Events
- Lloyd Mandeno develops the single-wire earth return electrical distribution system.
- New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition staged at Logan Park, Dunedin.
- Tokelau transferred to New Zealand from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony.
- National scheme for vehicle registration plates introduced.
- Followers of Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana form the Ratana Church.
- Paparua Prison opened.
- The Pacific battlefleet of the U.S. Navy undertook a goodwill tour of New Zealand.
- 17 June By-election in Franklin after the death of William Massey won by Ewen McLennan (Reform)
- 3–4 November:General election
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“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
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“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
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