and author 12 November – Jeanne Macaskill, artist 21 November – Bruce Townshend, politician 27 November – Keith Allen, politician 30 November – Vivian Lynn, artist December 8 December – David Crooks, air force officer 11 December – Bryce Harland, diplomat 17 December – Frank Devine, journalist, newspaper editor 18 December – Noel McGregor, cricketer Exact date unknown Nola Barron, potter Con Cambie, natural products chemist Beverley Holloway, entomologist Pat Moore, cricketer Bruce Papas, fashion designer Beverley Randell, children's author Deaths January–March 12 January – Peter Cheal, surveyor (born 1846) 18 January Daldy MacWilliams, goldminer, businessman, sportsman (born 1860) Owen Merton, painter (born 1887) 20 January – Shailer Weston, politician (born 1868) 31 January – Job Osborne, farm contractor, well-sinker (born 1842) 21 February – Rhona Haszard, artist (born 1901) 27 February – Edith Searle Grossmann, novelist, journalist, feminist (born 1863) 15 March – William Beattie, photographer (born 1864) April–June 13 April – Joseph Firth, cricketer, sports administrator, educator (born 1859) 18 April – Arthur Hall, politician (born 1880) 3 May – Hannah Dudley, Methodist mission sister (born 1864) 10 May – Anna Stout, social reformer (born 1858) 22 May – Bernard Chambers, viticulturist, winemaker (born 1859) 26 May – Richard Barton, pastoralist, author (born 1879) 6 June – William Baucke, linguist, ethnologist, journalist (born 1848) 10 June – May Moore, photographer (born 1881) July–September 5 July – Henry Winkelmann, photographer (born 1860) 12 July – Noel Brodrick, surveyor (born 1855) 1 August – Dick Stewart, rugby union player (born 1871) 12 August – Lizzie Rattray, journalist, suffragist (born 1855) 28 August – Tene Waitere, carver (born 1853) 9 September – Elsdon Best, ethnographer (born 1856) 10 September – Pratt Kempthorne, Anglican clergyman (born 1849) October–December 6 October – Robert Yates, cricketer (born 1845) 24 October Alfred Eckhold, rugby union player, cricketer (born 1885) John Potter, stonemason, builder (born 1834) 28 October – Edward Tregear, surveyor, public servant, linguist (born 1846) 30 October – Joseph Witheford, politician (born 1848) 31 October – Charles Gleeson, cricketer (born 1845) 28 November John Stalker, rugby union player (born 1881) Heathcote Williams, cricket player and administrator (born 1859) 7 December – Sir John Luke, politician, mayor of Wellington (born 1858) 23 December – Jack Stanaway, rugby league player (born 1873) 29 December – William Earnshaw, politician (born 1852) See also List of years in New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history History of New