The following lists events that happened during 1923 in New Zealand.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal Head of State – George V Governor-General – John Jellicoe, Viscount JellicoeStatistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
Government The 21st New Zealand Parliament begins. The Reform Party governs as a minority with the support of independents.
Speaker of the House – Charles Statham (Independent) Prime Minister – William Massey Minister of Finance – William Massey Minister of External Affairs – Ernest Lee until 13 January, then Francis Bell from 7 June
Parliamentary opposition Leader of the Opposition – Thomas Wilford (Liberal Party)
Judiciary Chief Justice – Sir Robert Stout
Main centre leaders Mayor of Auckland – James Gunson Mayor of Wellington – Robert Wright Mayor of Christchurch – Henry Thacker, succeeded by James Flesher Mayor of Dunedin – James Douglas, succeeded by Harold Tapley
Events
28 March The Tauranga by-election is won by Charles Macmillan (Reform Party) The Native Bird Protection Society (now known as the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand) is formed at a meeting in Wellington, with Sir Thomas Mackenzie elected inaugural president. March – The inflation rate in New Zealand reaches its lowest recorded value, −15.3 per centTrading Economics – New Zealand Inflation Rate (19 March 2014) 1 May – The Oamaru by-election is won by John MacPherson (Liberal Party) 5–9 May – The upper South Island and Wellington are hit by heavy rain, causing severe flooding. Three people drown in Marlborough. A quarter of Kaiapoi's population flee from rapidly rising water levels. Both telegraph lines connecting Christchurch with Wellington go down. 14 June − The New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the forerunner of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, is established 6 July – The Ongarue railway disaster results in the deaths of 17 passengers when the overnight Auckland-Wellington Express runs into a landslip at Ongarue near Taumarunui 4 August – Opening of the Otira Tunnel on the Midland Line 15 December – The British and Intercolonial Exhibition opens in Hokitika
Undated New Zealand gains the right to conduct its own trade negotiations independently of Britain The Ross Dependency is claimed by Britain and placed under New Zealand administration The Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS New Zealand, funded by the New Zealand government as a gift to Britain before World War I, is broken up for scrap
Arts and literature
See 1923 in art, 1923 in literature, :Category:1923 books
Music
Production of the musical "Tutankhamen" by L.P.Leary at His Majesty's Theatre in Auckland. Music by Eric Waters.
See: 1923 in music
Radio
A set of Broadcasting regulations are issued under the Post And Telegraph Act 1920. Under the new regulations the country is divided into four numerical transmission regions. The regulations also stipulate that the owner of a receiving set is to pay an annual licence of five shillings while permission to transmit costs two pounds.
See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand
Film The Romance of Sleepy Hollow See: 1923 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, :Category:1923 films
Sport
Chess The 32nd National Chess Championship is held in Christchurch, and is won by John Boyd Dunlop of Oamaru (his third title)List of New Zealand Chess Champions
Cricket Plunket Shield
Football The inaugural competition for the Chatham Cup is won by Seacliff AFC (Otago) The New Zealand team tours Australia, playing 16 matches:List of New Zealand national soccer matches 24 May, at Granville – lose 1–3 vs Granville 26 May, at Sydney – draw 2–2 vs New South Wales 29 May, at Newcastle – lose 0–2 vs Newcastle 2 June, at Ipswich – win 4–2 vs Ipswich / West Moreton 4 June, at Brisbane – win 3–1 vs Queensland 6 June, at Nambour – win 2–0 vs North Coast 9 June, at Brisbane – lose 1–2 vs Australia 13 June, at Cessnock – lose 1–2 vs South Maitland 16 June, at Sydney – win 3–2 vs Australia 20 June, at Sydney – win 3–4 vs Metropolis 23 June, at Sydney – win 3–1 vs Granville 25 June, at Sydney – draw 1–1 vs New South Wales 30 June, at Newcastle – win 4–1 vs Australia 3 July, at Weston – lose 1–4 vs South Maitland 7 July, at Wollongong – lose 0–2 vs South Coast 11 July, at Lithgow – win 4–0 vs Western Districts Provincial league champions: Auckland – North Shore AFC (Devonport) Canterbury – Sunnyside Hawke's Bay – Whakatu Nelson – Athletic Otago – HSOB South Canterbury – Albion Rovers Southland – Nightcaps Taranaki – Hawera Wanganui – Eastown Workshops Wellington – Waterside
Golf The 10th New Zealand Open championship is won by A. Brooks. The 27th National Amateur Championships are held in Wanganui: Men – J. Goss (Wanganui) Women – E. Vigor Brown (Napier)
Horse racing
Harness racing New Zealand Trotting Cup – Great Hope Auckland Trotting Cup – Blue Mountain KingAuckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz
Thoroughbred racing New Zealand Cup – Rouen Auckland Cup – Te Kara / Muraahi (dead heat) Wellington Cup – Rapine New Zealand Derby – Black Ronald ARC Great Northern Derby – Enthusiasm
Lawn bowls The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Auckland. Men's singles champion – M. Walker (Ponsonby Bowling Club) Men's pair champions – W. McCallum, T. Edwards (skip) (Temuka Bowling Club) Men's fours champions – R.S. Somervell, J.F. Hosking, V.P. Casey, A. Parsons (skip) (Ponsonby Bowling Club)
Rugby union A New South Wales team tours New Zealand, playing three matches against the New Zealand team. New Zealand wins all three: 19–9, 34–6 and 38–11. defend the Ranfurly Shield for the full season, defeating Wairarapa (6–0), (10–6), (15–0), (9–8), Horowhenua (38–11), and (20–5).Palenski, R. and Lambert, M. The New Zealand Almanac, 1982. Moa Almanac Press.
Shooting Ballinger Belt – Les Loveday (Linton)
Births
January–February 2 January – Joe McManemin, athletics coach, sports administrator 6 January – Norman Kirk, politician 11 January – Charles Philip Littlejohn, parliamentary officer 15 January – Nick Unkovich, lawn bowls player 27 January – Robert Burchfield, lexicographer 11 February – Bryce Rope, rugby union player and coach 26 February – Jean Anderson, pianist and professor of music
March–April 1 March – Stephen Jelicich, architect, historian 2 March Ron Elvidge, rugby union player Don Taylor, cricketer 12 March – James Godwin, war crimes investigator 13 March – Travers Hardwick, rugby league player and coach 24 March – Poul Gnatt, ballet dancer and ballet master 26 March – Ronald Dobson, rugby union player 27 March – Donald Murdoch, cricketer 31 March – Lawrie Miller, cricketer 6 April – Rina Moore, doctor 7 April Lindsay Daen, sculptor Russell Stone, historian 14 April – Stan Cowman, cricket umpire 16 April – Thomas Freeman, cricketer 17 April – Ken Mudford, motorcycle racer 18 April – Allan Deane, cricketer 26 April – Harold Nelson, athlete 29 April – Jean Herbison, academic, university chancellor
May–June 17 May – Doug Ottley, association footballer 26 May Bill Meates, rugby union player Thomas Paulay, earthquake engineer, academic 4 June – Olga Stringfellow, journalist and author 7 June – Peter Sutton, Anglican bishop 19 June – Rex Orr, rugby union player 25 June – Margaret Reid, Presbyterian minister 30 June – Melvin Day, artist
July–August 8 July – Margaret di Menna, microbiologist 13 July – Max Lewis, cricketer 14 July – Noel Chambers, swimmer 16 July Richard Bolt, air force officer Terry Harris, water polo player 18 July John Morton, marine zoologist, theologian, conservationist JJ Stewart, rugby union coach and administrator, politician 26 July – Betty Gilderdale, children's author 28 July – Bill Sevesi, musician 9 August – Bob Neilson, rugby league player 11 August – Roy Roper, rugby union player 12 August – Janet Holm, environmental activist, historian 14 August – Jack Luxton, politician 15 August – Norm Jones, politician 28 August – Maurice Casey, jurist
September–October 9 September – Des Christian, rugby union player and coach 19 September – Bob Sorenson, rugby union player and coach, cricketer 29 September – Vernon McArley, cricketer 3 October – Jack McLean, rugby union and rugby league player 4 October – Lachie Grant, rugby union player 9 October Bob Fenton, politician Ronald Tremain, composer, music academic 11 October – Ed Nichols, alpine skier 15 October Joyce Carpenter, diver Jim McCormick, rugby union player 18 October – Rob Talbot, politician 20 October – Mike Minogue, politician 29 October David Kear, geologist, science administrator Ted Thorne, naval officer
November–December 1 November – Peter Mahon, jurist 4 November – Joan Hatcher, cricketer 5 November – Frederick Stanley, cricketer 9 November – Marion Robinson, physiologist and nutritionist 10 November – Brian Ashby, Roman Catholic bishop 11 November – Sonja Davies, trade unionist, peace activist, politician 13 November – Austen Gittos, fencer 17 November Dick Scott, historian, journalist Bert Sutcliffe, cricketer 18 November – Neville Pickering, politician 20 November – Robert Harwood, cricketer 22 November – Guy Doleman, actor 28 November – Eric Heath, cartoonist 2 December – Andy Keyworth, master mariner 6 December – Karl Sim, art forger 13 December – Richard Campion, theatre director 14 December – Bob Quickenden, association footballer 17 December – John Darwin, statistician 20 December Arthur Mills, cricketer Noel Taylor, athlete 24 December – Bert Cook, rugby union and rugby league player
Deaths
January–March 9 January – Katherine Mansfield, writer (born 1888) 14 January – Frederick Radcliffe, photographer (born 1863) 28 January – Alfred Holdship, cricketer (born 1867) 6 February – William Thomas Jennings, politician (born 1854) 22 February – Sir William Herries, politician (born 1859) 17 March – Daniel Cooper, convicted baby farmer and illegal abortionist (born 1881) 25 March – John Patterson, politician, businessman (born 1855) 26 March – William Wescombe Corpe, sawmiller, dairy manufacturer (born 1836)
April–June 3 April Charles H. Mills, politician (born 1843) Arthur Seymour, politician (born 1832) 4 April – Charles Curtis, storekeeper, local-body politician (born 1850) 12 April William Collins, politician (born 1853) Randell McDonnell, cricketer (born 1843) 27 April – Gordon Millington, cricketer (born 1848) 7 May – Walter Dinnie, police commissioner (born 1850) 9 May – John Fuller, singer and theatrical company manager (born 1850) 21 May – Leopold Prime, cricketer (born 1884)
July–September 8 July – Henry Lawson, cricketer (born 1862) 16 July – Sir William Fraser, politician (born 1840) 27 July – William Dawson, brewer, politician (born 1852) 1 August – Frank Wright, artist (born 1860) 3 August – Frederick Fulton, cricketer (born 1859) 8 September – Thomas Mahoney, architect (born 1854) 23 September – Sarah Higgins, midwife, writer (born 1830) 26 September – Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury, Ngāti Kahungunu scholar, recorder, interpreter (born 1841)
October–December 8 October – Angus Stuart, rugby union player (born 1858) 15 October – Thomas Frederic Cheeseman, botanist (born 1846) 17 October – William Meares, cricketer (born 1848) 10 November – John Stallworthy, politician (born 1854) 11 November – Robert Murdoch, malacologist (born 1861) 25 November – Sydney Callaway, cricketer (born 1868) 29 November – Gilbert Mair, soldier, interpreter, public servant (born 1843) 11 December – Joseph Maddison, architect (born 1850) 14 December – Michael Godby, cricketer (born 1850)
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
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