27 July – Arthur Brown, Mayor of Wellington 30 July – William Baldwin, politician (born 1836) 31 July – William Henry Dillon Bell, politician (born 1884) 4 August Purakau Maika, newspaper editor and publisher (born 1852) Cecil Perry, cricketer (born 1846) 5 August – Don Buck, gum digger (born 1869) 6 August – Charles James, rugby league player (born 1891) 7 August – Francis Earl Johnston, army officer (born 1871) 14 August – William Sanders, naval officer, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1883) 24 August – Alfred Kidd, politician, mayor of Auckland (1901–03) (born 1851) 26 August – William Lane, journalist, utopian (born 1861) September–October 4 October – Dave Gallaher. rugby union player (born 1873) 6 October – John Davies Ormond, politician (born 1831) 12 October Henry Du Vall, rugby league player (born 1886) George Augustus King, military officer (born 1885) 20 October – Elise Kemp, nurse (born 1881) 22 October – Bob Fitzsimmons, boxer (born 1863) 27 October – William Beehan, politician (born 1853) November–December 10 November – Charles King, cricketer (born 1847) 13 November – Cecil Fitzroy, politician, mayor of Hastings (1894–99) (born 1844) 15 November – Frank Twisleton, soldier, writer (born 1873) 29 November – Ellen Greenwood, schoolteacher, social worker (born 1837) 12 December – Sir Charles Bowen, politician (born 1830) 14 December – George Wilson, cricketer (born 1887) 23 December – Clive Franklyn Collett, World War I flying ace (born 1886) 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