1904
in
New Zealand

Decades:
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1904 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

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

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