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class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>June</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-June-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-July" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#July"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>July</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-July-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-August" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#August"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>August</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-August-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-September" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#September"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>September</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-September-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-October" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#October"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10</span> <span>October</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-October-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-November" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#November"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.11</span> <span>November</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-November-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-December" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#December"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</span> <span>December</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-December-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Date_unknown" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Date_unknown"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Performing_arts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Performing_arts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Performing arts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Performing_arts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Television" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Television"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Television</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Television-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Film" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Film"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Film</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Film-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Internet" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Basketball" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Basketball"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Basketball</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Basketball-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Commonwealth_Games" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Commonwealth_Games"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Commonwealth Games</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Commonwealth_Games-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cricket" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cricket"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Cricket</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cricket-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Horse_racing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Horse_racing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Horse racing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Horse_racing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Harness_racing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Harness_racing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5.1</span> <span>Harness racing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Harness_racing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mountain_biking" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mountain_biking"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>Mountain biking</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mountain_biking-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Olympic_Games" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Olympic_Games"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.7</span> <span>Olympic Games</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Olympic_Games-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Paralympic_Games" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Paralympic_Games"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.8</span> <span>Paralympic Games</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Paralympic_Games-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rugby_league" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rugby_league"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.9</span> <span>Rugby league</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rugby_league-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rugby_union" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rugby_union"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.10</span> <span>Rugby union</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rugby_union-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rowing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rowing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.11</span> <span>Rowing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rowing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Shooting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Shooting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.12</span> <span>Shooting</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Shooting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Soccer" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Soccer"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.13</span> <span>Soccer</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Soccer-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> 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vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#October_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.10</span> <span>October</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-October_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-November_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#November_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.11</span> <span>November</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-November_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-December_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#December_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.12</span> <span>December</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-December_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Births_to_deaths" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Births_to_deaths"> <div 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title="2005 in New Zealand">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_in_New_Zealand" title="2004 in New Zealand">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_in_New_Zealand" title="2003 in New Zealand">2003</a></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li></ul> </div> </td><td style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"><figure class="mw-halign-right mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/90px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="90" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/135px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/180px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td> <td class="summary" style="text-align:center; width:50%; font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-size:110%"><a href="/wiki/AD_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 2006">2006</a></span><br /> in<br /> <span class="adr"><span class="country-name location"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a></span></span></td> <td style="text-align:right; font-size:88%; background:#f3f3f3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <p><span style="font-size:120%">→</span> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_in_New_Zealand" title="2007 in New Zealand">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_in_New_Zealand" title="2008 in New Zealand">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_in_New_Zealand" title="2009 in New Zealand">2009</a></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-size:88%;">Decades:</th><td 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Estimated population as of 31 December: 4,209,100<sup id="cite_ref-:022_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Increase since 31 December 2005: 48,200 (1.16%)<sup id="cite_ref-:022_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Males per 100 Females: 95.8<sup id="cite_ref-:022_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incumbents">Incumbents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Incumbents"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Government was a coalition between <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> and the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Progressive_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Progressive Party">Progressives</a>, with <a href="/wiki/United_Future_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="United Future New Zealand">United Future</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">New Zealand First</a> supporting supply votes. The leaders of the two support parties are ministers outside Cabinet. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a> – <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Wilson" title="Margaret Wilson">Margaret Wilson</a> (Labour)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand" title="Prime Minister of New Zealand">Prime Minister</a> – <a href="/wiki/Helen_Clark" title="Helen Clark">Helen Clark</a> (Labour)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand" title="Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand">Deputy Prime Minister</a> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cullen_(politician)" title="Michael Cullen (politician)">Michael Cullen</a> (Labour)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(New_Zealand)" title="Minister of Finance (New Zealand)">Minister of Finance</a> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cullen_(politician)" title="Michael Cullen (politician)">Michael Cullen</a> (Labour)</li></ul> <p>Non-Labour ministers </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Anderton" title="Jim Anderton">Jim Anderton</a> (Progressives) (within Cabinet)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> (New Zealand First) – <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(New_Zealand)" title="Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand)">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a>, Racing and Associate Minister of Senior Citizens (outside Cabinet)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Dunne" title="Peter Dunne">Peter Dunne</a> (United Future), <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Revenue_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Revenue (New Zealand)">Minister of Revenue</a> and Associate Minister of Health (outside Cabinet)</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248256098"><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Margaret_Wilson_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Margaret Wilson"><img alt="Margaret Wilson" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Margaret_Wilson_crop.jpg/78px-Margaret_Wilson_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="78" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Margaret_Wilson_crop.jpg/118px-Margaret_Wilson_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Margaret_Wilson_crop.jpg/157px-Margaret_Wilson_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="676" data-file-height="862" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Margaret Wilson</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Helen_Clark_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Helen Clark"><img alt="Helen Clark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Helen_Clark_2.jpg/80px-Helen_Clark_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Helen_Clark_2.jpg/120px-Helen_Clark_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Helen_Clark_2.jpg/160px-Helen_Clark_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2300" data-file-height="2780" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Helen Clark</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Michael_Cullen,_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Michael Cullen"><img alt="Michael Cullen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Michael_Cullen%2C_2008.jpg/80px-Michael_Cullen%2C_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="89" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Michael_Cullen%2C_2008.jpg/120px-Michael_Cullen%2C_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Michael_Cullen%2C_2008.jpg/160px-Michael_Cullen%2C_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="444" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Michael Cullen</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jim_Anderton,_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jim Anderton"><img alt="Jim Anderton" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg/78px-Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="78" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg/117px-Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg/156px-Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2676" data-file-height="3423" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Jim Anderton</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Winston_Peters,_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Winston Peters"><img alt="Winston Peters" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Winston_Peters%2C_2011.jpg/71px-Winston_Peters%2C_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="71" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Winston_Peters%2C_2011.jpg/107px-Winston_Peters%2C_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Winston_Peters%2C_2011.jpg/142px-Winston_Peters%2C_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="2877" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Winston Peters</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_Dunne.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Peter Dunne"><img alt="Peter Dunne" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Peter_Dunne.jpg/70px-Peter_Dunne.jpg" decoding="async" width="70" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Peter_Dunne.jpg/105px-Peter_Dunne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Peter_Dunne.jpg/140px-Peter_Dunne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="141" data-file-height="201" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Peter Dunne</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parliamentary_leaders">Parliamentary leaders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Parliamentary leaders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> (opposition) – <a href="/wiki/Don_Brash" title="Don Brash">Don Brash</a> to 27 November, <a href="/wiki/John_Key" title="John Key">John Key</a> (<a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(New_Zealand)" title="Leader of the Opposition (New Zealand)">Leader of the Opposition</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Greens</a> (opposition) – <a href="/wiki/Jeanette_Fitzsimons" title="Jeanette Fitzsimons">Jeanette Fitzsimons</a> (to 2 June 2006) and <a href="/wiki/Russel_Norman" title="Russel Norman">Russel Norman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">Act</a> (opposition) – <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Hide" title="Rodney Hide">Rodney Hide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">New Zealand First</a> – <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Future_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="United Future New Zealand">United Future</a> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Dunne" title="Peter Dunne">Peter Dunne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> (opposition) – <a href="/wiki/Tariana_Turia" title="Tariana Turia">Tariana Turia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pita_Sharples" title="Pita Sharples">Pita Sharples</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Judiciary">Judiciary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Judiciary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_New_Zealand" title="Chief Justice of New Zealand">Chief Justice</a> — <a href="/wiki/Sian_Elias" title="Sian Elias">Sian Elias</a></li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248256098"><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sian_Elias.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Dame Sian Elias"><img alt="Dame Sian Elias" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Sian_Elias.jpg/70px-Sian_Elias.jpg" decoding="async" width="70" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Sian_Elias.jpg/105px-Sian_Elias.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Sian_Elias.jpg/140px-Sian_Elias.jpg 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="257" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Dame Sian Elias</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Main_centre_leaders">Main centre leaders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Main centre leaders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Auckland_City" title="Mayor of Auckland City">Mayor of Auckland City</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dick_Hubbard" title="Dick Hubbard">Dick Hubbard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Tauranga" title="Mayor of Tauranga">Mayor of Tauranga</a> – <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Crosby" title="Stuart Crosby">Stuart Crosby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Hamilton,_New_Zealand" title="Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand">Mayor of Hamilton</a> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Redman_(politician)" title="Michael Redman (politician)">Michael Redman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Wellington" title="Mayor of Wellington">Mayor of Wellington</a> – <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Prendergast" title="Kerry Prendergast">Kerry Prendergast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Christchurch" title="Mayor of Christchurch">Mayor of Christchurch</a> – <a href="/wiki/Garry_Moore_(mayor)" title="Garry Moore (mayor)">Garry Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Dunedin" title="Mayor of Dunedin">Mayor of Dunedin</a> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Chin" title="Peter Chin">Peter Chin</a></li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248256098"><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dick_Hubbard.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Dick Hubbard"><img alt="Dick Hubbard" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Dick_Hubbard.jpg/79px-Dick_Hubbard.jpg" decoding="async" width="79" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Dick_Hubbard.jpg/119px-Dick_Hubbard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Dick_Hubbard.jpg/158px-Dick_Hubbard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="683" data-file-height="863" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Dick Hubbard</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stuart_Crosby.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Stuart Crosby"><img alt="Stuart Crosby" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Stuart_Crosby.jpg/80px-Stuart_Crosby.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Stuart_Crosby.jpg/120px-Stuart_Crosby.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Stuart_Crosby.jpg/160px-Stuart_Crosby.jpg 2x" data-file-width="270" data-file-height="326" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Stuart Crosby</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kerry_Prendergast,_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kerry Prendergast"><img alt="Kerry Prendergast" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Kerry_Prendergast%2C_2011.jpg/75px-Kerry_Prendergast%2C_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="75" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Kerry_Prendergast%2C_2011.jpg/113px-Kerry_Prendergast%2C_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Kerry_Prendergast%2C_2011.jpg/150px-Kerry_Prendergast%2C_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="341" data-file-height="454" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Kerry Prendergast</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Garry_Moore,_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Garry Moore"><img alt="Garry Moore" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Garry_Moore%2C_2012.jpg/80px-Garry_Moore%2C_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Garry_Moore%2C_2012.jpg/120px-Garry_Moore%2C_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Garry_Moore%2C_2012.jpg/160px-Garry_Moore%2C_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2181" data-file-height="2531" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Garry Moore</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 115px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 110px; height: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_Chin_2010_Otago_Rally.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Peter Chin"><img alt="Peter Chin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Peter_Chin_2010_Otago_Rally.jpg/80px-Peter_Chin_2010_Otago_Rally.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Peter_Chin_2010_Otago_Rally.jpg/120px-Peter_Chin_2010_Otago_Rally.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Peter_Chin_2010_Otago_Rally.jpg/160px-Peter_Chin_2010_Otago_Rally.jpg 2x" data-file-width="977" data-file-height="1160" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Peter Chin</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1 January: Changes to <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_nationality_law" title="New Zealand nationality law">New Zealand citizenship laws</a> mean not all babies born in New Zealand have a right to be citizens. Babies must have a parent who is a citizen or permanent resident of New Zealand or its dependencies.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2 January: New Zealand's warm sunny New Year weather has come to a sudden end as gale-force winds and rain assault southern New Zealand. <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_Zealand%27s_South_Island_and_southern_North_Island_struck_by_storms" class="extiw" title="n:New Zealand's South Island and southern North Island struck by storms">(Wikinews)</a></li> <li>7 January:The New Zealand <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_King_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori King Movement">Māori Queen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Te_Atairangi_Kaahu" class="mw-redirect" title="Te Atairangi Kaahu">Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu</a>, is undergoing <a href="/wiki/Kidney_dialysis" title="Kidney dialysis">dialysis</a> treatment, the <a href="/wiki/Tainui" title="Tainui">Tainui Tribe</a> confirmed today. The Queen's condition is not believed to be critical. <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Queen_on_dialysis" class="extiw" title="n:Māori Queen on dialysis">(Wikinews)</a></li> <li>9 January: Electricity generator and retailer <a href="/wiki/TrustPower" class="mw-redirect" title="TrustPower">TrustPower</a> announces that it is considering a <a href="/wiki/Wind_farm" title="Wind farm">wind farm</a> development at <a href="/wiki/Lake_Mahinerangi" title="Lake Mahinerangi">Lake Mahinerangi</a>, south of Dunedin. <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Trustpower_plans_to_build_new_windfarm_in_New_Zealand" class="extiw" title="n:Trustpower plans to build new windfarm in New Zealand">(Wikinews)</a></li> <li>13 January: <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> says there is no travel warning for New Zealanders visiting <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a>, although Australia has issued one, after <a href="/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_Fijian_political_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2005–06 Fijian political crisis">the Fijian military commander threatened to remove the Government</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>14 January:The Government announces a review of liquor advertising amidst concern over teenage <a href="/wiki/Binge_drinking" title="Binge drinking">binge drinking</a>. The review will consider regulating sponsorship of sport by alcohol companies. <a href="/wiki/Lion_Nathan" class="mw-redirect" title="Lion Nathan">Lion Nathan</a> says there is no need for change.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>15 January: Review of <a href="/wiki/David_Lange" title="David Lange">David Lange</a>'s documents show that the United States threatened to spy on New Zealand if it did not back down from its 1980s anti-nuclear legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1 February: <a href="/wiki/Don_Brash" title="Don Brash">Don Brash</a>, the leader of the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">New Zealand National Party</a> gave his third state of the nation speech to the Orewa Rotary Club where he focused on the economy. <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Don_Brash_gives_third_Orewa_speech" class="extiw" title="n:Don Brash gives third Orewa speech">Wikinews</a></li> <li>4 February: Two Fairfax-owned newspapers, <a href="/wiki/The_Dominion_Post_(Wellington)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Dominion Post (Wellington)">The Dominion Post</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Press" title="The Press">The Christchurch Press</a>, controversially published all 12 cartoons in the <a href="/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy" title="Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy">Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy</a>, which have triggered international outrage.</li> <li>5 February: Hundreds of NZ <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> march in downtown <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a> in protest to the publication of the <a href="/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy" title="Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy">Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy</a>. <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_Zealand_newspapers_publish_%22Mohammad_Cartoons%22" class="extiw" title="n:New Zealand newspapers publish "Mohammad Cartoons"">Wikinews</a></li> <li>5 February: NZ film director <a href="/wiki/Lee_Tamahori" title="Lee Tamahori">Lee Tamahori</a> is arrested and formally charged with <a href="/wiki/Soliciting" class="mw-redirect" title="Soliciting">soliciting</a> and unlawfully loitering on <a href="/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles" title="Hollywood, Los Angeles">Hollywood</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Santa_Monica_Boulevard" title="Santa Monica Boulevard">Santa Monica Boulevard</a>, while dressed in <a href="/wiki/Drag_(clothing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Drag (clothing)">drag</a>.</li> <li>6 February: The 166th anniversary of the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi" title="Treaty of Waitangi">Treaty of Waitangi</a>, New Zealand's founding document, in 1840. This year the celebrations were peaceful, in contrast to other years where the day was the focus of protest by <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" title="Māori people">Māori</a> activists. <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_Zealand_marks_Waitangi_Day,_2006" class="extiw" title="n:New Zealand marks Waitangi Day, 2006">Wikinews</a></li> <li>11 February: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Tokelau" title="Politics of Tokelau">Tokelau</a> began voting in a referendum to determine whether it remains a New Zealand territory, or becomes a state in <a href="/wiki/Associated_state" title="Associated state">free association with New Zealand</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>12 February: The <a href="/wiki/Royal_New_Zealand_Navy" title="Royal New Zealand Navy">Royal New Zealand Navy</a>'s new 9000-tonne Multi-Role Vessel was launched in <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a>. The MRV is the largest of seven new ships ordered as part of "<a href="/wiki/Project_Protector" title="Project Protector">Project Protector</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>14 February: Fisheries Minister <a href="/wiki/Jim_Anderton" title="Jim Anderton">Jim Anderton</a> announced that a draft agreement had been reached with fishing companies to ban <a href="/wiki/Bottom_trawling" title="Bottom trawling">bottom trawling</a> in 30 percent of New Zealand's <a href="/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone" title="Exclusive economic zone">exclusive economic zone</a>. Anderton promised to support a global ban on bottom trawling if that appeared a practical option.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>16 February: New Zealand <a href="/wiki/All-rounder" title="All-rounder">all-rounder</a> <a href="/wiki/Chris_Cairns" title="Chris Cairns">Chris Cairns</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Order_of_Merit" title="New Zealand Order of Merit">ONZM</a> played his final international <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a> match against the <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="West Indian cricket team">West Indies</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Twenty20" title="Twenty20">Twenty20</a> at <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Eden_Park" title="Eden Park">Eden Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>16 February: <a href="/wiki/Tokelau" title="Tokelau">Tokelau</a> decides to remain a New Zealand territory after a <a href="/wiki/2006_Tokelau_self-determination_referendum" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Tokelau self-determination referendum">referendum on independence</a>. A 60 percent majority voted in favor of independence, but a two-thirds majority was required for the referendum to succeed.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>20 February: <a href="/wiki/Air_New_Zealand" title="Air New Zealand">Air New Zealand</a> is set to lay off another 507 workers as it outsources its wide-body aircraft maintenance. A union proposal to save some of the jobs failed to win a worker vote.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>22 February: <a href="/wiki/C4_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="C4 (New Zealand)">C4</a> aired the controversial <i><a href="/wiki/South_Park" title="South Park">South Park</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(South_Park)" title="Bloody Mary (South Park)">Bloody Mary</a>", which portrays a statue of the <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mary">Virgin Mary</a> <a href="/wiki/Menstruation" title="Menstruation">menstruating</a>, despite protests from religious groups.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>23 February: <a href="/wiki/Air_New_Zealand" title="Air New Zealand">Air New Zealand</a> workers accepted a new employment package in a new vote. About 300 wide-body aircraft maintenance jobs will be saved in Auckland, although 200 will still be made redundant.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>24 February:<a href="/wiki/Air_New_Zealand" title="Air New Zealand">Air New Zealand</a> announced that 470 corporate jobs, mostly in Auckland are to be axed over the next year.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>6 March: <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Department_of_Child,_Youth_and_Family_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Department of Child, Youth and Family Services">Child Youth and Family</a> is to merge with the Ministry of Social Development.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>6 March: <a href="/wiki/John_Fairfax_Holdings" class="mw-redirect" title="John Fairfax Holdings">Fairfax</a> purchases the New Zealand online auction site <a href="/wiki/Trade_Me" title="Trade Me">Trade Me</a> for NZ$625 million.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>7 March: The <a href="/wiki/2006_New_Zealand_census" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 New Zealand census">2006 New Zealand census</a> is held. For the first time, respondents had the option of completing their census form via the internet rather than by a printed form.</li> <li>15 March: The <a href="/wiki/2006_Commonwealth_Games" title="2006 Commonwealth Games">2006 Commonwealth Games</a> opens in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>. New Zealand <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_at_the_2006_Commonwealth_Games" title="New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games">is represented by 255 athletes</a>, its largest team ever to a Commonwealth Games.</li> <li>17 March: <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Department_of_Conservation" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Department of Conservation">DoC</a> starts an emergency evacuation of <a href="/wiki/Raoul_Island" title="Raoul Island">Raoul Island</a> after one of the island's volcanoes erupts. One person is missing.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>17 March: A report on <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a> traffic congestion suggests charges of $3–$6 for a vehicle to enter the <a href="/wiki/Auckland_isthmus" title="Auckland isthmus">Auckland isthmus</a>, or a $10 surcharge on all parking in the <a href="/wiki/Central_business_district" title="Central business district">CBD</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>20 March: <a href="/wiki/David_Parker_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="David Parker (New Zealand politician)">David Parker</a> resigns as <a href="/wiki/Attorney-General_(New_Zealand)" title="Attorney-General (New Zealand)">Attorney-General</a> after publicity about an incorrect declaration he filed with the Companies Office. The following day he resigned from <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_New_Zealand" title="Cabinet of New Zealand">Cabinet</a>.</li> <li>25 March: Restaurant Brands, the franchise holder for <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Fried_Chicken" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentucky Fried Chicken">KFC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pizza_Hut" title="Pizza Hut">Pizza Hut</a> and <a href="/wiki/Starbucks" title="Starbucks">Starbucks</a>, have agreed to phase out youth rates. <a href="/wiki/BP" title="BP">BP</a> agreed to scrap youth rates earlier.</li> <li>26 March: In the <a href="/wiki/2006_Commonwealth_Games" title="2006 Commonwealth Games">2006 Commonwealth Games</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_at_the_2006_Commonwealth_Games" title="New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games">New Zealand</a> wins 31 medals, which puts it in <a href="/wiki/2006_Commonwealth_Games_medal_count" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Commonwealth Games medal count">9th place</a>. This is New Zealand's worst performance at a Commonwealth Games since 1982.</li> <li>28 March: Farmers are unhappy with the new law that all dogs first registered after 1 July 2006 must be <a href="/wiki/Microchip_implant_(animal)" title="Microchip implant (animal)">microchipped</a>. They want <a href="/wiki/Herding_dog" title="Herding dog">farm dogs</a> to be exempt, and have drawn a parallel to the <a href="/wiki/Dog_Tax_War" title="Dog Tax War">Dog Tax War</a> of 1898.</li> <li>29 March: New Zealand's first reported case of <a href="/wiki/Automated_teller_machine" class="mw-redirect" title="Automated teller machine">ATM</a> <a href="/wiki/Credit_card_fraud#Skimming" title="Credit card fraud">Card Skimming</a> was found at <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_New_Zealand" title="Bank of New Zealand">BNZ</a> <a href="/wiki/New_Lynn,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="New Lynn, New Zealand">New Lynn</a>.</li> <li>31 March: Assistant police commissioner Clinton Rickards and two former police officers are found not guilty of the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Police#Historical_sexual_misconduct_by_police" title="New Zealand Police">alleged rape and sexual abuse of Louise Nicholas</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rotorua" title="Rotorua">Rotorua</a> in the 1980s.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2 April: The Auckland City Council wins a <a href="/wiki/Pigasus_Award" title="Pigasus Award">Pigasus Award</a> for granting $2500 to the Foundation For Spiritualist Mediums "to teach people to communicate with the dead".</li> <li>3 April: It was announced that Judge <a href="/wiki/Anand_Satyanand" title="Anand Satyanand">Anand Satyanand</a> has been appointed to succeed Dame <a href="/wiki/Silvia_Cartwright" title="Silvia Cartwright">Silvia Cartwright</a> as <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">The Queen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_New_Zealand" title="Governor-General of New Zealand">Governor-General of New Zealand</a>. He will take up office on 4 August 2006.</li> <li>6 April: The <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament">New Zealand Parliament</a> passes an act making <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Sign_Language" title="New Zealand Sign Language">New Zealand Sign Language</a> an official language of New Zealand.</li> <li>6 April: <a href="/wiki/Helen_Clark" title="Helen Clark">Helen Clark</a> and Chinese Premier <a href="/wiki/Wen_Jiabao" title="Wen Jiabao">Wen Jiabao</a> meet in <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a> and agree to aim for a <a href="/wiki/Free_Trade_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Trade Agreement">Free Trade Agreement</a> between New Zealand and China within two years.</li> <li>7 April: Following acquittal of three men in the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Police#Historical_sexual_misconduct_by_police" title="New Zealand Police">Louise Nicholas rape trial</a>, pamphlets and emails about two of the defendants are widely circulated in defiance of previous court suppression orders.</li> <li>10 April: <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a> rises to 5th place behind <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich">Zürich</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a> in a survey of the world's top 55 cities for quality of life. <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a> places 12th.</li> <li>19 April: The <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Government" title="New Zealand Government">New Zealand Government</a> is to send reinforcements to the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a> to support <a href="/wiki/RAMSI" class="mw-redirect" title="RAMSI">RAMSI</a> following an outbreak of violence after the election of <a href="/wiki/Snyder_Rini" title="Snyder Rini">Snyder Rini</a> as the new Prime Minister yesterday.</li> <li>26 April: <a href="/wiki/David_Parker_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="David Parker (New Zealand politician)">David Parker</a> is cleared of any misconduct by the Companies Office. He was granted an exemption in 1999 from the rules he had fallen foul of. He is likely to be reinstated to the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_New_Zealand" title="Cabinet of New Zealand">Cabinet</a> next week.</li> <li>27 April:The Electricity Commission has rejected <a href="/wiki/Transpower_New_Zealand_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Transpower New Zealand Limited">Transpower</a>'s plan to build a line of power pylons from <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a> to <a href="/wiki/Whakamaru" title="Whakamaru">Whakamaru</a>. The plan had drawn protests from landowners along the route.</li> <li>30 April: Following acquittal of three men in the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Police#Historical_sexual_misconduct_by_police" title="New Zealand Police">Louise Nicholas rape trial</a>, several hundred people marched up Queen Street, in support of Louise Nicholas.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1 May: Troubles continue at <a href="/wiki/TVNZ" title="TVNZ">TVNZ</a>, with leaked emails from Craig Boyce to <a href="/wiki/Ian_Fraser_(broadcaster)" title="Ian Fraser (broadcaster)">Ian Fraser</a>, referring to the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament">Parliamentary select committee</a> as "the bastards are our enemy".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>3 May: The <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Government" title="New Zealand Government">New Zealand Government</a> announces that it will require <a href="/wiki/Telecom_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecom New Zealand">Telecom</a> to unbundle the <a href="/wiki/Local_loop" title="Local loop">local loop</a> to provide "access to fast, competitively priced broadband internet".</li> <li>13 May: The trawler Kotuku sinks in <a href="/wiki/Foveaux_Strait" title="Foveaux Strait">Foveaux Strait</a> on the way back from <a href="/wiki/Muttonbirding" title="Muttonbirding">muttonbirding</a>. Of the nine people on board, including three generations of one family, only three survive. It is New Zealand's worst maritime disaster since the sinking of <a href="/wiki/TEV_Wahine" title="TEV Wahine">TEV <i>Wahine</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>15 May: After 40 days of climbing, New Zealander <a href="/wiki/Mark_Inglis" title="Mark Inglis">Mark Inglis</a> became the first double amputee to reach the summit of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Everest" title="Mount Everest">Mount Everest</a>, the tallest mountain in the world.</li> <li>16 May: Michael Ryan, a messenger for the Department of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand" title="Prime Minister of New Zealand">Prime Minister</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_New_Zealand" title="Cabinet of New Zealand">Cabinet</a> is named as the government employee who leaked the information to <a href="/wiki/Telecom_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecom New Zealand">Telecom</a> that the government is planning to "unbundle the <a href="/wiki/Local_loop" title="Local loop">local loop</a>".</li> <li>17 May: An attempt by the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Green_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Green Party">Green Party</a> to repeal part of a controversial dog microchipping law was voted down 61–60.</li> <li>18 May: <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(New_Zealand)" title="Minister of Finance (New Zealand)">Finance Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cullen_(politician)" title="Michael Cullen (politician)">Michael Cullen</a> delivers the <a href="/wiki/2006_New_Zealand_budget" title="2006 New Zealand budget">2006 Budget</a>.</li> <li>24 May: The week-long festivities celebrating the 40th anniversary of the <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_King_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori King Movement">Māori Queen</a>'s coronation have ended.</li> <li>25 May: The three men acquitted of rape in the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Police#Historical_sexual_misconduct_by_police" title="New Zealand Police">Louise Nicholas trial</a> now face a new trial for alleged sexual offences against another woman in the mid-1980s.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>27 May: The <a href="/wiki/Write4gold" title="Write4gold">Write4gold</a> international graffiti art competition is held in New Zealand.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>3 June: The <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green Party</a> elects <a href="/wiki/Russel_Norman" title="Russel Norman">Russel Norman</a> as its co-leader to replace <a href="/wiki/Rod_Donald" title="Rod Donald">Rod Donald</a>.</li> <li>6 June: The trial of <a href="/wiki/Tim_Selwyn" title="Tim Selwyn">Tim Selwyn</a> for <a href="/wiki/Sedition" title="Sedition">sedition</a> begins in <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>. Selwyn is the first New Zealander in over 80 years to be charged with sedition.</li> <li>7 June: The <a href="/wiki/Judicial_Committee_of_the_Privy_Council" title="Judicial Committee of the Privy Council">Privy Council</a> agrees to hear <a href="/wiki/David_Bain" class="mw-redirect" title="David Bain">David Bain</a>'s appeal against his conviction for the murder of his family.</li> <li>8 June: <a href="/wiki/Tim_Selwyn" title="Tim Selwyn">Tim Selwyn</a> is found guilty of <a href="/wiki/Sedition" title="Sedition">sedition</a>.</li> <li>8 June: New Zealand has won hosting rights for the 2010 <a href="/wiki/World_Rowing_Championships" title="World Rowing Championships">World Rowing Championships</a>, which will be held at <a href="/wiki/Lake_Karapiro" title="Lake Karapiro">Lake Karapiro</a>.</li> <li>10 June: The family of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Seddon" title="Richard Seddon">Richard Seddon</a> remember his death 100 years ago.</li> <li>10 June: A <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemeni</a> man, linked to the <a href="/wiki/11_September_2001_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="11 September 2001 attacks">11 September 2001 attacks</a> in the United States, has been deported from New Zealand. It is only the second time that section 72 of the Immigration Act has been used to deport someone. Its use requires the consent of the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_New_Zealand" title="Governor-General of New Zealand">Governor-General</a>, and there is no right of <a href="/wiki/Appeal" title="Appeal">appeal</a>.</li> <li>12 June: A <a href="/wiki/Power_outage" title="Power outage">blackout</a> hits <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>, lasting for several hours and affecting an estimated 700,000 people. The cause was found to be an earth wire which snapped off in high winds and fell across high-voltage transmission lines at a substation.</li> <li>A severe storm lashed the country, bringing heavy snow to Otago and Canterbury Some isolated communities lose power for up to three weeks after the storm. Up to three feet of snow was recorded in inland Canterbury.</li> <li>15 June: A <a href="/wiki/Free-to-air" title="Free-to-air">free-to-air</a> <a href="/wiki/Digital_television" title="Digital television">digital television</a> service called <a href="/wiki/Freeview_(New_Zealand)" title="Freeview (New Zealand)">Freeview</a> will be launched in 2007. All viewers will require a <a href="/wiki/Set-top_box" title="Set-top box">set-top box</a>, and some will need a <a href="/wiki/Satellite_dish" title="Satellite dish">satellite dish</a>.</li> <li>15 June: Junior doctors begin a five-day strike over working hours and conditions. Hospitals defer non-urgent surgery and outpatient treatments.</li> <li>16 June: The <a href="/wiki/Varroa_destructor" title="Varroa destructor">Varroa bee mite</a> has been found near <a href="/wiki/Stoke,_New_Zealand" title="Stoke, New Zealand">Stoke</a>. The mite arrived in New Zealand in 2000 and has been confined to the <a href="/wiki/North_Island" title="North Island">North Island</a> until now.</li> <li>18 June: The deaths of three-month-old twins <a href="/wiki/Chris_and_Cru_Kahui" class="mw-redirect" title="Chris and Cru Kahui">Chris and Cru Kahui</a> as a result of abuse injuries shocks the nation and dominates headlines for months.</li> <li>21 June: <a href="/wiki/Working_dog" title="Working dog">Working dogs</a> have been exempted from the dog <a href="/wiki/Microchip_implant_(animal)" title="Microchip implant (animal)">microchipping</a> legislation currently before <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament">Parliament</a>.</li> <li>27 June: <a href="/wiki/Telecom_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecom New Zealand">Telecom</a> announces it will voluntarily separate its business into two operating entities – Wholesale and Retail.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>29 June: Development of the Kupe gas and oil field off the <a href="/wiki/Taranaki" title="Taranaki">Taranaki</a> coast will go ahead, with production beginning in 2009.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>30 June: <a href="/wiki/Tame_Iti" class="mw-redirect" title="Tame Iti">Tame Iti</a> is sentenced to pay <a href="/wiki/NZD" class="mw-redirect" title="NZD">$</a>300 and court costs for shooting the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Flag" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Flag">New Zealand Flag</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2 July: The Intellectual Property Office has turned down an application by <a href="/wiki/Ng%C4%81ti_Toa" title="Ngāti Toa">Ngāti Toa</a> to trademark Ka Mate, the <a href="/wiki/Haka_of_the_All_Blacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Haka of the All Blacks">haka</a> used by the <a href="/wiki/All_Blacks" class="mw-redirect" title="All Blacks">All Blacks</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>3 July: Police Minister <a href="/wiki/Annette_King" title="Annette King">Annette King</a> and Police Commissioner Howard Broad both deny that <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Police" title="New Zealand Police">New Zealand Police</a> have quotas for speeding tickets after a memo about such quotas is leaked.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>4 July:An Italian <a href="/wiki/Fiat" title="Fiat">Fiat</a> advert draws criticism from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for having <a href="/wiki/Women" class="mw-redirect" title="Women">women</a> perform the <a href="/wiki/Haka" title="Haka">haka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>7 July: A state of emergency is declared in <a href="/wiki/Manawatu-Wanganui" class="mw-redirect" title="Manawatu-Wanganui">Manawatu-Wanganui</a> due to flooding.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>10 July: <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> List MP <a href="/wiki/Jim_Sutton" title="Jim Sutton">Jim Sutton</a> announces he is leaving politics on 1 August 2006. He will be replaced by the next member of the Labour Party list, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Chauvel_(politician)" title="Charles Chauvel (politician)">Charles Chauvel</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>11 July: <a href="/wiki/Te_Atairangi_Kaahu" class="mw-redirect" title="Te Atairangi Kaahu">Te Atairangi Kaahu</a>, the <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_King_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori King Movement">Māori Queen</a>, is taken to Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit after a possible heart attack and kidney failure.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>18 July: <a href="/wiki/Tim_Selwyn" title="Tim Selwyn">Tim Selwyn</a> is sentenced to 2 months imprisonment for <a href="/wiki/Sedition" title="Sedition">sedition</a> in <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>. He is also sentenced to a further 15 months for other offenses.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>18 July: Former <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_New_Zealand" title="Cabinet of New Zealand">Cabinet Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Taito_Phillip_Field" title="Taito Phillip Field">Taito Phillip Field</a> is cleared of any conflict of interest by an inquiry into allegations he had used his position for material gain, but his judgement was criticised.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>25 July: The <a href="/wiki/Overlander_(train)" title="Overlander (train)">Overlander</a> rail passenger service will be withdrawn at the end of September, thus ending the last passenger service operating between <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>31 July: <a href="/wiki/Coins_of_the_New_Zealand_dollar#Change_for_the_Better" title="Coins of the New Zealand dollar">New smaller and lighter coins</a> are introduced in denominations of 10c, 20c, and 50c.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>10 August: <a href="/wiki/Origin_Pacific_Airways" title="Origin Pacific Airways">Origin Pacific Airways</a> suspends passenger operations and lays off most of its staff. Freight operations will continue.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>15 August: <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_King_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori King Movement">Māori Queen</a> Dame <a href="/wiki/Te_Atairangi_Kaahu" class="mw-redirect" title="Te Atairangi Kaahu">Te Atairangi Kaahu</a> dies after a long illness.</li> <li>19 August: The <a href="/wiki/All_Blacks" class="mw-redirect" title="All Blacks">All Blacks</a> win the <a href="/wiki/2006_Tri_Nations_Series" title="2006 Tri Nations Series">2006 rugby union Tri Nations series</a>.</li> <li>21 August: <a href="/wiki/Tuheitia_Paki" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuheitia Paki">Tuheitia Paki</a>, the eldest son of Dame <a href="/wiki/Te_Atairangikaahu" title="Te Atairangikaahu">Te Atairangikaahu</a>, is selected as the new <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_King_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori King Movement">Māori King</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>23 August: <a href="/wiki/Anand_Satyanand" title="Anand Satyanand">Anand Satyanand</a> is sworn in as the new <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_New_Zealand" title="Governor-General of New Zealand">Governor-General of New Zealand</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>25 August An industrial <a href="/wiki/2006_Progressive_Enterprises_dispute" title="2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute">dispute</a> between supermarket company <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Enterprises" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Enterprises">Progressive Enterprises</a> and employees in the <a href="/wiki/EPMU" class="mw-redirect" title="EPMU">EPMU</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Distribution_Union" title="National Distribution Union">NDU</a> begins and lasts until 21 September</li> <li>28 August: <a href="/wiki/Helen_Clark" title="Helen Clark">Helen Clark</a> suggests that <a href="/wiki/Taito_Phillip_Field" title="Taito Phillip Field">Taito Phillip Field</a> should reconsider his future as an MP, after fresh allegations are made against him.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2 September: <a href="/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas">Natural gas</a> supplies were cut to about 1000 central <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a> businesses for four days, after water entered <a href="/wiki/Powerco" title="Powerco">Powerco</a>'s gas mains.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>7 September: Four mayors in the <a href="/wiki/Auckland_Region" title="Auckland Region">Auckland Region</a> meet with <a href="/wiki/Helen_Clark" title="Helen Clark">Helen Clark</a> to discuss the possibility of amalgamating their city councils to a single body.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>10 September: Tonga's King <a href="/wiki/Taufa%27ahau_Tupou_IV" class="mw-redirect" title="Taufa'ahau Tupou IV">Taufa'ahau Tupou IV</a> dies in <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10396530">[5]</a></li> <li>13 September: <a href="/wiki/Don_Brash" title="Don Brash">Don Brash</a> takes leave to sort out marital problems amidst rumours he had an affair.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>14 September: <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Tindall" title="Stephen Tindall">Stephen Tindall</a> announces his intention of buying out the other shareholders in the retail chain he founded, <b><a href="/wiki/The_Warehouse_Group" title="The Warehouse Group">The Warehouse</a></b>. Tindall currently has a controlling share in the company.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>18 September: The <a href="/wiki/Helen_Clark" title="Helen Clark">Prime Minister</a>'s husband <a href="/wiki/Peter_Davis_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Davis (New Zealand)">Peter Davis</a> is accused of being gay, after a picture is published of him kissing another man. Both Davis and Clark deny the claim; the picture later turns out to be a still from election night coverage.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> See also:<a href="/wiki/Investigate_(New_Zealand)#The_Sexuality_of_Peter_Davis" class="mw-redirect" title="Investigate (New Zealand)">Investigate</a>.</li> <li>21 September: The <a href="/wiki/2006_Progressive_Enterprises_dispute" title="2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute">dispute</a> between supermarket company <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Enterprises" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Enterprises">Progressive Enterprises</a> and over 500 employees is resolved after 28 days.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>25 September: Shares in carpet maker Feltex are suspended on the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Exchange">New Zealand Exchange</a> after the company is placed in receivership on 22 September.</li> <li>26 September: <a href="/wiki/Brian_Connell" title="Brian Connell">Brian Connell</a> is suspended from the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National Party</a> caucus.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>27 September: <a href="/wiki/Bacardi" title="Bacardi">Bacardi</a> offers NZ$138 million to buy the New Zealand alcoholic drink company <a href="/wiki/42_Below" class="mw-redirect" title="42 Below">42 Below</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>28 September: <a href="/wiki/Dunedin" title="Dunedin">Dunedin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Logan_Park_High_School" title="Logan Park High School">Logan Park High School</a> is threatened by a large forest fire in a plantation bordering the school.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>28 September: The <a href="/wiki/Overlander_(train)" title="Overlander (train)">Overlander</a> train between Auckland and Wellington, due to be withdrawn at the end of the month, is to continue, but on a reduced schedule.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>29 September: The <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand">Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand</a> votes to confirm a ban on people in de facto or gay relationships from becoming leaders in the Church.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>30 September: The New Zealand Government apologises to the <a href="/wiki/Te_Arawa" title="Te Arawa">Te Arawa</a> <a href="/wiki/Iwi" title="Iwi">iwi</a> over <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi_claims_and_settlements" title="Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements">Treaty of Waitangi grievances</a>, and returns 500 square kilometres of Crown land and 19 areas of special significance to it.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1 October: The <a href="/wiki/Wearable_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="Wearable Art">Wearable Art</a> Parade is held in central <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>3 October: The <a href="/wiki/Christian_Heritage_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Heritage New Zealand">Christian Heritage Party</a> announces that it is disbanding.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>8 October: <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Ministry_of_Fisheries" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries">Fisheries</a> officers' request to be allowed to carry <a href="/wiki/Club_(weapon)" title="Club (weapon)">batons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pepper_spray" title="Pepper spray">pepper spray</a> is denied by Minister <a href="/wiki/Jim_Anderton" title="Jim Anderton">Jim Anderton</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>18 October: Awards ceremony for the <a href="/wiki/2006_New_Zealand_Music_Awards" title="2006 New Zealand Music Awards">New Zealand Music Awards</a> (the Tuis).<sup id="cite_ref-nz-music-awards_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nz-music-awards-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>26 October: The father of <a href="/wiki/Chris_and_Cru_Kahui" class="mw-redirect" title="Chris and Cru Kahui">Chris and Cru Kahui</a> is charged with their murder in June</li> <li>31 October: The five-cent coin, and the larger pre-2006 ten-cent, twenty-cent, and fifty-cent coins are <a href="/wiki/Coins_of_the_New_Zealand_dollar#Change_for_the_Better" title="Coins of the New Zealand dollar">withdrawn from circulation and demonetised</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>11 November: New Zealand War Memorial opened in <a href="/wiki/Hyde_Park,_London" title="Hyde Park, London">Hyde Park, London</a></li> <li>Icebergs are sighted within 100 km of the New Zealand coastline.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National Party</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Don_Brash" title="Don Brash">Don Brash</a> resigns.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Key" title="John Key">John Key</a> appointed leader of the National Party, with <a href="/wiki/Bill_English" title="Bill English">Bill English</a> as deputy.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>4 December: The Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill, is introduced to update copyright laws due to the development and adoption of new technologies.</li> <li>16 December: Three children are killed when a cliff collapses on them at a riverside picnic ground in the Manawatu region.</li> <li>16 December: Nine experienced New Zealand fire-fighters are injured, one seriously, as they fought <a href="/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_Australian_bushfire_season" title="2006–07 Australian bushfire season">bushfires</a> in <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a>, Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>22 December: The Government announces changes to the regulations governing the sale of consumer <a href="/wiki/Fireworks" title="Fireworks">fireworks</a>. Sales will now be restricted to 3 (previously 10) days of the year – 3–5 November and the age limit for purchase has been raised from 16 to 18.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>28 December – The contentious Wellington Inner city bypass opens<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>31 December: The 2006 <a href="/wiki/Road_toll_(Australia_and_New_Zealand)" title="Road toll (Australia and New Zealand)">road toll</a> provisionally stands at 387, the lowest figure since 1963<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>See also <a href="/w/index.php?title=Current_events_in_Oceania&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Current events in Oceania (page does not exist)">Current events in Oceania</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Date_unknown">Date unknown</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Date unknown"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Open_Rescue" title="New Zealand Open Rescue">New Zealand Open Rescue</a>, an animal rights advocacy organisation is formed.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arts_and_literature">Arts and literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Arts and literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Chidgey" title="Catherine Chidgey">Catherine Chidgey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dianne_Ruth_Pettis" title="Dianne Ruth Pettis">Dianne Ruth Pettis</a> win the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns_Fellowship" title="Robert Burns Fellowship">Robert Burns Fellowship</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Performing_arts">Performing arts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Performing arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benny_Award" title="Benny Award">Benny Award</a> presented by the <a href="/wiki/Variety_Artists_Club_of_New_Zealand" title="Variety Artists Club of New Zealand">Variety Artists Club of New Zealand</a> to <a href="/wiki/Alan_Watson_(magician)" title="Alan Watson (magician)">Alan Watson</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>8 February: <a href="/wiki/SKY_Network_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="SKY Network Television">SKY Network Television</a> purchases <a href="/wiki/Prime_Television_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Television New Zealand">Prime</a>. SKY broadcasts delayed sports events for the first time on Prime.</li> <li>4 December: <a href="/wiki/Susan_Wood_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Susan Wood (New Zealand)">Susan Wood</a> resigns as a presenter for <a href="/wiki/Television_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Television New Zealand">Television New Zealand</a> due to continuing health concerns.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/No._2_(film)" title="No. 2 (film)">No. 2</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Perfect_Creature" title="Perfect Creature">Perfect Creature</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sione%27s_Wedding" title="Sione's Wedding">Sione's Wedding</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Out_of_the_Blue_(2006_film)" title="Out of the Blue (2006 film)">Out of the Blue</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internet">Internet</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Internet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>March – the sale of New Zealand's busiest web site, <a href="/wiki/Trademe" class="mw-redirect" title="Trademe">Trade Me</a> Ltd. to the <a href="/wiki/John_Fairfax_Holdings" class="mw-redirect" title="John Fairfax Holdings">Fairfax</a> group for $NZ700 million is announced.</li> <li>October – <a href="/wiki/Vodafone_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Vodafone New Zealand">Vodafone New Zealand</a> purchases ISP <a href="/wiki/Ihug" title="Ihug">ihug</a> for NZ$41 million from <a href="/wiki/IiNet" title="IiNet">iiNet</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Athletics">Athletics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Athletics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dale_Warrender" class="mw-redirect" title="Dale Warrender">Dale Warrender</a> wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:17:43 on 29 October in <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>, while <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tracey_Clissold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tracey Clissold (page does not exist)">Tracey Clissold</a> claims her second as well in the women's championship (2:50:47).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basketball">Basketball</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Basketball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Zealand_Women%E2%80%99s_National_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Zealand Women’s National Basketball League (page does not exist)">Women’s National Basketball League</a> was won by Auckland, who beat North Harbour 75–74 in the final.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(New_Zealand)" title="National Basketball League (New Zealand)">National Basketball League</a> was won by the <a href="/wiki/Hawkes_Bay_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="Hawkes Bay Hawks">Hawkes Bay Hawks</a>, who beat the <a href="/wiki/Auckland_Stars" title="Auckland Stars">Auckland Stars</a> 84-69</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commonwealth_Games">Commonwealth Games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Commonwealth Games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_at_the_2006_Commonwealth_Games" title="New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games">New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games</a></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th><span data-sort-value="01 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Gold</span></th> <th><span data-sort-value="02 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/16px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/24px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/32px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Silver</span></th> <th><span data-sort-value="03 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/16px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/24px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/32px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Bronze</span></th> <th>Total </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>6</td> <td>12</td> <td>13</td> <td>31 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cricket">Cricket</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Cricket"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand cricket team">Black Caps</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="West Indian cricket team">West Indies</a> 4–1 in a series of <a href="/wiki/One-day_cricket" class="mw-redirect" title="One-day cricket">One-day Internationals</a> during February.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Horse_racing">Horse racing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Horse racing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Harness_racing">Harness racing</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Harness racing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Trotting_Cup" title="New Zealand Trotting Cup">New Zealand Trotting Cup</a>: Flashing Red<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auckland_Trotting_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="Auckland Trotting Cup">Auckland Trotting Cup</a>: Mi Muchacho<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mountain_biking">Mountain biking</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Mountain biking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>August – <a href="/wiki/UCI_Mountain_Bike_World_Cup" title="UCI Mountain Bike World Cup">UCI Mountain Bike World Cup</a> is held in Rotorua<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Olympic_Games">Olympic Games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Olympic Games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_at_the_2006_Winter_Olympics" title="New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Olympics">New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Olympics</a></div> <ul><li>New Zealand sends 18 competitors across five sports, its largest ever team to a Winter Olympics.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th><span data-sort-value="01 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Gold</span></th> <th><span data-sort-value="02 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/16px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/24px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/32px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Silver</span></th> <th><span data-sort-value="03 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/16px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/24px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/32px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Bronze</span></th> <th>Total </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Paralympic_Games">Paralympic Games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Paralympic Games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_at_the_2006_Winter_Paralympics" title="New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Paralympics">New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Paralympics</a></div> <ul><li>New Zealand sends a team of two competitors in one sport.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th><span data-sort-value="01 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Gold</span></th> <th><span data-sort-value="02 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/16px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/24px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/32px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Silver</span></th> <th><span data-sort-value="03 !"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/16px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/24px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/32px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span> Bronze</span></th> <th>Total </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rugby_league">Rugby league</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Rugby league"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bartercard_Cup" title="Bartercard Cup">Bartercard Cup</a> won by the <a href="/wiki/Auckland_Lions" title="Auckland Lions">Auckland Lions</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rugby_union">Rugby union</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Rugby union"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>New Zealand (All Blacks) retained the Tri Nations and Bledisloe Cup. Only losing one match to South Africa.</li> <li>North Harbour wins the Ranfurly Shield from Canterbury 21–17 at Jade Stadium</li> <li>The All Blacks convincingly won all four tests in their end-of-season tour of England, France and Wales.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rowing">Rowing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Rowing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mah%C3%A9_Drysdale" title="Mahé Drysdale">Mahé Drysdale</a> defends his gold medal at the World Championships in August</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shooting">Shooting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Shooting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ballinger Belt – Brian Carter (Te Puke)<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soccer">Soccer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Soccer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/2006_Chatham_Cup" title="2006 Chatham Cup">Chatham Cup</a> is won by <a href="/wiki/Western_Suburbs_FC_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Suburbs FC (New Zealand)">Western Suburbs FC</a> (Wellington) who beat <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Suburbs_AFC" title="Eastern Suburbs AFC">Eastern Suburbs</a> (Auckland) 0–0 in the final (3-0 on penalties).<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>4 March – <a href="/wiki/Luke_Supyk" title="Luke Supyk">Luke Supyk</a>, association footballer</li> <li>20 August – <a href="/wiki/More_Joyous" title="More Joyous">More Joyous</a>, Thoroughbred racehorse</li> <li>14 September – <a href="/wiki/Katie_Lee_(horse)" title="Katie Lee (horse)">Katie Lee</a>, Thoroughbred racehorse</li> <li>7 October – <a href="/wiki/Military_Move" title="Military Move">Military Move</a>, Thoroughbred racehorse</li> <li>3 November – <a href="/wiki/Ambitious_Dragon" title="Ambitious Dragon">Ambitious Dragon</a>, Thoroughbred racehorse</li> <li>5 November – <a href="/wiki/Little_Bridge" title="Little Bridge">Little Bridge</a>, Thoroughbred racehorse</li> <li>8 November – <a href="/wiki/Marley_Leuluai" title="Marley Leuluai">Marley Leuluai</a>, association footballer</li> <li>10 November – <a href="/wiki/So_You_Think" title="So You Think">So You Think</a>, Thoroughbred racehorse</li> <li>30 November – <a href="/wiki/Erice_van_Leuven" title="Erice van Leuven">Erice van Leuven</a>, mountain biker</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Exact_date_unlisted">Exact date unlisted</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Exact date unlisted"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Gray_(activist)" title="Lucy Gray (activist)">Lucy Gray</a>, climate change activist</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January_2">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>4 January – <a href="/wiki/Bob_White_(mayor)" title="Bob White (mayor)">Bob White</a>, politician (born 1914)</li> <li>19 January – <a href="/wiki/Geoff_Rabone" title="Geoff Rabone">Geoff Rabone</a>, cricketer (born 1921)</li> <li>21 January – <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Butler_(cricketer)" title="Leslie Butler (cricketer)">Leslie Butler</a>, cricketer (born 1934)</li> <li>22 January – <a href="/wiki/Gwenethe_Walshe" title="Gwenethe Walshe">Gwenethe Walshe</a>, ballroom dancer and dance teacher (born 1908)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February_2">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1 February <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bryce_Harland" title="Bryce Harland">Bryce Harland</a>, diplomat (born 1931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rona_Tong" title="Rona Tong">Rona Tong</a>, athlete (born 1910)</li></ul></li> <li>19 February – <a href="/wiki/Wi_Kuki_Kaa" title="Wi Kuki Kaa">Wi Kuki Kaa</a>, actor (born 1938)</li> <li>22 February – <a href="/wiki/Bob_McDonald_(bowls)" title="Bob McDonald (bowls)">Bob McDonald</a>, lawn bowls player (born 1933)</li> <li>28 February – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Snow_(doctor)" title="Peter Snow (doctor)">Peter Snow</a>, doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (born 1935)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_2">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>5 March – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Malone_(mayor)" title="Peter Malone (mayor)">Peter Malone</a>, veterinary surgeon and politician, mayor of Nelson (1980–92) (born 1924)</li> <li>8 March – Sir <a href="/wiki/Brian_Barratt-Boyes" title="Brian Barratt-Boyes">Brian Barratt-Boyes</a>, heart surgeon (born 1924)</li> <li>18 March – <a href="/wiki/Brede_Arkless" title="Brede Arkless">Brede Arkless</a>, mountaineer (born 1939)</li> <li>22 March – <a href="/wiki/Bev_Brewis" title="Bev Brewis">Bev Brewis</a>, athlete (born 1930)</li> <li>24 March – <a href="/wiki/Miros%C5%82aw_Z%C5%82otkowski" title="Mirosław Złotkowski">Mirosław Złotkowski</a>, wrestler (born 1956)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April_2">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>4 April – <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Moffitt" title="Trevor Moffitt">Trevor Moffitt</a>, artist (born 1936)</li> <li>5 April – <a href="/wiki/Tom_McNab" title="Tom McNab">Tom McNab</a>, association football player (born 1933)</li> <li>17 April – <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Bromley" title="Gordon Bromley">Gordon Bromley</a>, long-distance runner (born 1916)</li> <li>21 April – <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Checketts" title="Johnny Checketts">Johnny Checketts</a>, World War II flying ace (born 1912)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May_2">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>11 May – <a href="/wiki/Bob_Duff_(rugby_union)" title="Bob Duff (rugby union)">Bob Duff</a>, rugby union player, local-body politician (born 1925)</li> <li>16 May – <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Murray_(rugby_league)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Murray (rugby league)">Anthony Murray</a>, rugby league player and coach (born <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr>1958)</li> <li>26 May – <a href="/wiki/Anne_Delamere" title="Anne Delamere">Anne Delamere</a>, public servant (born 1921)</li> <li>30 May – <a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_(botanist)" title="David Lloyd (botanist)">David Lloyd</a>, botanist (born 1937)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June_2">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2 June – <a href="/wiki/Kitione_Lave" title="Kitione Lave">Kitione Lave</a>, boxer (born 1934)</li> <li>4 June – <a href="/wiki/Vic_Belsham" title="Vic Belsham">Vic Belsham</a>, rugby league player and referee (born <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr>1925)</li> <li>11 June – <a href="/wiki/Neroli_Fairhall" title="Neroli Fairhall">Neroli Fairhall</a>, archer, first paraplegic to compete in the Olympic Games (born 1944)</li> <li>12 June – <a href="/wiki/Nicky_Barr" title="Nicky Barr">Nicky Barr</a>, rugby union player and World War II flying ace (born 1915)</li> <li>13 June – <a href="/wiki/Barry_Thompson_(rugby_union)" title="Barry Thompson (rugby union)">Barry Thompson</a>, rugby union player (born 1947)</li> <li>15 June – <a href="/wiki/Herb_Pearson" title="Herb Pearson">Herb Pearson</a>, cricketer (born 1910)</li> <li>26 June – <a href="/wiki/Bubbles_Mihinui" title="Bubbles Mihinui">Bubbles Mihinui</a>, tourist guide, community leader (born 1919)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July_2">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>5 July – <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Herlihy" title="Kevin Herlihy">Kevin Herlihy</a>, softball player (born 1947)</li> <li>7 July – <a href="/wiki/John_Money" title="John Money">John Money</a>, psychologist and sexologist (born 1921)</li> <li>17 July – <a href="/wiki/Roy_Cowan" title="Roy Cowan">Roy Cowan</a>, potter, illustrator, printmaker (born 1918)</li> <li>21 July – <a href="/wiki/Tony_George_(weightlifter)" title="Tony George (weightlifter)">Tony George</a>, weightlifter (born 1919)</li> <li>22 July <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Burrows" title="Ian Burrows">Ian Burrows</a>, soldier (born 1930)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erenora_Puketapu-Hetet" title="Erenora Puketapu-Hetet">Erenora Puketapu-Hetet</a>, tohunga raranga (born 1941)</li></ul></li> <li>25 July – <a href="/wiki/Cis_Winstanley" title="Cis Winstanley">Cis Winstanley</a>, lawn bowls player (born 1908)</li> <li>28 July – <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Cox_(author)" title="Nigel Cox (author)">Nigel Cox</a>, author and museum director (born 1951)</li> <li>29 July – <a href="/wiki/Harry_Hawthorn" title="Harry Hawthorn">Harry Hawthorn</a>, anthropology academic and museum curator (born 1910)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August_2">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>9 August – <a href="/wiki/Colin_Dickinson" title="Colin Dickinson">Colin Dickinson</a>, cyclist (born 1931)</li> <li>15 August – Te Arikinui Dame <a href="/wiki/Te_Atairangikaahu" title="Te Atairangikaahu">Te Atairangikaahu</a>, the Māori queen (born 1931)</li> <li>18 August – <a href="/wiki/Jotham_Pellew" title="Jotham Pellew">Jotham Pellew</a>, wrestler (born 1978)</li> <li>23 August – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Ridley_(engineer)" title="Jack Ridley (engineer)">Jack Ridley</a>, civil engineer and politician (born 1919)</li> <li>25 August – <a href="/wiki/Roy_Geddes" title="Roy Geddes">Roy Geddes</a>, physical biochemistry academic (born 1940)</li> <li>29 August – <a href="/wiki/John_Scandrett" title="John Scandrett">John Scandrett</a>, cricketer (born 1915)</li> <li>30 August – <a href="/wiki/Robin_Cooke,_Baron_Cooke_of_Thorndon" title="Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon">Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon</a>, jurist (born 1926)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September_2">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>4 September – <a href="/wiki/Ron_Stone_(New_Zealand_footballer)" title="Ron Stone (New Zealand footballer)">Ron Stone</a>, association football player (born 1913)</li> <li>10 September – <a href="/wiki/T%C4%81ufa%CA%BB%C4%81hau_Tupou_IV" title="Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV">Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV</a>, king of Tonga (born 1918)</li> <li>11 September – <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Borlase" title="Nancy Borlase">Nancy Borlase</a>, artist (born 1914)</li> <li>19 September – Sir <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Kawharu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh Kawharu">Hugh Kāwharu</a>, Māori leader and anthropology academic (born 1927)</li> <li>23 September – <a href="/wiki/Joan_Hart" title="Joan Hart">Joan Hart</a>, athlete (born 1925)</li> <li>24 September – <a href="/wiki/Joan_Hatcher" title="Joan Hatcher">Joan Hatcher</a>, cricketer (born 1923)</li> <li>29 September – <a href="/wiki/Walter_Hadlee" title="Walter Hadlee">Walter Hadlee</a>, cricket player and administrator (born 1915)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October_2">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2 October – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Fitzpatrick_(rugby_union)" title="Brian Fitzpatrick (rugby union)">Brian Fitzpatrick</a>, rugby union player (born 1931)</li> <li>8 October – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Porter_(driver)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Porter (driver)">Mark Porter</a>, motor racing driver (born 1974)</li> <li>14 October – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Munz" title="Peter Munz">Peter Munz</a>, philosopher and historian (born 1921)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November_2">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2 November – <a href="/wiki/Derek_Turnbull" title="Derek Turnbull">Derek Turnbull</a>, athlete (born 1926)</li> <li>14 November – <a href="/wiki/Owen_Truelove" title="Owen Truelove">Owen Truelove</a>, glider pilot (born 1937)</li> <li>16 November – <a href="/wiki/John_Dougan" title="John Dougan">John Dougan</a>, rugby union player (born 1946)</li> <li>18 November – <a href="/wiki/Charles_Luney" title="Charles Luney">Charles Luney</a>, construction company director (born 1905)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_2">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>6 December – <a href="/wiki/John_Feeney_(filmmaker)" title="John Feeney (filmmaker)">John Feeney</a>, documentary film director (born 1922)</li> <li>8 December – <a href="/wiki/Jim_McCormick_(rugby_union)" title="Jim McCormick (rugby union)">Jim McCormick</a>, rugby union player (born 1923)</li> <li>10 December – <a href="/wiki/Willow_Macky" title="Willow Macky">Willow Macky</a>, songwriter (born 1921)</li> <li>22 December – <a href="/wiki/Winifred_Lawrence" title="Winifred Lawrence">Winifred Lawrence</a>, swimmer (born 1920)</li> <li>23 December – <a href="/wiki/Graham_May" title="Graham May">Graham May</a>, weightlifter (born <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr>1952)</li> <li>29 December – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Lynch_(rugby_player)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Lynch (rugby player)">Tom Lynch</a>, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1927)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births_to_deaths">Births to deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: Births to deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>20 March to 18 June – <a href="/wiki/Cris_and_Cru_Kahui_homicides" title="Cris and Cru Kahui homicides">Cris and Cru Kahui</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_in_New_Zealand&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_years_in_New_Zealand" title="List of years in New Zealand">List of years in New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_New_Zealand_history" title="Timeline of New Zealand history">Timeline of New Zealand history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_New_Zealand" title="History of New Zealand">History of New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealand" title="Military history of New Zealand">Military history of 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