1930 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1930 in New Zealand.

Population

 * Estimated population as of 31 December: 1,506,800.
 * Increase since previous 31 December 1929: 20,700 (1.39%).
 * Males per 100 females: 103.9.

Regal and viceregal

 * Head of state – George V
 * Governor-General – General Sir Charles Fergusson Bt GCMG KCB DSO MVO succeeded the same year by The Lord Bledisloe GCMG KBE PC

Government
The 23rd New Zealand Parliament continued with the United Party in power.
 * Speaker of the House – Charles Statham (Independent)
 * Prime Minister – Sir Joseph Ward (United) until 28 May, then George Forbes (United)
 * Minister of Finance – Joseph Ward (United) until 28 May, then George Forbes (United)
 * Minister of Foreign Affairs – Joseph Ward (United) until 28 May, then George Forbes (United).
 * Attorney-General – Thomas Sidey (United) until 22 September, then William Downie Stewart
 * Chief Justice — Sir Michael Myers

Parliamentary opposition

 * Leader of the Opposition – Gordon Coates (Reform).

Main centre leaders

 * Mayor of Auckland – George Baildon
 * Mayor of Wellington – George Troup
 * Mayor of Christchurch – John Archer
 * Mayor of Dunedin – Robert Black

Events

 * August: The Atmore Report on the education system is presented.
 * 4 November: Superhorse Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup.

Arts and literature
See 1930 in art, 1930 in literature, Category:1930 books
 * Kowhai Gold, an anthology of New Zealand poetry edited by Quentin Pope published in London and New York

Music
See: 1930 in music

Radio
See: Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

 * 3 January: The Coubray-tone News- the first New-Zealand made "talkies" (film with sound) – premiered.
 * The Romance of Maoriland

See: Category:1930 film awards, 1930 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1930 films

Chess
The 39th National Chess Championship was held in Wanganui, and was won by G. Gunderson of Melbourne.

Cricket

 * New Zealand's first ever Test matches, a home series of four three-day games against England. Series won 1–0 by England
 * 10,11,13 January Lancaster Park, Christchurch. New Zealand (112 and 131) lost by eight Wickets to England (181 and 66/2).
 * 24,25,27 January Basin Reserve, Wellington. New Zealand (440 and 164/4dec.) drew with England (320 and 107/4).
 * 14,15,17 February Eden Park, Auckland. England (330/4dec.) drew with New Zealand (96/1) (First two days were abandoned due to rain).
 * 21,22,24 February at Eden Park: England (540 and 22/3) drew with New Zealand (387) – this fourth Test was arranged due to the rain washout of the third test.

Golf

 * The 20th New Zealand Open championship was won by Andrew Shaw, his third title.
 * The 34th National Amateur Championships were held in the Manawatu district
 * Men: H.A. Black (Mirimar)
 * Women: Miss O. Kay

Harness racing

 * New Zealand Trotting Cup – Wrackler
 * Auckland Trotting Cup – Carmel

Thoroughbred racing

 * New Zealand Cup – Nightmarch
 * Avondale Gold Cup – Prodice
 * Auckland Cup – Motere
 * Wellington Cup – Concentrate
 * New Zealand Derby – Cylinder

Lawn bowls
The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Dunedin.
 * Men's singles champion – F. Lambeth (Balmacewen Bowling Club)
 * Men's pair champions – G.L. Gladding, H. Jenkins (skip) (Carlton Bowling Club)
 * Men's fours champions – E.S. Wilson, L.C. Buist, J. Dowland, D.M. Stuart (skip) (St Kilda Bowling Club)

Rugby union
Category:Rugby union in New Zealand, Category:All Blacks
 * Ranfurly Shield

Rugby league
New Zealand national rugby league team

Soccer

 * 1930 Chatham Cup won by Petone
 * Provincial league champions:
 * Auckland:	YMCA
 * Canterbury:	Thistle
 * Hawke's Bay:	Whakatu
 * Nelson:	Thistle
 * Otago:	Seacliff
 * Southland:	Corinthians
 * Taranaki:	Caledonian
 * Waikato:	Pukemiro
 * Wanganui:	KP's
 * Wellington:	Hospital

January

 * 3 January – Ruth Dowman, athlete
 * 8 January – Dave Spence, cricketer
 * 21 January – Peter Tapsell, politician
 * 24 January – Terence Bayler, actor
 * 27 January – Bob O'Dea, rugby union player

February

 * 10 February
 * Russell Kerr, ballet dancer, choreographer and producer
 * Malcolm McCaw, cricketer, accountant
 * 11 February – Bruce Cathie, pilot, author
 * 17 February – Jonathan Bennett, philosopher
 * 20 February
 * Kevin Meates, rugby union player
 * Vida Stout, limnographer
 * 21 February – Joan Metge, social anthropologist
 * 22 February – Ivan Mercep, architect

March

 * 5 March – Brian Bell, ornithologist
 * 9 March – Mina Foley, opera singer
 * 20 March – Thomas Williams, Roman Catholic cardinal
 * 25 March – Margery Blackman, weaver
 * 27 March – Paul Cotton, diplomat
 * 28 March – Helmer Pedersen, sailor
 * 30 March – Charlie Steele Jr., association football player, rugby union player
 * 31 March – Barry Mitcalfe, poet, anti-nuclear activist

April

 * 1 April – Dennis Young, rugby union player
 * 3 April – Marama Martin, television and radio broadcaster
 * 5 April – Bill Tinnock, rower
 * 7 April – Koro Dewes, Ngāti Porou kaumātua and Māori language advocate
 * 8 April
 * David Benney, applied mathematician
 * Ivan Vodanovich, rugby union player, coach and administrator
 * Neil Wilson, athlete
 * 18 April – Clive Revill, singer, actor
 * 19 April
 * Reg Douglas, rower
 * Ewan Jamieson, military leader
 * 20 April – Helen Mackenzie, swimmer

May

 * 13 May – Richard Kearney, jurist
 * 20 May – Alexia Pickering, disabilities rights campaigner
 * 21 May – Keith Davis, rugby union player
 * 24 May – Ivor Richardson, jurist
 * 30 May – Colleen Dewe, politician

June

 * 1 June – Matt Poore, cricketer
 * 7 June – Ian Leggat, cricketer
 * 15 June – Bev Brewis, high jumper
 * 25 June – Peter Wight, cricketer

July

 * 3 July – Kihi Ngatai, Ngāi Te Rangi leader, horticulturalist
 * 11 July
 * Jack Alabaster, cricketer
 * Guy McGregor, field hockey player
 * 25 July – Murray Chapple, cricketer
 * 30 July – David Weston, cricketer

August

 * 2 August – Mick Bremner, rugby union player and administrator
 * 5 August – Bruce Turner, field hockey player, cricketer
 * 12 August – Brian Molloy, rugby union player, plant ecologist, conservationist
 * 15 August
 * Leo T. McCarthy, politician
 * Azalea Sinclair, netball player
 * 18 August
 * Graeme Dallow, police officer
 * Denis McLean, diplomat, author
 * 21 August – Cyril Eastlake, rugby league player
 * 28 August – Tony Small, diplomat
 * 30 August – Noel Harford, cricketer

September

 * 3 September – Cherry Wilder, fantasy and science-fiction writer
 * 6 September – David Simmons, ethnologist
 * 10 September – Pauline Engel, educator
 * 11 September – Kenneth Minogue, political theorist
 * 19 September
 * Robin Archer, rugby union player
 * Volker Heine, physicist
 * 22 September – John Hill, cricketer
 * 28 September – Sel Belsham, rugby league player
 * 29 September – Jocelyn Fish, politician, women's rights campaigner
 * 30 September – George Menzies, rugby league player

October

 * 1 October – Bob Jolly, veterinary academic
 * 17 October – Joan Williamson-Orr, local-body politician
 * 21 October – Lawrence Reade, cricketer
 * 22 October – Lois McIvor, artist
 * 29 October – Hugh Burry, rugby union player, medical academic

November

 * 11 November – Ian Burrows, army officer
 * 16 November – Merv Richards, pole vaulter, gymnastics and pole vault coach
 * 17 November – Chic Littlewood, television entertainer, actor
 * 20 November – James Hill, rower
 * 22 November – Bill Lambert, politician
 * 30 November – Leonard Boyle, Roman Catholic bishop

December

 * 6 December – Natalie Wicken, netball player
 * 16 December
 * Leslie Clark, cricketer
 * Harry Turbott, architect, landscape architect
 * 23 December – Jean Stewart, swimmer
 * 27 December – John Drawbridge, artist
 * 31 December – Ron Johnston, motorcycle speedway rider

Undated

 * Daphne Walker, singer

January–February

 * 6 January – Walter Harper, Anglican clergyman (born 1848)
 * 9 January – Joseph Harkness, politician (born 1850)
 * 11 January – Eru Tumutara, Ringatū bishop (born c. 1859)
 * 24 January
 * Ellen Crowe, community leader (born c. 1847)
 * Sophia Taylor, suffragist (born 1847)
 * Herman van Staveren, rabbi, philanthropist (born 1849)
 * 25 January – Pat Hickey, trade union leader (born 1882)
 * 5 February – John Holland Baker, surveyor, public servant (born 1841)
 * 11 February – Anne Wilson, poet, novelist (born 1848)
 * 12 February – Elizabeth Fergusson, nurse, midwife (born 1867)
 * 14 February – Sir Thomas Mackenzie, politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1912) (born 1853)
 * 21 February – Charles Garrard, cricketer, school inspector (born 1868)

March–April

 * 4 March – Henry Michel, politician (born 1855)
 * 11 March – George Edgecumbe, newspaper proprietor, businessman (born 1845)
 * 5 April – Wereta Tainui Pitama, Ngāi Tahu leader, politician (born 1881)
 * 10 April – John McCaw, farmer (born 1849)
 * 16 April – Makereti Papakura, tour guide, entertainer, ethnographer (born 1873)

May–June

 * 20 May – Adelaide Hicks, midwife (born 1845)
 * 29 May – William Charles Nation, spiritualist, Arbor Day advocate (born 1840)
 * 30 May – William Chatfield, architect (born 1851)
 * 26 June – Frederick Cooke, trade unionist, politician (born 1867)
 * 27 June – Sir Māui Pōmare, doctor, politician (born c. 1875)

July–August

 * 3 July – Tom Cross, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1876)
 * 8 July – Sir Joseph Ward, politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1906–12, 1928–30) (born 1856)
 * 19 July – Sir Robert Stout, politician, Premier of New Zealand (1884, 1884–87) (born 1844)
 * 24 July – Alfred Philpott, museum curator, entomologist (born 1870)
 * 30 July – George Hutchison, politician (born 1846)
 * 10 August – Bill Hawkins, cricketer, politician (born 1861)
 * 15 August – Wesley Spragg, butter manufacturer, temperance campaigner, benefactor (born 1848)
 * 18 August – James Flesher, politician, mayor of Christchurch (1923–25) (born 1865)
 * 20 August – George Hunter, politician, racehorse breeder (born 1859)
 * 27 August
 * Emily Hill, schoolteacher, suffragist, temperance worker (born 1847)
 * Robert Neill, cricketer (born 1864)

September–October

 * 4 September
 * George Duncan, mining and tramway engineer (born 1852)
 * Thomas Hickman, police officer (born 1848)
 * 9 September – Alexander Bathgate, lawyer, businessman, writer, conservationist (born 1845)
 * 11 September – William Parker, cricketer (born 1862)
 * 24 September – Harry McNish, carpenter, Antarctic explorer (born 1874)
 * 1 October
 * Marjory Nicholls, poet, drama producer (born 1890)
 * Hoeroa Tiopira, rugby union player (born 1871)
 * 5 October – Frederick Fitchett, politician (born 1851)
 * 13 October – Alfred George, newspaper proprietor (born 1854)
 * 14 October – Thomas Fleming, miller (born 1848)
 * 17 October – Amelia Randall, community leader, businesswoman, benefactor (born 1844)
 * 21 October – Frank McNeill, cricketer (born 1877)
 * 27 October – Francis Watson, cricketer (born 1860)
 * 29 October – George Ewing, cricketer (born 1851)

November–December

 * 1 November – Heni Materoa Carroll, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki leader (born c. 1854)
 * 3 November – Nellie Ferner, artist photographer, community leader (born 1869)
 * 8 November – Robert Scott, railway engineer, academic (born 1861)
 * 12 November – Crawford Anderson, politician (born c. 1848)
 * 7 December – John Barr, politician (born 1867)
 * 15 December – Cecil de Lautour, politician (born 1845)
 * 17 December – Arthur O'Callaghan, politician (born 1837)
 * 29 December – Otene Paora, Ngāti Whātua leader, Anglican lay reader, land negotiator (born c. 1870)