1920 in New Zealand:

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1917 • 1918 • 1919 • 1920 (1920) • 1921 • 1922 • 1923

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 Cricket 5.3 Golf 5.4 Horse racing 5.4.1 Harness racing 5.4.2 Thoroughbred racing 5.5 Olympic games 5.6 Rugby league 5.7 Rugby 5.8 Soccer 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 See also 9 References

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George V
• Governor-General - The Earl of Liverpool, succeeded the same year by The Viscount Jellicoe GCB OM GCVO ^[1]

[edit] Government

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

• Speaker of the House - Frederic Lang (Reform Party)
• Prime Minister - William Massey
• Minister of Finance - James Allen
• Minister of External Affairs - James Allen until April 20, then Ernest Page Lee until May 17, then Francis Bell

[edit] Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - William MacDonald (Liberal Party) until his death on August 31, then Thomas Wilford.^[2]

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - James Gunson
• Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow
• Mayor of Wellington - John Luke
• Mayor of Christchurch - Henry T. J. Thacker
• Mayor of Dunedin - William Begg

[edit] Events

• 1 May: The Colonist publishes its final issue, and is incorporated into The Nelson Evening Mail. The newspaper began in 1857.^[3]

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1920 in art, 1920 in literature, Category:1920 books

[edit] Music

See: 1920 in music

[edit] Film

See: Category:1920 film awards , 1920 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1920 films

[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] Chess

The 29th National Chess Championship was held in Wellington, and was won by W.E. Mason of Wellington, his fifth title.^[4]

[edit] Cricket

• Plunket Shield

[edit] Golf

• The 10th New Zealand Open championship was won by J.H. Kirkwood.^[5]
• The 24th National Amateur Championships were held in Hamilton ^[6]
  • Men: Sloan Morpeth (Hamilton)
  • Women: Miss N.E. Wright (2nd title)

[edit] Horse racing

[edit] Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Reta Peter ^[7]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Man O'War ^[8]

[edit] Thoroughbred racing

[edit] Olympic games

• New Zealand at the 1920 Summer Olympics

[edit] Rugby league

• Great Britain tour of New Zealand, won test series 3-0
  • 1st test, 23-10 Wellington
  • 2nd test, 19 - 3, Christchurch
  • 3rd test, 31 - 7, Auckland

[edit] Rugby

• 1920 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia
• Wellington defended the Ranfurly Shield 10 times before losing it to Southland:^[9]
  • vs Canterbury 15-3
  • vs Bay of Plenty 22-3
  • vs Taranaki 20-9 (played in Hawera)
  • vs Hawkes Bay 20-5
  • vs Auckland 23-20 (played in Auckland)
  • vs Taranaki 16-5
  • vs Wanganui 20-14
  • vs Auckland 20-3
  • vs South Canterbury 32-16 (played in Timaru)
  • vs Otago 16-5 (played in Dunedin)
  • vs Southland 6-17 (played in Invercargill)

[edit] Soccer

Provincial league champions:^[10]

• Auckland: YMCA
• Canterbury: Nomads
• Hawke's Bay: Waipukurau
• Otago: Kaitangata FC
• Southland: No competition
• Wanganui: Eastbrooke
• Wellington: Wellington Thistle

[edit] Births

• 14 January: Don Beard, cricketer
• 24 January: Gerard Wall, surgeon and politician
• 26 January: Tapihana Paraire Paikea, politician
• 20 June:John O'Shea, filmmaker
• 28 October: Bob Stuart, rugby player and administrator
• John Chewings, politician.
• Frank Corner, diplomat

Category:1920 births

[edit] Deaths

• 20 May: Henare Kaihau, politician

• A. L. Beattie, locomotive designer/engineer.
• Cyril Mountfort, architect

Category:1920 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 1920 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1920

[edit] References

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