Men's fours champions – C.H. Elsom, J.W. Turpin, C.J. Shaw, R. Haworth (skip) (Canterbury Bowling Club) Olympic Games Rugby league New Zealand national rugby league team Rugby union :Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, :Category:All Blacks Ranfurly Shield Soccer An Australian national side tours New Zealand, beating the home team heavily in all three internationals: 4 July, Dunedin: NZ 1–7 Australia 11 July, Wellington: NZ 0–10 Australia 18 July, Auckland: NZ 1–4 Australia The Chatham Cup is won by Western of Christchurch who beat Auckland Thistle 3–2 in the final. Provincial league champions: Auckland: Thistle Canterbury: Western Hawke's Bay: Watersiders Nelson: YMCA Otago: Seacliff Southland: Corinthians Wanganui: Thistle Wellington: Hospital Births January 5 January Reg Hart, rugby league player Terry Lineen, rugby union player 6 January – Terence O'Brien, diplomat 7 January Denis Pain, jurist, sports administrator Alan Powell, historian 8 January – John McCullough, rugby union player 12 January – Graham Billing, writer 13 January – Michael Selby, geomorphologist, university administrator 18 January – Hugh Anderson, motorcycle racer 21 January – Helen Clark, marine zoologist 22 January Robert Anderson, politician Don McIver, army general Nyree Dawn Porter, actor 31 January – Georgina Kirby, Māori leader, women's rights activist February 3 February – Graham Finlay, boxer 10 February – Gerald Stewart, cricketer 11 February – Bramwell Cook, gastroenterologist 12 February – Jane Ritchie, psychologist 13 February – Steve Nesbit, rugby union player 15 February – Russell Marshall, politician, diplomat 16 February Bruce Beetham, politician Noel Everett, sailor 18 February – Pavel Tichý, logician 21 February – Bev Brentnall, cricketer 28 February – Dot Coleman, fencer March 10 March – David Harrington, local-body politician 14 March Kevin Barry, boxing coach Bob Charles, golfer 19 March – Robert Carswell, cricketer 21 March – Margaret Mahy, writer 22 March – Douglas Gray, cricketer 24 March Wally Hirsh, public servant, writer James Morrison, cricketer 25 March – Julian Jack, physiologist April 1 April – Desmond Park, cricketer 3 April – Tama Poata, writer, actor, human rights activist 5 April – Robin Carrell, haematologist 9 April – Mary Webb, cricketer 15 April – Michael Brown, Anglican priest 19 April – Anthony Small, cricketer 22 April Kevin Barry, rugby union player Glen Evans, local-body politician 23 April – John D'Arcy, cricketer 24 April – Ngai Tupa, Cook Islands politician 26 April – Robert Mahuta, Māori leader, academic 27 April Peter Nicholls, sculptor Betty Steffensen, netball player, coach,