(skip) (Onehunga Bowling Club) Olympic Games New Zealand is represented by seven competitors in athletics, boxing, cycling, swimming and weightlifting. There are no medal successes. Rugby union :Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, :Category:All Blacks Ranfurly Shield Rugby league New Zealand national rugby league team Soccer The Chatham Cup is won by Technical Old Boys of Christchurch who beat Waterside of Wellington 2–0 in the final. An Australian side toured New Zealand, playing four internationals: 14 August, Wellington: NZ 0–6 Australia 28 August, Christchurch: NZ 0–7 Australia 4 September, Wellington: NZ 0–4 Australia 11 September, Auckland: NZ 1–8 Australia Provincial league champions: Auckland: Eastern Suburbs Canterbury: Western Hawke's Bay: Napier HSOB Nelson: Nelson United Otago: Mosgiel South Canterbury: Fisherman Southland: Invercargill United Taranaki: Stratford Waikato: Rotowaro Wanganui: Wanganui Athletic Wellington: Waterside Births 6 January: Dayle Hadlee, cricketer. 16 January: Dalvanius Prime, entertainer. 17 January: Billy T. James, comedian. 7 February: Richard Prebble, politician. 27 February: Michael Baigent, author and conspiracy theorist. 2 April (in Scotland): Sam Malcolmson, soccer player. 25 May: Mac Price, diplomat. 3 July: Richard Worth, politician. 22 July: Kevin Ryan, long-distance runner. 29 July: John Clarke, actor, best known in New Zealand for Fred Dagg. 6 September: Kevin Towns, field hockey player and coach. 1 October: Peter Blake, yachtsman. 2 October: Robert Anderson, cricketer. 24 October: Ray Ahipene-Mercer, musician, politician. 4 November: Alexis Hunter, painter. 13 November: Lockwood Smith, politician. 15 November: David Caygill, politician. Sue Kedgley, politician. Bruce Lynch, musician. Grahame Sydney, painter. Sue Wood, politician. :Category:1948 births Deaths 16 May: John Gordon Eliott, former Reform MP 16 June: Lavinia Jane Kelsey, kindergarten founder and teacher 25 September: George Davidson, olympic sprinter. 9 October: Edmund Anscombe, architect. 20 December: Fanny Irvine-Smith, teacher and writer 21 December: Fred Bartram, former Labour MP :Category:1948 deaths See also 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 For world events and topics in 1948 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1948 References External links Years of the 20th century in New Zealand