1901 in New Zealand

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Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1901 Timeline of New Zealand history

Population

A census was held in March 1901. The population was given as 815,862, consisting of 43,112 Māori, 31 Moriori, and 772,719 others.^[1] — an increase in the non-Māori population of 9.86% over the previous census in 1896.^[2]

The figures for the 1901 census revealed that the North Island's population had exceeded the South Island's for the first time since the Central Otago Gold Rush of 1861 — the two islands (plus their associated minor offshore islands) had populations of 390,579 and 382,140 respectively. Only 40% of the country's population was based in urban centres, and only two of these centres, Auckland and Dunedin, had populations of over 25,000.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State — Queen Victoria, succeeded by Edward VII
• Governor — The Earl of Ranfurly GCMG ^[3]

Government

The 14th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the Liberal Party.

• Speaker of the House — Maurice O'Rorke (Liberal)
• Premier / Prime Minister — Richard Seddon
• Minister of Finance — Richard Seddon

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition — William Russell, (Independent) until 3 July, then vacant.^[4]

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland — Logan Campbell
• Mayor of Wellington — John Aitken
• Mayor of Christchurch — William Reece then Arthur Rhodes
• Mayor of Dunedin — Robert Chisholm then George Denniston

Events

• 28 January — Captain William James Hardham became the first New Zealand-born winner of the Victoria Cross as a result of action in the South African War (Boer War).^[5]
• 2 February — a day of mourning acknowledging the death of Queen Victoria brings the nation to a standstill.
• Union of the Synod of Otago and Southland with the Northern Presbyterian Church to form the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.
• A second visit to New Zealand by members of the Royal Family: the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later to become George V and Queen Mary).
• The New Zealand red ensign became the official flag for merchant vessels.^[6]
• Founding of the New Zealand Socialist Party.
• New Zealand rejects the proposal to become a state in the Commonwealth of Australia
• Richard Seddon adopts the term Prime Minister rather than Premier.

Arts and literature

See 1901 in art, 1901 in literature, Category:1901 books

Music

See: 1901 in music

Sport

Chess

National Champion: D. Forsyth of Dunedin.^[7]

Golf

The 9th National Amateur Championships were held in Auckland ^[8]

• Men: Arthur Duncan (Wellington) — 3rd title
• Women: E.S. Gillies

Horse racing

Harness racing

• Auckland Trotting Cup: Thorndean ^[9]

Rugby

• The Earl of Ranfurly announced his intention to present a cup to the NZRFU, without stipulating what form of competition it should be awarded for.
• A New Zealand representative team won both test matches against a touring team from New South Wales.

Soccer

Provincial league champions:^[10]

• Auckland: Grafton AFC (Auckland)
• Otago: Roslyn Dunedin
• Wellington: Wellington Swifts

Births

• 7 February: Arnold Nordmeyer, politician.
• 26 February: Leslie Munro, diplomat.
• 25 March: Raymond Firth, ethnologist.
• 10 April: Robert Aitken, physician and university administrator.
• 17 May: Robert Macfarlane, politician.
• 13 June: John Cawte Beaglehole, historian and biographer.
• 15 June: Dove-Myer Robinson, long-serving mayor of Auckland.
• 5 July: Len Lye, sculptor, filmmaker, writer.
• 24 December: Nola Luxford, silent film actress.^[11]

• William Stevenson, industrialist and philanthropist.

Category:1901 births

Deaths

• 14 February: Edward Stafford. politician and 3rd Premier of New Zealand.
• 15 July: Frederic Alonzo Carrington, surveyor and politician.^[12]
• 6 August (in Scotland): John McKenzie, politician

Category:1901 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

External links

Media related to 1901 in New Zealand at Wikimedia Commons

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