1920 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

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

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Regal and Vice Regal 1.2 Government 1.3 Parliamentary opposition 1.4 Main centre leaders 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Music 3.2 Film 4 Appointments and awards 5 Sport 5.1 Cricket 5.2 Horse Racing 5.3 Rugby 5.4 Rugby league 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 See also 9 References

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 20th, then Ernest Page Lee until May 17th, then Francis Bell

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - William MacDonald (Liberal Party) until his death on August 31st, 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

• See: 1920 in sports , Category:1920 in sports , New Zealand at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Cricket

• Plunket Shield

Horse Racing

Category:New Zealand horse races

Rugby

• Ranfurly Shield

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

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

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