# 1930 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1930 in New Zealand.

## Population

* Estimated population as of 31 December: 1,506,800.
* Increase since previous 31 December 1929: 20,700 (1.39%).
* Males per 100 females: 103.9.

## Incumbents
### Regal and viceregal

* Head of state – George V
* Governor-General – General Sir Charles Fergusson Bt GCMG KCB DSO MVO succeeded the same year by The Lord Bledisloe GCMG KBE PC

### Government

The 23rd New Zealand Parliament continued with the United Party in power.
* Speaker of the House – Charles Statham (Independent)
* Prime Minister – Sir Joseph Ward (United) until 28 May, then George Forbes (United)
* Minister of Finance – Joseph Ward (United) until 28 May, then George Forbes (United)
* Minister of Foreign Affairs – Joseph Ward (United) until 28 May, then George Forbes (United).
* Attorney-General – Thomas Sidey (United) until 22 September, then William Downie Stewart
* Chief Justice — Sir Michael Myers

### Parliamentary opposition

* Leader of the Opposition – Gordon Coates (Reform).

### Main centre leaders

* Mayor of Auckland – George Baildon
* Mayor of Wellington – George Troup
* Mayor of Christchurch – John Archer
* Mayor of Dunedin – Robert Black

## Events

* 11 August – Palmerston North is procaimed as a city.
* August – The Atmore Report on the education system is presented.
* 4 November – Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup.

## Arts and literature

See 1930 in art, 1930 in literature, Category:1930 books
* Kowhai Gold, an anthology of New Zealand poetry edited by Quentin Pope published in London and New York

### Music

See: 1930 in music

### Radio

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

### Film

* 3 January: The Coubray-tone News- the first New-Zealand made "talkies" (film with sound) – premiered.
* The Romance of Maoriland
See: Category:1930 film awards, 1930 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1930 films

## Sport
### British Empire Games

| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |

### Chess

The 39th National Chess Championship was held in Wanganui, and was won by G. Gunderson of Melbourne.

### Cricket

* New Zealand's first ever Test matches, a home series of four three-day games against England. Series won 1–0 by England
** 10,11,13 January Lancaster Park, Christchurch. New Zealand (112 and 131) lost by eight Wickets to England (181 and 66/2).
** 24,25,27 January Basin Reserve, Wellington. New Zealand (440 and 164/4dec.) drew with England (320 and 107/4).
** 14,15,17 February Eden Park, Auckland. England (330/4dec.) drew with New Zealand (96/1) (First two days were abandoned due to rain).
** 21,22,24 February at Eden Park: England (540 and 22/3) drew with New Zealand (387) – this fourth Test was arranged due to the rain washout of the third test.

### Golf

* The 20th New Zealand Open championship was won by Andrew Shaw, his third title.
* The 34th National Amateur Championships were held in the Manawatu district
** Men: H.A. Black (Mirimar)
** Women: Miss O. Kay

### Horse racing
#### Harness racing

* New Zealand Trotting Cup – Wrackler
* Auckland Trotting Cup – Carmel

#### Thoroughbred racing

* New Zealand Cup – Nightmarch
* Avondale Gold Cup – Prodice
* Auckland Cup – Motere
* Wellington Cup – Concentrate
* New Zealand Derby – Cylinder

### Lawn bowls

The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Dunedin.
* Men's singles champion – F. Lambeth (Balmacewen Bowling Club)
* Men's pair champions – G.L. Gladding, H. Jenkins (skip) (Carlton Bowling Club)
* Men's fours champions – E.S. Wilson, L.C. Buist, J. Dowland, D.M. Stuart (skip) (St Kilda Bowling Club)

### Rugby union

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, Category:All Blacks
* Ranfurly Shield

### Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

### Soccer

* 1930 Chatham Cup won by Petone
* Provincial league champions:
** Auckland: YMCA
** Canterbury: Thistle
** Hawke's Bay: Whakatu
** Nelson: Thistle
** Otago: Seacliff
** Southland: Corinthians
** Taranaki: Caledonian
** Waikato: Pukemiro
** Wanganui: KP's
** Wellington: Hospital

## Births
### January

* 3 January – Ruth Dowman, athlete
* 8 January – Dave Spence, cricketer
* 21 January – Peter Tapsell, politician
* 24 January – Terence Bayler, actor
* 27 January – Bob O'Dea, rugby union player

### February

* 10 February
** Russell Kerr, ballet dancer, choreographer and producer
** Malcolm McCaw, cricketer, accountant
* 11 February – Bruce Cathie, pilot, author
* 17 February – Jonathan Bennett, philosopher
* 20 February
** Kevin Meates, rugby union player
** Vida Stout, limnographer
* 21 February – Joan Metge, social anthropologist
* 22 February – Ivan Mercep, architect

### March

* 5 March – Brian Bell, ornithologist
* 9 March – Mina Foley, opera singer
* 20 March – Thomas Williams, Roman Catholic cardinal
* 25 March – Margery Blackman, weaver
* 27 March – Paul Cotton, diplomat
* 28 March – Helmer Pedersen, sailor
* 30 March – Charlie Steele Jr., association football player, rugby union player
* 31 March – Barry Mitcalfe, poet, anti-nuclear activist

### April

* 1 April – Dennis Young, rugby union player
* 3 April – Marama Martin, television and radio broadcaster
* 5 April – Bill Tinnock, rower
* 7 April – Koro Dewes, Ngāti Porou kaumātua and Māori language advocate
* 8 April
** David Benney, applied mathematician
** Ivan Vodanovich, rugby union player, coach and administrator
** Neil Wilson, athlete
* 18 April – Clive Revill, singer, actor
* 19 April
** Reg Douglas, rower
** Ewan Jamieson, military leader
* 20 April – Helen Mackenzie, swimmer

### May

* 13 May – Richard Kearney, jurist
* 20 May – Alexia Pickering, disabilities rights campaigner
* 21 May – Keith Davis, rugby union player
* 24 May – Ivor Richardson, jurist
* 30 May – Colleen Dewe, politician

### June

* 1 June – Matt Poore, cricketer
* 7 June – Ian Leggat, cricketer
* 15 June – Bev Brewis, high jumper
* 25 June – Peter Wight, cricketer

### July

* 3 July – Kihi Ngatai, Ngāi Te Rangi leader, horticulturalist
* 11 July
** Jack Alabaster, cricketer
** Guy McGregor, field hockey player
* 25 July – Murray Chapple, cricketer
* 30 July – David Weston, cricketer

### August

* 1 August – Glen Rowling, community leader, spouse of the prime minister Bill Rowling
* 2 August – Mick Bremner, rugby union player and administrator
* 5 August – Bruce Turner, field hockey player, cricketer
* 12 August – Brian Molloy, rugby union player, plant ecologist, conservationist
* 15 August
** Leo T. McCarthy, politician
** Azalea Sinclair, netball player
* 18 August
** Graeme Dallow, police officer
** Denis McLean, diplomat, author
* 21 August – Cyril Eastlake, rugby league player
* 28 August – Tony Small, diplomat
* 30 August – Noel Harford, cricketer

### September

* 3 September – Cherry Wilder, fantasy and science-fiction writer
* 6 September – David Simmons, ethnologist
* 10 September – Pauline Engel, educator
* 11 September – Kenneth Minogue, political theorist
* 19 September
** Robin Archer, rugby union player
** Volker Heine, physicist
* 22 September – John Hill, cricketer
* 28 September – Sel Belsham, rugby league player
* 29 September – Jocelyn Fish, politician, women's rights campaigner
* 30 September – George Menzies, rugby league player

### October

* 1 October – Bob Jolly, veterinary academic
* 17 October – Joan Williamson-Orr, local-body politician
* 21 October – Lawrence Reade, cricketer
* 22 October – Lois McIvor, artist
* 29 October – Hugh Burry, rugby union player, medical academic

### November

* 11 November – Ian Burrows, army officer
* 16 November – Merv Richards, pole vaulter, gymnastics and pole vault coach
* 17 November – Chic Littlewood, television entertainer, actor
* 20 November – James Hill, rower
* 22 November – Bill Lambert, politician
* 30 November – Leonard Boyle, Roman Catholic bishop

### December

* 6 December – Natalie Wicken, netball player
* 16 December
** Leslie Clark, cricketer
** Harry Turbott, architect, landscape architect
* 23 December – Jean Stewart, swimmer
* 27 December – John Drawbridge, artist
* 31 December – Ron Johnston, motorcycle speedway rider

### Undated

* Daphne Walker, singer

## Deaths
### January–February

* 6 January – Walter Harper, Anglican clergyman (born 1848)
* 9 January – Joseph Harkness, politician (born 1850)
* 11 January – Eru Tumutara, Ringatū bishop (born c.1859)
* 24 January
** Ellen Crowe, community leader (born c.1847)
** Sophia Taylor, suffragist (born 1847)
** Herman van Staveren, rabbi, philanthropist (born 1849)
* 25 January – Pat Hickey, trade union leader (born 1882)
* 5 February – John Holland Baker, surveyor, public servant (born 1841)
* 11 February – Anne Wilson, poet, novelist (born 1848)
* 12 February – Elizabeth Fergusson, nurse, midwife (born 1867)
* 14 February – Sir Thomas Mackenzie, politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1912) (born 1853)
* 21 February – Charles Garrard, cricketer, school inspector (born 1868)

### March–April

* 4 March – Henry Michel, politician (born 1855)
* 11 March – George Edgecumbe, newspaper proprietor, businessman (born 1845)
* 5 April – Wereta Tainui Pitama, Ngāi Tahu leader, politician (born 1881)
* 10 April – John McCaw, farmer (born 1849)
* 16 April – Makereti Papakura, tour guide, entertainer, ethnographer (born 1873)

### May–June

* 20 May – Adelaide Hicks, midwife (born 1845)
* 29 May – William Charles Nation, spiritualist, Arbor Day advocate (born 1840)
* 30 May – William Chatfield, architect (born 1851)
* 26 June – Frederick Cooke, trade unionist, politician (born 1867)
* 27 June – Sir Māui Pōmare, doctor, politician (born c.1875)

### July–August

* 3 July – Tom Cross, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1876)
* 8 July – Sir Joseph Ward, politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1906–12, 1928–30) (born 1856)
* 19 July – Sir Robert Stout, politician, Premier of New Zealand (1884, 1884–87) (born 1844)
* 24 July – Alfred Philpott, museum curator, entomologist (born 1870)
* 30 July – George Hutchison, politician (born 1846)
* 10 August – Bill Hawkins, cricketer, politician (born 1861)
* 15 August – Wesley Spragg, butter manufacturer, temperance campaigner, benefactor (born 1848)
* 18 August – James Flesher, politician, mayor of Christchurch (1923–25) (born 1865)
* 20 August – George Hunter, politician, racehorse breeder (born 1859)
* 27 August
** Emily Hill, schoolteacher, suffragist, temperance worker (born 1847)
** Robert Neill, cricketer (born 1864)

### September–October

* 4 September
** George Duncan, mining and tramway engineer (born 1852)
** Thomas Hickman, police officer (born 1848)
* 9 September – Alexander Bathgate, lawyer, businessman, writer, conservationist (born 1845)
* 11 September – William Parker, cricketer (born 1862)
* 24 September – Harry McNish, carpenter, Antarctic explorer (born 1874)
* 1 October
** Marjory Nicholls, poet, drama producer (born 1890)
** Hoeroa Tiopira, rugby union player (born 1871)
* 5 October – Frederick Fitchett, politician (born 1851)
* 13 October – Alfred George, newspaper proprietor (born 1854)
* 14 October – Thomas Fleming, miller (born 1848)
* 17 October – Amelia Randall, community leader, businesswoman, benefactor (born 1844)
* 21 October – Frank McNeill, cricketer (born 1877)
* 27 October – Francis Watson, cricketer (born 1860)
* 29 October – George Ewing, cricketer (born 1851)

### November–December

* 1 November – Heni Materoa Carroll, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki leader (born c.1854)
* 3 November – Nellie Ferner, artist photographer, community leader (born 1869)
* 8 November – Robert Scott, railway engineer, academic (born 1861)
* 12 November – Crawford Anderson, politician (born c.1848)
* 7 December – John Barr, politician (born 1867)
* 15 December – Cecil de Lautour, politician (born 1845)
* 17 December – Arthur O'Callaghan, politician (born 1837)
* 29 December – Otene Paora, Ngāti Whātua leader, Anglican lay reader, land negotiator (born c.1870)