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1923 Auckland City Mayoral Election
The 1923 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1923, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Incumbent mayor James Gunson was again declared re-elected unopposed, with no other candidates emerging. Councillor results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Auckland City Mayoral Election, 1923 Mayoral elections in Auckland 1923 elections in New Zealand Politics of the Auckland Region 1920s in Auckland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gunson
Sir James Henry Gunson (26 October 1877 – 12 May 1963) was a New Zealand businessman and Mayor of Auckland City from 1915 to 1925. He was knighted in 1924. W Gunson & Co Born and educated in Auckland, in his mid-twenties he took over W Gunson & Co, the seed-grain and produce business his father founded in 1881. William Gunson died in 1902. In October 1916, now mayor of Auckland, James sold his father's stock and station agency to Wright Stephenson. Public life James Gunson stood for Parliament several times without success; ( Roskill in 1919, Eden in 1926 and then Auckland Suburbs in 1928). Auckland Mayor from 1915 to 1925 he undertook the building of the war memorials Auckland Museum and Cenotaph, the Wintergardens in Auckland Domain and the construction of Tamaki Drive. In later public life, he was responsible for the monument on One Tree Hill ( Maungakiekie) and the treeplanting of Cornwall Park fulfilling Sir John Logan Campbell's vision. Gunson was Chairman of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Melville
Eliza Ellen Melville (13 May 1882 – 27 July 1946) was a New Zealand lawyer and politician. She was New Zealand's second female lawyer, and the first woman elected to a city council in New Zealand. She sat on the Auckland City Council for 33 years and was tireless in her work for women's organisations and causes, including in particular the National Council of Women of New Zealand. She believed in the importance of women participating fully and equally in public life, and was a key figure in the revival of the feminist movement in New Zealand after women's suffrage. She was one of the first women to stand for Parliament in New Zealand and ultimately stood (unsuccessfully) seven times. Early life Melville was born in Tokatoka, a neighborhood in Arapohue, on the Wairoa River south of Dargaville. Her father Alexander Melville was a farmer and boatbuilder, while her mother Eliza () was a former teacher, who had run a private school in Hokitika with her sister in the 1870s. Melv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Elections In New Zealand
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Mayoral Elections In Auckland
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Arthur Shapton Richards
Arthur Shapton Richards (1877 – 5 August 1947) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life He was born in Reading, Berkshire, England and came to New Zealand in 1894, first at Gisborne and then Poverty Bay where he worked on sheep farms. In 1903 he married Elizabeth Warneford. He briefly moved to Wanganui in 1908 where he founded Wanganui Branch of New Zealand Socialist Party before returning to Gisborne where he became President of East Coast Trades Council and was also Secretary of Gisborne Hotel Workers' Union from 1911 to 1917. He was Gisborne Drivers' Union delegate to the 1913 Unity Congress. In 1922 he moved to Auckland. Political career Richards unsuccessfully stood for the Auckland City Council on a Labour ticket in the 1923 local elections. He stood unsuccessfully in the Hamilton electorate in 1922, Marsden in 1925, and in 1928. He contested Roskill again at the subsequent general election in and this time, he was su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Hickey (politician)
Patrick Hodgens Hickey (19 January 1882 – 25 January 1930) was a New Zealand trade unionist. Blackball 1908 Born at Waimea South, near Nelson in 1882. Hickey rose to prominence as Secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Miners and a leader in the Blackball Miners' Union during The 1908 Blackball miners' strike. He stood as a Socialist candidate for in the 1911 general election against Hugh Poland and was Secretary of the United Federation of Labour in 1913. In 1921 he stood as Labour's candidate for the Wellington mayoralty, but was heavily defeated by Robert Wright. Hickey unsuccessfully stood for the Auckland City Council on a Labour ticket in the 1923 local elections. Australia In 1915, Hickey was the organizer for the Queensland Railways Union and opposed conscription during World War I. He became President of the Melbourne Labor Party in 1926 and was selected for the safe seat of Dandenong, Victoria in 1930 but died in the same year before the election. Hickey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Phelan
Edward John Phelan (1874 – 28 March 1961) was a New Zealand trade unionist, politician and rugby league administrator. Biography Early life and union career Phelan was born in Auckland in 1874 and attended Wellesley Street School. He left school aged 14 and attained a job as a tally boy in a sawmill north of Wairoa. He married Ellen McIlroy in 1896. They had one son and two daughters. In Wairoa Phelan made a name for himself in public affairs. He was elected a member of the local hospital board and was a prominent member of the local branch of the Timber Workers' Union. He later returned to Auckland and in 1907 became national secretary of the Timber Workers' Union. He held this post for a record 30 years. He then proceeded to serve as Dominion President of the union. Political career He was elected to the Auckland City Council in 1925 on a Labour Party ticket, remaining a member for 13 years. He was a popular councillor and "topped the poll", receiving more votes than any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Martin (New Zealand Politician)
Bernard Martin (1882 – 19 June 1956) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party and one of the party's pioneers. Biography Early life and career Martin was born in England in 1882. He migrated to New Zealand in 1900 and became involved in the local union movement. He first worked in Taranaki in butter factories before moving to Auckland in 1908. He was a founding member of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA). In 1913 he became secretary of the Auckland Brewery Workers' Union until 1917 when he became secretary of the Coach Workers' Union. He was then elected a member of the first Executive of the Labour Party in 1916 and was president of the party's branch. He was also the President of the Auckland Fabian Club and secretary of the Auckland Labour Representation Committee (1928–29, 1930–34). Political career A frequent candidate in local elections, he was on both the Auckland City Council (1931–33, 1935–38) and the Auckland University Council (1936†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Crookes
Samuel Irwin Crookes (1871–26 December 1955) was a New Zealand engineering teacher and consultant, local politician. He was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England on 1871. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal The King George V Silver Jubilee Medal is a commemorative medal, instituted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the accession of King George V. Issue This medal was awarded as a personal souvenir by King George V to commemorate his Silver J .... References 1871 births 1955 deaths Auckland City Councillors New Zealand educators British emigrants to the Colony of New Zealand People from Sheffield 20th-century New Zealand engineers 20th-century New Zealand politicians {{NewZealand-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Donald (politician)
Sir James Bell Donald (13 October 1879 – 4 December 1971) was a United Party Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister in Auckland, New Zealand. Biography Early life Donald was born in Auckland on 13 October 1879. He was the second son of Mr. Alexander Bell Donald, a local merchant and trader, who owned the firm of Donald and Edeuborough. Donald studied at Queen's College and then entered his father's profession and would later become the firm's managing director. By the age of 48 he became a justice of the peace. Member of Parliament He won the Auckland East electorate off Labour's John A. Lee in 1928, by 37 votes (Lee put his loss down to alterations in the electorate boundary with to keep the two Auckland race-courses in a "wet" electorate). According to Olsen, Lee's opponent was "a staunch anti-militarist who had been gaoled during the reatwar". He was a cabinet minister from 1928 to 1931 in the United Government ( Minister of Marine, Minister of Industries a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizens & Ratepayers
Communities and Residents (C&R) is a Right-wing politics, right-leaning Local government, local body Ticket (election), ticket in Auckland, New Zealand. It was formed in 1938 as Citizens & Ratepayers, with a view to controlling the Auckland City Council and preventing Left-wing politics, left-leaning New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party control. It controlled the council most of the time from World War II until the council was merged into the Auckland Council in 2010. It changed its name from "Citizens & Ratepayers" to "Communities and Residents" in 2012. History The Citizens & Ratepayers Association was formed in 1938 Auckland City mayoral election, 1938. It was formed with the intention to "secure the return of the best possible types of candidate to the Auckland City Council, Harbour Board, Hospital Board and Electric Power Board". It also intended to "preserve local government in all its then present forms, protecting it from any influence and interference of party politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Entrican
Andrew Jack Entrican (31 October 1858 – 19 February 1936) was an Irish-born New Zealand businessman and local-body politician. He was twice deputy mayor of Auckland. Biography Early life Entrican was born at Stoneyfalls, near Strabane in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) in 1858 to Robert Entrican, a local farmer, and his wife Jane (nee Jack) and was educated at Edwards School. In 1883 he married Elizabeth Mackay with whom he had one son, Robert Gilbert (Bert) Entrican. Business career He began his business career in Derry with a firm of merchants. When he was 21 he emigrated to New Zealand arriving in Auckland in January 1880 on the ship ''Ben Nevis''. After his arrival he became the assistant manager of a retail business owned by Charles Major, later taking it over himself in partnership with Samuel Taylor. This business was dissolved in 1885 and Entrican then became a commission agent. In 1887 he established the firm of A. J. Entrican and Company (later joined b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
