1919 in New Zealand

1919 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919 • 1920 • 1921 • 1922

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Regal and Vice Regal 1.2 Government 1.3 Parliamentary opposition 1.4 Main centre leaders 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Music 3.2 Film 4 Appointments and awards 5 Sport 5.1 Cricket 5.2 Horse Racing 5.3 Rugby 5.4 Rugby league 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 References 9 See also

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George V
• Governor-General - The Earl of Liverpool ^[1]

Government

The 19th New Zealand Parliament concludes. The election held in November sees the Reform Party returned with an increased majority (47 of the 80 seats). Women are eligible to stand for Parliament for the first time. ^[2]

• Speaker of the House - Frederic Lang (Reform Party)
• Prime Minister - William Massey (Reform Party)
• Minister of Finance - Joseph Ward until 21st August, then James Allen

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - Joseph Ward (Liberal Party). ^[3]

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - James Gunson
• Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow then Percy Harold Watts
• Mayor of Wellington - John Luke
• Mayor of Christchurch - Henry Holland then Henry T. J. Thacker
• Mayor of Dunedin - James John Clark then William Begg

Events

• 4 February: New Zealand Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool's Own) disbanded.
• December : Establishment of the Ministry of External Affairs, with James Allen as first Minister.

Arts and literature

See 1919 in art, 1919 in literature, Category:1919 books

Music

See: 1919 in music

Film

See: Category:1919 film awards , 1919 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1919 films

Appointments and awards

See: New Zealand Order of Merit , Order of New Zealand

• Archbishop of New Zealand
• Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia , see appointments to Diocese

Sport

• See: 1919 in sports , Category:1919 in sports

Cricket

• Plunket Shield

Horse Racing

Category:New Zealand horse races

Rugby

• Bledisloe Cup
• Ranfurly Shield

Rugby league

• New Zealand national rugby league team

Births

• 2 June: Bert Walker, CMG, politician
• 8 June: Guy Overton, cricketer
• 17 July: Alex Moir, cricketer
• 20 July: Edmund Hillary, mountaineer
• 26 July: Angus Tait, electronics entrepreneur
• 5 September: John Te Rangianiwaniwa Rangihau, academic and Māori leader
• 6 November: Allen Lissette, cricketer

• Lance Adams-Schneider, politician.
• Colin McCahon, painter
• John Ridley, politician.
• Gordon Walters, painter

Category:1919 births

Deaths

• 5 September: Joseph Ivess, politician.

• Edward Bartley, architect.
• Thomas Thompson, politician.

Category:1919 deaths

References

1. ^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
2. ^ New Zealand Parliament - Parliament timeline
3. ^ "Elections NZ - Leaders of the Opposition". Retrieved on 2008-04-06.

See also

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

For world events and topics in 1919 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1919

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