– Loyal Nurse Auckland Trotting Cup – Captain Sandy (2nd win) Thoroughbred racing The New Zealand horse Foxzami, ridden by W. Fellows, wins the 1949 Melbourne Cup Lawn bowls The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Auckland. Men's singles champion – S. Gooch (Kahutia Bowling Club) Men's pair champions – Frank Livingstone, J.H. Mingins (skip) (Onehunga Bowling Club) Men's fours champions – A.J. Murdoch, H.L. Rule, A. Rivers, Pete Skoglund (skip) (Otahuhu Bowling Club) Rugby :Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, :Category:All Blacks 3 September: The All Blacks lose two tests on the same day Ranfurly Shield Rugby league New Zealand national rugby league team Soccer The Chatham Cup is won by Petone who beat Northern 1–0 in the final. Provincial league champions: Auckland: Eden Canterbury: Technical OB Hawke's Bay: Napier HSOB Nelson: Otago: Northern South Canterbury: Northern Hearts Southland: Brigadiers Taranaki: City Waikato: Rotowaro Wanganui: Wanganui Athletic Wellington: Seatoun Births 22 January: Cilla McQueen, poet 24 January: Bill Bush, rugby player 28 January: Mike Moore, Prime Minister and Director-General of the World Trade Organization (d. 2020) 15 February: Ashraf Choudhary, politician 19 February: Brenda Matthews, sprinter 28 April: Steve Gilpin, musician (d. 1992) 20 September: Alan McIntyre, field hockey player 10 October: Lance Cairns, cricketer 2 November: Bruce Biddle, road cyclist 29 November (in England): Dave Bright, soccer player Laurence Aberhart, photographer Laurence Clark, cartoonist John Hanlon, musician Donna Awatere Huata, politician Nigel Brown, painter Ian Ewen-Street, politician Deaths 25 May: George William von Zedlitz, professor of languages 20 August: Annie Lee Rees, writer. 7 October: Matiu Ratana, politician and Ratana church leader 29 October: Patrick Harvey, rugby union player 20 December: Jane Mander, novelist 28 December: Jack Lovelock''', athlete See also :Category:1949 births :Category:1949 deaths History of New Zealand List of years in New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica Timeline of the New Zealand environment References Years of the 20th century in New Zealand