1977 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1977 in New Zealand.

1977 in New Zealand

Decades:
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
See also:

Population

  • Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,166,400[1]
  • Increase since 31 December 1976: 3000 (0.09%)
  • Males per 100 females: 99.4

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Government

1977 was the second full year of the 38th Parliament. The Third National Government was in power.

Parliamentary opposition

Main centre leaders

Events

Arts and literature

See 1977 in art, 1977 in literature, Category:1977 books

Music

The New Zealand Music Awards were not held this year.

See: 1977 in music

Radio and television

  • April: Fair Go airs for the first time.
  • June: Wellington's Radio Active 89FM first hits the airwaves
  • Feltex Television Awards:
    • Best Current Affairs: 'News at Ten
    • Best Documentary Series: Black Future
    • Best Light Entertainment: Blerta
    • Best Play: The God Boy
    • Best Drama: Moynihan
    • Best Speciality: Country Calendar
    • Best Actor: Ian Mune in Winners and Losers and Moynihan
    • Best Actress: Judy Douglas in The God Boy
    • Best Script: The God Boy
    • Best Personality: Roger Gascoigne

Performing arts

Television

See: 1977 in New Zealand television, 1977 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

See: Category:1977 film awards, 1977 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1977 films

Sport

Athletics

  • Terry Manners wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:20:40 in Hawera.

Association football

Chess

Harness racing

Births

Category:1977 births

Deaths

Category:1977 deaths

See also

References

  1. "Historical population estimates tables". Statistics New Zealand.
  2. Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
  3. 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. Today in History | NZHistory
  6. Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com Archived 14 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  9. Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Sky Sports – Rugby Union – Guinness Premiership – Worcester – Dale Rasmussen". Sky Sports. 14 September 2011.
  11. McLeod, Aorewa. "Escott, Cicely Margaret. First published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol 4, 1998". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

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