1936 in New Zealand

none March 2024 December 2019 1936 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 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. Male Female Total Usually resident population 796,152 (50.7%) 773,067 (49.3%) 1,569,216 Overseas Visitors 2,931 1,650 4,581 Total 799,092 774,720 1,573,812 Incumbents Regal and viceregal Head of State – George V (until 20 January), Edward VIII (20 January to 11 December), George VI Governor-General – The Viscount Galway GCMG DSO OBE PCStatistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52 Government The 25th New Zealand Parliament continued with the Labour Party in government. Speaker of the House – Bill Barnard (Labour Party) 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 (United/Reform Party until May, then National Party), succeeded in November by Adam Hamilton (National).http://www.elections.org.nz/democracy/leaders-opposition.html Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition 6 April 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081017200326/http://www1.elections.org.nz/democracy/leaders-opposition.html 17 October 2008 dead 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.Lambert & Palenski: The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. 0-908570-55-4 11 June – Parliament goes into recess.September 2023 21 June – Parliament resumes.September 2023 30 August – Train derails near Paraparaumu due to a landslide in heavy rain.Landslide-related fatalities in New Zealand https://teara.govt.nz/files/d8801enz1.pdf 27 September 2023 Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand 27 September 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230927094959/https://teara.govt.nz/files/d8801enz1.pdf dead 31 October – First session of the 25th Parliament concludes.September 2023 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.http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/HstBldgs/History/Resources/3/6/e/36e40376aa2842e6bcce0a4557ebf2bc.htm New Zealand Parliament – Parliament timeline 1 February 2008 19 January 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080119020604/http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/HstBldgs/History/Resources/3/6/e/36e40376aa2842e6bcce0a4557ebf2bc.htm dead See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand Film Phar Lap's Son The Wagon and the Star On the Friendly Road 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.List of New Zealand Chess Champions https://web.archive.org/web/20081014052518/http://poisonpawn.co.nz/nzcftitles.htm 14 October 2008 Golf The 26th New Zealand Open championship was won by Andrew Shaw, his 7th title.http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=golf-e/scores/archive_05/holden-preview.htm PGA European – Holden New Zealand Open The Sports Network 2005 25 March 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110525235454/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=golf-e%2Fscores%2Farchive_05%2Fholden-preview.htm 25 May 2011 dead The 40th National Amateur Championships were held in New Plymouthhttp://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/G/GolfMens/NewZealandAmateurChampions/en Men's Golf – National Champions An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand McLintock A. H. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966 13 February 2009 20 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090520031909/http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/G/GolfMens/NewZealandAmateurChampions/en dead Men: J.P. Hornabrook (Manawatu) Women: Miss E. White-Parsons Horse racing Harness racing New Zealand Trotting Cup – Indianapolis (3rd win)http://www.hrnz.co.nz/data/major_races/nz_trotting_cup.htm List of NZ Trotting cup winners 5 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20120222233106/http://www.hrnz.co.nz/data/major_races/nz_trotting_cup.htm 22 February 2012 dead Auckland Trotting Cup – King's WarriorAuckland 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 Lawn bowls The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Christchurch.McLintock A.H. Alexander Hare McLintock Bowls, men's outdoor—tournament winners An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/bowls-mens-outdoor/page-5 6 June 2018 1966 Ministry for Culture and Heritage Men's singles champion – Frank Livingstone (Onehunga Bowling Club) Men's pair champions – J.W. Turpin, H. Haworth (skip) (Canterbury Bowling Club) Men's fours champions – C.H. Elsom, J.W. Turpin, C.J. Shaw, R. Haworth (skip) (Canterbury Bowling Club) Olympic Games New Zealand at the 1936 Summer Olympics Total 1 0 0 1 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 (Blenheim)https://www.nranz.com/nationals/ballinger-belt/ Ballinger Belt National Rifle Association of New Zealand 16 January 2025 Soccer An Australian national side tours New Zealand, beating the home team heavily in all three internationals:List of New Zealand national soccer matches 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.Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com https://web.archive.org/web/20090314234154/http://www.nzsoccer.com/page/chatham_cup_records.html 14 March 2009 Provincial league champions:https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nzchamp.html New Zealand: List of champions Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 1999 Auckland: Thistle Canterbury: Western Hawke's Bay: Watersiders Nelson: YMCA Otago: Seacliff Southland: Corinthians Wanganui: Thistle Wellington: Hospital Births 30em 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 (born in Australia) Barrie Truman, association football coach David Vere-Jones, mathematical statistician Murray C. Wells, accountancy academic Deaths 30em January–March 5 January – Arthur Singe, rugby league player 16 January – Sir William Hall-Jones, politician, prime minister (1906) (born 1851) 20 January – James Clark, politician, mayor of Dunedin (1915–1919) (born 1870) 5 February – Timothy O'Connor, rugby union player (born 1860) 6 February – Edwin Bezar, soldier, author (born 1838) 8 February – Robert Holmes, civil engineer (born 1856) 19 February Andrew Entrican, businessman, politician (born 1858) Malcolm McGregor, World War I flying ace, aviation pioneer (born 1896) 3 March – Lucy Lovell-Smith, temperance worker and women's rights advocate (born 1861) 4 March – Arthur Henry Adams, journalist, author (born 1872) 10 March – David Kennedy, priest, astronomer (born 1864) 12 March – Janet Williamson, nurse (born 1862) 13 March Sir Francis Bell, politician, mayor of Wellington (1891–1893), prime minister (1925) (born 1851) Elizabeth Herriott, scientist, academic (born 1882) 14 March – William Holdship, cricketer (born 1872) 17 March – Albert Duder, mariner, harbourmaster (born 1856) 29 March – Forrest Ross, mountaineer, journalist, writer (born 1860) April–June 18 April – John Swan, architect (born 1874) 21 April – Harold Smith, politician (born 1866) 5 May – Sir Joseph Kinsey, businessman, bibliophile, philanthropist (born 1852) 10 May Donald Fuller, cricketer (born 1869) Isaac Richards, Anglican bishop (born 1859) 11 May – Dick Mason, cricketer (born 1881) 19 May – Thomas William Kirk, biologist, scientific administrator (born 1856) 21 May – John Spencer, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1880) 26 May – James Bradney, politician, shipping proprietor (born 1853) 3 June – Cedric Carr, botanist (born 1892) 16 June – Alexander Cairns, cricketer (born 1850) 24 June – Sir Frederick Chapman, judge (born 1849) July–September 8 July – Ernest Sutherland, field athlete (born 1894) 9 July – Frances Haselden, headmistress (born 1842) 30 July – Sir James Mills, businessman, politician (born 1847) 9 August – George Butler, artist (born 1872) 12 August – Oscar Michelsen, missionary (born 1844) 17 August – Francis Henry Smith, politician (born 1868) 12 September – Richard Moore, politician (born 1849) 17 September – Ettie Rout, campaigner for safe sex (born 1877) 18 September – Emily White, gardener, writer (born 1839) 27 September – Archibald Hawke, businessman, sports administrator, politician (born 1862) October–December 7 October – Frank Hockly, politician 15 October – Allen Bell, politician (born 1870) 18 October – James Hay, cricketer (born 1885) 19 October – William Chapple, politician (born 1864) 5 November – Tahupōtiki Haddon, Methodist minister (born 1866) 9 November – Edward McCausland, rugby union player (born 1865) 13 November – Charles Miles (born 1850) 25 November – John MacGregor, politician (born 1850) 23 December – Alf Hadden, cricketer (born 1877) 27 December – William Morris, public servant (born 1853) 31 December – John Dumbell, rugby union player (born 1859) See also History of New Zealand List of years in New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica Timeline of the New Zealand environment References External links 1936 in yes Category:Years of the 20th century in New Zealand