1925 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1925 in New Zealand.

Incumbents[]

Regal and viceregal[]

  • Head of State – George V
  • Governor-General – Sir Charles Fergusson[1]

  • George V

  • Sir Charles Fergusson

Government[]

The 21st New Zealand Parliament concludes, with its final year marked by the death of premier William Massey. The Reform Party governs as a minority with the support of independents. Following the general election in November, the Reform Party holds a much stronger position with 55 of the 80 seats.

  • Charles Statham

  • William Massey

  • Francis Bell

  • Gordon Coates

  • William Nosworthy

Parliamentary opposition[]

  • Leader of the Opposition – Thomas Wilford (Liberal Party) until 13 August, then George Forbes (Liberal) until 4 November, then vacant (until June 1926)[2]

  • Thomas Wilford

  • George Forbes

Judiciary[]

  • Robert Stout

Main centre leaders[]

  • James Gunson

  • George Baildon

  • Robert Wright

  • Charles Norwood

  • James Flesher

  • John Archer

  • Harold Tapley

Events[]

The New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin
  • 1 January
    • National scheme for vehicle registration plates comes into force[3]
    • Ernest Rutherford is appointed to the Order of Merit[4]
  • 21 April – Alfred Averill succeeds Churchill Julius as Archbishop of New Zealand[5]
  • 10 May – Prime Minister William Massey dies in office[6]
  • 31 May – Tahupotiki Wiremu Rātana announces his intention to form the Rātana Church[7]
  • 17 June – The Franklin by-election, caused by the death of William Massey, is won by Ewen McLennan (Reform)[8]
  • August – The U.S. Navy's Pacific battlefleet of 57 vessels including 12 battleships visits New Zealand during a goodwill tour of the South Pacific after manoeuvres off Hawaii.[9]
  • 3–4 November – The 1925 general election is held, with the Reform Party winning 55 of the 80 seats in the House of Representatives
  • 4 November – An Order in Council provides for the transfer of Tokelau from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony to New Zealand (formally gazetted 11 February 1926)[10][11]
  • 17 November – The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens at Logan Park, Dunedin[12]
  • Undated – Lloyd Mandeno develops the single-wire earth return electrical distribution system

Arts and literature[]

See: 1925 in art, 1925 in literature, Category:1925 books
  • Allen Adair published by Jane Mander

Music[]

See: 1925 in music

Radio[]

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand
  • The Radio Broadcasting Company (RBC) began broadcasts throughout New Zealand

Film[]

See: 1925 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1925 films

Sport[]

Chess[]

  • The 34th National Chess Championship is held in Nelson, and is won by C. J. S. Purdy of Sydney[13]

Football[]

  • The Chatham Cup is won by YMCA (Wellington)
  • Provincial league champions:[14]
    • Auckland – Thistle
    • Canterbury – Sunnyside
    • Hawke's Bay – Whakatu
    • Nelson – Thistle
    • Otago – Northern
    • South Canterbury – Rangers
    • Southland – Central
    • Taranaki – Manaia
    • Wanganui – Eastown Workshops
    • Wellington – YMCA

Golf[]

  • The 15th New Zealand Open championship is won by Ewen MacFarlane, an amateur, with an aggregate of 308[15]
  • The 29th National Amateur Championships are held at Christchurch (men) and Miramar (women)[16][17]
    • Men – Tom Horton (Masterton)
    • Women – Phyllis Dodgshun (Dunedin)

Horse racing[]

Harness racing[]

  • New Zealand Trotting Cup – Ahuriri[18]
  • Auckland Trotting Cup – Nelson Derby[19]

Thoroughbred racing[]

Lawn bowls[]

The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Wellington.[21]

  • Men's singles champion – J. D. Best (Dunedin Bowling Club)
  • Men's pair champions – C. W. Davis, J. W. Sexton (skip) (Newtown Bowling Club)
  • Men's fours champions – H. J. Wernham, F. T. Wilson, A. C. McIntyre, R. N. Pilkington (skip) (Hamilton Bowling Club)

Rugby union[]

Births[]

January[]

  • 4 January – Roger Drayton, politician
  • 12 January – Allan Burnett, anarchist activist
  • 13 January – Elwyn Welch, ornithologist
  • 22 January – Harata Solomon, Māori leader, entertainer
  • 25 January – Eric Dempster, cricketer
  • 26 January – Barbara Heslop, immunologist

February[]

  • 1 February – Assid Corban, politician
  • 2 February – Mirek Smíšek, potter
  • 3 February – Tay Wilson, sports administrator
  • 7 February
  • 19 February – Trevor Martin, cricket umpire
  • 22 February – Alexander Grant, ballet dancer and teacher, dance company director
  • 23 February
  • 25 February – Campbell Smith, playwright, poet, engraver
  • 27 February – Joan Hastings, swimmer

March[]

  • 8 March – Leonard Mitchell, artist
  • 9 March
  • 13 March
    • John McCraw, pedologist, local historian
    • Rahera Windsor, Māori leader in the United Kingdom
  • 21 March – John Heslop, surgeon, cricket administrator
  • 25 March – O. E. Middleton, writer

April[]

  • 4 April – Harvey Kreyl, rugby league player
  • 5 April – Milan Mrkusich, artist
  • 17 April – Vern Clare, musician, cabaret owner
  • 19 April
    • Eva Rickard, Māori leader and activist
    • Maurie Robertson, rugby league player and coach
  • 23 April – Al Hobman, professional wrestler, trainer and promoter
  • 24 April – Dorothy Butler, children's author and bookseller, memoirist, reading advocate
  • 25 April – Neville Black, rugby union and rugby league player
  • 28 April – David Brokenshire, architect, potter

May[]

  • 14 May
    • Gordon Gostelow, actor
    • W. H. Oliver, poet, historian
  • 16 May – John Ziman, physicist, humanist
  • 20 May
    • Maurice Crow, weightlifter, rowing coxswain
    • Bert Potter, commune leader
  • 27 May – Arthur Campbell, chemist

June[]

  • 3 June – Trevor Barber, cricketer
  • 11 June – Tiny White, rugby union player and administrator, politician
  • 25 June – Alistair Campbell, poet, playwright, novelist
  • 27 June – Ben Couch, rugby union player, politician
  • 29 June – Doody Townley, harness-racing driver

July[]

August[]

  • 3 August – John Robertson, public servant
  • 5 August – Bob Duff, rugby union player, local-body politician
  • 13 August – Peter Beaven, architect
  • 15 August – James Brown, public servant
  • 23 August – John Armitt, amateur wrestler
  • 28 August – Trevor Young, politician
  • 30 August – Joan Hart, athlete

September[]

  • 1 September – Te Aue Davis, tohunga raranga
  • 4 September
    • Phil Amos, politician
    • Bruce Stewart, television scriptwriter
  • 19 September – Lyn Forster, arachnologist

October[]

  • 7 October
    • Bryan Drake, opera singer
    • Bill Wolfgramm, musician
  • 9 October – Bill Schaefer, field hockey player
  • 19 October – David Gould, rower, businessman
  • 21 October – Ian Ballinger, sports shooter
  • 22 October – George Grindley, geologist
  • 23 October – Brian Nordgren, rugby league player
  • 25 October – Donald Brian, cricketer
  • 30 October – Colin Kay, athlete, politician
  • 31 October – Ngaire Lane, swimmer

November[]

  • 6 November – Ian Cross, novelist, journalist, broadcasting and arts administrator
  • 12 November – Bill Toomath, architect
  • 20 November – Bill Subritzky, property developer, evangelist
  • 23 November – Tui Flower, food writer
  • 26 November – Ross Taylor, geochemist, planetary scientist
  • 27 November – Reginald Johansson, field hockey player
  • 29 November – Peter Jacobson, poet

December[]

Exact date unknown[]

  • Audrey Eagle, botanical illustrator
  • Nightmarch, Thoroughbred racehorse

Deaths[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • 14 April – Don Hamilton, rugby union player, cricketer (born 1883)
  • 27 April – George Williams, rugby union player (born 1856)
  • 10 May – William Massey, politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1912–1925) (born 1856)
  • 15 May – Stephen Boreham, trade unionist (born 1857)
  • 18 May – Sir Theophilus Cooper, jurist (born 1850)
  • 19 May
    • Andrew Cameron, Presbyterian minister, educationalist, community leader (born 1855)
    • Frances Wimperis, artist (born 1840)
  • 21 May – Samuel Kirkpatrick, businessman (born c.1854)
  • 3 June – Frank Surman, rugby union player, athlete (born c.1866)

July–September[]

  • 18 July – John Sinclair, carpenter, builder, harbourmaster (born 1843)
  • 19 July – James Cox, diarist (born 1846)
  • 22 July – William McCullough, politician (born 1843)
  • 5 August – Emily Harris, painter (born c.1837)
  • 9 August – Catherine Adamson, diarist (born 1868)
  • 1 September – Donald Petrie, botanist (born 1846)
  • 19 August – Harriet Morison, trade unionist, suffragist, public servant (born 1862)
  • 15 September – Charles Melvill, military leader (born 1878)
  • 18 September – Charles Hayward Izard, politician (born 1862)
  • 19 September – Henry Reynolds, butter manufacturer and exporter (born 1849)
  • 27 September – Thomas MacGibbon, politician (born 1839)

October–December[]

  • 2 October – Thomas Hislop, politician (born 1850)
  • 20 November – Charles Mackesy, military leader (born 1861)
  • 28 November – William Joseph Napier, politician (born 1857)
  • 10 December – John Liddell Kelly, journalist, poet (born 1850)
  • 29 December – John Crewes, Bible Christian minister, social worker, journalist (born 1847)

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
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  4. ^ "No. 33007". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1925. p. 3.
  5. ^ "The new archbishop". The New Zealand Herald. 20 April 1925. p. 9. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. ^ Gustafson, Barry. "Massey, William Ferguson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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  8. ^ "Reform defeats Labour". The Evening Post. 18 June 1925. p. 9. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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  12. ^ "New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens – 17 November 1925". New Zealand History. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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  15. ^ "PGA European – Holden New Zealand Open". The Sports Network. 2005. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  16. ^ McLintock, A. H., ed. (1966). "Golf, men's – New Zealand amateur champions". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  17. ^ "Women's notes". Manawatu Standard. 23 October 1925. p. 11. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  18. ^ "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
  19. ^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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