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1920 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

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

Incumbents

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]

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

Parliamentary opposition

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

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

Events

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

Arts and literature

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

Music

See: 1920 in music

Film

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

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

Chess

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

Cricket

• Plunket Shield

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)

Horse racing

Harness racing

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

Thoroughbred racing

Olympic games

• New Zealand at the 1920 Summer Olympics

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

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)

Soccer

Provincial league champions:^[10]

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

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

Deaths

• 20 May: Henare Kaihau, politician

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

Category:1920 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 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

References