1903 in New Zealand:

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Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Regal and Vice Regal 1.2 Government 1.3 Parliamentary opposition 1.4 Main centre leaders 2 Events 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 June 2.6 July 2.7 August 2.8 September 2.9 October 2.10 November 2.11 December 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Music 4 Appointments and awards 5 Sport 5.1 Boxing 5.2 Chess 5.3 Golf 5.4 Horse racing 5.4.1 Harness racing 5.4.2 Thoroughbred racing 5.5 Rugby union 5.6 Soccer 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 See also 9 References

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Edward VII
• Governor - The Earl of Ranfurly GCMG ^[1]

[edit] 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

[edit] Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - Vacant until 11 September, then William Massey, (Independent). ^[2]

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Alfred Kidd then Edwin Mitchelson
• Mayor of Hamilton - Robert William Dyer then Charles John Write Barton then William Dey
• Mayor of Wellington - John Aitken
• Mayor of Christchurch - Henry Wigram
• Mayor of Dunedin - James Park then Thomas Scott

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• 2 January: description

[edit] February

[edit] March

[edit] April

[edit] June

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

26 September - New Zealand is the first country in the world to pass a Wireless Telegraphy Act.^[3]

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1903 in art, 1903 in literature, Category:1903 books

[edit] Music

See: 1903 in music

[edit] 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

[edit] Sport

[edit] Boxing

The Bantamweight division is included in the national championships for the first time.

National amateur champions

• Heavyweight - H. Taylor (Greymouth)
• Middleweight - J. Griffin (Invercargill)
• Lightweight - A. Farquharson (Dunedin)
• Featherweight - A. Parker (Christchurch)
• Bantamweight - J. Pearce (Christchurch)

[edit] Chess

National Champion: J.C. Grierson of Auckland. ^[4]

[edit] Golf

The 11th National Amateur Championships were held in Napier ^[5]

• Men: Kurepo Tareha (Napier)
• Women: A. E Pearce

[edit] Horse racing

[edit] Harness racing

• Auckland Trotting Cup: Plain G ^[6]

[edit] Thoroughbred racing

[edit] Rugby union

• 1903 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia

[edit] Soccer

Provincial league champions: ^[7]

• Auckland: YMCA Auckland
• Otago: Northern
• Wellington: Wellington St. John's

[edit] Births

• 30 January: Colin Scrimgeour, minister and broadcaster. ^[8]
• 6 February: Jack Dunning, cricketer
• 11 March: George Dickinson, cricketer
• 11 March: Ronald Syme, historian
• 21 March: Frank Sargeson, writer
• 28 March: Merton Hodge, west-end playwright
• 4 August: Charles Bateson, historian and writer
• 2 November: Anna Lois White, painter
• 15 November: Charles Dempster, cricketer

• Edward Musgrave Blaiklock, academic.
• Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, poet.

• John Stewart, politician.

Category:1903 births

[edit] Deaths

• 30 August: Joe Warbrick, rugby player.

Category:1903 deaths

[edit] 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 1903 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1903

[edit] References

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