1904 in New Zealand

1904 in New Zealand

Other years in New Zealand

1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 (1904) • 1905 • 1906 • 1907

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Edward VII
• Governor - The Earl of Ranfurly GCMG, succeeded the same year by The Lord Plunket GCMG KCVO ^[1]

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

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - William Massey, (Independent).^[2]

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Edwin Mitchelson
• Mayor of Wellington - John Aitken then Thomas Hislop
• Mayor of Christchurch - Henry Wigram then Charles Matthew Gray
• Mayor of Dunedin - Thomas Scott, then Thomas Christie

Events

• 13 January: Portobello Marine Laboratory opens, initially as a fish hatchery
• 15 November: The Waikato Independent begins publishing in Cambridge. The newspaper became the Cambridge Independent in 1966. It closed in 1995.^[3]

Arts and literature

See 1904 in art, 1904 in literature, Category:1904 books

Music

See: 1904 in music

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

Sport

Association football

• A New South Wales representative team tours, playing a New Zealand team in Dunedin and Wellington. These are the first recognised matches by a New Zealand national football team.^[4]
  • 23 July, Dunedin: NZ loses 0-1
  • 30 July, Wellington: Draw 3-3

Boxing

National amateur champions

• Heavyweight - J. Griffin (Greymouth)
• Middleweight - J. Griffin (Greymouth)
• Lightweight - T. Rickards (Christchurch)
• Featherweight - J. Watson (Christchurch)
• Bantamweight - J. Gosling (Wellington)

Chess

• The 17th National Chess championship was held in Wellingon. The champion was W.E. Mason of Wellington.^[5]

Golf

The 12th National Amateur Championships were held in Otago ^[6]

• Men: A.H. Fisher (Otago)
• Women: Miss E. Lewis

Horse racing

Harness racing

• The inaugural running of the New Zealand Trotting Cup is won by Monte Carlo ^[7]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Rebel Boy ^[8]

Thoroughbred racing

Rugby union

• Wellington defeat Auckland 6-3, becoming the first challenger to win the Ranfurly Shield.
• Wellington defend the Ranfurly shield against Canterbury (6-3) and Otago (15-13).

Soccer

Provincial league champions:^[9]

• Auckland: Auckland Corinthians
• Otago: Northern
• Southland: Nightcaps
• Taranaki: New Plymouth
• Wellington: Diamond Wellington

Births

• 2 February: A. R. D. Fairburn, poet.^[10]
• 7 February:Morton W. Coutts - invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing beer.
• 11 February: Keith Holyoake, politician and 26th Prime Minister.^[11]
• 12 March: Ken James, cricketer.^[12]
• 24 December: Thomas O'Halloran, Australian Rules footballer.

Category:1904 births

Deaths

• 11 December: Octavius Hadfield, Anglican Primate of New Zealand.

• Thomas Ellison, rugby player.
• George Lumsden, politician.
• William Walker, politician and speaker of the Legistative Council.

Category:1904 deaths

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References

External links

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