1938 in New Zealand

Population

* Estimated Population as of 31 December: 1,618,500 http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/24107FC8-E7B5-4CF2-B17C-15E31CCA7D05/0/HistoricalPop.xls]
* Increase since 31/12/1937: 16,500 (1.03%)
* Males per 100 Females: 103.2

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

*Head of State - George VI
*Governor-General - The Viscount Galway GCMG DSO OBE PC [Statistics 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. The general election in October resulted in the Labour government being returned for the 26th New Zealand Parliament.

*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

Parliamentary opposition

* Leader of the Opposition - Adam Hamilton (National Party). [Cite web|url=http://www.elections.org.nz/democracy/leaders-opposition.html|title=Elections NZ - Leaders of the Opposition|accessdate=2008-04-06]

Main centre leaders

*Mayor of Auckland - Ernest Davis
*Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow then Harold David Caro
*Mayor of Wellington - Thomas Hislop
*Mayor of Christchurch - J. W. Beanland then Robert M. Macfarlane
*Mayor of Dunedin - Edwin Thomas Cox then Andrew Henson Allen

Events

* 19 February: 21 people working on the Wairoa-Gisborne railway were drowned when a flash flood hit a works camp at Kopuawhara near Mahia. [ [http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline&new_date=19/02 nzhistory.net.nz] ]

*"The Times", formerly "The Gisborne Times", is purchased by its opposition, "The Poverty Bay Herald", which the following year became "The Gisborne Herald". [cite web|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=CL1.PBH&sp=PBH&essay=1|title=Poverty Bay Herald|publisher=National Library of New Zealand|accessdate=2008-09-21] [cite web|url=http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-MacHist-t1-body-d38-d15-d1.html|title=Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.|chapter=Earliest Journals and Their Founders|last=Mackay|first=Joseph Angus|year=1949]

Arts and literature

See 1938 in art, 1938 in literature,

Music

See: 1938 in music

Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

*New Zealand Review no.5, Mountain Holiday, [http://events.filmarchive.org.nz/event.php?eventInstanceID=1412&eventID=288] See: , 1938 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand,

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

port

* See: 1938 in sports ,

Cricket

Horse racing

See

Rugby

,
* Ranfurly Shield

Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

occer

* Chatham Cup won by Waterside (Wellington)

Births

* 21 January: Jim Anderton, politician.
* 11 February: Bevan Congdon, cricketer.
* 24 February: Murray Hudson, soldier, winner of the George Cross.
* 26 May: Pauline Parker, convicted murderer.
* 12 July: Stanley Meads, rugby player.
* 24 July: John Sparling, cricketer.
* 28 October (in England): Juliet Hulme, convicted murderer.
* 15 November: Peter Sinclair, radio and television host.
* 24 November: Wynne Bradburn, cricketer.
* 1 December: Bill Playle, cricketer.
* 2 December, Jonathan Hunt, politician and diplomat.
* 17 December: Peter Snell, athlete.

* Colin Beyer, lawyer and businessman.
* Ian Lawrence, mayor of Wellington.

Deaths

* 10 February: Sir Frederic Truby King, director of child welfare

* Alfred Brandon, mayor of Wellington.
* James Whyte Kelly, politician.

References

ee also

*List of years in New Zealand
*Timeline of New Zealand history
*History of New Zealand
*Military history of New Zealand
*Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
*Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

"For world events and topics in 1938 not specifically related to New Zealand see": 1938