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1935
- January 19-21
- Visit by the Duke of Gloucester.
- January 19
- River carnival on the Avon near Park Terrace.
- February 16
- First test match by New Zealand women cricketers played against England at Lancaster Park. (England won.)
- June 10
- John Drew and poet/typographer Dennis Glover founded Caxton Press to publish New Zealand literature. Most of the decade’s best writers were first published by the company.
- July 1
- Evening papers "Star" and "Sun" merge to become the "Star Sun", ending a 6 year Newspaper war, the longest and most bitter in New Zealand’s history. The "peace" agreement between the 3 companies concerned also saw the demise of the "Christchurch Times" (once the "Lyttelton Times"), the oldest daily paper in the country.
- July 20 and 23
- Concert by violinist Yehudi Menuhin (already famous at only 17).
- December 17
- City Council decides to buy 230 hectares of land at Harewood for a city airport. The purchase was strongly criticised in many quarters as excessively large, but subsequent history has more than vindicated the decision.
