Events
- 1 January – New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement comes into force.
- 19–20 October – President of the United States of America Lyndon B. Johnson visits New Zealand, becoming the first serving US President to visit the country.
- November – The Grey River Argus ceases publication. The newspaper was founded in 1865.
- New Zealand appoints an ambassador to Italy and establishes an embassy in Rome.
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“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
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