2017 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 2017 in New Zealand.

2017 in New Zealand

Decades:
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
See also:

Population

National

Estimated populations as at 30 June.[1]

Main urban areas

Estimated populations as at 30 June.[1]

Incumbents

Regal and vice-regal

Government

2017 is the third and final full year of the 51st Parliament, which first sat on 21 October 2014 and was dissolved on 17 August 2017. A general election was held on 23 September to elect the 52nd Parliament.

The Fifth National Government, first elected in 2008, ends. The Sixth Labour Government begins.

Other party leaders

Judiciary

Main centre leaders

Events

February

March

  • 7 March – Jacinda Ardern is elected deputy leader of the Labour Party

April

  • 6 April – A state of emergency is declared as the town of Edgecumbe is evacuated due to flooding caused by the remnants of Cyclone Debbie[2]
  • 13–14 April – Cyclone Cook, now an extratropical cyclone, moves across the North Island[3]

May

June

July

  • 19–21 July – Severe flooding hits the east coast of the South Island between Christchurch and Balclutha
  • 21 July – Mycoplasma bovis disease found in a South Island herd of cows

August

September

October

December

Sport

Rugby union

Shooting

  • Ballinger Belt –
    • Jim Bailey (Australia)
    • Brian Carter (Te Puke), third, top New Zealander[9]

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

  • 2 October – Peter Burke, rugby union player, coach and administrator (born 1927)
  • 3 October – Norma Williams, swimmer, swimming administrator (born 1928)
  • 12 October – Derek Steward, athlete (born 1928)
  • 15 October – Francis Pound, art historian, curator and writer (born 1948)
  • 19 October – Edmund Cotter, mountaineer (born 1927)
  • 22 October – Sandy Thomas, military leader (born 1919)
  • 23 October – Gordon Ogilvie, historian, biographer (born 1934)
  • 29 October – Roly Green, rugby union player (born 1927)
  • 30 October – James Beard, architect, town planner, landscape architect (born 1924)
  • 31 October

November

December

Exact date unknown

References

  1. "Subnational Population Estimates: At 30 June 2016 (provisional)". Statistics New Zealand. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016. For urban areas, "Subnational population estimates (UA, AU), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996, 2001, 2006–16 (2017 boundary)". Statistics New Zealand. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  2. Bilby, Lynley (7 April 2017). "Stopping flooding is just the beginning following ex-cyclone Debbie's wrath, says Whakatane District mayor". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. MetService (2018). Review of the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 Cyclone Seasons by TCWC Wellington (PDF). RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and South-East Indian Ocean Seventeenth Session. World Meteorological Organisation. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  4. "Budget 2017". New Zealand Government. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  5. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2017". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  6. "Andrew Little resigns as leader of the Labour party". Radionz.co.nz. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  7. George, Damian (3 October 2017). "Wellington's electric trolley bus wires to start coming down in a week". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  8. "New Year honours list 2018". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  9. "Ballinger Belt". National Rifle Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
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