1977 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1977 in New Zealand.

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Decades:
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
See also:

Population
  • Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,166,400[1]
  • Increase since 31 December 1976: 3000 (0.09%)
  • Males per 100 females: 99.4

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Government

1977 was the second full year of the 38th Parliament. The Third National Government was in power.

Parliamentary opposition

Main centre leaders

Events

Arts and literature

See 1977 in art, 1977 in literature, Category:1977 books

Music

The New Zealand Music Awards were not held this year.

  • Waikino music festival at Bicknel's farm, Waitawheta Valley, between Waihi and Waikino. Attendance 5500.

See: 1977 in music

Radio and television
  • April: Fair Go airs for the first time.
  • June: Wellington's Radio Active 89FM first hits the airwaves
  • Feltex Television Awards:
    • Best Current Affairs: 'News at Ten
    • Best Documentary Series: Black Future
    • Best Light Entertainment: Blerta
    • Best Play: The God Boy
    • Best Drama: Moynihan
    • Best Speciality: Country Calendar
    • Best Actor: Ian Mune in Winners and Losers and Moynihan
    • Best Actress: Judy Douglas in The God Boy
    • Best Script: The God Boy
    • Best Personality: Roger Gascoigne

Performing arts

Television

See: 1977 in New Zealand television, 1977 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

See: Category:1977 film awards, 1977 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1977 films

Sport

Athletics
  • Terry Manners wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:20:40 in Hawera.

Association football

Chess

Horse racing

Harness racing
  • New Zealand Trotting Cup: Sole Command[8]
  • There was no 1977 running of the Auckland Trotting Cup as the race was being rescheduled from December (1976) to February (1978)[9]

Thoroughbred racing

Births

Category:1977 births.

Deaths

Category:1977 deaths

gollark: https://dragcave.net/teleport/96db0f43bae429df688595d5695ed7fa**HAVE**: CB "polished stone" (pyralspite or something) egg**WANT**: CB hatchlings (>1) (more than 1) (multiple) (not 1)
gollark: https://dragcave.net/teleport/cf96002cb96eaf18b117352fa7872d4c**Have**: a slightly oddly lineaged 3G prize**Want**: CB hatchlings or a CB mageia xenowyrmhttps://dragcave.net/teleport/3eefb12613759a8416ca1c4b3b5173b9**Have**: a *really* oddly lineaged 4G prize**Want**: any hatchling
gollark: **Have**: A CB neglected and slight annoyance at whoever must have offered on that 2G SAltkin first.**Want** (sorted by priority):- 2G SAltkin.- IOU of many reds, xenowyrms, balloons, whatever. I don't care too much about their lineage.- Programming language etc. codes (caps doesn't matter) (there's a wikipedia list of programming languages if you want to know).- CB metals, especially green coppers.- A few (6? It depends) higher-gen SAltkins and prizes, ideally as hatchlings.- A 2G prize, ideally from a xenowyrm. I guess I'd also accept a few xenowyrm prizekins. Praise Xenowyrms!- Cool offers not listed here.Offer simple offers here: https://dragcave.net/teleport/477fa0e84f772eaa4f71c42e903d5353DM me otherwise.
gollark: https://dragcave.net/teleport/df20492dbf98880dd7077c93a26ba8c3**Have** a CB neglected, don't know the gender.**Want**:- IOU for MOAR REDS, new releases (in a while), balloons, xenowyrms, whatever; DM me!- 2G prize (I like shimmerscales most)- 2G SAltkin (not much preference, but from xenowyrm would be cool)- CB metals; green coppers especially nice- Many xenowyrms- Interesting codes - palindromes or programming languages- Any offers you think are actually good~~I can also throw in a CB purple siyat! Do people *want* CB purple siyats? I don't know.~~ gone.If you have offers which don't work via the trade hub, please DM me to discuss. Otherwise, offer there; expect some wait even if I like your offer, but really bad offers *will* be declined.Now unavailable. I offered on a 2G SAltkin trade.
gollark: https://dragcave.net/teleport/858b96ccda1272203c5e2ef3865685a2Have a CB thalassa, want hatchlings (CB or xenowyrm/balloon/red/copper).

See also

References
  1. "Historical population estimates tables". Statistics New Zealand.
  2. Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
  3. Lambert & Palenski: The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. ISBN 0-908570-55-4
  4. "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  5. Today in History | NZHistory
  6. Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com Archived 14 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  9. Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Sky Sports – Rugby Union – Guinness Premiership – Worcester – Dale Rasmussen". Sky Sports. 14 September 2011.
  11. McLeod, Aorewa. "Escott, Cicely Margaret. First published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol 4, 1998". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

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