: Category:1994 film awards, 1994 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1994 films

Internet

See: NZ Internet History

Sport

Athletics

• Paul Smith wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:19:12 on 30 April in Rotorua, while Nyla Carroll claims her first in the women's championship (2:37:37).

Basketball

• The NBL was won by Nelson

Commonwealth Games

• New Zealand at the 1994 Commonwealth Games

• Cricket: Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team, Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, Cricket World Cup
• Golf: New Zealand Open, Check Category:New Zealand golfers in overseas tournaments.

Horse racing

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Bee Bee Cee
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Chokin - 2nd win

Thoroughbred racing

• Netball: Silver Ferns, National Bank Cup, Netball World Championships

Olympic Games

• New Zealand at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Rugby league

Main article: 1994 New Zealand rugby league season

• The Lion Red Cup competition was introduced, with 12 teams participating. The Counties Manukau Heroes were the Minor Premiers, but were beaten 24-16 in the Grand Final by the North Harbour Sea Eagles.
• Canterbury rugby league team retained the Rugby League Cup throughout the season.

• 16 October, New Zealand defeated Papua New Guinea 28-12
• 27 October, New Zealand defeated Papua New Guinea 30-16

See also: 1994 New Zealand rugby league tour of Papua New Guinea

Rugby union

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, Rugby Union World Cup, National Provincial Championship, Category:All Blacks, Bledisloe Cup, Tri Nations Series, Ranfurly Shield

Shooting

• Ballinger Belt –
  • Andy Luckman (United Kingdom)
  • John Whiteman (Upper Hutt), sixth, top New Zealander

Soccer

• The Superclub competition was won by North Shore United
• The Chatham Cup is won by Waitakere City who beat Wellington Olympic 1—0 in the final.

Births

January–June

• 10 January – Tim Payne, association football player
• 12 January – Simon Hickey, rugby union player
• 31 January
  • Georgia Fabish, actor
  • Rose Keddell, field hockey player
• 15 February – Mitchell Drummond, rugby union player
• 15 April – Katie Bowen, association football player
• 4 May – Joseph Tapine, rugby league player
• 22 June – Felicity Leydon-Davis, cricketer
• 24 June – Mitch Evans, motor racing driver

July–December

• 23 July – Selina Goddard, lawn bowler
• 2 August – Jacob Duffy, cricketer
• 11 August – Anton Cooper, cross-country cyclist
• 19 August – Nick Cassidy, motor racing driver
• 3 September – Francis Molo, rugby league player
• 12 September – Robert O'Donnell, cricketer
• 8 October – Jahrome Hughes, rugby league player
• 16 October – David Fusitua, rugby league player
• 6 November – Christian Cullen, standardbred racehorse
• 24 November – Brew, thoroughbred racehorse
• 5 December – Zonda, thoroughbred racehorse
• 17 December – Lloyd Perrett, rugby league player
• 20 December
  • Jacko Gill, shot putter
  • Ryan Thomas, association football player
• 22 December
  • Lalakai Foketi, rugby union player
  • Cameron Howieson, association football player
• 24 December – Fa'amanu Brown, rugby league player
• 30 December – Tyler Boyd, association football player

Full date unknown

• Rafe Custance, actor
• Kylie Price, singer-songwriter

Deaths

January–March

• 1 January – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1900)
• 2 January – Godfrey Bowen, sheep shearer (born 1922)
• 4 January – Dame Eileen Mayo, artist and designer (born 1906)
• 18 January – Hēmi Pōtatau, Presbyterian minister, soldier, writer (born 1904)
• 25 January – Bertha Rawlinson, operatic singer, actor, composer (born 1910)
• 16 February – Graeme Caughley, population ecologist and conservation biologist (born 1937)
• 4 March – George Hughes, philosopher and logician (born 1918)
• 10 March – D. J. M. Mackenzie, colonial medical officer (born 1905)
• 20 March – John Kennedy, Roman Catholic journalist and editor (born 1926)
• 26 March – Dame Whina Cooper, Māori leader (born 1895)

April–June

• 17 April – Bill Dillon, politician (born 1933)
• 30 April – Ina Lamason, cricketer and field hockey player (born 1911)
• 2 May – Roderick Syme, agricultural instructor, mountaineer, local-body politician (born 1900)
• 3 May – Francis Bell, actor (born 1944)
• 5 May – Charles Diver, confectioner (born 1910)
• 7 May – Nassipour, thoroughbred racehorse (foaled 1980)
• 9 May – Connie Birchfield, political activist (born 1898)
• 16 May – Roy McElroy, politician, mayor of Auckland (1965–68) (born 1907)
• 18 May
  • Sir Harry Barker, newspaper journalist, politician (born 1898)
  • Charles Turner, mechanical and civil engineer (born 1901)
• 22 May – Norman Read, racewalker (born 1931)
• 27 May
  • James McHaffie, cricketer (born 1910)
  • Bert Roth, librarian, historian (born 1917)
• 31 May
  • Philip Blakeley, electrical engineer (born 1915)
  • Cedric Firth, architect, writer (born 1908)
  • Doug Freeman, cricketer (born 1914)
• 1 June – Bramwell Cook, Salvation Army leader, doctor (born 1903)
• 3 June – Jack Cowie, cricketer (born 1912)
• 7 June – Peter Jones, rugby union player (born 1932)
• 16 June – Stephen Scott, rugby union player (born 1955)
• 19 June – Florence Harsant, temperance worker, writer (born 1891)
• 27 June – Dame Louise Henderson, painter (born 1902)

July–September

• 3 July – Felix Kelly, designer, painter and illustrator (born 1914)
• 13 July – Richard B. Sibson, ornithologist (born 1911)
• 19 July – Jim Bellwood, physical education teacher, sports coach (born 1912)
• 25 July – Jay Epae, singer and songwriter (born 1933)
• 29 July – Wiremu Te Āwhitu, Roman Catholic priest (born 1914)
• 9 August – Charles Saunders, rower (born 1902)
• 17 August – Dick Shortt, cricket umpire (born 1922)
• 19 August – Harry Jacks, soldier, plant pathologist, forester (born 1908)
• 22 August – Sir Ralph Love, public servant, politician, Te Āti Awa leader (born 1907)
• 24 August – Cecil Holmes, film director (born 1921)
• 5 September
  • Kathleen Curtis, Lady Rigg, mycologist (born 1892)
  • Mick Williment, rugby union player (born 1940)
• 6 September – Edward Gaines, Roman Catholic bishop (born 1926)
• 12 September – John Chewings, politician (born 1920)

October–December

• 9 October – Bill Fox, politician (born 1899)
• 10 October – Nola Luxford, actor (born 1901)
• 15 October – Avis Acres, artist, writer, illustrator, conservationist (born 1910)
• 24 October – Sir Guy Powles, diplomat, Ombudsman (born 1905)
• 26 October
  • Ronald Dobson, rugby union player (born 1923)
  • Pavel Tichý, logician, philosopher and mathematician (born 1936)
• 28 October – Jock Richardson, rugby union player (born 1899)
• 29 October – Gordon Cochrane, pilot (born 1916)
• 2 November – John Nimmo, cricketer (born 1910)
• 22 November – Charles Upham, soldier (born 1908)
• 6 December – Laura Ingram, community leader, local-body politician (born 1912)
• 10 December – James Healy, geologist (born 1910)
• 12 December – Frederick Turnovsky, manufacturer, entrepreneur, arts advocate (born 1916)
• 16 December – Les Gandar, politician, diplomat (born 1919)
• 24 December – Louise Sutherland, cyclist (born 1926)
• 26 December – Sybil Lupp, mechanic, motor racing driving, garage proprietor (born 1916)
• 27 December – Jimmy Kemp, cricketer (born 1918)

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