rugby union player 30 December – Jean Stonell, cricketer Exact date unknown George Groombridge, politician Taini Jamison, netball coach and administrator Ray Watters, geographer Deaths January–March 23 January – Sir Westby Perceval, politician (born 1854) 12 February – Benjamin Harris, politician (born 1836) 16 February – Henry Travers, naturalist (born 1844) 18 February – William Calder, civil engineer (born 1860) 19 February – Charles Speight, brewer, businessman (born 1865) 3 March – Mark Cohen, journalist, educationalist, social reformer (born 1849) 5 March – Mary Alcorn, interior designer, businesswoman (born 1866) 21 March – William Robinson, cricketer (born 1863) April–June 4 April – Norman Williams, cricketer (born 1864) 13 April – William Hardham, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient, rugby union player (born 1876) 20 April – John Callan, lawyer, politician (born 1844) 1 May – Ned Hughes, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1881) 6 May – Allan Thomson, geologist, scientific administrator, museum director (born 1881) 14 May – Falconer Larkworthy, banker, financier (born 1833) 7 June – John Edie, politician, surveyor, engineer (born 1856) 30 June – Mohi Te Atahikoia, Ngāti Kahungunu leader, politician, historian (born 1842) July–September 28 July – John Leith, cricketer (born 1857) 30 July – Norris Conradi, cricketer (born 1890) 2 August – Alexander Watt Williamson, schoolteacher, first graduate of the University of Otago (born 1849) 8 August – Frederick Earp, farmer, surveyor (born 1841) 15 August – Annie Rudman, social worker, Salvation Army officer (born 1844) 18 August – Alfred Mitchell, police superintendent (born 1853) 21 August – Rachel Reynolds, social worker, community leader (born 1838) 29 August – Sir William Sim, lawyer, jurist (born 1858) 2 September – Joseph Hatch, politician (born 1837) October–December 1 October – Hugo Friedlander, businessman, politician (born 1850) 6 October – John Bennett Tunbridge, police commissioner (born 1850) 12 October – John Mackintosh Roberts, soldier, magistrate (born 1840) 27 October – James Gardiner, politician (born 1861) 18 November – Harold Williams, journalist, polyglot (born 1876) 6 December – James Fulton, surveyor, civil engineer (born 1854) 13 December – Richard Teece, actuary, cricket administrator (born 1847) 27 December – Effie Richardson, landowner, litigant (born 1849) 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 Years of the 20th century in New