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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1938 in New Zealand .
Population
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Estimated population as of 31 December: 1,618,500.[1]
Increase since 31 December 1937: 16,500 (1.03%).[1]
Males per 100 females: 103.2.[1]
Incumbents
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Regal and viceregal
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Government
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The 25th New Zealand Parliament continues with the Labour Party in government. The general election in October results in the Labour government being returned for the 26th New Zealand Parliament .
Parliamentary opposition
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Main centre leaders
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Events
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19 February: 21 people working on the Wairoa-Gisborne railway are drowned when a flash flood hits a works camp at Kopuawhara near Mahia .[4]
The Times , formerly The Gisborne Times , is purchased by its opposition, The Poverty Bay Herald , which the following year becomes The Gisborne Herald [5] [6]
Arts and literature
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See 1938 in art , 1938 in literature , Category:1938 books
Music
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See: 1938 in music
Radio
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See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand
Film
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New Zealand Review no.5, Mountain Holiday, [1 ]
See: Category:1938 film awards , 1938 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand , Category:1938 films
Sport
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Basketball
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An interprovincial championship is held even though there is no national association at this time.[7]
Interpovincial Champions – Men: Otago
British Empire Games
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Total
5 7 13 25
Chess
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The 47th National Chess Championship was held in Dunedin, and was won by S. Hindin of Christchurch.[8]
Golf
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The 28th New Zealand Open championship was won by A.D. Locke.[9]
The 42nd National Amateur Championships were held in Otago[10]
Men: JP.G.F. Smith (Akarana)
Women – matchplay: Miss S. Collins
Women – strokeplay: Mrs R. Fullerton-Smith
Horse racing
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Harness racing
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Lawn bowls
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The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Dunedin.[13]
Men's singles champion – W.D. Bennett (Hastings Bowling Club)
Men's pair champions – R.B. Clarke, C.E. Tyrrell (skip) (Roslyn Bowling Club)
Men's fours champions – Stanley Snedden , F. Redpath, P. Munn, H. Wilson (skip) (Linwood Bowling Club)
Rugby
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Category:Rugby union in New Zealand , Category:All Blacks
Rugby league
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New Zealand national rugby league team
Soccer
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Births
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21 January: Jim Anderton
11 February: Bevan Congdon
24 February: Murray Hudson
26 May: Pauline Parker
11 July: Ron Sang
12 July: Stan Meads
24 July: John Sparling
29 July: Millie Khan
28 August: Aroha Reriti-Crofts
10 September: Colin Beyer
11 October: William Taylor ,
12 October: Geoff Murphy film director (died 2018).
28 October (in England): Anne Perry
29 October: Douglas Myers
15 November: Peter Sinclair
24 November: Wynne Bradburn
1 December: Bill Playle
2 December, Jonathan Hunt
17 December: Peter Snell
18 December: Syd Jackson
Deaths
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Full date unknown
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See also
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References
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^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990 . ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
^ "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition" . Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008 .
^ nzhistory.net.nz
^ "Poverty Bay Herald" . National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 21 September 2008 .
^ Mackay, Joseph Angus (1949). "Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.: Earliest Journals and Their Founders" .
^ Todd, S. (1976) Sporting Records of New Zealand. Auckland: Moa Publications. ISBN 0-908570-00-7
^ List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "PGA European – Holden New Zealand Open" . The Sports Network. 2005. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009 .
^ McLintock, A. H., ed. (1966). "Men's Golf – National Champions" . An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 February 2009 .
^ "List of NZ Trotting cup winners" . Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009 .
^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ McLintock, A.H. , ed. (1966). "Bowls, men's outdoor—tournament winners". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Retrieved 6 June 2018 .
^ Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com Archived 14 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ "New Zealand: List of champions" . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
^ Binney, Judith. "Eria Tutara-Kauika Raukura" . Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 23 April 2017 .
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