1922 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1922 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Government

The 20th New Zealand Parliament concludes. The general election held in December sees the Reform Party lose its majority and need to negotiate for support with Independents and two Liberal Party MPs to remain in government.

Parliamentary opposition

Leader of the Opposition – Thomas Wilford

Judiciary

Chief Justice – Sir Robert Stout

Main centre leaders

Events

25 January – The Southern Maori by-election is won by Henare Uru, following the death of his brother, Hopere Uru, the sitting member, in November the previous year
25 December – a 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Motunau on Christmas day, causing widespread damage in North Canterbury and Christchurch

Arts and literature

See 1922 in art, 1922 in literature, :Category:1922 books

Sport

Chess

The 30th National Chess Championship is held in Dunedin, and is won by John Boyd Dunlop of Oamaru

Cricket

Plunket Shield

Football

A tour by Australia includes three internationals, the first by a New Zealand representative team:
* 17 June – Carisbrook, Dunedin: won 3–1 by New Zealand
* 24 June – Athletic Park, Wellington: drawn 1–1
* 8 July – Auckland Domain, Auckland: won 3–1 by New Zealand
Provincial league champions:
* Auckland – North Shore, Philomel
* Canterbury – Rangers
* Hawke's Bay – Hastings United
* Nelson – Athletic
* Otago – Seacliff
* South Canterbury – Rangers
* Southland – Corinthians
* Taranaki – Hāwera
* Wanganui – Eastown Workshops
* Wellington – Waterside

Golf

The ninth New Zealand Open championship is won by A. Brooks.
The 26th National Amateur Championships are held in the Manawatū:
* Men – Arthur Duncan
* Women – G. Williams

Horse racing

Harness racing

New Zealand Trotting Cup – Agathos
Auckland Trotting Cup – Minton Derby

Thoroughbred racing

New Zealand Cup – Scion
Auckland Cup – Scion
Wellington Cup – Insurrection
New Zealand Derby – Enthusiasm

Lawn bowls

The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Dunedin.

Men's singles champion – J.C. Rigby
Men's pair champions – J. Brackenridge, J.M. Brackenridge
Men's fours champions – J.A. McKinnon, W.B. Allan, W. Allan, W. Carswell

Rugby union

1922 New Zealand rugby union tour of New South Wales
loses the Ranfurly Shield on the first challenge, losing to 9–19. Hawke's Bay then defends the shield against and .

Rugby league

1922 New Zealand rugby league season

Shooting

Ballinger Belt – Douglas Roots

Births

January–February

5 January – Bob Aynsley, rugby league player
12 January – Una Wickham, cricketer
16 January – Bert Wipiti, World War II fighter pilot
18 January – Bill Pearson, writer
29 January – Ronald Hugh Morrieson, writer
4 February – Joan Wiffen, palaeontologist
8 February – Laurie Salas, women's rights and peace activist
13 February – Godfrey Bowen, shearer
19 February – Marie Bell, educationalist, lecturer, teacher
24 February – Joyce Macdonald, swimmer
27 February – Anthony Treadwell, architect

March–April

9 March – Ian Turbott, colonial administrator, university administrator
13 March – Brun Smith, cricketer
17 March – Pat Suggate, geologist
18 March – Johnny Simpson, rugby union player
21 March – Frank Watkins, World War II pilot
22 March – Dick Shortt, cricket umpire
24 March – Vincent Gray, chemist, climate-change denier
25 March – Grace Hollander, community leader
26 March – Bill Mumm, rugby union player, politician
8 April – Arnold Christensen, World War II fighter pilot, "Great Escape" participant
12 April – Ann Wylie, botanist
19 April – Jack Dodd, physicist
21 April – Zena Abbott, weaver
22 April – Frank Houston, Pentecostal Christian pastor
28 April – Ruth Kirk, anti-abortion campaigner, wife of Norman Kirk
30 April – Avis M. Dry, clinical psychologist

May–June

11 May – Marguerite Story, Cook Islands politician
16 May – Peter Hall, World War II pilot
18 May – Ian Botting, rugby union player
25 May – Joyce Powell, cricketer
8 June – Jim Weir, diplomat
14 June – Max Carr, field athlete and coach, athletics official, air force officer
19 June – Ray Forster, arachnologist, museum director
24 June – Ken Avery, jazz musician, songwriter
28 June – Pauline O'Regan, educator, community worker, writer

July–August

4 July – Derek Wilson, architect, environmentalist
10 July – Rowan Barbour, cricketer
22 July – Jim Allen, visual artist
25 July – Alan Peart, World War II fighter pilot
31 July
* Kenneth Clark, ceramicist
* Owen Hardy, World War II fighter pilot
9 August – Peter Johnstone, rugby union player
1 August – Alf Budd, rugby union player
2 August – Dell Bandeen, netball player
10 August – John Feeney, documentary film director
13 August – Arch Jelley, athletics coach
20 August – Rona McKenzie, cricketer
27 August – Dorothy Potter, ophthalmic surgeon

September–October

1 September – Harold Logan, Standardbred racehorse
11 September – Jack Shallcrass, author, educator, humanist
15 September – Norman Rumsey, optical systems designer
17 September – Ted Smith, rower
26 September –
* Johnny Smith, rugby union player
* Brian Waugh, airline operator and pilot
4 October – Morrie Church, rugby league coach
9 October – Kendrick Smithyman, poet
10 October –
* Harry Cave, cricketer
* Nan Clark, trade unionist
11 October – Cole Wilson, musician, singer-songwriter
12 October – Randal Elliott, ophthalmologist
18 October – Laurie Haig, rugby union player
21 October –
* Bruce Barclay, politician
* Hone Tuwhare, poet
30 October – Bob Chapman, political scientist, historian

November–December

3 November – Alan Blake, rugby union player
7 November – Roy McKenzie, horse breeder, philanthropist
13 November – Syd Jensen, motorcycle racer, motor racing driver
14 November – Douglas MacDiarmid, painter
16 November – J.C.P. Williams, cardiologist
19 November – Yvonne Rust, potter
22 November – Helen Brew, actor, birth campaigner, documentary filmmaker, educator and speech therapist
25 November – Maurice Duggan, writer
1 December – William James Lanyon Smith, naval officer
5 December – Keith Sinclair, historian, poet, politician
13 December – Norm Wilson, rugby union player
19 December – Christine Cole Catley, journalist, publisher, author
26 December – Iain Gallaway, cricketer and broadcaster

Exact date unknown

Bettina Welch, actor

Deaths

January–March

4 January – William Wilson McCardle, nurseryman, founder of Pahiatua, politician
14 January – Arthur Thomas Bate, sharebroker, public servant, rugby union and cricket administrator, philatelist
16 January – Alan Scott, World War I pilot
18 February – Thomas Peacock, politician
20 January – Henry Harper, Anglican priest
24 February – W. D. H. Baillie, politician
7 March – Alexander Donald, sailmaker, merchant, ship owner

April–June

1 April – George Carter, rugby union player
3 April – Horace Moore-Jones, war artist
14 April – Emma Ostler, businesswoman, prohibitionist
19 April – Percy Smith, ethnologist, surveyor
21 April – Robert Thompson, politician
15 May – Edward Kellett, politician
25 May – Edith Mellish, Anglican deaconess and nun
28 May – John von Dadelszen, public servant, statistician
15 June – Peter Dignan, politician, mayor of Auckland
16 June – Henry Wise, stationer, printer, publisher
18 June – Robert Lee, teacher, school inspector, educationalist
23 June – Myer Caselberg, businessman, politician, mayor of Masterton
27 June – Frederick George Ewington, estate agent, philanthropist, pamphleteer
28 June – George Helmore, rugby union player

July–September

2 July – Seymour Thorne George, politician
14 July – Edward Seager, policeman, gaoler, asylum superintendent
29 July – Charles John Ayton, diarist
29 August – Charles Albert Creery Hardy, politician
30 August –
* John Ewing, goldminer
* Tom Pollard, comic opera producer and manager
31 August – James Job Holland, politician, mayor of Auckland
3 September – Donald Reid, politician
16 September – Constance Barnicoat, stenographer, interpreter, mountaineer, journalist
22 September – Elizabeth Torlesse, community leader
29 September – Lewis Hotop, pharmacist, Arbor Day advocate, politician, mayor of Queenstown

October–December

12 October – William Whitby, master mariner, ship owner
13 October – Edward Pearce, politician
22 November – Moore Neligan, Anglican bishop
14 December – Ann Robertson, businesswoman, litigant
15 December – Richard Tucker, wool scourer
16 December – Charles Harley. politician, mayor of Nelson
18 December – John James Pringle, dermatologist
25 December – George Sale, politician, newspaper editor, university professor
26 December – Arthur Rhodes, politician, mayor of Christchurch