December – Jock Aird, association footballer 20 December – John Holland, athlete 21 December – Alan Hellaby, businessman 23 December – Peter Iles, cricketer 24 December – Jimmy Edwards, rugby league player 25 December – Colin Chambers, swimmer 30 December – Richard Farrell, pianist 31 December – Pauline Yearbury, artist Exact date unknown Friedrich Eisenhofer, architect George Johnson, artist Maurice K. Smith, architect, architectural academic Deaths January–March 19 January – Helen Stace, school matron (born 1850) 8 February – John Graham, politician (born 1843) 14 February – Ellen Hewett, writer (born 1843) 27 February – James Palmer Campbell, politician (born 1855) 1 March – John Barton Roy, politician (born 1854) 13 March – Mere Rikiriki, Māori prophet (born 1855) 15 March – Charles Blomfield, artist (born 1848) 22 March – Louisa Baker, journalist, novelist (born 1856) April–June 14 April – Hans Madsen Ries, Lutheran pastor, politician (born 1860) 17 April – Andrew Graham, politician (born 1843) 26 April – Bobby Leach, thrillseeker (born 1858) 1 May William John Geddis, politician (born 1860) Isabella May, temperance worker, suffragist, dress reformer (born 1850) 24 May – William Morley, Methodist minister, historian (born 1842) 28 May – Frederick Liggins, cricketer (born 1873) 5 June – Elizabeth Gard'ner, home science teacher and administrator, writer (born 1858) 8 June – David Goldie, politician, mayor of Auckland (1898–1901) (born 1842) 13 June – Gottfried Lindauer, painter (born 1839) 15 June – William Belcher, trade union leader (born 1860) 24 June – G. P. Nerli, painter (born 1860) July–September 18 July – Archibald Cargill, cricketer (born 1853) 1 August – Sophia Anstice, dressmaker, draper, businesswoman (born 1849) 13 August – Te Mete Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui leader, assessor (born 1836) 18 August – Grace Neill, nurse, social reformer (born 1846) 3 September – John McCombie, gold prospector, mine manager (born 1849) 8 September – Hugh Lusk, politician (born 1837) October–December 1 October – Suzanne Aubert (Sister Mary Joseph), missionary nun (born 1835) 9 October – Sir Arthur Myers, politician, mayor of Auckland (1905–09) (born 1868) 18 October – Sir James Carroll, politician (born 1857) 26 October – Frederick Pirani, politician (born 1858) 7 November – Henry Baker, cricketer (born 1904) 7 December – Charles Purnell, journalist, newspaper editor, writer (born 1843) 12 December – Jane Preshaw, nurse, midwife, hospital matron (born 1839) 22 December – Mina Arndt, painter (born 1885) 23 December – Joseph Frear, builder (born 1846)