1904 in New Zealand

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1904 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

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

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Regal and Vice Regal 1.2 Government 1.3 Parliamentary opposition 1.4 Main centre leaders 2 Events 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 June 2.6 July 2.7 August 2.8 September 2.9 October 2.10 November 2.11 December 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Music 4 Appointments and awards 5 Sport 5.1 Rugby 5.2 Horse racing 5.3 Rugby league 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 See also 9 References

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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

[edit] Parliamentary opposition

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

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Edwin Mitchelson
• Mayor of Hamilton - William Dey
• Mayor of Wellington - John Aitken then Thomas Hislop
• Mayor of Christchurch - Henry Wigram then C. M. Gray
• Mayor of Dunedin - Thomas Scott, then Thomas Christie

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• 13 January: Portobello Marine Laboratory opens, initially as a fish hatchery

[edit] February

[edit] March

[edit] April

[edit] June

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

[edit] Arts and literature

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

[edit] Music

See: 1904 in music

[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

• See: 1904 in sports , Category:1904 in sports , Summer Olympic Games See Category:New Zealand at the Olympics

[edit] Rugby

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand

• 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).

[edit] Horse racing

See Category:New Zealand horse races, list winners.

[edit] Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

[edit] Births

• 2 February: A. R. D. Fairburn, poet. ^[3]
• 11 February: Keith Holyoake, politician and 26th Prime Minister. ^[4]
• 12 March: Ken James, cricketer. ^[5]
• 24 December: Thomas O'Halloran, Australian Rules footballer.

• Morton W. Coutts - invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing beer.

Category:1904 births

[edit] 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

[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 1904 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1904

[edit] References