1921 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1921 in New Zealand.

Incumbents[]

Regal and viceregal[]

  • Head of State – George V
  • Governor-General – John Jellicoe, Viscount Jellicoe[1]

  • George V

  • Viscount Jellicoe

Government[]

The 20th New Zealand Parliament continues, with the Reform Party in Government

  • Frederic Lang

  • William Massey

  • Ernest Lee

Parliamentary opposition[]

  • Thomas Wilford

Judiciary[]

  • Robert Stout

Main centre leaders[]

  • James Gunson

  • John Luke

  • Robert Wright

  • Henry Thacker

  • William Begg

  • James Douglas

Events[]

  • 31 January – The first scheduled air mail service in New Zealand commences, linking Christchurch with Ashburton and Timaru.[3]
  • 17 November – The first radio broadcast in New Zealand is made by Professor Robert Jack from the physics department of the University of Otago.[4]

Arts and literature[]

See 1921 in art, 1921 in literature, Category:1921 books

Music[]

See: 1921 in music

Radio[]

  • 17 November – Professor Robert Jack assembles a small transmitter at the University of Otago in Dunedin and broadcasts the first ever radio programme heard on New Zealand airwaves. The only known fact about the programme's content is that it included the then popular song "Hello My Dearie".[1]

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film[]

See: , 1921 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1921 films

Sport[]

Chess[]

Cricket[]

  • Plunket Shield

Football[]

  • Provincial league champions:[6]
    • Auckland – Northcote
    • Canterbury – Corinthians
    • Hawke's Bay – Waipukurau
    • Nelson – Athletic
    • Otago – HSOB
    • Southland – Corinthians
    • Wanganui – Eastown Workshops
    • Wellington – Hospital

Golf[]

  • The 11th New Zealand Open championship is won by Ted Douglas (his fourth title)[7]
  • The 25th National Amateur Championships are held in Christchurch:[8]
    • Men – A.G. Sime (Greymouth)
    • Women – G. Williams (her fourth title)

Horse racing[]

Harness racing[]

  • New Zealand Trotting Cup – Reta Peter (2nd win)[9]
  • Auckland Trotting Cup – Man O' War (2nd win)[10]

Thoroughbred racing[]

Lawn bowls[]

The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Wellington.[12]

  • Men's singles champion – J.M. Brackenridge (Newtown Bowling Club)
  • Men's pair champions – W.A. Grenfell, S. Potter (skip) (Wellington Bowling Club)
  • Men's fours champions – B. Hilton, A. Bell, O. Gallagher, Ernie Jury (skip) (Karangahake Bowling Club)

Rugby union[]

Births[]

January[]

  • 9 January – Fraser Barron, World War II bomber pilot
  • 17 January – Jack Bergin, neurologist, anti-abortion campaigner
  • 30 January – Joan Faulkner-Blake, broadcaster

February[]

  • 5 February – Juan Schwanner, association football player and coach
  • 6 February – Bob Scott, rugby league and rugby union player
  • 7 February – Guy Natusch, architect
  • 13 February – Howard Hutchinson, association footballer
  • 14 February – Harry Whale, physicist
  • 20 February – Tom McGuigan, politician
  • 25 February – Keith Thiele, World War II and commercial pilot

March[]

  • 4 March – Charlie Dempsey, association football administrator
  • 12 March – Les Harmer, cricket umpire
  • 13 March – Raymond Brown Hesselyn, World War II fighter pilot
  • 16 March – Chip Bailey, trade unionist

April[]

  • 10 April – Robert Wade, chess player
  • 12 April – Peter Brown, artist
  • 27 April – Helen Wily, mathematician
  • 30 April – Wally Williams, water polo player

May[]

June[]

  • 6 June – Shirley Tonkin, sudden infant death syndrome researcher
  • 7 June – Brian Talboys, politician
  • 13 June ��� Roy Blair, cricketer
  • 17 June – Monita Delamere, rugby union player, Ringatū leader, community leader
  • 23 June
    • Cecil Holmes, film director and writer
    • Leonard Willmott, soldier, security intelligence officer
  • 25 June – Willow Macky, songwriter
  • 28 June – Eric Holland, politician

July[]

  • 8 July – John Money, psychologist, sexologist, author
  • 11 July – Pat Perrin, potter
  • 12 July – Doug Dye, microbiologist
  • 13 July – Lester Castle, lawyer, public servant
  • 18 July – Ian Payne, cricketer
  • 21 July – Graham Speight, jurist
  • 23 July – Peter Gordon, politician
  • 26 July – June Westbury, politician
  • 30 July – Eric Grinstead, sinologist, Tangutologist

August[]

  • 5 August – Colin McLeod, civil engineer
  • 7 August – Miraka Szászy, Māori leader
  • 14 August
    • Donald Burns, cricket umpire
    • Ken Ruby, wrestler
  • 21 August – Doreen Lumley, athlete
  • 26 August – Bob Owens, businessman, politician, mayor of Tauranga (1968–77) (born 1921)

September[]

  • 2 September – Diana Isaac, conservationist, businesswoman, philanthropist
  • 3 September – Oonah Shannahan, netball player
  • 4 September – Bruce Biggs, Māori studies academic
  • 14 September – Colin Johnstone, rower
  • 19 September – Michael Noonan, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter
  • 25 September – Robert Muldoon, politician
  • 28 September
  • 29 September – John Ritchie, composer, orchestral founder and conductor, music academic
  • 30 September – Jim Macdonald, naval officer, civil engineer, inventor

October[]

  • 3 October – Eldred Stebbing, record label founder and owner
  • 7 October – Desmond O'Donnell, rugby union player
  • 9 October – Tom Marshall, Christian writer
  • 10 October – Harvey Sweetman, World War II pilot
  • 13 October – Earle Riddiford, lawyer and mountaineer
  • 18 October – Kingi Ihaka, Anglican priest, broadcaster, Māori leader
  • 23 October – Colin Allan, colonial administrator, diplomat
  • 29 October – Jack Warcup, mycologist

November[]

  • 4 November – William Tyree, electrical engineer, businessman, philanthropist
  • 6 November – Geoff Rabone, cricketer
  • 11 November – Buddy Corlett, softball and basketball player
  • 17 November – Bruce Irwin, botanist
  • 20 November

December[]

  • 3 December – Cyril Belshaw, anthropologist
  • 8 December
    • Dot McNab, military administrator, political organizer
    • Bob Walton, police officer
  • 11 December – David Baldwin, lawn bowls player
  • 24 December – Vincent Bevan, rugby union player
  • 29 December – Ngoi Pēwhairangi, songwriter, Māori language teacher and advocate

Deaths[]

January–March[]

  • 19 January – Frank Lawry, politician (born 1839)
  • 7 February – Bella Button, horse driver and trainer, equestrian (born 1863)
  • 23 February – J. T. Marryat Hornsby, politician, newspaper editor and proprietor (born 1857)
  • 27 February – Sir James Prendergast, lawyer, politician, jurist (born 1826)
  • 9 March – Walter Powdrell, politician (born 1872)
  • 10 March – Henry Brown, saw miller, politician (born 1842)
  • 21 March – Samuel Moreton, artist, explorer (born c.1844)

April–June[]

  • 4 April – Mary Jane Milne, milliner, businesswoman (born 1840)
  • 19 April – Cathcart Wason, politician (born 1848)
  • 23 April – William Maxwell, politician (born 1867)
  • 1 June – Tureiti Te Heuheu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader, politician (born c.1865)
  • 24 June – William Dickie, politician (born 1869)
  • 25 June – Haimona Patete, Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kuia leader, religious founder (born c.1863)

July–September[]

  • 19 July – Lily Atkinson, temperance campaigner, suffragist, feminist (born 1866)
  • 31 July – Alice Jacob, botanical illustrator, lace designer, design teacher (born 1862)
  • 13 August – Otene Pitau, Rongowhakaata leader (born c.1834)
  • 5 August – Robert Kirkpatrick Simpson, politician (born 1837)
  • 17 August – John Aitken, politician, mayor of Wellington (1900–05) (born 1849)
  • 9 September – Joseph Henry Cock, shipping company manager, patron of the arts (born 1855)
  • 17 September – John Verrall, photographer, politician (born 1849)
  • 20 September – Thomas Kelly, politician (born 1830)

October–December[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
  2. ^ "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  3. ^ NZhistory.net
  4. ^ "Dashing heroes of a harbour crossing". Otago Daily Times. 6 September 2008. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
  5. ^ List of NZ chess champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
  7. ^ "PGA European – Holden New Zealand Open". The Sports Network. 2005. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
  10. ^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Lambert, Max; Palenski, Ron, eds. (1982). The Air New Zealand Almanac. Moa Almanac Press. pp. 448–454. ISBN 0-908570-55-4.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Palenski, R. and Lambert, M. The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. Moa Almanac Press. ISBN 0-908570-55-4

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