2022 in New Zealand

October

• 1 October – The AMC+ streaming service launches in New Zealand.
• 6 October
• * Heavy snow hits much of the South Island, Wellington, Taranaki and the Central Plateau, causing problems for farmers and viticulturists, and closing state highways.
• * The first community transmission of monkeypox in New Zealand is confirmed.
• 7 October – The Supreme Court posthumously quashes the 1993 child abuse convictions of Peter Ellis.
• 8 October – The 2022 local elections are held.
• 19 October – A digital security breach allows personal details about most University of Otago students to be viewable to others.
• 20 October – Tractors drive through city centres in a protest led by the farmer advocacy group Groundswell.
• 21 October – Minister of Transport Michael Wood announces a $1.3 billion public transport single payment system, to rolled out across the country in stages, starting with Canterbury in 2024.
• 25 October – Women make up 50% of MPs in parliament for the first time, as Soraya Peke-Mason is sworn in as a list MP.

November

• 2 November – The evacuation of 130 people from a holiday park at Woodend Beach north of Christchurch occurs due to a wildfire. About 50 firefighters battled the flames overnight.
• 8 November – A full lunar eclipse takes place.
• 21 November – The Supreme Court rules that current electoral legislation setting the minimum voting age at 18 years violates the Bill of Rights Act 1990.
• 23 November – Murder of Janak Patel
• 23 November – The Reserve Bank lifts the Official cash rate by 75 basis points to 4.25% while forecasting a "shallow recession" in 2023.
• 25 November – The New Zealand Government and Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri sign an agreement to settle historical Treaty of Waitangi claims relating to the Chatham Islands.
• 30 November – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake causes a tsunami at Lake Taupō, damaging moored boats.

December

• 1 December – Graham Philip is sentenced to three years and one month in prison for sabotage, the first conviction for this crime in New Zealand history.
• 10 December – The Hamilton West by-election is won by the National Party candidate, Tama Potaka.
• 26 December – New Zealanders break retail spending record for Boxing Day, with consumers spending $100.5 million.
• 31 December – The 2023 New Year Honours are announced.

Holidays and observances

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 2 January – Day after New Year's Day
• 3 January – New Year's Day observed
• 4 January – Day after New Year's Day observed
• 6 February – Waitangi Day
• 7 February – Waitangi Day observed
• 15 April – Good Friday
• 18 April – Easter Monday
• 25 April – Anzac Day
• 6 June – Queen's Birthday
• 24 June – Matariki
• 26 September – Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Day
• 24 October – Labour Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Boxing Day
• 27 December – Christmas Day observed

Sport

Commonwealth Games

• New Zealand sends a team of 233 competitors across 19 sports

Cricket

• New Zealand and Bangladesh draw 1–1 in a two Test-match series in New Zealand
• Ross Taylor plays his 112th and final Test match for New Zealand after a 15-year career

• The New Zealand women's team defeats India 4–1 in a one-day international series during the India women's tour of New Zealand
• The Australian cricket team's tour of New Zealand, to play three Twenty20 International matches, scheduled for March, is cancelled because of COVID-19

• The two-Test series in New Zealand between South Africa and New Zealand ends, with the series drawn 1–1

• The 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup, held at six venues around New Zealand, concludes, with Australia defeating England in the final
• The Dutch cricket team's tour New Zealand ends, with New Zealand winning the ODI series 3–0

• The New Zealand men's team is defeated 3–0 in a three Test series against England in England

• The New Zealand men's team tours Ireland, winning both the ODI series and T20 international series 3–0

Horse racing

Harness racing

• Auckland Cup – Self Assured
• New Zealand Cup – Copy That
• Rowe Cup – Bolt For Brilliance

Thoroughbred racing

• Auckland Cup – Uareastar
• New Zealand Cup – Aljay
• Wellington Cup – Lincoln King

Olympics

• New Zealand sends a team of 15 competitors across five sports.
• Zoi Sadowski-Synnott wins the women's snowboard slopestyle, becoming the first New Zealander to win a Winter Olympics gold medal.
• Nico Porteous wins the men's freestyle skiing halfpipe, becoming the first New Zealand male and youngest New Zealander to win a Winter Olympics gold medal.

Paralympics

• New Zealand sends a team of three alpine skiers
• Corey Peters and Adam Hall each win two medals

Rowing

• New Zealand Secondary School Championships (Maadi Cup)
• * Maadi Cup – Hamilton Boys' High School
• * Levin Jubilee Cup – Rangi Ruru Girls' School
• * Star Trophy – Rangi Ruru Girls' School

Rugby union

• 8 October – 12 November – The 2021 Rugby World Cup for women will be held at three venues in the upper North Island

Shooting

• Ballinger Belt – Mike Collings

Squash

• 1 March – Paul Coll becomes the first New Zealand man to reach World No. 1 in the official men's squash world ranking

Trampoline

• Dylan Schmidt wins the men's individual trampoline title at the 2022 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships
• Bronwyn Dibb wins the women's double-mini trampoline title at the 2022 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships

Deaths

January

• 1 January – Bob Leamy, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Rarotonga .
• 3 January
• * Doug Baldwin, dairy farmer, market gardener and floriculturist, Fieldays organiser.
• * Tony Mackintosh, cricket umpire.
• * Tu'u Maori, rugby league player .
• 5 January – Rose Beauchamp, puppeteer, actress, musician.
• 13 January – Joe Babich, Hall of Fame winemaker, businessman.
• 20 January – David Kivell, cricketer .
• 23 January
• * Chris King, cricket umpire.
• * Bruce Miller, soil chemist and scientific administrator, director of the Soil Bureau, chief director of the DSIR.
• 28 January – Betty Armstrong, early childhood education pioneer.
• 29 January – Pete Smith, actor .

February

• 2 February – Roy Purdon, harness-racing trainer .
• 6 February – Frank McAtamney, rugby union player .
• 9 February – Peter Neilson, politician, MP for Miramar, Minister of Works and Development .
• 10 February – Olsen Filipaina, rugby league player .
• 17 February – Vincent Burke, television and film producer, co-founder of Choice TV.
• 18 February – Harold Titter, businessman and public administrator, Auckland Area Health Board commissioner, chair of Trustpower .
• 19 February – Peter Grayburn, accountant and businessman.
• 23 February – Joeli Vidiri, rugby union player .
• 24 February
• * Lillian Chrystall, architect, first woman to win a New Zealand Institute of Architects national award.
• * Va'aiga Tuigamala, rugby union player and rugby league player .

March

• 9 March – David Crooks, military leader, Chief of the Air Staff, Chief of the Defence Staff .
• 10 March – Clint Baddeley, trade unionist and local politician, deputy mayor of Waikato District .
• 14 March – Terry Dunleavy, Hall of Fame wine industry leader, politician and columnist, Wine Institute of New Zealand CEO .
• 17 March
• * Sir Wira Gardiner, soldier, writer and public servant, director of Civil Defence, chief executive of Te Puni Kōkiri, chair of the board of Te Papa .
• * Mark Hastings, cricketer .
• 18 March – Murray Day, squash administrator, president of the New Zealand Squash Rackets Association and the International Squash Rackets Federation .
• 20 March – Lyell Cresswell, composer, New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate .
• 22 March
• * Doug Carswell, cricketer .
• * Dame Miriam Dell, botanist and women's advocate, president of the National Council of Women and the International Council of Women, Member of the Order of New Zealand .
• 23 March
• * Russell Kerr, ballet dancer, choreographer and producer, Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon .
• * Busby Noble, Māori activist, Antarctic adventurer.
• 24 March – Kenny McFadden, basketball player and coach.
• 25 March – Cat Pausé, fat studies academic and activist.
• 26 March
• * George Groombridge, social worker and politician, New Zealand First party president .
• * Mike Riddell, Christian minister and writer .
• 27 March – Maurice Langdon, cricketer .
• 28 March – Dame June Jackson, Māori leader, activist and public servant, CEO of the Manukau Urban Māori Authority, member of the Parole Board .
• 29 March – Kerry-Jayne Wilson, ornithologist, Robert Falla Memorial Award .
• 31 March – Moana Jackson, lawyer, Māori and indigenous rights activist, convenor of Matike Mai Aotearoa.

April

• 2 April – Sir Robin Gray, politician, MP for Clutha, Speaker of the House of Representatives .
• 3 April
• * Noeline Brokenshire, cricketer, field hockey player, British Empire Games hurdler, woodturner, and magazine publisher.
• * Frances Porter, writer and historian.
• 4 April – Lorraine Warren, professor at Massey University from 2014 to 2019
• 5 April – Leslie Young, economist
• 6 April – John Creighton, rugby union player .
• 8 April – Peter Musson, bassoonist, bassoon teacher and reed maker.
• 9 April – Myra Larcombe, police officer, historian, and swimming coach, Halberg lifetime achievement award .
• 12 April – Alison Gernhoefer, school principal, Westlake Girls High School principal .
• 17 April – Kevin Meates, rugby union player and businessman.
• 20 April
• * Ian Brooks, politician, MP for Marlborough .
• * Roy Moore, rugby league player .
• 24 April – Frances Cherry, novelist, short-story writer, and teacher of creative writing, Storylines Notable Book Award .
• 26 April
• * John Gordon, television presenter and director, journalist and author.
• * Sir Christopher Harris, 3rd Baronet, businessman.
• * Charles Thomas, architect.
• 28 April – Ian Pool, demographer, academic .

May

• 5 May
• * Gary Allen, cricketer, harness-racing owner, breeder and administrator.
• * Des Taylor, electrical engineering academic .
• 10 May
• * Richard Worth, politician, MP for Epsom, National list MP, Minister of Internal Affairs .
• * Doug Caldwell, jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and music teacher.
• 11 May
• * Peter Atkins, Anglican priest, Bishop of Waiapu .
• * Harerangi Meihana, Māori religious leader, president of the Rātana Church .
• 12 May – Rodney Reid, association footballer and cricketer .
• 16 May – Brian Gaynor, sharebroker, investment analyst, and financial commentator.
• 20 May
• * Glenys Arthur, neurologist, member of the Wellington Area Health Board
• * Dame Aroha Reriti-Crofts, Māori community leader, president of the Māori Women's Welfare League .
• * Bruce Tabb, accountancy academic .
• 22 May – Joe Hawke, Māori leader and politician, Labour list MP .
• 25 May
• * Dick Conway, rugby union player .
• * Allie Eagle, artist.
• 29 May
• * Stan Rodger, trade unionist and politician, president of the Public Service Association, MP for Dunedin North, Minister of Labour .
• * Grattan Roughan, plant biologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand .

June

• 1 June
• * Katharine Bowden, family planning pioneer.
• * Tom Johnson, rugby union player, businessman, sports administrator, New Zealand Rugby Football Union council member .
• 5 June – Toby Autridge, jockey and horseracing trainer.
• 8 June – Graeme Marsh, Hall of Fame businessman and philanthropist.
• 10 June
• * Viliami Hingano, Tongan politician.
• * Richard Prosser, politician. New Zealand First list MP .
• 12 June – Jim Campbell, rugby league player, coach and administrator; surf lifesaving administrator.
• 16 June
• * Neil Fleming, educationalist .
• * Don Neely, cricket historian, player and administrator, president of New Zealand Cricket .
• 22 June – Donald Gemmell, Olympic and British Empire and Commonwealth Games rower.
• 23 June – Rex Austin, politician, MP for Awarua .
• 25 June
• * Christine McElwee, local-body politician, historian and author, deputy mayor of Taupō .
• * Russell Watt, rugby union player .

July

• 3 July
• * Jack Monaghan, British Empire Games wrestler .
• * Gavin Thorley, Olympic long-distance athlete .
• 4 July – Richard Bradley, Māori leader .
• 9 July – Kevin Dawkins, legal academic .
• 10 July
• * Bill Crump, cricketer .
• * Barry Sinclair, cricketer .
• 12 July
• * John Elliott, politician, MP for Whangarei .
• * Sir Michael Fowler, architect and local politician, mayor of Wellington .
• * Natalie Wicken, netball player .
• 13 July – Bruce Cliffe, politician, MP for North Shore .
• 14 July – Ann Trotter, historian, University of Otago pro vice-chancellor .
• 16 July
• * Paul Cotton, public servant, diplomat and newspaper columnist, High Commissioner to Western Samoa, Ambassador to Greece and the Philippines .
• * Pauline Stansfield, disability rights advocate.
• 18 July
• * Alan Burnet, newspaper industry executive, Independent Newspapers managing director and chair .
• * Ricky Houghton, Māori housing advocate and community leader, Local Hero of the Year .
• 21 July – John Duggan, rugby union and rugby league player .
• 23 July
• * Peter Bygate, public servant, acting Director-General of Conservation .
• * Geoff Geering, local politician, mayor of Ashburton .
• 27 July
• * John Grenell, country singer and songwriter .
• * Inez Kingi, Māori health leader.
• * Don Spary, helicopter pilot, tourism pioneer, and businessman, George Medal recipient .
• 30 July – Don Hammond, rugby league player and coach .
• 31 July – Brian Molloy, rugby union player, plant ecologist, and conservationist, Loder Cup .

August

• 5 August – Mark Paterson, Olympic sailor, Cherub world champion, 470 World Championship bronze medallist .
• 9 August – Sir Miles Warren, architect, NZIA Gold Medal, Member of the Order of New Zealand .
• 10 August – Jim Thomson, cricketer .
• 11 August
• * Colleen Mills, management academic .
• * Martin Wilson, environmentalist and festival organiser .
• 12 August – Jann Medlicott, radiographer and philanthropist, sponsor of the Acorn Prize for Fiction .
• 14 August
• * Paul Hudson, businessman, local politician, Dunedin City Councillor .
• * Marshall Napier, actor and playwright.
• 15 August – Ioane King, actor .
• 17 August – Sir Toby Curtis, rugby union player, Māori leader, and educator, deputy vice-chancellor of Auckland University of Technology .
• 22 August – Margaret Urlich, Hall of Fame singer, seven-time New Zealand Music Award winner.
• 23 August – Julian Robertson, hedge fund manager and philanthropist.
• 26 August – Roy Wilson, architect .
• 28 August – Gil Cawood, Olympic rower, world championship bronze medallist .
• 30 August – Sir Graeme Davies, metallurgist and universities administrator .

September

• 1 September
• * Kim Goldwater, winegrower and philanthropist.
• * Phillip Mann, science fiction writer and theatre director.
• 4 September – Peter Macdonald, geophysicist, Antarctic research pioneer, Polar Medal .
• 5 September – Jeff Robson, Hall of Fame badminton and tennis player, and badminton administrator, International Badminton Federation vice president,, Halberg lifetime achievement award .
• 7 September – Willie Losʻe, rugby union player and broadcaster.
• 8 September – Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand .
• 11 September – David McIntyre, historian .
• 12 September – Dick Littlejohn, Hall of Fame rugby union administrator, co-chair of the 1987 Rugby World Cup organising committee.
• 14 September – Ken Douglas, trade union leader, New Zealand Council of Trade Unions president, Member of the Order of New Zealand .
• 15 September – Maanu Paul, Māori leader, New Zealand Māori Council co-chair.
• 25 September – Leslie Swindale, soil scientist .
• 26 September – Gordon Dryden, educationalist and broadcaster, founder of Radio Pacific.
• 28 September – Oonah Shannahan, netball player .

October

• 2 October – Jim Carter, Hall of Fame musician .
• 6 October – Mary Ogg, local politician, mayor of Gore .
• 9 October – Bruce Pairaudeau, cricketer .
• 11 October
• * Joan Fear, painter.
• * Graeme Shadwell, civil engineer and public servant, Commissioner of Works, Te Papa design and construction project director .
• 15 October – Margaret Farry-Williams, fashion leader and fundraiser.
• 23 October – Robert Nola, philosophy academic, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand .
• 25 October – Farquhar Wilkinson, cellist, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra principal cello .
• 27 October – Terry Ryan, expert on Ngāi Tahu genealogy.
• 30 October – Shane Reed, Aquathlon world champion and Olympic triathlete .
• 31 October – Eddie Robertson, geophysicist and scientific administrator, Director-General of the DSIR, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand .

November

• 3 November – Starcraft, Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse, Australian Derby, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Australian Champion Three Year Old .
• 4 November – John Warrington, cricketer and association footballer .
• 6 November – John Alderson, cricketer .
• 7 November
• * Sir Roger Bhatnagar, businessman and philanthropist.
• * Kevin Hart, sports broadcaster.
• 11 November – Sir Ian Barker, jurist, King's Counsel, judge of the High Court, chancellor of the University of Auckland .
• 12 November – Susan Wakefield, tax accountant and philanthropist, chair of the Commerce Commission .
• 14 November – Geoff Cochrane, poet, novelist, short-story writer, Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate .
• 18 November
• * Dick Johnstone, Olympic and British Empire and Commonwealth Games cyclist.
• * Lawrence Jones, literary scholar, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• * Neil MacLean, judge and coroner, District Court judge, Chief Coroner .
• 20 November – Lesley Elliott, domestic violence prevention campaigner, Supreme Woman of Influence .
• 22 November – Gary Blackman, pharmacologist, photographer and artist.
• 27 November
• * Audrey Eagle, botanical illustrator, Loder Cup .
• * Hamish Kilgour, Hall of Fame musician .
• * Sir Allan Wright, farming leader, businessman and sports administrator, president of Federated Farmers, chancellor of Lincoln University, president of New Zealand Cricket .
• 28 November – Jenny McLeod, composer and musical theorist .
• 29 November – Gray Nelson, public servant and diplomat.
• 30 November
• * Glynne Adams, violist, NZBC Symphony Orchestra principal viola .
• * Sir Murray Halberg, Hall of Fame middle-distance athlete, Olympic and British Empire and Commonwealth Games champion, charity founder, Member of the Order of New Zealand .

December

• 3 December – Annemarie Hope-Cross, photographic artist.
• 8 December – Ian Hunter, naval officer, Chief of Naval Staff .
• 10 December
• * John Armstrong, journalist, political editor of The New Zealand Herald .
• * John Fogarty, jurist, King's Counsel, District Court judge .
• * Colin Gibson, professor of English, hymn writer.
• 11 December – Bruce J. McFarlane, Australian economist .
• 12 December – Hilary McCormack, deaf community advocate.
• 13 December – Vern Clark, animal scientist .
• 17 December
• * Nau Epiha, Māori leader .
• * Dale Harrop, ice hockey player .
• * Ann Stephens, Hall of Fame squash player, and badminton player.
• 19 December – Sandy Edmonds, singer.
• 23 December
• * Colin Jillings, Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing trainer .
• * Claire McLintock, haematologist and obstetric physician, president of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis .
• 30 December – Terence O'Brien, diplomat, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, President of the United Nations Security Council .