1922 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1922 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 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.

  • Frederic Lang

  • William Massey

  • Ernest Lee

Parliamentary opposition[]

  • Thomas Wilford

Judiciary[]

  • Robert Stout

Main centre leaders[]

  • James Gunson

  • Robert Wright

  • Henry Thacker

  • James Douglas

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[]

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film[]

See: , 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[]

  • Plunket Shield

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]
    • Auckland – North Shore, Philomel (shared)
    • Canterbury – Rangers
    • Hawke's Bay – Hastings United
    • Nelson – Athletic
    • Otago – Seacliff
    • South Canterbury – Rangers
    • Southland – Corinthians
    • Taranaki – Hawera
    • Wanganui – Eastown Workshops
    • Wellington – Waterside

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)

Horse racing[]

Harness racing[]

  • New Zealand Trotting Cup – Agathos[8]
  • Auckland Trotting Cup – Minton Derby[9]

Thoroughbred racing[]

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[]

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
  • 2 August – Dell Bandeen, netball 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 –
  • 4 October – Morrie Church, rugby league coach
  • 9 October – Kendrick Smithyman, poet
  • 10 October –
  • 11 October – Cole Wilson, musician, singer-songwriter
  • 12 October – Randal Elliott, ophthalmologist
  • 18 October – Laurie Haig, rugby union player
  • 21 October –
  • 30 October – Bob Chapman, political scientist, historian

November–December[]

  • 3 November – Alan Blake, rugby union player (died 2010)
  • 7 November – Roy McKenzie, horse breeder, philanthropist (died 2007)
  • 13 November – Syd Jensen, motorcycle racer, motor racing driver (died 1999)
  • 14 November – Douglas MacDiarmid, painter (died 2020)
  • 16 November – J.C.P. Williams, cardiologist
  • 19 November – Yvonne Rust, potter (died 2002)
  • 22 November – Helen Brew, actor, birth campaigner, documentary filmmaker, educator and speech therapist (died 2013)
  • 25 November – Maurice Duggan, writer (died 1974)
  • 1 December – William James Lanyon Smith, naval officer (died 2018)
  • 5 December – Keith Sinclair, historian, poet, politician (died 1993)
  • 13 December – Norm Wilson, rugby union player (died 2001)
  • 19 December – Christine Cole Catley, journalist, publisher, author (died 2001)
  • 26 December – Iain Gallaway, cricketer and broadcaster (died 2021)

Exact date unknown[]

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[]

  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. ^ List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ List of New Zealand national soccer matches
  5. ^ "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
  6. ^ "PGA European – Holden New Zealand Open". The Sports Network. 2005. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
  9. ^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Palenski, R. and Lambert, M. The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. Moa Almanac Press. ISBN 0-908570-55-4

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