1999 in New Zealand

none February 2020 1999 The following lists events that happened during 1999 in New Zealand. Population Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,851,100.Historical population estimates tables http://archive.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/historical-population-tables.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20171231000952/http://archive.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/historical-population-tables.aspx 31 December 2017 Statistics New Zealand Increase since 31 December 1998: 22,500 (0.57%). Males per 100 Females: 96.5. Incumbents Regal and viceregal Head of State - Elizabeth II Governor-General - The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSOThe Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys, GNZM, GCMG, QSO gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 April 2012 Government The 45th New Zealand Parliament continued. until the general election, held 27 November for the 46th New Zealand Parliament starting 10 December. The governing National Party was defeated. The Labour Party, led by Helen Clark, in coalition with Alliance, led by Jim Anderton, formed the new government. Speaker of the House - Doug Kidd then Jonathan Hunt Prime Minister - Jenny Shipley then Helen Clark Deputy Prime Minister - Wyatt Creech then Jim Anderton Minister of Finance - Bill Birch then Bill English then Bill Birch then Michael Cullen Minister of Foreign Affairs - Don McKinnon then Phil Goff Chief Justice — Sir Thomas Eichelbaum (until 17 May), Sian Elias (starting 17 May) Opposition leaders See: :Category:Parliament of New Zealand, :New Zealand elections National - TBD (Leader of the Opposition) Greens - Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald Act - TBD New Zealand First - Winston Peters United New Zealand - TBD Main centre leaders Mayor of Auckland – Christine Fletcher Mayor of Hamilton – Russ Rimmington Mayor of Wellington – Mark Blumsky Mayor of Christchurch – Garry Moore Mayor of Dunedin – Sukhi Turner Events The Animal Welfare Act 1999 is passed into law The Pohatu Marine Reserve was formally established Kapiti Island is declared free of mammalian predators.Conservation Department of 2022-02-09 How the Kāpiti Island Rat eradication (almost) didn't happen Conservation blog https://blog.doc.govt.nz/2022/02/10/how-the-kapiti-island-rat-eradication-almost-didnt-happen/,%20https://blog.doc.govt.nz/2022/02/10/how-the-kapiti-island-rat-eradication-almost-didnt-happen/ 2023-09-19 blog.doc.govt.nz en-US 3 May: The Daily Telegraph and The Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune merge to form Hawke's Bay Today.http://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/Libraries/resources_news_local.htm Local Newspapers Hastings District Libraries 21 June 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081015091819/http://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/Libraries/resources_news_local.htm 15 October 2008 dead dmy-all 7 July: A daytime meteor is visible throughout New Zealand.7 July 2022 Meteor sighted in parts of lower North Island https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/470531/meteor-sighted-in-parts-of-lower-north-island 3 July 2024 RNZ 11–15 September: State visit by United States President Bill Clinton to attend the 11th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders meeting; the second Presidential visit after Lyndon Johnson in 1966; see Visit. 6 October: A rock avalanche from Mount Adams blocks the Poerua River, forming a dam. It failed on 12 October after significant rain.Hancox Graham T. McSaveney Mauri J. Manville Vernon R. Davies Tim R. December 2005 The October 1999 Mt Adams rock avalanche and subsequent landslide dam‐break flood and effects in Poerua river, Westland, New Zealand http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00288306.2005.9515141 New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics en 48 4 683–705 10.1080/00288306.2005.9515141 0028-8306 subscription 11 October: United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan visits New Zealand. 26 October: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes west of Taupō.M 6.2 - 24 km W of Taupo, New Zealand https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp0009gkx/technical 2024-04-28 earthquake.usgs.gov 27 November: The last "dry" electorates in New Zealand (Eden, Roskill and Tawa) voted to go "wet" and to allow alcohol sales. https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/71757291/tawa-ditches-prohibition-a-century-after-banning-alcohol--150-years-of-news Tawa ditches prohibition a century after banning alcohol Stuff (Fairfax) 4 September 2015 1 December: Changes to alcohol licensing in the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act: http://www.nzlii.org/nz/legis/hist_act/solaa19991999n92266/ Sale of Liquor Amendment Act, 1999 New Zealand Law online 1999 Sunday sales in on-licence and off licence premises, supermarkets could sell beer (they sold wine from 1989) and the drinking age dropped from 20 to 18; the changes were passed by Parliament, 59 to 55. Arts and literature Michael King and Paula Boock win the Robert Burns Fellowship. Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Montana Medal: Heather Nicholson, The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand Deutz Medal: Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck Reader's Choice: Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck First Book Awards Fiction: Willian Brandt, Alpha Male Poetry: Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars Non-Fiction: Helen Schamroth, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists See 1999 in art, 1999 in literature, :Category:1999 books Music New Zealand Music Awards Winners are shown first with nominees underneath.1999 New Zealand Music Awards http://www.rianz.org.nz/awards2008/history1999.asp https://archive.today/20121220092926/http://www.rianz.org.nz/awards2008/history1999.asp dead 20 December 2012 Web page RIANZ 28 September 2012 Album of the Year: The Feelers - Supersystem Che Fu - 2b S Pacific Neil Finn - Try Whistling This Single of the Year: Che Fu - Scene III The Feelers - Venus Ardijah - Love So Right Top Male Vocalist: Neil Finn Dave Dobbyn James Reid (The Feelers) Top Female Vocalist: Betty-Anne Monga (Ardijah) Sulata Foai (Te Vaka) Alesha Siosiua (Urban Pacifika) Top Group: The Feelers Ardijah Shihad Most Promising Male Vocalist: Andrew Tilby (Breathe) King Kapisi Nathan King (Zed) Most Promising Female Vocalist: Boh Runga (Stellar*) Liz Faalogo (NV) Sina Saipaia Most Promising Group: Stellar* Breathe Zed International Achievement: Bic Runga Neill Finn The Feelers Best Music Video: Reuben Sutherland Wait & See (Shihad) Sima & Makerita Urale- Sub Cranium Feeling (King Kapisi) Mark Tierney & Fiona Champtloup - Unlikely (NV) Best Producer: Malcolm Welsford & The Feelers - Supersystem Eddie Raynor - ENZSO 2 Che Fu & Andy Morton - 2b Spacific (Che Fu) Best Engineer: Andy Morton - 2BS Pacific (Che Fu) Sam Gibson - Try Whistling This (Neil Finn) Malcolm Welsford - Supersystem (The Feelers) Best Jazz Album: Chris White / Aaron Nevezie Quartet - Take Me With You Wil Sargisson - Steppin'Out Rodger Fox Quartet - Back To Being One Best Classical Album: Alexander Ivashkin - Under The Southern Cross Tamas Vesmas - Debussy, Bartok Piano Music New Zealand String Quartet - Bartok The Six Quartets Best Country Album: Barry Saunders - Magnetic South Glen Moffat - A Place To Play Home Tonight - Coalrangers Best Folk Album: Windy City Strugglers - On Top of the World Gallowglass - Sparven Philip Riley & Jayne Elleson - The Blessing Tree Best Gospel Album: Parachute Band - Always & Forever Debbie Harwood and Friends - Angels - The New Zealand Christmas Album Steve Apirana - It's Inevitable Best Mana Maori Album: Moana and the Moahunters - Rua Hori Chapman - Toku Reo Waihirere Maori Club - Waihirere -National Champions Ngati Rangiwewehi - Wairua -Spirit of Ngati Rangiwewehi Best Mana Reo Album: Traditional Waiata - He Waiata Onemata (Songs From the Past) Ngati Rangiwewehi - Wairua -Spirit of Ngati Rangiwewehi Moana & The Moahunters - Rua Waihirere Maori Club - Waihirere National Champions Best Children's Album: Jennifer Moss - Jennifer's Garden David LaPlance - A Hand Full of Songs Universal Children's Audio - Kori Kori / Busi Bodies / Lue Lue Mai Tessarose Productions - Dancing to the Beat Volume 2 Best Songwriter: James Reid - Venus (The Feelers) Dave Dobbyn - Beside You Neil Finn - She Will Have Her Way Best Cover: Elroy Finn - Try Whistling This (Neil Finn) Marcus Ringrose - Supersystem (The Feelers) Mark Roach & Andrew Durno - HLAH IV: Are You Gonna Kiss It Or Shoot It? (HLAH) New Zealand Radio Programmer Award: Melanie Wise - Q92FM Queenstown Tony Neilsen -Radio Otago Group Jo Hampton - NRG FM Robert Taylor - Radio Hauraki See: 1999 in music Performing arts Benny Award presented by the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand to Gerry Merito. Radio and television The famous Toyota Hilux Bugger TV Commercial goes to air on New Zealand television for the very first time. TVNZ sells its shareholding in SKY Network Television. https://web.archive.org/web/20160115011249/http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz/pdf/tvnz_timeline.pdf 15 January 2016 See: 1999 in New Zealand television, 1999 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, :Category:Television in New Zealand, TV3 (New Zealand), :Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand Film Channelling Baby I'll Make You Happy Savage Honeymoon Scarfies See: :Category:1999 film awards, 1999 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, :Category:1999 films Internet See: NZ Internet History Sport See: 1999 in sports, :Category:1999 in sports Athletics Phil Costley wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:17:43 on 24 October in Auckland, while Gabrielle O'Rourke claims her second as well in the women's championship (2:38:47). Basketball Tall Blacks NBL (Men's) was won by the Auckland Stars Cricket Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team 1999 Cricket World Cup held in England: New Zealand finished third in its pool and fourth in the super-six round before being beaten by Pakistan in the first semifinal. The Shell Trophy for 1998-99 was won by Canterbury, with Northern Districts runners-up. Golf New Zealand Open :Category:New Zealand golfers Horse racing Harness racing New Zealand Trotting Cup: Homin Hosedhttp://www.hrnz.co.nz/data/major_races/nz_trotting_cup.htm List of NZ Trotting cup winners 6 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20120222233106/http://www.hrnz.co.nz/data/major_races/nz_trotting_cup.htm 22 February 2012 dead dmy-all Auckland Trotting Cup: Happy AssetAuckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz https://web.archive.org/web/20090617211531/http://www.hrnz.co.nz/data/major_races/major_race2.htm 17 June 2009 Thoroughbred racing Netball Silver Ferns National Bank Cup Netball World Championships Rugby league 1999 New Zealand rugby league season The 1999 Tri Nations series was hosted by Auckland 1999 Auckland Warriors season Bartercard Cup New Zealand national rugby league team Rugby League World Cup Rugby union :Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, Super 12 Rugby World Cup National Provincial Championship Bledisloe Cup Tri Nations Series Ranfurly Shield Shooting Ballinger Belt – Rick Fincham (Upper Hutt)http://www.nranz.com/competitions/ballinger_belt New Zealand champion shot / Ballinger Belt winners National Rifle Association of New Zealand 11 October 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150125012900/http://www.nranz.com/competitions/ballinger_belt 25 January 2015 Soccer The Chatham Cup is won by Dunedin Technical who beat Waitakere City F.C. 4–0 in the final.Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com https://web.archive.org/web/20090314234154/http://www.nzsoccer.com/page/chatham_cup_records.html 14 March 2009 Births 30em January–March 7 January – Scott Gregory, rugby union player 16 January – Michael Woud, association footballer 18 January Ajeet Rai, tennis player Malia Steinmetz, association footballer 20 January – Sarpreet Singh, association footballer 27 January – Kaleb Trask, rugby union player 19 February – Jacqui Hand, association footballer 23 February – Emily Shearman, cyclist 25 February – Nando Pijnaker, association footballer 6 March – Mawene Hiroti, rugby league player 12 March – Murray Taulagi, rugby league player 23 March – Danny Toala, rugby union player 29 March – Caleb Clarke, rugby union player April–June 3 April – Chanel Harris-Tavita, rugby league player 4 April – Lwamba Chileshe, squash player 10 April – Grace Jale, association footballer 15 April – Dalton Wilkins, association footballer 19 April – Connor Garden-Bachop, rugby union player 22 April – Finn Allen, cricketer 27 April – Joe Bell, association footballer 30 April Callum McCowatt, association footballer Dallas McLeod, rugby union player 10 May – Quinn Tupaea, rugby union player 13 May – Alex Greive, association footballer 14 May Miguel Porteous, freestyle skier Billy Proctor, rugby union player 8 June – Dane Ingham, association footballer 13 June – Maddi Wesche, shot putter 29 June – Madison Doar, field hockey player July–September 2 July – Hayze Perham, rugby league player 4 July – Lewis Clareburt, swimmer 10 July – Naitoa Ah Kuoi, rugby union player 20 July – Devan Flanders, rugby union player 7 August – Emmerson Houghton, water polo player 13 August – Ezi Magbegor, basketball player 20 August Oregon Kaufusi, rugby league player Etene Nanai-Seturo, rugby union player 3 September – Fergus Burke, rugby union player 21 September Claudia Bunge, association footballer Katene Clarke, cricketer 22 September – Finn Bilous, freestyle skier 27 September – Lucky Owners, Thoroughbred racehorse October–December 7 October – Kate Heffernan, cricketer 11 October – Leicester Fainga'anuku, rugby union player 17 October – Gabrielle Fa'amausili, swimmer 28 October – Campbell Pithie, cyclist 30 October – Caleb Muntz, rugby union player 9 November Tiarn Collins, snowboarder St Reims, Thoroughbred racehorse 10 November – Matthew Fisher, cricketer 16 November Bella Armstrong, cricketer Moeaki Fotuaika, rugby league player 17 November – Ronaldo Mulitalo, rugby league player 18 November – Rachin Ravindra, cricketer 29 November – Bobbi Gichard, swimmer 5 December – William Stedman, athlete 12 December – Jakob Bhula, cricketer 19 December – Elsu, Standardbred racehorse 20 December – Cullen Grace, rugby union player 30 December George Congreve, speedway rider Hazel Ouwehand, swimmer 31 December Ellesse Andrews, racing cyclist Reid Walker, actor Undated Keegan Smith, association footballer Grace Stratton, blogger, fashion entrepreneur Riiki Reid, singer-songwriter, producer and dance choreographer Deaths 30em January–March 5 January – Michael Hirschfeld, businessman, politician (born 1944) 17 January – Alister Hopkinson, rugby union player and coach (born 1941) 20 January – Martyn Finlay, politician (born 1912) 16 February – Don Hayward, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1925) 8 March – Barney Clarke, boxer (born 1927) 19 March – Freda Stark, dancer (born 1910) 28 March – Doody Townley, harness-racing driver (born 1925) April–June 13 April – Ortvin Sarapu, chess player (born 1924) 19 April – Doug Dillon, jurist (born 1924) 28 April – Harold Wellman, geologist (born 1909) 29 April – Barbara Bevege, cricketer (born 1942) 30 April – Bruce Jesson, journalist, republican activist, politician (born 1944) 9 May – Jeff Whittington, murder victim (born 1985) 12 May – Dan Walls, theoretical physics academic (born 1942) 17 May – Chris Corne, linguist (born 1942) 21 May – Yvonne Lawley, actor (born 1913) 22 May – Maxwell Fernie, organist, music teacher and conductor (born 1910) 8 June – Brian Shorland, organic chemist (born 1909) 10 June – SIr Leonard Thornton, army officer (born 1916) 12 June – Gerry Clark, sailer, writer, ornithologist (born 1927) 25 June – Bill Rapson, chemist (born 1912) July–September 5 July – Keith Bagley, rugby union player (born 1931) Len Butterfield, cricketer (born 1913) 22 July – Syd Jensen, motorcycle racer, motor racing driver (born 1922) 24 July – Rona McKenzie, cricketer (born 1922) 2 August – Charles Rappolt, politician (born 1939) 9 August – Les Riley, cricketer (born 1948) 10 August – Jens Hansen, jeweller (born 1940) 12 August – Wilfrid Kalaugher, athlete, cricketer, school teacher (born 1904) 23 August – Frank Tredrea, cyclist (born 1920) 24 August – Peter Mann, Anglican bishop (born 1924) 27 August – Don Crabb, association footballer (born 1910) 28 August – Muriel Hilton, politician, Mayor of Timaru (1959–1962) (born 1904) 31 August – Sylvia Potts, middle-distance athlete (born 1943) 1 September – Joe Genet, wrestler (born 1914) 5 September – Robert Arthur Owens, Mayor of Tauranga (born 1921) October–December 5 October – Jack Somerville, Presbyterian leader (born 1910) 17 October – Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, diplomat (born 1910) 22 October – Martin Donnelly, cricketer (born 1917) 25 October Rosalie Gascoigne, sculptor (born 1917) David Thomson, politician (born 1915) 2 November – Hardy Browning, potter, local politician (born 1915) 11 November – Bob Walls, artist (born 1927) 14 November – Garth Harris, taxation law academic (born 1942) 25 November – Sua Sulu'ape Paulo II, Samoan master tattooist (born 1950) 1 December – Frank Newhook, plant pathology academic (born 1918) 6 December – Sheikh Khalid Hafiz, Muslim cleric (born 1938) 13 December – Peter Adams, actor (born 1938) 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 For world events and topics in 1999 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1999 References External links 1999 in yes Category:1999 in Oceania Category:1990s in New Zealand New Zealand Category:Years of the 20th century in New Zealand