1922 in New Zealand

← 1921 1920 1919 1922 in New Zealand → 1923 1924 1925
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1922 Timeline of New Zealand history

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State - George V
• Governor-General - The Viscount Jellicoe GCB OM GCVO ^[1]

Government

The 20th New Zealand Parliament continued.

• Speaker of the House - TBD
• Prime Minister - TBD
• Deputy Prime Minister - TBD
• Minister of Finance - TBD
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - TBD

Opposition Leaders

See: Category:Parliament of New Zealand, New Zealand elections

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - James Gunson
• Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow
• Mayor of Wellington - Robert Wright
• Mayor of Christchurch - Henry Thacker
• Mayor of Dunedin - James Sandilands Douglas

Events

• 25 January: Southern Maori by-election, 1922

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

• My Lady of the Cave
• The Birth of New Zealand
• Ten Thousand Miles in the Southern Cross

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 was held in Dunedin, and was won by J.B. Dunlop of Oamaru, his second title.^[2]

Cricket

• Plunket Shield

Golf

• The ninth New Zealand Open championship was won by A. Brooks.^[3]
• The 26th National Amateur Championships were held in the Manawatu ^[4]
  • Men: Arthur Duncan (Wellington) - 9th title
  • Women: Mrs G. Williams - 5th title

Horse racing

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Agathos ^[5]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Minton Derby ^[6]

Rugby union

• 1922 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia
• Wellington lost the Ranfurly Shield on the first challenge, losing to Hawkes Bay 9-19. Hawkes Bay then defended the shield against Bay of Plenty (17-16) and King Country (42-8).^[7]

Rugby league

• New Zealand national rugby league team

Soccer

• A tour by Australia led to the first full internationals by a New Zealand representative team:^[8]
  • 17 June, Dunedin: Won 3-1 vs Australia
  • 24 June, Wellington: Drew 1-1 vs Australia
  • 8 July, Auckland: Won 3-1 vs Australia

Provincial league champions:^[9]

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

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
• 9 February – Noel Sharp, World War II pilot
• 13 February – Godfrey Bowen, shearer
• 27 February – Anthony Treadwell, architect

March–April

• 9 March – Ian Turbott, colonial administrator, university administrator
• 13 March – Brun Smith, cricketer
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 19 June – Ray Forster, arachnologist, museum director
• 24 June – Ken Avery, jazz musician, songwriter

July–August

• 10 July – Rowan Barbour, cricketer
• 31 July – Kenneth Clark, ceramicist
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Derek Wilson, architect, environmentalist

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 – Jack 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)

Exact date unknown

• T. T. Rawhiti, KÄ«ngitanga secretary and administrator

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References

1. Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
2. List of New Zealand Chess Champions
3. "PGA European - Holden New Zealand Open". The Sports Network. 2005. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
4. edited by A. H. McLintock (1966). "Men's Golf - National Champions". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
5. List of NZ Trotting cup winners
6. Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz
7. Palenski, R. and Lambert, M. The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. Moa Almanac Press. ISBN 0-908570-55-4
8. List of New Zealand national soccer matches
9. "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.

External links

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