1921 in New Zealand

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Other years in New Zealand

1918 • 1919 • 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924

Contents 1 Summary 2 Incumbents 2.1 Regal and Vice Regal 2.2 Government 2.3 Opposition Leaders 2.4 Main centre leaders 3 Events 3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 June 3.6 July 3.7 August 3.8 September 3.9 October 3.10 November 3.11 December 4 Arts and literature 4.1 Music 4.2 Radio 4.3 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Cricket 6.2 Horse Racing 6.3 Rugby 6.4 Rugby league 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

[edit] Summary

The section should contain a paragraph or two about the year.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George V
• Governor-General - Earl Jellicoe

[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 - John Luke then Robert Wright
• Mayor of Christchurch - Henry T. J. Thacker
• Mayor of Dunedin - William Begg then James Sandilands Douglas

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• 2 January: description

[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 1921 in art, 1921 in literature, Category:1921 books

[edit] Music

See: 1921 in music

[edit] Radio

• November 17th: Professor Robert Jack assembles a small transmitter at the University of Otago in Dunedin and broadcasts the first ever radio programme heard on New Zealand airwaves. The only known fact about the programme’s content is that it included the then popular song “Hello My Dearie”.[1]

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

• Beyond
• The Betrayer

See: Category:1921 film awards, 1921 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1921 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

• See: 1921 in sports , Category:1921 in sports

[edit] Cricket

• Plunket Shield

[edit] Horse Racing

Category:New Zealand horse races

[edit] Rugby

• Bledisloe Cup
• Ranfurly Shield

[edit] Rugby league

• New Zealand national rugby league team

[edit] Births

• 30 January: Joan Faulkner-Blake, broadcaster.
• 23 May: Richard Harrison, politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• 26 May: Frank Mooney, cricketer.
• 7 June: Brian Talboys, politician.
• 25 September: Robert Muldoon, politician and Prime Minister.
• 9 October: Tom Marshall, Christian writer.
• 6 November: Geoff Rabone, cricketer.

• Peter Brown, artist.
• Arthur Faulkner, politician.
• Eric Holland, politician.
• Guy Natusch, architect.
• Miraka Szászy, Māori leader.

Category:1921 births

[edit] Deaths

• 27 February: James Prendergast, 3rd Chief Justice of NZ.
• 19 April: Cathcart Wason, politician.

• John Aitken, Mayor of Wellington.
• John Hornsby, politician.

Category:1921 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 1921 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1921