20 November – Graeme Tarr, cricketer 22 November – Ian Pool, demographer 23 November – Rex Pickering, rugby union player 24 November – Avinash Deobhakta, lawyer, judge 25 November – Jock Bilger, sailor 27 November – Terry O'Sullivan, rugby union player 29 November – Peter Cullinane, Roman Catholic bishop December 5 December – Evelyn Stokes, geographer 12 December – Wilf Haskell, cricketer, sports historian 23 December – Paddy Donovan, boxer, rugby union player 25 December – Sonia Cox, badminton and tennis player Undated Beau Vite, Thoroughbred racehorse David Beauchamp, civil engineer Michael Friedlander, businessman, philanthropist James Greig, potter High Caste, Thoroughbred racehorse Elric Hooper, actor, theatre director Judy Howat, lawn bowls player Sani Lakatani, Niuean politician Terry McGee, geographer Stanley Palmer, painter and printmaker Jenny Pattrick, novelist, jeweller John Riordan, jockey Jim Siers, author, filmmaker, record producer Adrienne Stewart, arts patron (born in Australia) Barrie Truman, association football coach David Vere-Jones, mathematical statistician Murray C. Wells, accountancy academic Deaths January–March 5 January – Arthur Singe, rugby league player 16 January – Sir William Hall-Jones, politician, prime minister (1906) (born 1851) 20 January – James Clark, politician, mayor of Dunedin (1915–1919) (born 1870) 5 February – Timothy O'Connor, rugby union player (born 1860) 6 February – Edwin Bezar, soldier, author (born 1838) 8 February – Robert Holmes, civil engineer (born 1856) 19 February Andrew Entrican, businessman, politician (born 1858) Malcolm McGregor, World War I flying ace, aviation pioneer (born 1896) 3 March – Lucy Lovell-Smith, temperance worker and women's rights advocate (born 1861) 4 March – Arthur Henry Adams, journalist, author (born 1872) 10 March – David Kennedy, priest, astronomer (born 1864) 12 March – Janet Williamson, nurse (born 1862) 13 March Sir Francis Bell, politician, mayor of Wellington (1891–1893), prime minister (1925) (born 1851) Elizabeth Herriott, scientist, academic (born 1882) 14 March – William Holdship, cricketer (born 1872) 17 March – Albert Duder, mariner, harbourmaster (born 1856) 29 March – Forrest Ross, mountaineer, journalist, writer (born 1860) April–June 18 April – John Swan, architect (born 1874) 21 April – Harold Smith, politician (born 1866) 5 May – Sir Joseph Kinsey, businessman, bibliophile, philanthropist (born 1852) 10 May Donald Fuller, cricketer (born 1869) Isaac Richards, Anglican bishop (born 1859) 11 May – Frederick Mason, cricketer (born 1881) 19 May – Thomas William Kirk, biologist, scientific administrator (born 1856) 21 May – John Spencer, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1880)