1999 in New Zealand

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See also:	Other events of 1999 Timeline of New Zealand history

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State - Elizabeth II
• Governor-General - The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSO^[1]

Government

The 45th New Zealand Parliament continued. until the General election, held 27 November. 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

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 - Russell Matthew 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 Pōhatu Marine Reserve was formally established
• 3 May: The Daily Telegraph and The Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune merge to form Hawke's Bay Today.^[2]
• 11 October: United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan visits New Zealand.
• 1 December: Changes to alcohol licensing: Sunday sales in on-licence and off licence premises, supermarkets could sell beer 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.^[3][4]

• 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 Moa Hunters - 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

• TVNZ sells its shareholding in SKY Network Television.

See: 1999 in New Zealand television, 1999 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, 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 Hosed^[5]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Happy Asset^[6]

Netball

• Silver Ferns
• National Bank Cup
• Netball World Championships

Rugby league

• 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 Union World Cup
• National Provincial Championship
• Bledisloe Cup
• Tri Nations Series
• Ranfurly Shield

Shooting

• Ballinger Belt – Rick Fincham (Upper Hutt)^[7]

Soccer

• The Chatham Cup is won by Dunedin Technical who beat Waitakere City F.C. 4—0 in the final.^[8]

Births

• 27 September – Lucky Owners, thoroughbred racehorse
• 9 November – St Reims, thoroughbred racehorse
• 28 November – Millie Williamson, gymnast
• 5 December – William Stedman, athlete
• 19 December – Elsu, standardbred rachehorse
• 31 December – Reid Walker, actor

Deaths

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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 24 August – Peter Mann, Anglican bishop (born 1924)
• 31 August – Sylvia Potts, middle-distance athlete (born 1943)
• 1 September – Joseph 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)
• 23 October – Rosalie Gascoigne, sculptor (born 1917)
• 25 October – David Thomson, 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 c.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

1. The Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys, GNZM, GCMG, QSO gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 April 2012
2. "Local Newspapers". Hastings District Libraries.
3. "Awards 1988". Listing. NZ Music Awards. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
4. "1999 New Zealand Music Awards". Web page. RIANZ. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
5. List of NZ Trotting cup winners
6. Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz
7. "New Zealand champion shot / Ballinger Belt winners". National Rifle Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
8. Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com

External links

Media related to 1999 in New Zealand at Wikimedia Commons