page_title: 1945 in New Zealand
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1945 in New Zealand / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: AWM caption: Tokyo Bay, Japan -- Surrender of Japanese aboard USS Missouri. Air Vice Marshal Leonard M. Isitt, representing the Dominion of New Zealand, signs the instrument of surrender watched by an officer of the Royal New Zealand Navy. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, stands at the microphone.
context_page_description: The following lists events that happened during 1945 in New Zealand.
context_section_description: 2 May: New Zealand 2nd Division accepts surrender of the German Army in Trieste.
  15 December: Main North Line railway linking Christchurch and Picton is completed and officially opened over seventy years after construction began.
  Saturday and Sunday trading by most retail outlets apart from dairies and takeaway food outlets banned.
caption: 1945; Air Vice Marshal Leonard M. Isitt, representing New Zealand, accepts the Japanese surrender
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