1904 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1904 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – Edward VII
• Governor – The Earl of Ranfurly GCMG , succeeded the same year by The Lord Plunket GCMG KCVO ^[1]

Government

The 15th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the Liberal Party.

• Speaker of the House – Arthur Guinness (Liberal)
• Prime Minister – Richard Seddon
• Minister of Finance – Richard Seddon
• Chief Justice – Sir Robert Stout

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition – William Massey , (Independent). ^[2]

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland – Edwin Mitchelson
• Mayor of Wellington – John Aitken then Thomas Hislop
• Mayor of Christchurch – Henry Wigram then Charles Gray
• Mayor of Dunedin – Thomas Scott, then Thomas Christie

Events

• 13 January: Portobello Marine Laboratory opens, initially as a fish hatchery
• 17 March: The New Zealand Horticultural Trades Association is founded in Normanby. ^[3]
• 9 August: A magnitude 7.0-7.2 earthquake strikes Cape Turnagain, causing one death.
• September: The Canterbury Steam Shipping Co is founded in Christchurch. ^[4]
• 15 November: The Waikato Independent begins publishing in Cambridge. The newspaper became the Cambridge Independent in 1966. It closed in 1995. ^[5]

Arts and literature

See 1904 in art, 1904 in literature, Category:1904 books

Music

See: 1904 in music

Sport

Association football

• A New South Wales representative team tours, playing a New Zealand team in Dunedin and Wellington. These are the first recognised matches by a New Zealand national football team. ^[6]
  • 23 July, Dunedin: NZ loses 0–1
  • 30 July, Wellington: Draw 3–3

Boxing

National amateur champions

• Heavyweight – J. Griffin (Greymouth)
• Middleweight – J. Griffin (Greymouth)
• Lightweight – T. Rickards (Christchurch)
• Featherweight – J. Watson (Christchurch)
• Bantamweight – J. Gosling (Wellington)

Chess

• The 17th National Chess championship was held in Wellington. The champion was W.E. Mason of Wellington. ^[7]

Golf

The 12th National Amateur Championships were held in Otago ^[8]

• Men: A.H. Fisher (Otago)
• Women: Miss E. Lewis

Horse racing

Harness racing

• The inaugural running of the New Zealand Trotting Cup is won by Monte Carlo ^[9]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Rebel Boy ^[10]

Rugby union

• Wellington defeat Auckland 6-3, becoming the first challenger to win the Ranfurly Shield.
• Wellington defend the Ranfurly shield against Canterbury (6–3) and Otago (15–13).

Soccer

Provincial league champions: ^[11]

• Auckland: Auckland Corinthians
• Otago: Northern
• Southland: Nightcaps
• Taranaki: New Plymouth
• Wellington: Diamond Wellington

Births

• 2 February: A. R. D. Fairburn , poet. ^[12]
• 7 February: Morton Coutts – invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing beer.
• 11 February: Keith Holyoake , politician and 26th Prime Minister. ^[13]
• 12 March: Ken James , cricketer. ^[14]
• 24 December: Thomas O'Halloran , Australian Rules footballer.

Category:1904 births

Deaths

• 5 January: William Walker , politician and speaker of the Legislative Council (b. 1837).
• 11 February: George Lumsden , politician (b. 1815).
• 22 February: James Nairn , painter (b. 1859)
• 16 April: Charles Edward Haughton , politician (b. 1827).
• 2 October: Thomas Ellison , rugby player (b. c1867).
• 11 December: Octavius Hadfield , Anglican Primate of New Zealand (b. 1814).
• Tamati Ngakaho , a Ngāti Porou carver. ^[15]

Category:1904 deaths

See also

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

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. The New Zealand Book of Events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. 1986. p. 154. ISBN   047400123 7.
4. The New Zealand Book of Events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. 1986. p. 88. ISBN   047400123 7.
5. "Waikato Independent". Cambridge Museum. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2008.
6. List of New Zealand national soccer matches
7. List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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 6 May 2009.
10. Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
11. "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
12. Te Ara
13. "Te Ara". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
14. Cricinfo
15. Oliver, Steven. "Tamati Ngakaho". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 23 April 2017.

External links

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