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1904 in New Zealand

1904 in New Zealand

List of events

The following lists events that happened during 1904 in New Zealand.

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Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Government

The 15th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the Liberal Party.

Parliamentary opposition

Main centre leaders

Events

  • 13 January: Portobello Marine Laboratory opens, initially as a fish hatchery
  • 17 March: The New Zealand Horticultural Trades Association is founded in Normanby.[3]
  • September: The Canterbury Steam Shipping Co is founded in Christchurch.[4]
  • 15 November: The Waikato Independent begins publishing in Cambridge. The newspaper became the Cambridge Independent in 1966. It closed in 1995.[5]

Arts and literature

See 1904 in art, 1904 in literature, Category:1904 books

Music

See: 1904 in music

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.[6]
    • 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)

Chess

  • The 17th National Chess championship was held in Wellington. The champion was W.E. Mason of Wellington.[7]

Golf

The 12th National Amateur Championships were held in Otago [8]

  • Men: A.H. Fisher (Otago)
  • Women: Miss E. Lewis

Horse racing

Harness racing

Rugby union

  • 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).

Soccer

Provincial league champions:[11]

Births

Category:1904 births

Deaths

Category:1904 deaths

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
  2. [2]
    "Elections NZ – Leaders of the Opposition". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  3. [3]
    The New Zealand Book of Events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. 1986. p. 154. ISBN 047400123 7.
  4. [4]
    The New Zealand Book of Events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. 1986. p. 88. ISBN 047400123 7.
  5. [5]
    "Waikato Independent". Cambridge Museum. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2008.
  6. [6]
    List of New Zealand national soccer matches
  7. [7]
    List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  8. [8]
    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.
  9. [9]
    "List of NZ Trotting cup winners". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  10. [10]
    Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  11. [11]
    "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
  12. [12]
    Te Ara
  13. [13]
    "Te Ara". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  14. [14]
    Cricinfo
  15. [15]
    Oliver, Steven. "Tamati Ngakaho". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.

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