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1918 Wellington South By-election
The Wellington South by-election of 1918 was a by-election held in the electorate during the 19th New Zealand Parliament, on 19 December 1918. It was caused by the death of incumbent MP Alfred Hindmarsh, the leader of the Labour Party and was won by fellow party member Bob Semple with a majority of 1,231. Background Bob Semple, a miners agent who was previously the organiser of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, was selected as the Labour Party candidate. The nomination was subject of much interest. The unsuccessful aspirants were Tom Brindle, Alec Monteith, John Read, Michael Reardon and Tom Young. Two Wellington City Councillors also stood as candidates. George Frost and John Castle offered themselves to the electorate, with Frost being endorsed by the Reform Party. Results The following table gives the election results: References Wellington South Wellington South was a Canadian federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Semple, 1929
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Bob Semple
Robert Semple (21 October 1873 β 31 January 1955) was a union leader and later Minister of Public Works for the first Labour Government of New Zealand. He is also known for creating the Bob Semple tank. Early life He was born in Sofala, New South Wales, Australia. He started working at an early age as gold miner in Australia. In 1903 he was involved in a miner's strike in Victoria, Australia. The strike was defeated and Semple ended up being blacklisted. To avoid the blacklist Semple moved to the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. By 1907 he was president of the Runanga Miner's Union and earned himself nickname 'Fighting Bob Semple'. He was jailed in 1913 for supporting the general strike and again in 1916 after fighting conscription for overseas service during World War I. Semple served as the President of the Labour Party from 1926 to 1928. Semple was a member of the Wellington City Council for a decade between 1925 and 1935. In 1935 he unsuccessfully sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Alfred Hindmarsh
Alfred Humphrey Hindmarsh (18 April 1860 β 13 November 1918) was a New Zealand politician, lawyer and unionist. He died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. He served as the first leader of the modern New Zealand Labour Party. Early life Hindmarsh was born in Port Elliot, Australia, and was the grandson of Rear-Admiral John Hindmarsh, the first Governor of South Australia. His grandfather was recalled to England in 1838, but his father, also named John Hindmarsh, returned to South Australia and worked as a lawyer. Alfred Hindmarsh lost his mother when he was age ten and his father remarried. He was educated at St Peter's College in Adelaide. The family moved to Napier, New Zealand, in 1878. Hindmarsh trained as a lawyer in Dunedin, and was admitted to the bar in 1891, when he briefly worked in Christchurch at the Supreme Court (since renamed as High Court). He settled in Wellington living in Derwent Street, Island Bay. While living there he married Winifred Taylor on 3 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party ( mi, RΕpΕ« Reipa o Aotearoa), or simply Labour (), is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers describe Labour as social-democratic and pragmatic in practice. The party participates in the international Progressive Alliance. It is one of two major political parties in New Zealand, alongside its traditional rival, the National Party. The New Zealand Labour Party formed in 1916 out of various socialist parties and trade unions. It is the country's oldest political party still in existence. Alongside the National Party, Labour has alternated in leading governments of New Zealand since the 1930s. , there have been six periods of Labour government under ten Labour prime ministers. The party has traditionally been supported by working class, urban, MΔori, Pasifika, immigrant and trade unionist New Zealanders, and has had strongholds in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Brindle (politician)
Thomas Brindle (1878 β 19 November 1950) was a New Zealand activist for the New Zealand Labour Party who was jailed during World War I for speaking out against conscription. He was a member of Wellington City Council and stood for election to the House of Representatives five times. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1936 until March 1950. Early life in England Brindle was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, in 1878. In England, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. Political career Brindle emigrated to New Zealand in 1910 or 1912, and he became active with the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He was jailed in 1916 during World War I for speaking out against conscription. In 1918 he was nominated by the SDP for the Labour nomination in the Wellington South by-election, but was defeated by Bob Semple. He stood for secretaryship of the New Zealand Labour Party in 1919, but withdrew and Michael Joseph Savage became the first full-time paid secretary. Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Monteith
Alexander Lamont Monteith (15 December 1886 β 24 November 1972) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for the Labour Party and a trade unionist. Biography Early life and career Monteith was born in Woodville, the son of Sarah Ann Monteith (nΓ©e Carter) and Charles Forrester Monteith, and was a farmer and storeman. He was secretary of the United Storemen's Union and later secretary of the Wellington Tramways Union and the New Zealand Tramway Workers' Federation. Political career In 1918, Monteith was nominated by the Soft Goods and Storeman's Union for the Labour nomination in the Wellington South by-election, but was defeated by Bob Semple. At the , he was the Labour candidate in the Wellington East electorate, but was defeated by the Reform Party incumbent, Alfred Newman. Monteith represented the Wellington East electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives between and 1925. In the 1922 election, he was one of four candidates, with Thomas Forsyth of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Read (New Zealand Politician)
John Read (1874 β 14 September 1942) was a New Zealand politician and trade unionist. Biography Early life Born in Clifton, a coal mining town on the hinterlands of Manchester in 1874, Read started work in a mine himself at the age of 12. Read was a labour advocate and joined the Independent Labour Party in 1894. Read and his wife sailed to New Zealand in 1901 settling in Wellington, where he found work as a trade unionist. He became secretary of the Wellington Engine Drivers' Union, later secretary of the Engine Drivers' Federation, and finally from 1917 until his retirement he was the secretary of the Wellington Timber Workers' Union. In 1923 he was made a Justice of the Peace at the request of the Trades Council. Political career Read was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Social Democratic Party from 1915 to 1916. He joined the Labour Party upon the SDP's merger into it. He was also the President of the Wellington Co-operative Society for three years. In 1918 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Reardon (activist)
Michael John Reardon (11 April 1876 β 24 August 1945) was a New Zealand political activist. Biography Early life Reardon was born at Waikouaiti in 1876 and was educated there. He became a blacksmith and later a freezing worker. Union involvement He moved to Wellington in 1906 and was appointed Secretary of the General Labourers' Union in 1906, a position he held until 1918. He was president of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council from 1912 to 1913 and again from 1915 to 1916. During World War I he supported conscription, unlike most labour activists. He helped form the Wellington branch of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) in 1915 and was a key figure in the Self-determination for Ireland League 1920β1921. Later, Reardon was Secretary Wellington Retail Fruit Trade Association. He was appointed information officer for New Zealand at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition. He was deputy-chairman of the Repatriation Board in 1919β1921. In 1936 he was appointed Conci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Young (trade Unionist)
William Thomas Young (27 April 1870 β 20 September 1953) was a New Zealand seaman and trade unionist. Biography Young was born in Karori, Wellington, New Zealand in 1870. He married Margaret Anne Craig in 1906. He stood in the as an independent Labour candidate in the electorate and was defeated in the first ballot. He stood in the for the original Labour Party in the electorate and was again defeated in the first ballot. In 1918 he was nominated by the Painters Union for the Labour nomination in the Wellington South by-election, but was defeated by Bob Semple. Young was a Labour Party candidate in several Wellington municipal elections in 1905, 1907, 1913, 1915, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1927. He died at Karori Karori is a suburb located at the western edge of the urban area of Wellington, New Zealand, 4 km from the city centre and is one of New Zealand's most populous suburbs, with a population of in History Origins The name ''Karori'' used ..., Welli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Reform Party
The Reform Party, formally the New Zealand Political Reform League, was New Zealand's second major political party, having been founded as a conservative response to the original Liberal Party. It was in government between 1912 and 1928, and later formed a coalition with the United Party (a remnant of the Liberals), and then merged with United to form the modern National Party. Foundation The Liberal Party, founded by John Ballance and fortified by Richard Seddon, was highly dominant in New Zealand politics at the beginning of the 20th century. The conservative opposition, consisting only of independents, was disorganised and demoralised. It had no cohesive plan to counter the Liberal Party's dominance, and could not always agree on a single leader β it was described by one historian as resembling a disparate band of guerrillas, and presented no credible threat to continued Liberal Party rule. Gradually, however, the Liberals began to falter β the first blow came with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
By-elections In New Zealand
By-elections in New Zealand occur to fill vacant seats in the House of Representatives. The death, resignation, or expulsion of a sitting electorate MP can cause a by-election. (Note that list MPs do not have geographic districts for the purpose of provoking by-elections β if a list MP's seat becomes vacant, the next person on his or her party's list fills the position.) Historically, by-elections were often caused by general elections being declared void. Background Under thElectoral Act 1993 a by-election need not take place if a general election will occur within six months of an electorate seat becoming vacant, although confirmation by a resolution supported by at least 75% of MPs is required. In 1996 the general election date was brought forward slightly, to 12 October, to avoid a by-election after the resignation of Michael Laws. Twice, in 1943 and 1969, by-elections were avoided after the deaths in election years of Paraire Karaka Paikea and Ralph Hanan by passing spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
