Events
- 19 January: The TSMV Wanganella, completing her first trans-tasman crossing since World War II, went aground on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. All 400 passengers were safely evacuated and the ship was refloated on 6 February but was out of service for a further 22 months.
- 6 February: First annual Waitangi Day ceremony held by New Zealand Navy in grounds of Treaty house, Waitangi.
- February: Holy Name Seminary, Christchurch (Catholic) established.
- 6 March: The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performs for the first time
- 1–29 April: A series of non-violent mutinies occur aboards ships and bases of the Royal New Zealand Navy
- 18 November: 41 people die in a fire in the Ballantyne's department store in Christchurch.
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“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
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