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1942 in New Zealand

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Contents

1 Population
2 Incumbents
3 Events
4 Arts and literature
5 Appointments and awards
6 Sport
7 Births
8 Deaths
9 References
10 See also

Population

Estimated population as of 31 December: 1,636,400 ^[1]
Increase since 31/12/1941: 5200 (0.32%)
Males per 100 females: 94.2

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

George VI
GCMG CBE AM ^[2]

Government

The 26th New Zealand Parliament was extended for a further year due to World War II, with the Labour Party in government.

Speaker of the House - Bill Barnard (Democratic Labour Party)
Prime Minister - Peter Fraser
Minister of Finance - Walter Nash
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Frank Langstone then 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 - Thomas Hislop
Mayor of Christchurch - Ernest Andrews
Mayor of Dunedin - Andrew Henson Allen

Events

8 March: Japanese Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita of the Imperial Navy conducts aerial reconnaissance of Wellington. His Yokosuka E14y reconnaissance plane had been catapulted into the air from the Japanese submarine I-25 which stored the plane in a sealed foredeck hangar. After a successful daylight tour the submarine and plane headed north to make an inspection of Auckland on March 13.

9 December: 37 of the 39 female patients in Ward 5 at Seacliff psychiatric hospital are killed in a night-time fire - the country's worst fire disaster at that time. [1]

Arts and literature

See 1942 in art, 1942 in literature, Category:1942 books

Music

See: 1942 in music

Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

See: Category:1942 film awards, 1942 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1942 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

Most sports events were on hold due to the war.

Horse racing

Harness racing

New Zealand Trotting Cup: Haughty ^[4]
Auckland Trotting Cup: Loyal Friend ^[5]

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
Provincial league champions: ^[6]
- Auckland: Mount Albert Grammar School Old Boys
- Canterbury: Western
- Hawke's Bay: Napier HSOB
- Nelson: No competition
- Otago: Army
- South Canterbury: No competition
- Southland: No competition
- Waikato: No competition
- Wanganui: No competition
- Wellington: Hospital

Births

12 January: Doug Graham, politician
21 April: Geoffrey Palmer, 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand
4 August: David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
25 September: Peter Petherick, cricketer
25 November: Barbara Bevege, cricketer

Kerry Burke, politician.
Trish McKelvey, cricketer.
Judith Potter, high court judge.
Roger Walker. architect.
Mike Ward, politician
Merata Mita, filmmaker

Category:1942 births

Deaths

28 July: James Allen, politician and diplomat.
15 July: Denis 'Sonny' Moloney, cricketer.
8 November: Tim Armstrong, politician.

Douglas Lysnar, politician.

Category:1942 deaths

References

^ Statistics New Zealand:Historical Population Estimates
^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
^ "Elections NZ - Leaders of the Opposition". Retrieved 2008-04-06.
^ List of NZ Trotting cup winners
^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz
^ "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.

See also

Years in New Zealand

17th century	1642 1643

18th century	1768 1769 1770 1772 1773 1774 1775 1777 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800

19th century	1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900

20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Timeline of New Zealand history

1942 in Oceania

Sovereign states	Australia East Timor Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue

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