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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 2017 in New Zealand .
Population [ edit ]
National [ edit ]
Estimated populations as at 30 June.[1]
Main urban areas [ edit ]
Estimated populations as at 30 June.[1]
Blenheim – 31,300
Christchurch – 396,700
Dunedin – 120,200
Gisborne – 36,600
Hamilton – 235,900
Invercargill – 50,800
Kapiti – 42,300
Napier-Hastings – 133,000
Nelson – 66,700
New Plymouth – 57,500
Palmerston North – 85,300
Rotorua – 58,800
Tauranga – 137,900
Wellington – 412,500
Whanganui – 40,300
Whangārei – 57,700
Incumbents [ edit ]
Other party leaders
Judiciary
Main centre leaders
Regal and vice-regal [ edit ]
Government [ edit ]
2017 is the third and final full year of the 51st Parliament , which first sat on 21 October 2014 and was dissolved on 17 August 2017. A general election was held on 23 September to elect the 52nd Parliament .
The Fifth National Government , first elected in 2008, ends. The Sixth Labour Government begins.
David Carter
Trevor Mallard
Bill English
Jacinda Ardern
Paula Bennett
Winston Peters
Gerry Brownlee
Chris Hipkins
Steven Joyce
Grant Robertson
Murray McCully
Other party leaders [ edit ]
Andrew Little
Jacinda Ardern
James Shaw
Metiria Turei
Winston Peters
Te Ururoa Flavell
Marama Fox
David Seymour
Peter Dunne
Judiciary [ edit ]
Main centre leaders [ edit ]
Phil Goff
Greg Brownless
Andrew King
Justin Lester
Lianne Dalziell
Dave Cull
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
February [ edit ]
6 April – A state of emergency is declared as the town of Edgecumbe is evacuated due to flooding caused by the remnants of Cyclone Debbie [5]
13–14 April – Cyclone Cook , now an extratropical cyclone, moves across the North Island[6]
24 April – Gerry Brownlee resigns from his portfolio of Minister for Supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration.[7]
19–21 July – Severe flooding hits the east coast of the South Island between Christchurch and Balclutha
21 July – Mycoplasma bovis
September [ edit ]
October [ edit ]
December [ edit ]
Rugby union [ edit ]
Shooting [ edit ]
Ballinger Belt –
Jim Bailey (Australia)
Brian Carter (Te Puke), third, top New Zealander[14]
January [ edit ]
7 January
8 January – Elspeth Kennedy , sharebroker, community leader (born 1931)[15]
9 January
10 January – Heather McPherson , poet (born 1942)
11 January – Newman Hoar , cricketer (born 1920)
23 January – Pat Downey , barrister and solicitor, Human Rights Commissioner, legal editor (born 1927)
24 January – Manu Maniapoto , rugby union player (born 1935)
26 January – Dame Laurie Salas , women's rights and peace activist (born 1922)[16]
Elspeth Kennedy
Brown Turei
February [ edit ]
Dudley Storey
Phil Garland
3 April
6 April – John Anslow , field hockey player (born 1935)
7 April – Robin Kay , artist, historian (born 1919)
8 April – Sir Douglas Myers , businessman (born 1938)
9 April – John Clarke , satirist (born 1948)
18 April – Digby Taylor , sailor (born 1941)
19 April – Jill Amos , politician, activist (born 1927)
20 April
27 April
2 May – Hugo Judd , diplomat (born 1939)
3 May – Doug Rollerson , rugby union and rugby league player (born 1953)
4 May
6 May – Lyn McLean , lawn bowls player (born c. 1945 )
13 May – Nicholas Tarling , historian, academic, author (born 1931)
15 May – Graeme Barrow , author (born 1936)
17 May – Kevin Stanton , musician (born c. 1956)
18 May – George Martin , rugby league player, field athlete (born 1931)
25 May – Earl Hagaman , hotel operator (born 1925)
Hugo Judd
Doug Rollerson
Rosie Scott
Earl Hagaman
11 June – Lois McIvor , artist (born 1930)
15 June – Dame Ngāneko Minhinnick , Ngāti Te Ata leader (born 1939)
21 June – Oliver Jessel , businessman (born 1929)
24 June – Nick Kirk , Anglican cleric (born c. 1958)
25 June – David Goldsmith , field hockey player (born 1931)
26 June
27 June – Jacinta Gray , cyclist (born 1974)
28 June – Bruce Stewart , author, playwright, marae founder (born 1936)
29 June – Marrion Roe , Olympic swimmer (born 1935)
Ngāneko Minhinnick
Marrion Roe
3 July – Rolf Prince , chemical engineering academic (born 1928)
5 July
7 July – Frank Ryan , local-body politician (born 1932)[17]
8 July – Gay Eaton , textile artist (born 1933)
10 July – Marama Martin , radio and television personality (born 1930)
12 July – Allan Hunter , rugby union player, teacher, historian (born 1922)
15 July – Michael Cooper , economist (born 1938)
16 July – Cliff Whiting , artist, master carver, heritage advocate (born 1936)
17 July – George Hill , agronomist (born 1938)
18 July – Ian Mason , cricketer (born 1942)
23 July
Cliff Whiting
George Hill
2 August
Sir John Graham , rugby union player and administrator, educator (born 1935)
Paul Renton , rugby union player, farmer (born 1962)
4 August – Trevor Martin , cricket umpire (born 1925)
6 August – Tim Homer , radio personality (born c. 1973)
10 August
14 August – J. S. Parker , painter (born 1944)
15 August – Tui Flower , food writer (born 1925)
19 August – Alan Sayers , athlete, journalist, writer (born 1915)
20 August – Sir Colin Meads , rugby union player, coach and manager (born 1936)
22 August – Tom Pritchard , cricketer (born 1917)
September [ edit ]
5 September – Cedric Hassall , chemist, academic (born 1919)
9 September – Sir Pat Goodman , businessman, philanthropist (born 1929)
11 September – Malcolm Templeton , diplomat (born 1924)
15 September – Alma Evans-Freke , television presenter (born 1931)
16 September – Andrew Leachman , master mariner (born 1945)
18 September – Tony Laffey , association footballer (born 1925)
19 September – John Nicholson , motor racing driver and engine builder (born 1941)
21 September
David Beatson , journalist, broadcaster (born 1944)
Vera Burt , cricketer, hockey player, coach and administrator (born 1927)
26 September – Wanda Cowley , children's writer (born 1924)
29 September
October [ edit ]
2 October – Peter Burke , rugby union player, coach and administrator (born 1927)
3 October – Norma Williams , swimmer, swimming administrator (born 1928)
12 October – Derek Steward , athlete (born 1928)
15 October – Francis Pound , art historian, curator and writer (born 1948)
19 October – Edmund Cotter , mountaineer (born 1927)
21 October – Dave Leech , hammer thrower (born 1927)
22 October – Sandy Thomas , military leader (born 1919)
23 October – Gordon Ogilvie , historian, biographer (born 1934)
29 October – Roly Green , rugby union player (born 1927)
30 October – James Beard , architect, town planner, landscape architect (born 1924)
31 October
November [ edit ]
December [ edit ]
Exact date unknown [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "Houses destroyed as large fires blaze across Hawke's Bay" . RNZ . 13 February 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2024 .
^ Winter, Chloe (9 March 2017). "Pumpkin Patch put into liquidation after failure to find buyer" . Stuff . Retrieved 19 September 2023 .
^ Bilby, Lynley (7 April 2017). "Stopping flooding is just the beginning following ex-cyclone Debbie's wrath, says Whakatane District mayor" . New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 1 February 2020 .
^ MetService (2018). Review of the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 Cyclone Seasons by TCWC Wellington (PDF) . RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and South-East Indian Ocean Seventeenth Session . World Meteorological Organisation. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018 .
^ "Brownlee bows out of Christchurch rebuild" . RNZ . 24 April 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Declared States of Emergency" . www.civildefence.govt.nz . Retrieved 23 April 2024 .
^ "Budget 2017" . New Zealand Government. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2020 .
^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2017" . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2020 .
^ "Andrew Little resigns as leader of the Labour party" . Radionz.co.nz . 1 August 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017 .
^ George, Damian (3 October 2017). "Wellington's electric trolley bus wires to start coming down in a week" . Stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 1 February 2020 .
^ "New Year honours list 2018" . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2020 .
^ "Ballinger Belt" . National Rifle Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 22 February 2017 .
^ Gee, Samantha (12 January 2017). "Nelson business pioneer Elspeth Kennedy leaves legacy" . Stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 12 January 2017 .
^ "Dame Laurie Salas death notice" . The Press . 29 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017 .
^ "Frank Ryan, long-time Auckland mayor and father of Lucy Lawless, dies" . Stuff . Retrieved 20 April 2023 .
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