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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1903 in New Zealand .
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
Government
The
15th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the
Liberal Party .
Parliamentary opposition
Main centre leaders
Events
January
February
March
April
June
July
August
September
26 September – New Zealand is the first country in the world to pass a Wireless Telegraphy Act.
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October
November
December
Arts and literature
See
1903 in art ,
1903 in literature
Music
See:
1903 in music
Film
Sport
Boxing
The Bantamweight division is included in the national championships for the first time.
National amateur champions
Heavyweight – H. Taylor (Greymouth)
Middleweight – J. Griffin (Invercargill)
Lightweight – A. Farquharson (Dunedin)
Featherweight – A. Parker (Christchurch)
Bantamweight – J. Pearce (Christchurch)
Chess
National Champion: J.C. Grierson of Auckland.
[4]
Golf
The 11th National Amateur Championships were held in Napier
[5]
Men: Kurepo Tareha (Napier)
Women: A. E Pearce
Horse racing
Harness racing
Rugby union
Soccer
Provincial league champions:
[7]
Auckland: YMCA Auckland
Otago:
Northern
Wellington: Wellington St. John's
Births
30 January:
Colin Scrimgeour , minister and broadcaster.
[8]
6 February:
Jack Dunning , cricketer
21 February:
P. H. Matthews , politician
11 March:
George Dickinson , cricketer
11 March:
Ronald Syme , historian
21 March:
Frank Sargeson , writer
28 March:
Merton Hodge , west-end playwright
23 April:
John Stewart , politician.
10 June:
Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk , poet.
6 July:
Edward Musgrave Blaiklock , academic.
4 August:
Charles Bateson , historian and writer
2 November:
Anna Lois White , painter
15 November:
Stewie Dempster , cricketer
Deaths
See also
References
External links
Media related to
1903 in New Zealand at Wikimedia Commons
1903 in Oceania
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand