The following lists events that happened during 1999 in New Zealand.
Population Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,851,100. Increase since 31 December 1998: 22,500 (0.57%). Males per 100 Females: 96.5.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal Head of State - Elizabeth II Governor-General - The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSOThe Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys, GNZM, GCMG, QSO gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 April 2012
Government The 45th New Zealand Parliament continued. until the general election, held 27 November for the 46th New Zealand Parliament starting 10 December. 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 Chief Justice — Sir Thomas Eichelbaum (until 17 May), Sian Elias (starting 17 May)
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 – Russ 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 Pohatu Marine Reserve was formally established Kapiti Island is declared free of mammalian predators. 3 May: The Daily Telegraph and The Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune merge to form Hawke's Bay Today. 7 July: A daytime meteor is visible throughout New Zealand. 11–15 September: State visit by United States President Bill Clinton to attend the 11th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders meeting; the second Presidential visit after Lyndon Johnson in 1966; see Visit. 6 October: A rock avalanche from Mount Adams blocks the Poerua River, forming a dam. It failed on 12 October after significant rain. 11 October: United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan visits New Zealand. 26 October: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes west of Taupō. 27 November: The last "dry" electorates in New Zealand (Eden, Roskill and Tawa) voted to go "wet" and to allow alcohol sales. 1 December: Changes to alcohol licensing in the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act: Sunday sales in on-licence and off licence premises, supermarkets could sell beer (they sold wine from 1989) 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.
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 Moahunters - 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 The famous Toyota Hilux Bugger TV Commercial goes to air on New Zealand television for the very first time. TVNZ sells its shareholding in SKY Network Television.
See: 1999 in New Zealand television, 1999 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, :Category:Television in New Zealand, 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 Auckland Trotting Cup: Happy AssetAuckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz
Thoroughbred racing
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 World Cup National Provincial Championship Bledisloe Cup Tri Nations Series Ranfurly Shield
Shooting Ballinger Belt – Rick Fincham (Upper Hutt)
Soccer The Chatham Cup is won by Dunedin Technical who beat Waitakere City F.C. 4–0 in the final.Chatham Cup records, nzsoccer.com
Births
January–March 7 January – Scott Gregory, rugby union player 16 January – Michael Woud, association footballer 18 January Ajeet Rai, tennis player Malia Steinmetz, association footballer 20 January – Sarpreet Singh, association footballer 27 January – Kaleb Trask, rugby union player 19 February – Jacqui Hand, association footballer 23 February – Emily Shearman, cyclist 25 February – Nando Pijnaker, association footballer 6 March – Mawene Hiroti, rugby league player 12 March – Murray Taulagi, rugby league player 23 March – Danny Toala, rugby union player 29 March – Caleb Clarke, rugby union player
April–June 3 April – Chanel Harris-Tavita, rugby league player 4 April – Lwamba Chileshe, squash player 10 April – Grace Jale, association footballer 15 April – Dalton Wilkins, association footballer 19 April – Connor Garden-Bachop, rugby union player 22 April – Finn Allen, cricketer 27 April – Joe Bell, association footballer 30 April Callum McCowatt, association footballer Dallas McLeod, rugby union player 10 May – Quinn Tupaea, rugby union player 13 May – Alex Greive, association footballer 14 May Miguel Porteous, freestyle skier Billy Proctor, rugby union player 8 June – Dane Ingham, association footballer 13 June – Maddi Wesche, shot putter 29 June – Madison Doar, field hockey player
July–September 2 July – Hayze Perham, rugby league player 4 July – Lewis Clareburt, swimmer 10 July – Naitoa Ah Kuoi, rugby union player 20 July – Devan Flanders, rugby union player 7 August – Emmerson Houghton, water polo player 13 August – Ezi Magbegor, basketball player 20 August Oregon Kaufusi, rugby league player Etene Nanai-Seturo, rugby union player 3 September – Fergus Burke, rugby union player 21 September Claudia Bunge, association footballer Katene Clarke, cricketer 22 September – Finn Bilous, freestyle skier 27 September – Lucky Owners, Thoroughbred racehorse
October–December 7 October – Kate Heffernan, cricketer 11 October – Leicester Fainga'anuku, rugby union player 17 October – Gabrielle Fa'amausili, swimmer 28 October – Campbell Pithie, cyclist 30 October – Caleb Muntz, rugby union player 9 November Tiarn Collins, snowboarder St Reims, Thoroughbred racehorse 10 November – Matthew Fisher, cricketer 16 November Bella Armstrong, cricketer Moeaki Fotuaika, rugby league player 17 November – Ronaldo Mulitalo, rugby league player 18 November – Rachin Ravindra, cricketer 29 November – Bobbi Gichard, swimmer 5 December – William Stedman, athlete 12 December – Jakob Bhula, cricketer 19 December – Elsu, Standardbred racehorse 20 December – Cullen Grace, rugby union player 30 December George Congreve, speedway rider Hazel Ouwehand, swimmer 31 December Ellesse Andrews, racing cyclist Reid Walker, actor
Undated Keegan Smith, association footballer Grace Stratton, blogger, fashion entrepreneur Riiki Reid, singer-songwriter, producer and dance choreographer
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) 8 March – Barney Clarke, boxer (born 1927) 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)