1921 in New Zealand explained

The following lists events that happened during 1921 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – George V
• Governor-General – John Jellicoe, Viscount Jellicoe^[1]

Government

The 20th New Zealand Parliament continues, with the Reform Party in Government

• Speaker of the House – Frederick Lang
• Prime Minister – William Massey
• Minister of Finance – William Massey
• Minister of External Affairs – Ernest Lee

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition – Thomas Wilford (Liberal Party)^[2]

Judiciary

• Chief Justice – Sir Robert Stout

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland – James Gunson
• Mayor of Wellington – John Luke then Robert Wright
• Mayor of Christchurch – Henry Thacker
• Mayor of Dunedin – William Begg then James Douglas

Events

• 31 January – The first scheduled air mail service in New Zealand commences, linking Christchurch with Ashburton and Timaru.^[3]
• 17 November – The first radio broadcast in New Zealand is made by Professor Robert Jack from the physics department of the University of Otago.^[4]

Arts and literature

See 1921 in art, 1921 in literature,

Music

See: 1921 in music

Radio

• 17 November – Professor Robert Jack assembles a small transmitter at the University of Otago in Dunedin and broadcasts the first ever radio programme heard on New Zealand airwaves. The only known fact about the programme's content is that it included the then popular song "Hello My Dearie".http://www.oldradio.com/archives/international/nzp.html

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

• Beyond
• The Betrayer

See:, 1921 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand,

Sport

Chess

• National champion – John Boyd Dunlop, of Dunedin (his first title)^[5]

Cricket

• Plunket Shield

Football

• Provincial league champions:^[6]
  • Auckland – Northcote
  • Canterbury – Corinthians
  • Hawke's Bay – Waipukurau
  • Nelson – Athletic
  • Otago – HSOB
  • Southland – Corinthians
  • Wanganui – Eastown Workshops
  • Wellington – Hospital

Golf

• The 11th New Zealand Open championship is won by Ted Douglas (his fourth title)^[7]
• The 25th National Amateur Championships are held in Christchurch:^[8]
  • Men – A.G. Sime (Greymouth)
  • Women – G. Williams (her fourth title)

Horse racing

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup – Reta Peter (2nd win)^[9]
• Auckland Trotting Cup – Man O' War (2nd win)^[10]

Thoroughbred racing

• New Zealand Cup – Royal Star^[11]
• Auckland Cup – Malaga^[11]
• Wellington Cup – Maioha^[11]
• New Zealand Derby – Winning Hit^[11]

Lawn bowls

The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Wellington.^[12]

• Men's singles champion – J.M. Brackenridge (Newtown Bowling Club)
• Men's pair champions – W.A. Grenfell, S. Potter (skip) (Wellington Bowling Club)
• Men's fours champions – B. Hilton, A. Bell, O. Gallagher, Ernie Jury (skip) (Karangahake Bowling Club)

Rugby union

• 1921 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand
• defend the Ranfurly Shield once against (10–8) before losing it to (13–28). Wellington then defend it against (27–19) and Otago (13–8).^[13]

Births

January

• 9 January – Fraser Barron, World War II bomber pilot
• 17 January – Jack Bergin, neurologist, anti-abortion campaigner
• 30 January – Joan Faulkner-Blake, broadcaster

February

• 5 February – Juan Schwanner, association football player and coach
• 6 February – Bob Scott, rugby league and rugby union player
• 7 February – Guy Natusch, architect
• 13 February – Howard Hutchinson, association footballer
• 14 February – Harry Whale, physicist
• 20 February – Tom McGuigan, politician
• 25 February – Keith Thiele, World War II and commercial pilot

March

• 4 March – Charlie Dempsey, association football administrator
• 12 March – Les Harmer, cricket umpire
• 13 March – Raymond Hesselyn, World War II fighter pilot
• 16 March – Chip Bailey, trade unionist

April

• 6 April – Jack Hunt, speedway rider
• 10 April – Robert Wade, chess player
• 12 April – Peter Brown, artist
• 27 April – Helen Wily, mathematician
• 30 April – Wally Williams, water polo player

May

• 2 May – Ron Smith, public servant, peace activist
• 6 May – Tangaroa Tangaroa, Cook Islands politician
• 12 May – Peter Munz, philosopher, historian
• 15 May – Anne Delamere, public servant
• 18 May – Rosalie Carey, playwright, director, poet, actor, author
• 23 May – Richard Harrison, politician
• 26 May
  • Frank Mooney, cricketer
  • Agnes Wood, artist, writer
• 29 May – Wally Argus, rugby union player
• 31 May – Aston Greathead, artist

June

• 6 June – Shirley Tonkin, sudden infant death syndrome researcher
• 7 June – Brian Talboys, politician
• 13 June – Roy Blair, cricketer
• 17 June – Monita Delamere, rugby union player, Ringatū leader, community leader
• 19 June – Judy Pickard, abstract painter, librarian and advocate for women's rights
• 23 June
  • Cecil Holmes, film director and writer
  • Leonard Willmott, soldier, security intelligence officer
• 25 June – Willow Macky, songwriter
• 28 June – Eric Holland, politician

July

• 8 July – John Money, psychologist, sexologist, author
• 11 July – Pat Perrin, potter
• 12 July – Doug Dye, microbiologist
• 13 July – Lester Castle, lawyer, public servant
• 18 July – Ian Payne, cricketer
• 21 July – Graham Speight, jurist
• 23 July – Peter Gordon, politician
• 26 July – June Westbury, politician
• 30 July – Eric Grinstead, sinologist, Tangutologist

August

• 4 August – Patricia Hook, religious sister, nurse and hospital administrator
• 5 August – Colin McLeod, civil engineer
• 6 August – Jack Monaghan, wrestler
• 7 August – Miraka Szászy, Māori leader
• 14 August
  • Donald Burns, cricket umpire
  • Ken Ruby, wrestler
• 21 August – Doreen Lumley, athlete
• 26 August – Bob Owens, businessman, politician, mayor of Tauranga (1968–77)

September

• 2 September – Diana Isaac, conservationist, businesswoman, philanthropist
• 3 September – Oonah Shannahan, netball player
• 4 September – Bruce Biggs, Māori studies academic
• 14 September – Colin Johnstone, rower
• 19 September – Michael Noonan, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter
• 25 September – Robert Muldoon, politician
• 28 September
  • Morrie Goddard, rugby union player
  • Bruce Mason, playwright
• 29 September – John Ritchie, composer, orchestral founder and conductor, music academic
• 30 September – Jim Macdonald, naval officer, civil engineer, inventor

October

• 3 October – Eldred Stebbing, record label founder and owner
• 7 October – Desmond O'Donnell, rugby union player
• 9 October – Tom Marshall, Christian writer
• 10 October – Harvey Sweetman, World War II pilot
• 13 October – Earle Riddiford, lawyer and mountaineer
• 18 October – Kingi Ihaka, Anglican priest, broadcaster, Māori leader
• 23 October – Colin Allan, colonial administrator, diplomat
• 29 October – Jack Warcup, mycologist

November

• 4 November – William Tyree, electrical engineer, businessman, philanthropist
• 6 November – Geoff Rabone, cricketer
• 8 November – Gordon Mason, local-body politician
• 11 November – Buddy Corlett, softball and basketball player
• 17 November – Bruce Irwin, botanist
• 20 November
  • Arthur Faulkner, politician
  • Dick Matthews, plant virologist

December

• 3 December – Cyril Belshaw, anthropologist
• 8 December
  • Dot McNab, military administrator, political organizer
  • Bob Walton, police officer
• 11 December – David Baldwin, lawn bowls player
• 24 December – Vincent Bevan, rugby union player
• 29 December – Ngoi Pēwhairangi, songwriter, Māori language teacher and advocate

Deaths

January–March

• 19 January – Frank Lawry, politician (born 1839)
• 7 February – Bella Button, horse driver and trainer, equestrian (born 1863)
• 23 February – J. T. Marryat Hornsby, politician, newspaper editor and proprietor (born 1857)
• 27 February – Sir James Prendergast, lawyer, politician, jurist (born 1826)
• 9 March – Walter Powdrell, politician (born 1872)
• 10 March – Henry Brown, saw miller, politician (born 1842)
• 21 March – Samuel Moreton, artist, explorer (born 1844)

April–June

• 4 April – Mary Jane Milne, milliner, businesswoman (born 1840)
• 19 April – Cathcart Wason, politician (born 1848)
• 23 April – William Maxwell, politician (born 1867)
• 1 June – Tureiti Te Heuheu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader, politician (born 1865)
• 24 June – William Dickie, politician (born 1869)
• 25 June – Haimona Patete, Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kuia leader, religious founder (born 1863)

July–September

• 19 July – Lily Atkinson, temperance campaigner, suffragist, feminist (born 1866)
• 31 July – Alice Jacob, botanical illustrator, lace designer, design teacher (born 1862)
• 13 August – Ōtene Pītau, Rongowhakaata leader (born 1834)
• 5 August – Robert Kirkpatrick Simpson, politician (born 1837)
• 17 August – John Aitken, politician, mayor of Wellington (1900–05) (born 1849)
• 9 September – Joseph Henry Cock, shipping company manager, patron of the arts (born 1855)
• 17 September – John Verrall, photographer, politician (born 1849)
• 20 September – Thomas Kelly, politician (born 1830)

October–December

• 29 October – Samuel Nevill, Anglican bishop (born 1837)
• 31 October – James Little, shepherd, sheep breeder (born 1834)
• 1 November
  • Jeremiah Twomey, journalist, politician (born 1847)
• 29 November – Hopere Uru, rugby union player, cricketer, politician (born 1868)
• 2 December – Patrick Nerheny, politician (born 1858)

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• History of 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

Notes and References

1. Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
2. Web site: Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition. 6 April 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081017200326/http://www1.elections.org.nz/democracy/leaders-opposition.html. 17 October 2008. dead.
3. http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline&new_date=31/01 NZhistory.net
4. Web site: Dashing heroes of a harbour crossing. 6 September 2008. Otago Daily Times. 20 September 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080917183544/http://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/21143/dashing-heroes-a-harbour-crossing. 17 September 2008 . live.
5. http://www.poisonpawn.co.nz/nzcftitles.htm List of NZ chess champions
6. Web site: New Zealand: List of champions. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999. 13 May 2009 .
7. Web site: PGA European – Holden New Zealand Open. The Sports Network. 2005. 25 March 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110525235454/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=golf-e%2Fscores%2Farchive_05%2Fholden-preview.htm. 25 May 2011. dead.
8. Web site: Men's Golf – National Champions. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. McLintock. A. H.. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 1966. 13 February 2009.
9. Web site: List of NZ Trotting cup winners . 7 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120222233106/http://www.hrnz.co.nz/data/major_races/nz_trotting_cup.htm . 22 February 2012 . dead .
10. http://www.hrnz.co.nz/data/major_races/major_race2.htm Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz
11. Book: The Air New Zealand Almanac . Max . Lambert . Ron . Palenski . Moa Almanac Press . 1982 . 0-908570-55-4 . 448–454.
12. Book: McLintock . A.H. . Alexander Hare McLintock . Bowls, men's outdoor—tournament winners . An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . 6 June 2018 . 1966 . Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
13. Palenski, R. and Lambert, M. The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. Moa Almanac Press.