Events
- 12 January: 50,000 people mass in Wellington as Elizabeth II attends the state opening of Parliament.
- 30 January: The Royal tour by Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh concludes at Bluff as they depart on the SS Gothic
- 23 June – Teenagers Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme are arrested for the murder of Parker's mother.
- 20 September – the Mazengarb Report on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents is presented to Parliament.
- 8 November – eighteen year old golf amateur Bob Charles causes a sensation by beating a top international field to win the New Zealand Golf Open
- 13 November – the National Party wins re-election at a general election
- Hastings becomes the first town in New Zealand to fluoridate its water supply.
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““The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
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“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
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