1936 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1936 in New Zealand.
The shape of New Zealand politics for the next five decades was defined when, in the aftermath of their heavy defeat by [New Zealand New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party|Labour], the United and Reform parties merged to form the New Zealand National Party. In the meantime, the Labour government began implementing significant social changes.

Population

A New Zealand census was held in March 1936.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Head of State – George V, Edward VIII, George VI
Governor-General – The Viscount Galway GCMG DSO OBE PC

Government

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

Speaker of the House – Bill Barnard
Prime Minister – Michael Joseph Savage
Minister of Finance – Walter Nash
Minister of Foreign Affairs – Michael Joseph Savage
Attorney-General – Rex Mason
Chief Justice – Sir Michael Myers

Parliamentary opposition

Leader of the Opposition – George Forbes, succeeded in November by Adam Hamilton.

Main centre leaders

Mayor of Auckland – Ernest Davis
Mayor of Wellington – Thomas Hislop
Mayor of Christchurch – Dan Sullivan then John Beanland
Mayor of Dunedin – '''Edwin Thomas Cox'''

Events

25 March – First session of the 25th Parliament commences.
11 June – Parliament goes into recess.
21 June – Parliament resumes.
30 August – Train derails near Paraparaumu due to a landslide in heavy rain.
31 October – First session of the 25th Parliament concludes.

Arts and literature

See 1936 in art, 1936 in literature, :Category:1936 books

Music

See: 1936 in music

Radio

Radio broadcasting of sessions of Parliament commences.

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

See: :Category:1936 film awards, 1936 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, :Category:1936 films

Sport

Chess

The 45th National Chess Championship was held in Christchurch, and was won by A.W. Gyles of Wellington.

Golf

The 26th New Zealand Open championship was won by Andrew Shaw, his 7th title.
The 40th National Amateur Championships were held in New Plymouth
* Men: J.P. Hornabrook
* Women: Miss E. White-Parsons

Horse racing

Harness racing

New Zealand Trotting Cup – Indianapolis
Auckland Trotting Cup – King's Warrior

Lawn bowls

The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Christchurch.

Men's singles champion – Frank Livingstone
Men's pair champions – J.W. Turpin, H. Haworth
Men's fours champions – C.H. Elsom, J.W. Turpin, C.J. Shaw, R. Haworth

Olympic Games

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Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

Rugby union

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

Ranfurly Shield

Shooting

Ballinger Belt – William Masefield

Soccer

An Australian national side tours New Zealand, beating the home team heavily in all three internationals:
* 4 July, Dunedin: NZ 1–7 Australia
* 11 July, Wellington: NZ 0–10 Australia
* 18 July, Auckland: NZ 1–4 Australia
The Chatham Cup is won by Western of Christchurch who beat Auckland Thistle 3–2 in the final.Provincial league champions:
* Auckland: Thistle
* Canterbury: Western
* Hawke's Bay: Watersiders
* Nelson: YMCA
* Otago: Seacliff
* Southland: Corinthians
* Wanganui: Thistle
* Wellington: Hospital

Births

January

5 January
* Reg Hart, rugby league player
* Terry Lineen, rugby union player
6 January – Terence O'Brien, diplomat
7 January
* Denis Pain, jurist, sports administrator
* Alan Powell, historian
8 January – John McCullough, rugby union player
12 January – Graham Billing, writer
13 January – Michael Selby, geomorphologist, university administrator
18 January – Hugh Anderson, motorcycle racer
21 January – Helen Clark, marine zoologist
22 January
* Robert Anderson, politician
* Don McIver, army general
* Nyree Dawn Porter, actor
31 January – Georgina Kirby, Māori leader, women's rights activist

February

3 February – Graham Finlay, boxer
10 February – Gerald Stewart, cricketer
11 February – Bramwell Cook, gastroenterologist
12 February – Jane Ritchie, psychologist
13 February – Steve Nesbit, rugby union player
15 February – Russell Marshall, politician, diplomat
16 February
* Bruce Beetham, politician
* Noel Everett, sailor
18 February – Pavel Tichý, logician
21 February – Bev Brentnall, cricketer
28 February – Dot Coleman, fencer

March

10 March – David Harrington, local-body politician
14 March
* Kevin Barry, boxing coach
* Bob Charles, golfer
19 March – Robert Carswell, cricketer
21 March – Margaret Mahy, writer
22 March – Douglas Gray, cricketer
24 March
* Wally Hirsh, public servant, writer
* James Morrison, cricketer
25 March – Julian Jack, physiologist

April

1 April – Desmond Park, cricketer
3 April – Tama Poata, writer, actor, human rights activist
5 April – Robin Carrell, haematologist
9 April – Mary Webb, cricketer
15 April – Michael Brown, Anglican priest
19 April – Anthony Small, cricketer
22 April
* Kevin Barry, rugby union player
* Glen Evans, local-body politician
23 April – John D'Arcy, cricketer
24 April – Ngai Tupa, Cook Islands politician
26 April – Robert Mahuta, Māori leader, academic
27 April
* Peter Nicholls, sculptor
* Betty Steffensen, netball player, coach, umpire and administrator
28 April – Ans Westra, photographer
29 April – Peter Atkins, Anglican bishop

May

1 May – Glenys Arthur, neurologist
3 May – Raymond Hawthorne, theatre director
6 May
* Pat Walsh, rugby union player and selector
* Cliff Whiting, artist, heritage advocate
7 May – Kenneth Ferries, cricketer
8 May – Ruia Morrison, tennis player
29 May – Murray Mills, Anglican bishop
30 May – Roy Harford, cricketer

June

2 June – James Wright, cricketer
3 June – Colin Meads, rugby union player
4 June – Robert Kelly, cricketer
6 June – Precious McKenzie, weightlifter
16 June – Graeme Barrow, author
18 June – Denny Hulme, racing driver
21 June – Colin Nicholson, lawyer, judge
23 June – Richard Johnstone, cyclist, cycling coach
30 June – Peter Bloomfield, cricketer

July

1 July
* Jonathan Elworthy, politician
* Jim Savage, athlete
16 July
* Tamati Reedy, rugby union player, public servant, academic
* Rob Storey, farmers' leader, politician
23 July – Graham Buist, cricketer
24 July – Thomas O'Neil, cricketer
28 July – Donald Eagle, cyclist
31 July – Mike Watt, sport shooter

August

1 August – Elizabeth McRae, actor
5 August – Bruce Stewart, playwright
7 August – Joy Cowley, author
8 August – David Penman, Anglican archbishop
10 August – Marilyn Pryor, anti-abortion activist
13 August
* Bob Graham, rugby union player and coach
* George Newton, weightlifter
15 August
* Hamish Keith, writer, art curator
* Trevor Moffitt, artist
* J. B. Munro, politician, disability advocate
19 August – Norman Woods, cricketer
20 August – Kevin Briscoe, rugby union player
23 August – John Stopford, rugby league player

September

1 September – Selwyn Cushing, businessman
7 September – Alistair Soper, rugby union player
9 September – Dorothy Grover, philosopher
10 September
* Howard Carter, Pentecostal Christian leader
* Michael Corballis, psychologist
* Michael Hartshorn, organic chemist
* Bill Massey, softball player, coach and umpire
14 September – Robert Page, rowing coxswain
17 September – Barry Dineen, cricketer, rugby union player, businessman
18 September – Margaret Belcher, literary scholar
20 September – Murray McEwan, cricketer
21 September – Peter McLeavey, art dealer

October

4 October – Graham Davy, athlete, sports administrator
10 October
* Artie Dick, cricketer
* Carmen Rupe, drag performer, brothel keeper, LGBT rights activist
20 October – Jim Gerard, politician
23 October – Barry Sinclair, cricketer
31 October – Reuben Ngata, parasports competitor

November

6 November – Elva Simpson, netball player
9 November – Graham Hamer, rugby union coach
20 November – Graeme Tarr, cricketer
22 November – Ian Pool, demographer
23 November – Rex Pickering, rugby union player
24 November – Avinash Deobhakta, lawyer, judge
25 November – Jock Bilger, sailor
27 November – Terry O'Sullivan, rugby union player
29 November – Peter Cullinane, Roman Catholic bishop

December

5 December – Evelyn Stokes, geographer
12 December – Wilf Haskell, cricketer, sports historian
23 December – Paddy Donovan, boxer, rugby union player
25 December – Sonia Cox, badminton and tennis player

Undated

Beau Vite, Thoroughbred racehorse
David Beauchamp, civil engineer
Michael Friedlander, businessman, philanthropist
James Greig, potter
High Caste, Thoroughbred racehorse
Elric Hooper, actor, theatre director
Judy Howat, lawn bowls player
Sani Lakatani, Niuean politician
Terry McGee, geographer
Stanley Palmer, painter and printmaker
Jenny Pattrick, novelist, jeweller
John Riordan, jockey
Jim Siers, author, filmmaker, record producer
Adrienne Stewart, arts patron
Barrie Truman, association football coach
David Vere-Jones, mathematical statistician
Murray C. Wells, accountancy academic

Deaths

January–March

5 January – Arthur Singe, rugby league player
16 January – Sir William Hall-Jones, politician, prime minister
20 January – James Clark, politician, mayor of Dunedin
5 February – Timothy O'Connor, rugby union player
6 February – Edwin Bezar, soldier, author
8 February – Robert Holmes, civil engineer
19 February
* Andrew Entrican, businessman, politician
* Malcolm McGregor, World War I flying ace, aviation pioneer
3 March – Lucy Lovell-Smith, temperance worker and women's rights advocate
4 March – Arthur Henry Adams, journalist, author
10 March – David Kennedy, priest, astronomer
12 March – Janet Williamson, nurse
13 March
* Sir Francis Bell, politician, mayor of Wellington, prime minister
* Elizabeth Herriott, scientist, academic
14 March – William Holdship, cricketer
17 March – Albert Duder, mariner, harbourmaster
29 March – Forrest Ross, mountaineer, journalist, writer

April–June

18 April – John Swan, architect
21 April – Harold Smith, politician
5 May – Sir Joseph Kinsey, businessman, bibliophile, philanthropist
10 May
* Donald Fuller, cricketer
* Isaac Richards, Anglican bishop
11 May – Frederick Mason, cricketer
19 May – Thomas William Kirk, biologist, scientific administrator
21 May – John Spencer, rugby union and rugby league player
26 May – James Bradney, politician, shipping proprietor
3 June – Cedric Carr, botanist
16 June – Alexander Cairns, cricketer
24 June – Sir Frederick Chapman, judge

July–September

8 July – Ernest Sutherland, field athlete
9 July – Frances Haselden, headmistress
30 July – Sir James Mills, businessman, politician
9 August – George Butler, artist
12 August – Oscar Michelsen, missionary
17 August – Francis Henry Smith, politician
12 September – Richard Moore, politician
17 September – Ettie Rout, campaigner for safe sex
18 September – Emily White, gardener, writer
27 September – Archibald Hawke, businessman, sports administrator, politician

October–December

7 October – Frank Hockly, politician
15 October – Allen Bell, politician
18 October – James Hay, cricketer
19 October – William Chapple, politician
5 November – Tahupōtiki Haddon, Methodist minister
9 November – Edward McCausland, rugby union player
13 November – Charles Miles
25 November – John MacGregor, politician
23 December – Alf Hadden, cricketer
27 December – William Morris, public servant
31 December – John Dumbell, rugby union player