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See also: 1947 in New Zealand, other events of 1948, 1949 in New Zealand, and the Timeline of New Zealand history.

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Incumbents 2.1 Regal and Vice Regal 2.2 Government 2.3 Opposition Leaders 2.4 Main centre leaders 3 Events 3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 June 3.6 July 3.7 August 3.8 September 3.9 October 3.10 November 3.11 December 4 Arts and literature 4.1 Music 4.2 Radio 4.3 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Cricket 6.2 Horse racing 6.3 Olympic Games 6.4 Rugby 6.5 Rugby league 6.6 Soccer 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

[edit] Summary

The section should contain a paragraph or two about the year.

See: 1948 and Timeline of New Zealand history plus data below.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George VI
• Governor-General - Lord Freyberg

[edit] Government

The 28th New Zealand Parliament continued, with the Labour Party in government.

• Speaker of the House - Robert McKeen (Labour)
• Prime Minister - Peter Fraser
• Minister of Finance - Walter Nash
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Peter Fraser
• Attorney-General - Rex Mason

[edit] Opposition Leaders

See: Category:New_Zealand_Parliament , New Zealand elections

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - John Allum
• Mayor of Hamilton - Harold David Caro
• Mayor of Wellington - William Appleton
• Mayor of Christchurch - Ernest Andrews
• Mayor of Dunedin - Donald Charles Cameron

[edit] Events

See 1948 , 1948 in politics , 1948 in science , Category:1948 in Australia , 1948 in Australia , 1948 in music , 1948 timelines , History of New Zealand , Category:History of New Zealand , Military history of New Zealand , Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand , Timeline of New Zealand history

• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica , Category:2002

[edit] January

• 2 January: description

[edit] February

[edit] March

[edit] April

[edit] June

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

• See also Current events in Australia and New Zealand

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1948 in art, 1948 in literature, Category:1948 books

[edit] Music

See: 1948 in music

[edit] Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

See: Category:1948 film awards , 1948 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1948 films

[edit] Appointments and awards

See: New Zealand Order of Merit , Order of New Zealand

• Archbishop of New Zealand
• Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia , see appointments to Diocese

[edit] Sport

• See: 1948 in sports , Category:1948 in sports

[edit] Cricket

[edit] Horse racing

See Category:New Zealand horse races

[edit] Olympic Games

• New Zealand at the 1948 Summer Olympics
• New Zealand was represented by seven athletes in Athletics, boxing, cycling, swimming and weightlifting. There were no medal successes.

[edit] Rugby

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, Category:All Blacks

• Ranfurly Shield

[edit] Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

[edit] Soccer

• Chatham Cup won by Christchurch Technical Old Boys

[edit] Births

• 7 February: Richard Prebble, politician
• March: Michael Baigent, author and conspiracy theorist
• 29 July: John Clarke, Actor, best known in New Zealand for Fred Dagg
• September 6: Kevin Towns, field hockey player and coach
• 1 October: Peter Blake, yachtsman
• 13 November: Lockwood Smith, politician

• Billy T. James, comedian
• Sue Kedgley, politician
• Grahame Sydney, painter
• Richard Worth, politician

Category:1948 births

[edit] Deaths

• 2 January: Somebody, description

Category:1948 deaths

[edit] See also