1929 in New Zealand

← 1928 1927 1926 1929 in New Zealand → 1930 1931 1932
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1929 Timeline of New Zealand history

Population

• Estimated population as of 31 December: 1,486,100 ^[1]
• Increase since previous 31/12/1928: 18,700 (1.27%)
• Males per 100 females: 104.1

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of state - George V
• Governor-General - General Sir Charles Fergusson Bt GCMG KCB DSO MVO ^[2]

Government

The 23rd New Zealand Parliament continued.

• Speaker of the House - Charles Statham (Independent)
• Prime Minister - TBD
• Deputy Prime Minister - TBD
• Minister of Finance - Joseph Ward (United)
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - TBD

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - Gordon Coates (Reform) ^[3]

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - George Baildon
• Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow
• Mayor of Wellington - George Troup
• Mayor of Christchurch - John Archer
• Mayor of Dunedin - William Burgoyne Taverner, succeeded by Robert Black

Events

• 9 March: 1929 Arthur's Pass earthquake: A quake of Richter Magnitude 7.1 in the Arthur's Pass area causes extensive landslips and damage to roads and railways. There are no injuries.^[4]
• 17 June: 1929 Murchison earthquake: An earthquake of surface wave magnitude 7.8 causes the deaths of 17 people and causes great damage in Murchison and surrounding areas ^[5]
• 29 October: Black Tuesday. Wall Street crash triggers the 10 year Great Depression.

Arts and literature

See 1929 in art, 1929 in literature, Category:1929 books

Music

See: 1929 in music

Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

See: Category:1929 film awards, 1929 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1929 films

Sport

Badminton

• National Champions
  • Men's singles: J. Southon
  • Women's singles: A. Ellett
  • Men's doubles: T. Kelly and J. McLean
  • Women's doubles: E. Hetley and F. Harvey
  • Mixed doubles: T. Kelly and A. Ellett

Chess

The 38th National Chess Championship was held in Wellington, and was won by J.A. Erskine of Melbourne.^[6]

Golf

• The 19th New Zealand Open championship was won by Andrew Shaw.^[7]
• The 33rd National Amateur Championships were held in Wanganui ^[8]
  • Men: Sloan Morpeth (Maungakiekie) - 3rd title
  • Women: Mrs P.L. Dodgshun (Dunedin).

Horse racing

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Peter Bingen - 2nd win ^[9]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Gold Jacket - 2nd win ^[10]

Rugby

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, Category:All Blacks

• Ranfurly Shield

Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

Soccer

• 1929 Chatham Cup won by Tramways (Auckland)
• Provincial league champions: ^[11]
  • Auckland: Tramways
  • Canterbury: Thistle
  • Hawke's Bay: Napier YMCA
  • Nelson: Thistle
  • Otago: Seacliff
  • South Canterbury: Albion Rovers
  • Southland: Corinthians
  • Taranaki: Stratford
  • Waikato: Claudelands Rovers
  • Wanganui: Thistle
  • Wellington: Diamond

Births

• 16 February: Venn Young, politician.
• 7 March: Tom Weal, Politician.
• 12 March: William Liley, pioneering surgeon.
• 9 April, Fred Hollows, eye surgeon.
• 25 April: Yvette Williams, athlete.
• 2 May: Graham Gedye, cricketer.
• 4 September: Howard Charles Clark, chemist.
• 28 October (In India): Tom Puna, cricketer.
• November: Trevor McMahon, cricketer.
• 28 November: Raymond Hitchcock, cricketer.
• 14 December: Ron Jarden, rugby union player.
• 19 December: Michael Fowler, architect, mayor of Wellington.
• Miles Warren, architect.

Category:1929 births

Deaths

• 13 February: Charles Skerrett, Chief Justice of New Zealand.
• 23 September: Sir George Fenwick, newspaper editor and proprietor.
• 25 October: Charles Chilton, zoologist
• John Findlay, politician.
• Alex F. Lithgow, composer.
• Albert Pitt, politician.
• Sir James Wilson, politician.

Category:1929 deaths

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References

1. http://www.stats.govt.nz/~/media/Statistics/Methods%20and%20Services/Tables/historical-pop-estimates.ashx Statistics New Zealand:Historical Population Estimates
2. Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
3. "Elections NZ - Leaders of the Opposition". Retrieved 6 April 2008.
4. Eileen McSaveney (21 September 2007). "Historic earthquakes". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand,. Archived from the original on 2 January 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
5. Murchison earthquake 1929 - Christchurch City Libraries
6. List of New Zealand Chess Champions
7. "PGA European - Holden New Zealand Open". The Sports Network. 2005. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
8. edited by A. H. McLintock (1966). "Men's Golf - National Champions". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
9. List of NZ Trotting cup winners
10. Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz
11. "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999. Retrieved 13 May 2009.

External links

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