1923 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1923 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 21st New Zealand Parliament begins. The Reform Party governs as a minority with the support of independents.

  • Charles Statham

  • William Massey

  • Ernest Lee

  • Francis Bell

Parliamentary opposition[]

  • Thomas Wilford

Judiciary[]

  • Robert Stout

Main centre leaders[]

  • James Gunson

  • Robert Wright

  • Henry Thacker

  • James Flesher

  • James Douglas

  • Harold Tapley

Events[]

  • 28 March – The Tauranga by-election is won by Charles Edward MacMillan (Reform Party)
  • March – The inflation rate in New Zealand reaches its lowest recorded value, −15.3 per cent[3]
  • 1 May – The Oamaru by-election is won by John MacPherson (Liberal Party)
  • 14 June − The New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the forerunner of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, is established
  • 6 July – The Ongarue railway disaster results in the deaths of 17 passengers when the overnight Auckland-Wellington Express runs into a landslip at Ongarue near Taumarunui
  • 4 August – Opening of the Otira Tunnel on the Midland Line
Undated
  • New Zealand gains the right to conduct its own trade negotiations independently of Britain[4]
  • The Ross Dependency is claimed by Britain and placed under New Zealand administration
  • The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand is formed
  • The Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS New Zealand, funded by the New Zealand government as a gift to Britain before World War I, is broken up for scrap

Arts and literature[]

See 1923 in art, 1923 in literature, Category:1923 books

Music[]

Production of the musical "Tutankhamen" by L.P.Leary at His Majesty's Theatre in Auckland. Music by Eric Waters.

See: 1923 in music

Radio[]

  • A set of Broadcasting regulations are issued under the Post And Telegraph Act 1920. Under the new regulations the country is divided into four numerical transmission regions. The regulations also stipulate that the owner of a receiving set is to pay an annual licence of five shillings while permission to transmit costs two pounds.[1]

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film[]

See: 1923 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1923 films

Sport[]

Chess[]

  • The 32nd National Chess Championship is held in Christchurch, and is won by John Boyd Dunlop of Oamaru (his third title)[5]

Cricket[]

  • Plunket Shield

Football[]

  • The inaugural competition for the Chatham Cup is won by Seacliff AFC (Otago)
  • The New Zealand team tours Australia, playing 16 matches:[6]
    • 24 May, at Granville – lose 1–3 vs Granville
    • 26 May, at Sydney – draw 2–2 vs New South Wales
    • 29 May, at Newcastle – lose 0–2 vs Newcastle
    • 2 June, at Ipswich – win 4–2 vs Ipswich / West Moreton
    • 4 June, at Brisbane – win 3–1 vs Queensland
    • 6 June, at Nambour – win 2–0 vs North Coast
    • 9 June, at Brisbane – lose 1–2 vs Australia
    • 13 June, at Cessnock – lose 1–2 vs South Maitland
    • 16 June, at Sydney – win 3–2 vs Australia
    • 20 June, at Sydney – win 3–4 vs Metropolis
    • 23 June, at Sydney – win 3–1 vs Granville
    • 25 June, at Sydney – draw 1–1 vs New South Wales
    • 30 June, at Newcastle – win 4–1 vs Australia
    • 3 July, at Weston – lose 1–4 vs South Maitland
    • 7 July, at Wollongong – lose 0–2 vs South Coast
    • 11 July, at Lithgow – win 4–0 vs Western Districts
  • Provincial league champions:[7]
    • Auckland – North Shore AFC (Devonport)
    • Canterbury – Sunnyside
    • Hawke's Bay – Whakatu
    • Nelson – Athletic
    • Otago – HSOB
    • South Canterbury – Albion Rovers
    • Southland – Nightcaps
    • Taranaki – Hawera
    • Wanganui – Eastown Workshops
    • Wellington – Waterside

Golf[]

  • The 10th New Zealand Open championship is won by A. Brooks.[8]
  • The 27th National Amateur Championships are held in Wanganui:[9]
    • Men – J. Goss (Wanganui)
    • Women – E. Vigor Brown (Napier)

Horse racing[]

Harness racing[]

  • New Zealand Trotting Cup – Great Hope[10]
  • Auckland Trotting Cup – Blue Mountain King[11]

Thoroughbred racing[]

Lawn bowls[]

The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Auckland.[13]

  • Men's singles champion – M. Walker (Ponsonby Bowling Club)
  • Men's pair champions – W. McCallum, T. Edwards (skip) (Temuka Bowling Club)
  • Men's fours champions – R.S. Somervell, J.F. Hosking, V.P. Casey, A. Parsons (skip) (Ponsonby Bowling Club)

Rugby union[]

Births[]

January–February[]

  • 2 January – Joe McManemin, athletics coach, sports administrator
  • 6 January – Norman Kirk, politician
  • 11 January – Charles Philip Littlejohn, parliamentary officer
  • 15 January – Nick Unkovich, lawn bowls player
  • 27 January – Robert Burchfield, lexicographer
  • 11 February – Bryce Rope, rugby union player and coach

March–April[]

  • 1 March – Stephen Jelicich, architect, historian
  • 2 March
  • 12 March – James Godwin, war crimes investigator
  • 13 March – Travers Hardwick, rugby league player and coach
  • 24 March – Poul Gnatt, ballet dancer and ballet master
  • 26 March – Ronald Dobson, rugby union player
  • 27 March – Donald Murdoch, cricketer
  • 31 March – Lawrie Miller, cricketer
  • 6 April – Rina Moore, doctor
  • 7 April
    • Lindsay Daen, sculptor
    • Russell Stone, historian
  • 14 April – Stan Cowman, cricket umpire
  • 16 April – Thomas Freeman, cricketer
  • 17 April – Ken Mudford, motorcycle racer
  • 18 April – Allan Deane, cricketer
  • 26 April – Harold Nelson, athlete
  • 29 April – Jean Herbison, academic, university chancellor

May–June[]

  • 17 May – Doug Ottley, association footballer
  • 26 May
    • Bill Meates, rugby union player
    • Thomas Paulay, earthquake engineer, academic
  • 4 June – Olga Stringfellow, journalist and author
  • 7 June – Peter Sutton, Anglican bishop
  • 19 June – Rex Orr, rugby union player
  • 25 June – Margaret Reid, Presbyterian minister
  • 30 June – Melvin Day, artist

July–August[]

  • 8 July – Margaret di Menna, microbiologist
  • 13 July – Max Lewis, cricketer
  • 14 July – Noel Chambers, swimmer
  • 16 July
    • Richard Bolt, air force officer
    • Terry Harris, water polo player
  • 18 July – JJ Stewart, rugby union coach and administrator, politician
  • 26 July – Betty Gilderdale, children's author
  • 28 July – Bill Sevesi, musician
  • 9 August – Bob Neilson, rugby league player
  • 11 August – Roy Roper, rugby union player
  • 12 August – Janet Holm, environmental activist, historian
  • 14 August – Jack Luxton, politician
  • 15 August – Norm Jones, politician
  • 28 August – Maurice Casey, jurist

September–October[]

November–December[]

  • 1 November – Peter Mahon, jurist
  • 4 November – Joan Hatcher, cricketer
  • 5 November – Frederick Stanley, cricketer
  • 9 November – Marion Robinson, physiologist and nutritionist
  • 10 November – Brian Ashby, Roman Catholic bishop
  • 11 November – Sonja Davies, trade unionist, peace activist, politician
  • 13 November – Austen Gittos, fencer
  • 17 November
    • Dick Scott, historian, journalist
    • Bert Sutcliffe, cricketer
  • 18 November – Neville Pickering, politician
  • 20 November – Robert Harwood, cricketer
  • 22 November – Guy Doleman, actor
  • 28 November – Eric Heath, cartoonist
  • 2 December – Andy Keyworth, master mariner
  • 6 December – Karl Sim, art forger
  • 13 December – Richard Campion, theatre director
  • 14 December – Bob Quickenden, association footballer
  • 17 December – John Darwin, statistician
  • 20 December – Arthur Mills, cricketer
  • 24 December – Bert Cook, rugby union and rugby league player

Deaths[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • 3 April
    • Charles H. Mills, politician (born 1843)
    • Arthur Seymour, politician (born 1832)
  • 4 April – Charles Curtis, storekeeper, local-body politician (born 1850)
  • 12 April
  • 27 April – Gordon Millington, cricketer (born 1848)
  • 7 May – Walter Dinnie, police commissioner (born 1850)
  • 9 May – John Fuller, singer and theatrical company manager (born 1850)
  • 21 May – Leopold Prime, cricketer (born 1884)

July–September[]

  • 8 July – Henry Lawson, cricketer (born 1862)
  • 16 July – Sir William Fraser, politician (born 1840)
  • 27 July – William Dawson, brewer, politician (born 1852)
  • 3 August – Frederick Fulton, cricketer (born 1859)
  • 8 September – Thomas Mahoney, architect (born c.1854)
  • 23 September – Sarah Higgins, midwife, writer (born 1830)
  • 26 September – Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury, Ngāti Kahungunu scholar, recorder, interpreter (born 1841)

October–December[]

  • 8 October – Angus Stuart, rugby union player (born 1858)
  • 15 October – Thomas Frederic Cheeseman, botanist (born 1846)
  • 17 October – William Meares, cricketer (born 1848)
  • 10 November – John Stallworthy, politician (born 1854)
  • 11 November – Robert Murdoch, malacologist (born 1861)
  • 25 November – Sydney Callaway, cricketer (born 1868)
  • 29 November – Gilbert Mair, soldier, interpreter, public servant (born 1843)
  • 11 December – Joseph Maddison, architect (born 1850)
  • 14 December – Michael Godby, cricketer (born 1850)

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. ^ Trading Economics – New Zealand Inflation Rate (19 March 2014)
  4. ^ NZ Parliament
  5. ^ List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ List of New Zealand national soccer matches
  7. ^ "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
  8. ^ "PGA European – Holden New Zealand Open". The Sports Network. 2005. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
  11. ^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Palenski, R. and Lambert, M. The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. Moa Almanac Press. ISBN 0-908570-55-4

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