1922 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 1922 in New Zealand.
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Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
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George V
Viscount Jellicoe
Government
The 20th New Zealand Parliament concludes. The general election held in December sees the Reform Party lose its majority and need to negotiate for support with Independents and two Liberal Party MPs to remain in government.
- Speaker of the House – Frederick Lang
- Prime Minister – William Massey
- Minister of Finance – William Massey
- Minister of External Affairs – Ernest Lee
Frederic Lang
William Massey
Ernest Lee
Parliamentary opposition
Thomas Wilford
Main centre leaders
- Mayor of Auckland – James Gunson
- Mayor of Wellington – Robert Wright
- Mayor of Christchurch – Henry Thacker
- Mayor of Dunedin – James Douglas
James Gunson
Robert Wright
Henry Thacker
Events
- 25 January – The Southern Maori by-election is won by Henare Uru, following the death of his brother, Hopere Uru, the sitting member, in November the previous year
Arts and literature
See 1922 in art, 1922 in literature, Category:1922 books
Music
See: 1922 in music
Radio
Film
See: Category:1922 film awards, 1922 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1922 films
Sport
Chess
- The 30th National Chess Championship is held in Dunedin, and is won by John Boyd Dunlop of Oamaru (his second title)[3]
Cricket
Football
- A tour by Australia includes three internationals, the first by a New Zealand representative team:[4]
- 17 June – Carisbrook, Dunedin: won 3–1 by New Zealand
- 24 June – Athletic Park, Wellington: drawn 1–1
- 8 July – Auckland Domain, Auckland: won 3–1 by New Zealand
- Provincial league champions:[5]
Golf
- The ninth New Zealand Open championship is won by A. Brooks.[6]
- The 26th National Amateur Championships are held in the Manawatu:[7]
- Men – Arthur Duncan (Wellington) (his ninth title)
- Women – G. Williams (her fifth title)
Harness racing
- New Zealand Trotting Cup – Agathos[8]
- Auckland Trotting Cup – Minton Derby[9]
Thoroughbred racing
- New Zealand Cup – Scion[10]
- Auckland Cup – Scion[10]
- Wellington Cup – Insurrection[10]
- New Zealand Derby – Enthusiasm[10]
Lawn bowls
The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Dunedin.[11]
- Men's singles champion – J.C. Rigby (North-East Valley Bowling Club)
- Men's pair champions – J. Brackenridge, J.M. Brackenridge (skip) (Newtown Bowling Club)
- Men's fours champions – J.A. McKinnon, W.B. Allan, W. Allan, W. Carswell (skip) (Taieri Bowling Club)
Rugby union
- 1922 New Zealand rugby union tour of New South Wales
- Wellington loses the Ranfurly Shield on the first challenge, losing to Hawke's Bay 9–19. Hawke's Bay then defends the shield against Bay of Plenty (17–16) and King Country (42–8).[12]
Rugby league
Births
January–February
- 5 January – Bob Aynsley, rugby league player
- 12 January – Una Wickham, cricketer
- 16 January – Bert Wipiti, World War II fighter pilot
- 18 January – Bill Pearson, writer
- 29 January – Ronald Hugh Morrieson, writer
- 4 February – Joan Wiffen, palaeontologist
- 8 February – Laurie Salas, women's rights and peace activist
- 13 February – Godfrey Bowen, shearer
- 19 February – Marie Bell, educationalist, lecturer, teacher
- 24 February – Joyce Macdonald, swimmer
- 27 February – Anthony Treadwell, architect
March–April
- 9 March – Ian Turbott, colonial administrator, university administrator
- 13 March – Brun Smith, cricketer
- 17 March – Pat Suggate, geologist
- 18 March – Johnny Simpson, rugby union player
- 21 March – Frank Watkins, World War II pilot
- 22 March – Dick Shortt, cricket umpire
- 24 March – Vincent Gray, chemist, climate-change skeptic
- 25 March – Grace Hollander, community leader
- 26 March – Bill Mumm, rugby union player, politician
- 8 April – Arnold Christensen, World War II fighter pilot, "Great Escape" participant
- 19 April – Jack Dodd, physicist
- 21 April – Zena Abbott, weaver
- 22 April – Frank Houston, Pentecostal Christian pastor
- 28 April – Ruth Kirk, anti-abortion campaigner, wife of Norman Kirk
- 30 April – Avis M. Dry, clinical psychologist
May–June
- 11 May – Marguerite Story, Cook Islands politician
- 16 May – Peter Hall, World War II pilot
- 18 May – Ian Botting, rugby union player
- 25 May – Joyce Powell, cricketer
- 8 June – Jim Weir, diplomat
- 14 June – Max Carr, field athlete and coach, athletics official, air force officer
- 19 June – Ray Forster, arachnologist, museum director
- 24 June – Ken Avery, jazz musician, songwriter
- 28 June – Pauline O'Regan, educator, community worker, writer
July–August
- 4 July – Derek Wilson, architect, environmentalist
- 10 July – Rowan Barbour, cricketer
- 25 July – Alan Peart, World War II fighter pilot
- 31 July
- Kenneth Clark, ceramicist
- Owen Hardy, World War II fighter pilot
- 9 August – Peter Johnstone, rugby union player
- 1 August – Alf Budd, rugby union player
- 10 August – John Feeney, documentary film director
- 20 August – Rona McKenzie, cricketer
September–October
- 1 September – Harold Logan, Standardbred racehorse
- 11 September – Jack Shallcrass, author, educator, humanist
- 15 September – Norman Rumsey, optical systems designer
- 17 September – Ted Smith, rower
- 26 September –
- Johnny Smith, rugby union player
- Brian Waugh, airline operator and pilot
- 4 October – Morrie Church, rugby league coach
- 9 October – Kendrick Smithyman, poet
- 10 October –
- Harry Cave, cricketer
- Nan Clark, trade unionist
- 11 October – Cole Wilson, musician, singer-songwriter
- 12 October – Randal Elliott, ophthalmologist
- 18 October – Laurie Haig, rugby union player
- 21 October –
- Bruce Barclay, politician
- Hone Tuwhare, poet
- 30 October – Bob Chapman, political scientist, historian
November–December
- 3 November – Alan Blake, rugby union player
- 7 November – Roy McKenzie, horse breeder, philanthropist
- 13 November – Syd Jensen, motorcycle racer, motor racing driver
- 14 November – Douglas MacDiarmid, painter
- 16 November – J.C.P. Williams, cardiologist
- 19 November – Yvonne Rust, potter
- 25 November – Maurice Duggan, writer
- 26 November – Iain Gallaway, cricketer, radio sports commentator
- 1 December – William James Lanyon Smith, naval officer
- 5 December – Keith Sinclair, historian, poet, politician
- 13 December – Norm Wilson, rugby union player
- 19 December – Christine Cole Catley, journalist, publisher, author
Exact date unknown
- Bettina Welch, actor
Deaths
January–March
- 4 January – William Wilson McCardle, nurseryman, founder of Pahiatua, politician (born 1844)
- 14 January – Arthur Thomas Bate, sharebroker, public servant, rugby union and cricket administrator, philatelist (born 1855)
- 16 January – Alan Scott, World War I pilot (born 1883)
- 18 February – Thomas Peacock, politician (born 1837)
- 20 January – Henry Harper, Anglican priest (born 1833)
- 24 February – W. D. H. Baillie, politician (born 1827)
- 7 March – Alexander Donald, sailmaker, merchant, ship owner (born 1842)
April–June
- 1 April – George Carter, rugby union player (born 1854)
- 3 April – Horace Moore-Jones, war artist (born 1868)
- 14 April – Emma Ostler, businesswoman, prohibitionist (born c.1848)
- 19 April – Percy Smith, ethnologist, surveyor (born 1840)
- 21 April – Robert Thompson, politician (born 1840)
- 15 May – Edward Kellett, politician (born 1864)
- 25 May – Edith Mellish, Anglican deaconess and nun (born 1861)
- 28 May – John von Dadelszen, public servant, statistician (born 1845)
- 15 June – Peter Dignan, politician, mayor of Auckland (1897–98) (born 1847)
- 16 June – Henry Wise, stationer, printer, publisher (born 1835)
- 18 June – Robert Lee, teacher, school inspector, educationalist (born c.1837)
- 23 June – Myer Caselberg, businessman, politician, mayor of Masterton (1886–88) (born 1841)
- 27 June – Frederick George Ewington, estate agent, philanthropist, pamphleteer (born 1844)
- 28 June – George Helmore, rugby union player (born 1862)
July–September
- 2 July – Seymour Thorne George, politician (born 1851)
- 14 July – Edward Seager, policeman, gaoler, asylum superintendent (born 1828)
- 29 July – Charles John Ayton, diarist (born 1846)
- 29 August – Charles Albert Creery Hardy, politician (born 1865)
- 30 August –
- John Ewing, goldminer (born 1844)
- Tom Pollard, comic opera producer and manager (born 1857)
- 31 August – James Job Holland, politician, mayor of Auckland (1893–96) (born 1841)
- 3 September – Donald Reid, politician (born 1850)
- 16 September – Constance Barnicoat, stenographer, interpreter, mountaineer, journalist (born 1872)
- 22 September – Elizabeth Torlesse, community leader (born c. 1835)
- 29 September – Lewis Hotop, pharmacist, Arbor Day advocate, politician, mayor of Queenstown (1880–81, 1891–94, 1903–06) (born c.1844)
October–December
- 12 October – William Whitby, master mariner, ship owner (born 1838)
- 13 October – Edward Pearce, politician (born 1832)
- 22 November – Moore Neligan, Anglican bishop (born 1863)
- 14 December – Ann Robertson, businesswoman, litigant (born 1825)
- 15 December – Richard Tucker, wool scourer (born 1856)
- 16 December – Charles Harley. politician, mayor of Nelson (1915–17) (born 1861)
- 18 December – John James Pringle, dermatologist (born 1855)
- 25 December – George Sale, politician, newspaper editor, university professor (born 1831)
- 26 December – Arthur Rhodes, politician, mayor of Christchurch (1901–02) (born 1859)
See also
References
- Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
- "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- List of New Zealand national soccer matches
- "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
- "PGA European – Holden New Zealand Open". The Sports Network. 2005. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- McLintock, A. H., ed. (1966). "Men's Golf – National Champions". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
- Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- Lambert, Max; Palenski, Ron, eds. (1982). The Air New Zealand Almanac. Moa Almanac Press. pp. 448–454. ISBN 0-908570-55-4.
- McLintock, A.H., ed. (1966). "Bowls, men's outdoor—tournament winners". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
- Palenski, R. and Lambert, M. The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. Moa Almanac Press. ISBN 0-908570-55-4
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