Events
- First annual balance of payments surplus since 1973.
- The Reserve Bank Act sets the role of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as maintaining price stability.
- The Tomorrow's Schools reforms shift substantial financial and administrative responsibilities for managing schools to elected boards of trustees.
- Local Government elections under a revised structure.
- Mäori Fisheries Act passed.
- The Sale of Liquor Act passed.
- April: Swedish tourists Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen disappear while backpacking in the Coromandel, leading to the largest land-based search undertaken in New Zealand.
- 25 April: David Lange suggests New Zealand should withdraw from the ANZUS council.
- 29 April: The Taranaki Herald publishes its last issue. The newspaper had published since 1852, and was New Zealand's oldest newspaper from 1935.
- 1 May: Jim Anderton forms the NewLabour Party.
- 7 August: David Lange resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand and is replaced by Geoffrey Palmer.
- 26 November: TV3 begins broadcasting.
- 10 December: Sunday trading begins.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)