Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State
  Head of State
  A head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...
  
   - George V
  George V of the United Kingdom
  George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
  
  
• Governor
  Governor-General of New Zealand
  The Governor-General of New Zealand is the representative of the monarch of New Zealand . The Governor-General acts as the Queen's vice-regal representative in New Zealand and is often viewed as the de facto head of state....
  
   - The Lord Islington
  John Poynder Dickson, 1st Baron Islington
  John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington GCMG, GBE, DSO, PC , born John Poynder Dickson and known as Sir John Poynder Dickson from 1884 to 1910, was a British politician...
  
  GCMG
  Order of St Michael and St George
  The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
  
   GBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
   DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
   PC
  Privy Council of the United Kingdom
  Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign in the United Kingdom...
  
  

Government

• Speaker of the House
  Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
  In New Zealand the Speaker of the House of Representatives is the individual who chairs the country's legislative body, the New Zealand House of Representatives...
  
   - Arthur Guinness
  Arthur Guinness (New Zealand)
  Sir Arthur Robert Guinness was a New Zealand politician, and Speaker of the House of Representatives.-Personal information:...
  
   (Liberal
  New Zealand Liberal Party
  The New Zealand Liberal Party is generally regarded as having been the first real political party in New Zealand. It governed from 1891 until 1912. Out of office, the Liberals gradually found themselves pressed between the conservative Reform Party and the growing Labour Party...
  
  )
• Prime Minister
  Prime Minister of New Zealand
  The Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealand's head of government consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand...
  
   - Joseph Ward
  Joseph Ward
  Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, GCMG was the 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand on two occasions in the early 20th century.-Early life:...
  
   (Liberal)
• Minister of Finance
  Minister of Finance (New Zealand)
  The Minister of Finance is a senior figure within the government of New Zealand. The position is often considered to be the most important Cabinet role after that of the Prime Minister....
  
   - Joseph Ward

Parliamentary opposition

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland
  Mayor of Auckland
  The Mayor of Auckland is the directly elected head of the Auckland Council, the local government authority for the Auckland region in New Zealand...
  
   - Lemuel Bagnall, then Christopher Parr
• Mayor of Wellington
  Mayor of Wellington
  The Mayor of Wellington is the head of the municipal government of Wellington, New Zealand, and presides over the Wellington City Council. The Mayor of Wellington administers only Wellington City itself — other municipalities in adjacent areas of the Wellington Region such as Lower Hutt, Upper...
  
   - Thomas Wilford
  Thomas Mason Wilford
  Sir Thomas Mason Wilford, KC was a New Zealand politician. He held the seats of Wellington Suburbs then Hutt continuously for thirty years, from 1899 to 1929...
  
  
• Mayor of Christchurch
  Mayor of Christchurch
  The Mayor of Christchurch is the head of the municipal government of Christchurch, New Zealand, and presides over the Christchurch City Council. The mayor is directly elected using a First Past the Post electoral system...
  
   - Charles Allison, then Tommy Taylor, then John Joseph Dougall
• Mayor of Dunedin
  Mayor of Dunedin
  The Mayor of Dunedin is the head of the municipal government of Dunedin, New Zealand, and presides over the Dunedin City Council. The Mayor is directly elected, using the Single Transferable Vote system in 2007....
  
   - Thomas Cole, then William Burnett

Events

• The Marlborough Herald ceases publication. It began in 1905.

• 30 January: The final race meeting at which bookmaker
  Bookmaker
  A bookmaker, or bookie, is an organization or a person that takes bets on sporting and other events at agreed upon odds.- Range of events :...
  
  s are allowed on New Zealand racecources.

• 5 February: The first officially recorded powered aeroplane flight in new Zealand. The Walsh Brothers
  Vivian Walsh (aviator)
  Vivian Claude Walsh was an engineer. Vivian and his elder brother Leo Austin Walsh were pioneers of New Zealand aviation.Vivian and Leo built a British Howard Wright biplane, which Vivian first flew on 5 February 1911...
  
  ' Howard Wright biplane Manurewa makes its first flight at Glenora Park, Papakura near Auckland
  Auckland
  The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
  
  . The plane is capable of carrying a passenger and almost certainly did so before the end of the year.

• 23 December: George Bolt
  George Bolt
  George Bruce Bolt OBE was a pioneering New Zealand aviator.He formed the Canterbury Aero Club in 1910, helping to make and fly gliders on the Cashmere hills...
  
  's first flights, in an early form of hang-glider
  Hang gliding
  Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider ....
  
  .

Undated

• Arthur Schaef makes short powered hops in his first aircraft
  Aircraft
  An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...
  
  , the New Zealand Vogel, at Lyall Bay
  Lyall Bay
  Lyall Bay is a bay and a suburb on the south side of the Rongotai isthmus in Wellington, New Zealand.The bay is a popular surf beach, featuring a breakwater at the eastern end. It has also been the site of surf lifesaving championships, and is home to two surf lifesaving clubs. Lyall Bay is a very...
  
  , Wellington
  Wellington
  Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
  
  .

Film

Appointments and awards

• Archbishop of New Zealand
  Archbishop of New Zealand
  The Archbishop of New Zealand is the primate, or head, of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. However, since Whakahuihui Vercoe stepped down at the end of his two-year term as archbishop in 2006, the church has decided that three bishops shall share the position and style of...
  
  
• Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
  Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
  The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is a church of the Anglican Communion serving New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands...
  
   , see appointments to Diocese

Athletics

• Three New Zealanders, Guy Haskins, Ron Opie and William A. Woodger, compete in the Festival of Empire
  Festival of Empire
  The Festival of Empire or Festival of the Empire was held at The Crystal Palace in London in 1911, to celebrate the coronation of King George V...
  
   meeting in London, a forerunner of the Empire (now Commonwealth) Games.

Chess

• The 24th National Chess Championship was held in Timaru, and was won by W.E. Mason of Wellington, his third title.

Men's

• The fifth New Zealand Open
  New Zealand Open
  The BMW New Zealand Open is the leading men's golf tournament in New Zealand. In 2011, it will be hosted by The Clearwater Resort in Christchurch from 1–4 December. The tournament is being promoted by New Zealand Golf...
  
   championship was held in Wanganui and was won by amateur Arthur Duncan, his third win.
• The 19th National Amateur Championships were held in Wanganui
  • Men: Arthur Duncan (Wellington) - 7th title

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup
  New Zealand Trotting Cup
  The New Zealand Trotting Cup or New Zealand Cup is a Group One harness race held annually by the NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club at Addington Raceway in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is considered the country's most prestigious harness racing event. the prize was NZ$750,000, the largest prize for a...
  
  : Lady Clare
• Auckland Trotting Cup
  Auckland Trotting Cup
  The Auckland Trotting Cup or Auckland Cup is a race held at Alexandra Park in March in Auckland, New Zealand for Standardbred horses. It is one of two major harness races, along with the New Zealand Cup, held in New Zealand each year. It is notable as it is a Group 1 championship race over...
  
  : Bingana

Rugby union

• Auckland defend the Ranfurly Shield
  Ranfurly Shield
  The Ranfurly Shield, colloquially known as the Log o' Wood, is a trophy in New Zealand's domestic rugby union competition. First played for in 1904, the Ranfurly Shield is based on a challenge system, rather than a league or knockout competition as with most football trophies...
  
   against South Auckland (21-5) and Poverty Bay (29-10)

Soccer

• Auckland: Ponsonby AFC (Auckland)
• Canterbury: Burnham Industrial School
• Otago: Mornington
• Southland: Nightcaps
• Taranaki: Manaia
• Wanganui: Wanganui
• Wellington: Wellington Swifts

Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

• The Davis Cup
  Davis Cup
  The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
  
   final is held at Hagley Park
  Hagley Park
  Hagley Park is the largest urban open space in Christchurch, New Zealand, and was created in 1855 by the Provincial Government. According to the government's decree at that time, Hagley Park is "reserved forever as a public park, and shall be open for the recreation and enjoyment of the public."...
  
  , Christchurch
  Christchurch
  Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
  
  . The Australasian team of Norman Brookes
  Norman Brookes
  Brookes was also an Australian rules footballer in his youth, playing two matches for Victorian Football League club St Kilda Football Club in 1898, kicking two goals.-Honours:Norman Brookes was knighted "in recognition of service to public service" in 1939...
  
   (Aus), Roger Heath (Aus) and Alfred Dunlop
  Alfred Dunlop
  Alfred W. Dunlop was an Australian tennis player, born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He won the doubles title at the Australasian Championships, the future Australian Open, alongside Fred Alexander in 1908. He also reached the singles finals at the tournament that year, losing to...
  
   (NZ, doubles) beat the United States 4-0, the second reverse singles match not being played.
• Anthony Wilding
  Tony Wilding
  Anthony "Tony" Frederick Wilding was a champion tennis player from Christchurch, New Zealand and a soldier killed in action during World War I near Neuve-Chapelle, Pas-de-Calais, France....
  
   wins the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championship for the second year in succession.

Births

• 13 January: Joh Bjelke-Petersen
  Joh Bjelke-Petersen
  Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen, KCMG , was an Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, a period that saw considerable economic development in the state...
  
  , Premier of Queensland (Australia).
• 24 January: Alfred Hulme
  Alfred Hulme
  Alfred Clive Hulme VC was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  , Victoria Cross winner.
• 30 March: David Russell
  David Russell (George Cross)
  David Russell GC was a Lance Corporal with the 22nd Battalion, New Zealand Infantry, 2nd NZEF, who was awarded the George Cross posthumously after being executed by German forces in Italy....
  
  , George Cross winner.
• 2 May: Ina Pickering
  Ina Lamason
  Ina Mabel Lamason was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm medium pace bowler, Lamason played in four women's Test matches in 1947/8 and 1954, captaining New Zealand in two...
  
  , cricketer.

• J. A. W. Bennett
  J. A. W. Bennett
  Jack Arthur Walter Bennett was a New Zealand-born literary scholar. He was best known as a scholar of Middle English literature. He was editor of the journal Medium Aevum from 1956 to 1980, having earlier assisted his predecessor, C. T. Onions, and was a colleague of C. S. Lewis at Magdalen...
  
  , literary scholar.
• (in England): Joe Bootham
  Joe Bootham
  Joe Bootham was a New Zealand painter who was noted for his landscape drawings and paintings and for portraiture.- Life and works :...
  
  , painter.
• Allen Curnow
  Allen Curnow
  Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...
  
  , poet and journalist.
• Harry Lake
  Harry Lake
  Harry Robson Lake , a New Zealand politician, served as Minister of Finance for six years in the second National government, in the 1960s...
  
  , politician.