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The following lists events that happened during 1909 in New Zealand.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
Government
The 11th New Zealand Parliament commenced.
- Speaker of the House – Sir Arthur Guinness
- Prime Minister – Joseph Ward
- Minister of Finance – Joseph Ward
- Attorney-General – John Findlay
- Chief Justice – Sir Robert Stout
Parliamentary opposition
Leader of the Opposition – William Massey (independent until February and thereafter as leader of the Reform Party) [2]
Main centre leaders
- Mayor of Auckland – Arthur Myers then Charles Grey
- Mayor of Wellington – Alfred Newman
- Mayor of Christchurch – Charles Allison
- Mayor of Dunedin – John McDonald then James Walker
Events
- 1 January: The Quackery Prevention Act 1908 becomes law, preventing false advertising in relation to ingredients, composition, structure, nature or operation of a medicine.[ citation needed]
- 12 February: Inter-island steamer SS Penguin is wrecked at Cape Terawhiti in Cook Strait with the loss of 75 lives. [3]
- 14 February: The first North Island Main Trunk passenger express train leaves Auckland for Wellington, an overnight trip scheduled to take 19 hours 15 minutes, with a sleeping car, day cars with reclining seats, postal/parcels vans, and a dining car for part of the way.
Undated
- The Canterbury (NZ) Aero Club, the first in New Zealand, is formed by George Bolt. [4]
Arts and literature
See 1909 in art, 1909 in literature
Music
See: 1909 in music
Film
See: 1909 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1909 films
Sport
Boxing
National amateur champions
- Heavyweight – M. Ryan (Invercargill)
- Middleweight – S. Monaghan (Ohakune)
- Welterweight – G. Watchorn (Palmerston North)
- Lightweight – J. Finnerty (Invercargill)
- Featherweight – J. Hagerty (Timaru)
- Bantamweight – C. Stewart (Timaru)
Cricket
Chess
- The 22nd National Chess Championship was held in Dunedin, and was won by F.K. Kelling of Wellington. [5]
Golf
- The third New Zealand Open championship was won by J.A. Clements (his second consecutive win). [6]
- The 17th National Amateur Championships were held in Auckland
[7]
- Men: Arthur Duncan (Wellington) – 6th title
- Women: Mrs ? Bevan.
Horse racing
Harness racing
- New Zealand Trotting Cup: Wildwood Junior [8]
- Auckland Trotting Cup: Havoc [9]
Rugby league
New Zealand national rugby league team
Rugby union
- Auckland defend the Ranfurly Shield only once, beating Taranaki 18-5
Soccer
Provincial league champions: [10]
- Auckland: Auckland Corinthians
- Canterbury: Burnham Industrial School
- Otago: Dunedin City
- Southland: Murihiku
- Taranaki: Kaponga
- Wellington: Wellington Swifts
Tennis
- Anthony Wilding and Australian Norman Brookes, as the Australasian team, successfully defend the Davis Cup, beating the United States 5–0. The final is held in Sydney.
- Anthony Wilding wins the men's singles at the Australian Open.
Births
- 15 April: Jack Watts, politician.
- 18 April: Tom Skinner, politician, Federation of Labour president.
- 20 May: Bill Pratney, cyclist.
- 13 June: Ralph Hanan, politician.
- 27 July: Charles Brasch, poet and literary editor.
- 20 August: Alby Roberts, cricketer.
- 15 September: Jean Batten, aviator.
- 16 September: Rod MacKenzie, rugby union player
- 31 October: Frank Bateson, astronomer.
- 23 December: Don Cleverley, cricketer.
Deaths
- 14 February: Elsie Dohrmann, scholar, teacher and temperance campaigner [11]
- 28 April: John Wilson (businessman), businessman and judge
- 7 August: Arthur Remington, politician
- 14 August: Samuel Brown, Mayor of Wellington.
- Maria Sophia Pope, shopkeeper and businesswoman. [12]
See also
- History of New Zealand
- List of years in New Zealand
- Military history of New Zealand
- Timeline of New Zealand history
- Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
- Timeline of the New Zealand environment
References
- ^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
- ^ "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- ^ Christchurch City Libraries
- ^ Rendel, David (1975) Civil Aviation in New Zealand: An Illustrated History. Wellington. A.H. & A.W.Reed. ISBN 0-589-00905-2
- ^ List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ History of NZ open: TVNZ
- ^ McLintock, A. H., ed. (1966). "Men's Golf – National Champions". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
- ^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
- ^ "Dohrmann, Elsie". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ Smith, Jo-Anne. "Maria Sophia Pope". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
External links
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