 1904 in New Zealand: |
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Incumbents
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
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
Parliamentary opposition
- Leader of the Opposition - William Massey, (Independent). 2
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
Events
- 13 January: Portobello Marine Laboratory opens, initially as a fish hatchery
- 15 November: The Waikato Independent begins publishing in Cambridge. The newspaper became the Cambridge Independent in 1966. It closed in 1995.3
Arts and literature
See 1904 in art, 1904 in literature, Category:1904 books
Music
See: 1904 in music
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
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. 4
- 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)
Rugby
- 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).
Horse racing
Births
- 2 February: A. R. D. Fairburn, poet. 5
- 11 February: Keith Holyoake, politician and 26th Prime Minister. 6
- 12 March: Ken James, cricketer. 7
- 24 December: Thomas O'Halloran, Australian Rules footballer.
- Morton W. Coutts - invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing beer.
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.
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
References
- ^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
- ^ "Elections NZ - Leaders of the Opposition". Retrieved on 2008-04-06.
- ^ "Waikato Independent". Cambridge Museum.
- ^ List of New Zealand national soccer matches
- ^ Te Ara
- ^ Te Ara
- ^ Cricinfo
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