Williams, potter Peter Wolfenden, harness-racing driver Deaths January–February 3 January – Francis Redwood, Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1839) 14 January – Mita Taupopoki, Tūhourangi and Ngāti Wāhiao leader (born ) 18 January Robert Hughes (conservationist), lawyer, politician, conservationist (born 1847) John Macmillan Brown, university academic and administrator (born 1845) 22 January – James Blacklock, cricketer (born 1883) 28 January – Matthew Barnett, bookmaker, philanthropist (born 1859) 1 February – William Sadlier, Anglican bishop (born 1867) 4 February – Robert Logan, soldier, colonial administrator (born 1863) March–April 2 March – Pat McEvedy, rugby union player and administrator (born 1880) 4 March Charles Barton, businessman, politician, civic administrator (born 1852) William Kilgour, cricketer (born 1878) 5 March – Frances Fletcher, artist (born 1846) 10 March – Charles Thorn, trade unionist, politician (born 1847) 19 March – James Randall Corrigan, politician (born 1865) 26 March Arthur Atkinson, lawyer, politician (born 1863) John Mallard, cricketer (born 1860) 7 April – Adrian Langerwerf, Roman Catholic missionary, writer (born 1876) 13 April – James McDonald, painter filmmaker, museum director (born 1865) 16 April – Dolla Richmond, painter (born 1861) May–June 1 May – George Carter, lawn bowls player, accountant (born 1883) 6 May – Kate Edger, school principal, first woman in New Zealand to earn a university degree (born 1857) 22 May – Edwin Davy, rugby union player (born 1850) 27 May John Dart, Anglican priest (born 1855) Phomen Singh, confectioner (born ) 29 May Harry Bayly, cricketer (born 1862) Samuel Goldstein, rabbi, scholar, community leader (born 1852) 2 June George Pearce, politician (born 1863) Sir Alfred Robin, military leader (born 1860) 7 June – Elizabeth McCombs, politician, first female MP in New Zealand (born 1873) 13 June – Jim Coucher, Australian rules footballer (born 1874) 20 June – William Ferguson, civil engineer (born 1852) 25 June – Alfred Cousins, engraver and postage stamp designer (born 1852) 26 June – Charles Corfe, cricketer, headmaster (born 1847) July–August 12 July – Nurse Maude, district nursing pioneer (born 1862) 29 July – Dan Udy, rugby union player (born 1874) 12 August – Albert Geddes, cricketer (born 1871) 17 August – James Craigie, businessman, politician (born 1851) September–October 2 October – Jeremiah Connolly, politician (born 1875) 3 October – Harry Knight, farmer, politician, racehorse owner (born 1860) 5 October – William Stevenson, politician (born 1864) 7 October James Garrow, legal academic (born 1865) Sidney Williamson, singer, conductor and singing