V.P. Casey, A. Parsons (skip) (Ponsonby Bowling Club) Rugby union A New South Wales team tours New Zealand, playing three matches against the New Zealand team. New Zealand wins all three: 19–9, 34–6 and 38–11. defend the Ranfurly Shield for the full season, defeating Wairarapa (6–0), (10–6), (15–0), (9–8), Horowhenua (38–11), and (20–5). Births January–February 2 January – Joe McManemin, athletics coach, sports administrator 6 January – Norman Kirk, politician 11 January – Charles Philip Littlejohn, parliamentary officer 15 January – Nick Unkovich, lawn bowls player 27 January – Robert Burchfield, lexicographer 11 February – Bryce Rope, rugby union player and coach March–April 1 March – Stephen Jelicich, architect, historian 2 March Ron Elvidge, rugby union player Don Taylor, cricketer 12 March – James Godwin, war crimes investigator 13 March – Travers Hardwick, rugby league player and coach 24 March – Poul Gnatt, ballet dancer and ballet master 26 March – Ronald Dobson, rugby union player 27 March – Donald Murdoch, cricketer 31 March – Lawrie Miller, cricketer 6 April – Rina Moore, doctor 7 April Lindsay Daen, sculptor Russell Stone, historian 14 April – Stan Cowman, cricket umpire 16 April – Thomas Freeman, cricketer 17 April – Ken Mudford, motorcycle racer 18 April – Allan Deane, cricketer 26 April – Harold Nelson, athlete 29 April – Jean Herbison, academic, university chancellor May–June 17 May – Doug Ottley, association footballer 26 May Bill Meates, rugby union player Thomas Paulay, earthquake engineer, academic 4 June – Olga Stringfellow, journalist and author 7 June – Peter Sutton, Anglican bishop 19 June – Rex Orr, rugby union player 25 June – Margaret Reid, Presbyterian minister 30 June – Melvin Day, artist July–August 8 July – Margaret di Menna, microbiologist 13 July – Max Lewis, cricketer 14 July – Noel Chambers, swimmer 16 July Richard Bolt, air force officer Terry Harris, water polo player 18 July John Morton, marine zoologist, theologian, conservationist JJ Stewart, rugby union coach and administrator, politician 26 July – Betty Gilderdale, children's author 28 July – Bill Sevesi, musician 9 August – Bob Neilson, rugby league player 11 August – Roy Roper, rugby union player 12 August – Janet Holm, environmental activist, historian 14 August – Jack Luxton, politician 15 August – Norm Jones, politician 28 August – Maurice Casey, jurist September–October 9 September – Des Christian, rugby union player and coach 19 September – Bob Sorenson, rugby union player