1917 in New Zealand:

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1914 • 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919 • 1920

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Regal and Vice Regal 1.2 Government 1.3 Parliamentary opposition 1.4 Main centre leaders 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Music 3.2 Film 4 Appointments and awards 5 Sport 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 See also

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - George V
• Governor - The Earl of Liverpool Until 28 June ^[1]
• Governor-General - The Earl of Liverpool from 28 June^[2]

Government

The 19th New Zealand Parliament continued as a grand coalition led by the Reform Party. The General Election which was due this year was deferred due to the war.

• Speaker of the House - Frederic Lang (Reform Party)
• Prime Minister - William Massey (Reform Party)
• Minister of Finance - Joseph Ward

Parliamentary opposition

• Leader of the Opposition - Joseph Ward (Liberal Party) Ward retained that title even though he was part of the coalition government. ^[3]

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - TBD
• Mayor of Hamilton - John Robert Fow then John William Ellis
• Mayor of Wellington - TBD
• Mayor of Christchurch - TBD
• Mayor of Dunedin - TBD

Events

• The West Coast Times is merged into the Hokitika Guardian and Star. The newspaper started in 1865.^[4]

• 20 October: 850 New Zealand soldiers killed in the Second Battle of Passchendaele, the greatest loss of life in a single day in the Military history of New Zealand

Arts and literature

See 1917 in art, 1917 in literature, Category:1917 books

Music

See: 1917 in music

Film

See: Category:1917 film awards , 1917 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1917 films

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

Sport

• See: 1917 in sports , Category:1917 in sports , Summer Olympic Games (See Category:New Zealand at the Olympics and Winter Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games (Check name).
• Rugby: Category:Rugby union in New Zealand , Super 14, Rugby Union World Cup, National Provincial Championship , Category:All Blacks , Bledisloe Cup , Tri Nations Series , Ranfurly Shield
• Cricket: Various Tours, New Zealand cricket team , Chappell-Hadlee Trophy , Cricket World Cup
• Gold: New Zealand Open , Check Category:New Zealand golfers in overseas tourniments.
• Horse racing: See Category:New Zealand horse races, list winners.
• Rugby league New Zealand Warriors , Bartercard Cup , New Zealand national rugby league team , Rugby League World Cup
• Netball: Silver Ferns , National Bank Cup , Netball World Championships
• Soccer: New Zealand champions (soccer) , New Zealand Football Championship , New Zealand National Soccer League , New Zealand national soccer team , Chatham Cup ,
• Basketball: Tall Blacks , New Zealand Breakers
• Other Sports

Births

• 6 May: Roy Scott, cricketer
• 6 July: Arthur Lydiard, runner and athletics coach
• 17 October: Martin Donnelly, cricketer.
• 13 December: Keith Hay, construction company founder, mayor of Mt Roskill, conservative activist.

• (in Vienna, Austria): Erich Geiringer, physician, writer, scholar.
• Frank Gill, Air Commodore and politician.
• Eddie Isbey, politician.
• (in England): David Henry Lewis, sailor and Polynesian scholar

Category:1917 births

Deaths

• 3 February: Robert McNab, politician.
• 4 October: Dave Gallaher, rugby player (first captain of the All Blacks).
• 22 October: Bob Fitzsimmons, boxer.
• 12 December: Sir Charles Bowen, politician.

• Alfred Kidd, politician.
• John Davies Ormond, politician.

Category:1917 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 environmental history of New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

For world events and topics in 1917 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1917