Cup – Insurrection New Zealand Derby – Enthusiasm Lawn bowls The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Dunedin. Men's singles champion – J.C. Rigby (North-East Valley Bowling Club) Men's pair champions – J. Brackenridge, J.M. Brackenridge (skip) (Newtown Bowling Club) Men's fours champions – J.A. McKinnon, W.B. Allan, W. Allan, W. Carswell (skip) (Taieri Bowling Club) Rugby union 1922 New Zealand rugby union tour of New South Wales loses the Ranfurly Shield on the first challenge, losing to 9–19. Hawke's Bay then defends the shield against (17–16) and (42–8). Rugby league 1922 New Zealand rugby league season Births January–February 5 January – Bob Aynsley, rugby league player 12 January – Una Wickham, cricketer 16 January – Bert Wipiti, World War II fighter pilot 18 January – Bill Pearson, writer 29 January – Ronald Hugh Morrieson, writer 4 February – Joan Wiffen, palaeontologist 8 February – Laurie Salas, women's rights and peace activist 13 February – Godfrey Bowen, shearer 19 February – Marie Bell, educationalist, lecturer, teacher 24 February – Joyce Macdonald, swimmer 27 February – Anthony Treadwell, architect March–April 9 March – Ian Turbott, colonial administrator, university administrator 13 March – Brun Smith, cricketer 17 March – Pat Suggate, geologist 18 March – Johnny Simpson, rugby union player 21 March – Frank Watkins, World War II pilot 22 March – Dick Shortt, cricket umpire 24 March – Vincent Gray, chemist, climate-change skeptic 25 March – Grace Hollander, community leader 26 March – Bill Mumm, rugby union player, politician 8 April – Arnold Christensen, World War II fighter pilot, "Great Escape" participant 12 April – Ann Wylie, botanist 19 April – Jack Dodd, physicist 21 April – Zena Abbott, weaver 22 April – Frank Houston, Pentecostal Christian pastor 28 April – Ruth Kirk, anti-abortion campaigner, wife of Norman Kirk 30 April – Avis M. Dry, clinical psychologist May–June 11 May – Marguerite Story, Cook Islands politician 16 May – Peter Hall, World War II pilot 18 May – Ian Botting, rugby union player 25 May – Joyce Powell, cricketer 8 June – Jim Weir, diplomat 14 June – Max Carr, field athlete and coach, athletics official, air force officer 19 June – Ray Forster, arachnologist, museum director 24 June – Ken Avery, jazz musician, songwriter 28 June – Pauline O'Regan, educator, community worker, writer July–August 4 July – Derek Wilson, architect, environmentalist 10 July – Rowan Barbour, cricketer 22