1927 in New Zealand

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See also: 1926 in New Zealand, other events of 1927, 1928 in New Zealand, and the Timeline of New Zealand history.

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Incumbents 2.1 Regal and Vice Regal 2.2 Government 2.3 Leader of the Opposition 2.4 Main centre leaders 3 Events 3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 June 3.6 July 3.7 August 3.8 September 3.9 October 3.10 November 3.11 December 4 Arts and literature 4.1 Music 4.2 Radion 4.3 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Horse racing 6.2 Rugby 6.3 Rugby league 6.4 Soccer 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

[edit] Summary

The section should contain a paragraph or two about the year.

See: 1927 and Timeline of New Zealand history plus data below.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George V
• Governor-General - General Sir Charles Fergusson

[edit] Government

The 22nd New Zealand Parliament continued. Government was by the Reform Party with a strong majority, and with the Labour and Liberal parties in opposition.

• Speaker of the House — Charles Statham (Independent)
• Prime Minister — Gordon Coates (Reform)
• Minister of Finance — William Downie Stewart (Reform)
• Minister of Foreign Affairs — William Nosworthy (Reform)
• Attorney-General — Francis Rolleston (Reform)

[edit] Leader of the Opposition

Harry Holland (Labour)

[edit] Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - George Baildon
• Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow
• Mayor of Wellington - Charles Norwood, succeeded by George Troup
• Mayor of Christchurch - J. K. Archer
• Mayor of Dunedin - Harold Livingstone Tapley, succeeded by William Burgoyne Taverner

[edit] Events

See 1927 , 1927 in politics , 1927 in science , Category:1927 in Australia , 1927 in Australia , 1927 in music , 1927 timelines , History of New Zealand , Category:History of New Zealand , Military history of New Zealand , Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand , Timeline of New Zealand history

• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica , Category:2002

[edit] January

• 2 January: description

[edit] February

[edit] March

[edit] April

[edit] June

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

• See also Current events in Australia and New Zealand

[edit] Arts and literature

See 1927 in art, 1927 in literature, Category:1927 books

[edit] Music

See: 1927 in music

[edit] Radion

See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

[edit] Film

• Carbine's Heritage
• The Te Kooti Trail
• Under the Southern Cross

See: Category:1927 film awards, 1927 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1927 films

[edit] Appointments and awards

See: New Zealand Order of Merit , Order of New Zealand

• Archbishop of New Zealand
• Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia , see appointments to Diocese

[edit] Sport

• See: 1927 in sports , Category:1927 in sports

[edit] Horse racing

See Category:New Zealand horse races

[edit] Rugby

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

[edit] Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

[edit] Soccer

• Chatham Cup won by Ponsonby

[edit] Births

• 14 April: Alan MacDiarmid, Nobel laureate chemist
• 15 November: Wallace Edward (Bill) Rowling, politician and 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• Brian Brake, photographer

Category:1927 births

[edit] Deaths

• 26 April: William Jolliffe, First NZ film censor

Category:1927 deaths

[edit] See also