George Carter, rugby union player (born 1854) 3 April – Horace Moore-Jones, war artist (born 1868) 14 April – Emma Ostler, businesswoman, prohibitionist (born 1848) 19 April – Percy Smith, ethnologist, surveyor (born 1840) 21 April – Robert Thompson, politician (born 1840) 15 May – Edward Kellett, politician (born 1864) 25 May – Edith Mellish, Anglican deaconess and nun (born 1861) 28 May – John von Dadelszen, public servant, statistician (born 1845) 15 June – Peter Dignan, politician, mayor of Auckland (1897–98) (born 1847) 16 June – Henry Wise, stationer, printer, publisher (born 1835) 18 June – Robert Lee, teacher, school inspector, educationalist (born 1837) 23 June – Myer Caselberg, businessman, politician, mayor of Masterton (1886–88) (born 1841) 27 June – Frederick George Ewington, estate agent, philanthropist, pamphleteer (born 1844) 28 June – George Helmore, rugby union player (born 1862) July–September 2 July – Seymour Thorne George, politician (born 1851) 14 July – Edward Seager, policeman, gaoler, asylum superintendent (born 1828) 29 July – Charles John Ayton, diarist (born 1846) 29 August – Charles Albert Creery Hardy, politician (born 1865) 30 August – John Ewing, goldminer (born 1844) Tom Pollard, comic opera producer and manager (born 1857) 31 August – James Job Holland, politician, mayor of Auckland (1893–96) (born 1841) 3 September – Donald Reid, politician (born 1850) 16 September – Constance Barnicoat, stenographer, interpreter, mountaineer, journalist (born 1872) 22 September – Elizabeth Torlesse, community leader (born 1835) 29 September – Lewis Hotop, pharmacist, Arbor Day advocate, politician, mayor of Queenstown (1880–81, 1891–94, 1903–06) (born 1844) October–December 12 October – William Whitby, master mariner, ship owner (born 1838) 13 October – Edward Pearce, politician (born 1832) 22 November – Moore Neligan, Anglican bishop (born 1863) 14 December – Ann Robertson, businesswoman, litigant (born 1825) 15 December – Richard Tucker, wool scourer (born 1856) 16 December – Charles Harley. politician, mayor of Nelson (1915–17) (born 1861) 18 December – John James Pringle, dermatologist (born 1855) 25 December – George Sale, politician, newspaper editor, university professor (born 1831) 26 December – Arthur Rhodes, politician, mayor of Christchurch (1901–02) (born 1859) See also History of New Zealand List of years in New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica Timeline of the New Zealand environment References External links Years of the 20th century in New Zealand