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1904 in New Zealand

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Other events of 1904Timeline of New Zealand history

Regal and viceregal

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

    • Government

    The 15th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the Liberal Party.

    Contents

  • 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).

    • Main centre leaders

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

    • Events

  • 13 January: Portobello Marine Laboratory opens, initially as a fish hatchery
  • 17 March: The New Zealand Horticultural Trades Association is founded in Normanby.
  • September: The Canterbury Steam Shipping Co is founded in Christchurch.
  • 15 November: The Waikato Independent begins publishing in Cambridge. The newspaper became the Cambridge Independent in 1966. It closed in 1995.

    • Arts and literature

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

    Music

    See: 1904 in music

    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.
  • 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.

    • Golf

    The 12th National Amateur Championships were held in Otago

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

    • Harness racing

  • The inaugural running of the New Zealand Trotting Cup is won by Monte Carlo
  • Auckland Trotting Cup: Rebel Boy

    • 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:

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

    • Births

  • 2 February: A. R. D. Fairburn, poet.
  • 7 February:Morton W. Coutts - invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing beer.
  • 11 February: Keith Holyoake, politician and 26th Prime Minister.
  • 12 March: Ken James, cricketer.
  • 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 Legislative Council.

    • Category:1904 deaths

    References

    1904 in New Zealand Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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