1922 in New Zealand:

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1919 • 1920 • 1921 • 1922 (1922) • 1923 • 1924 • 1925

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Regal and Vice Regal 1.2 Government 1.3 Opposition Leaders 1.4 Main centre leaders 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Music 3.2 Radio 3.3 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 Rugby union 5.6 Rugby league 5.7 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 Viscount Jellicoe GCB OM GCVO ^[1]

[edit] Government

The TBDth New Zealand Parliament continued.

• Speaker of the House - TBD
• Prime Minister - TBD
• Deputy Prime Minister - TBD
• Minister of Finance - TBD
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - TBD

[edit] Opposition Leaders

See: Category:New Zealand Parliament , New Zealand elections

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - James Gunson
• Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow
• Mayor of Wellington - Robert Wright
• Mayor of Christchurch - Henry T. J. Thacker
• Mayor of Dunedin - James Sandilands Douglas

[edit] Events

• 25 January: Southern Maori by-election 1922

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1922 in art, 1922 in literature, Category:1922 books

[edit] Music

See: 1922 in music

[edit] Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

• My Lady of the Cave
• The Birth of New Zealand

See: Category:1922 film awards, 1922 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1922 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 30th National Chess Championship was held in Dunedin, and was won by J.B. Dunlop of Oamaru, his second title. ^[2]

[edit] Cricket

• Plunket Shield

[edit] Golf

• The ninth New Zealand Open championship was won by A. Brooks. ^[3]
• The 26th National Amateur Championships were held in the Manawatu ^[4]
  • Men: Arthur Duncan (Wellington) - 9th title
  • Women: Mrs G. Williams - 5th title

[edit] Horse racing

[edit] Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Agathos ^[5]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Minton Derby ^[6]

[edit] Thoroughbred racing

[edit] Rugby union

• 1922 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia
• Wellington lost the Ranfurly Shield on the first challenge, losing to Hawkes Bay 9-19. Hawkes Bay then defended the shield against Bay of Plenty (17-16) and King Country (42-8). ^[7]

[edit] Rugby league

• New Zealand national rugby league team

[edit] Soccer

• A tour by Australia led to the first full internationals by a New Zealand representative team: ^[8]
  • 17 June, Dunedin: Won 3-1 vs Australia
  • 24 June, Wellington: Drew 1-1 vs Australia
  • 8 July, Auckland: Won 3-1 vs Australia

Provincial league champions: ^[9]

• Auckland: North Shore, Philomel (shared)
• Canterbury: Rangers
• Hawke's Bay: Hastings Utd
• Nelson: Athletic
• Otago: Seacliff
• South Canterbury: Rangers
• Southland: Corinthians
• Taranaki: Hawera
• Wanganui: Eastown Workshops
• Wellington: Waterside

[edit] Births

• 29 January: Ronald Hugh Morrieson, writer.
• 13 March: Frank 'Brun' Smith, cricketer.
• 10 August: John Feeney, documentary film director.
• 20 August: Rona McKenzie, cricketer.
• 10 October: Harry Cave, cricketer.
• 21 October: Hone Tuwhare, poet.
• 7 November: Roy McKenzie, horse breeder and philanthropist.
• 25 November: Maurice Duggan, writer.
• 5 December: Keith Sinclair, historian.

• Anthony Treadwell, architect.
• Derek Wilson, architect.

Category:1922 births

[edit] Deaths

• 2 January: Somebody, description

Category:1922 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 1922 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1922

[edit] References

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