1910 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 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Music 3.2 Film 4 Appointments and awards 5 Sport 5.1 Chess 5.2 Golf 5.3 Horse racing 5.3.1 Harness racing 5.3.2 Thoroughbred racing 5.4 Rugby league 5.5 Rugby union 5.6 Soccer 5.7 Tennis 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 See also 9 References

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Edward VII, succeeded by George V
• Governor - The Lord Plunket GCMG KCVO, succeeded the same year by The Lord Islington GCMG GBE DSO PC ^[1]

[edit] Government

The TBDth New Zealand Parliament continued.

• Speaker of the House - TBD
• Prime Minister - TBD
• Minister of Finance - TBD (Labour)

[edit] Parliamentary opposition

Leader of the Opposition - William Massey (Reform Party). ^[2]

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Charles Grey then Lemuel Bagnall
• Mayor of Hamilton - James Alexander Young
• Mayor of Wellington - Thomas Wilford
• Mayor of Christchurch - C. Allison
• Mayor of Dunedin - James Walker, then Thomas Cole

[edit] Events

• 5 July: Herbert Pither reportedly makes a flight of "nearly a mile" at Riverton Beach.^[3]

Undated

• Aero Club of New Zealand is formed in Auckland.^[3]
• Foundation of Eastwoodhill Arboretum at Ngatapa, Gisborne by William Douglas Cook

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1910 in art, 1910 in literature, Category:1910 books

[edit] Music

See: 1910 in music

[edit] Film

See: 1910 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand

[edit] Appointments and awards

• Archbishop of New Zealand
• Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

[edit] Sport

[edit] Chess

The 23rd National Chess Championship was held in Auckland, and was won by J. Mason of Wellington. ^[4]

[edit] Golf

• The fourth New Zealand Open championship was held at Christchurch golf club and was won by amateur Arthur Duncan, his second win. ^[5]
• The 18th National Amateur Championships were held in Christchurch ^[6]
  • Men: H.B. Lusk (Christchurch)
  • Women: Miss ? Collins.

[edit] Horse racing

[edit] Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Wildwood Junior - 2nd win ^[7]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Floranz ^[8]

[edit] Thoroughbred racing

[edit] Rugby league

• Great Britain tour of New Zealand - beat New Zealand 52-20 in Auckland

[edit] Rugby union

• Auckland defend the Ranfurly Shield against Hawkes Bay (11-3), Wellington (3-3), Taranaki (16-9) and Canterbury (6-4)

[edit] Soccer

Provincial league champions: ^[9]

• Auckland: Caledonian Auckland
• Canterbury: Burnham IS
• Otago: Northern Dunedin
• Southland: Nightcaps
• Taranaki: New Plymouth
• Wellington: Ramblers Wellington

[edit] Tennis

• Anthony Wilding won the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championship

[edit] Births

• 5 January: Jack Lovelock, athlete
• 10 February: Paul Whitelaw, cricketer
• 11 April: Mountford T. "Toss" Woollaston, painter and writer
• 4 July: Peter McIntyre, painter
• 11 August: Denis 'Sonny' Moloney, cricketer
• 8 October: Gordon Innes, rugby union and rugby league player
• 18 December: Eric Tindill, cricket and rugby union player
• 24 December, William Hayward Pickering, space scientist
• 28 December: Jack Kerr, cricketer

• James Munro Bertram, writer and Rhodes scholar.
• Norman Douglas, politician.
• Freda Stark, dancer

Category:1910 births

[edit] Deaths

• 14 May: Frederick Baume, politician.
• 17 May: Thomas Hocken, collector and bibliographer.
• 1 June: Richard Reeves, politician.

Category:1910 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 1910 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1910

[edit] References