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1935 Dunedin Mayoral Election
The 1935 Dunedin mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1935, elections were held for the Mayor of Dunedin plus other local government positions including twelve city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Edwin Cox, the incumbent Mayor, sought re-election and was successful in attaining a second-term. The Labour Party was also successful in securing a majority on the council for the first time. Mayoral results Council results Table footnotes: References {{Reflist Mayoral elections in Dunedin 1935 elections in New Zealand Politics of Dunedin 1930s in Dunedin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Cox (1881–1967), mayor of Dunedin
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Edwin Cox may refer to: * Edwin L. Cox, American businessman and philanthropist * Edwin P. Cox (1870–1938), American politician in the Virginia House of Delegates ** Edwin Cox (chemist) (1902–1977), his son, a chemist, civic leader, and military officer * Edwin Charles Cox (1868–1958), British soldier and railway manager * Edwin Cox (footballer) (1886–1975), Brazilian football player * Edwin Thoms Cox Edwin Thoms (or Thomas) Cox (9 January 1881 – 18 December 1967) was a New Zealand politician and Mayor of Dunedin. He was Dunedin's first Labour mayor. He had been a Methodist minister. Biography He was born in Marton, and was educated at Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Woolf Silverstone
Mark Woolf Silverstone (born Marks; December 1880 – 7 September 1951) was a notable Polish-born New Zealand cabinet-maker, socialist, local politician and financier, who co-founded the New Zealand Alliance of Labour. He was born in Pułtusk, Poland to Jewish parents, Barnett Silverstone, a tailor, and his wife, Esther Gotshank. His parents fled Poland to London in 1889 due to religious persecution. A socialist, his religious faith declined and he joined the National Secular Society. On 25 June 1904, he wed Esther Ethel Feld, a fellow socialist and émigré. He became a naturalised citizen of New Zealand in 1907.Woolf Marks Silverstone; ''New Zealand, Naturalisations, 1843-1981'' Silverstone acted as secretary of the Dunedin branch of the National Peace and Anti-militarist League from 1913, which opposed New Zealand's participation in World War I. However, as a councillor on the Otago Labour Council he sponsored a resolution seeking to safeguard the welfare and interests o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Elections In New Zealand
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibiotic, is published in a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayoral Elections In Dunedin
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John McIndoe (artist)
John Leslie McIndoe (18 November 1898 – 9 May 1995) was a New Zealand artist and printer, and a war artist in World War II. His parents were John McIndoe who founded the family printing firm, and Mabel Hill the artist. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School, and after training in the printing industry in Sydney in 1916–19 went into the family printing firm. After taking over the management of the firm in 1924 he purchased colour printing machines, and the firm produced many items required for the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in 1925–26. He understated his age to join the Army in World War II, and sailed with the First Echelon in December 1939. Captured in Crete in 1941, he was a prisoner-of-war in Germany. There he produced over 300 landscapes, portraits and sketches, and held an exhibition of them in London when he was released in April 1945. Postwar he produced mainly pastels of the Central Otago landscape. He married Olga Roberts McConnachie in 1922; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Connolly
Philip George Connolly (14 November 1899 – 13 February 1970) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Early life Connoly was born in Dunedin on 14 November 1899 to Hugh Babbington Connolly and Evelyn Emily Connolly (née Smith). He was educated at McAndrew Road School and Otago Boys' High School until leaving school in 1914 upon the death of his father to work for a living as an apprentice fitter. He also worked for New Zealand Railways Department at the Hillside Workshops. Upon the completion of his apprenticeship he gained employment at the Union Steam Ship Company as a marine engineer. He was later elected a member of the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers union and was chairman of the Hillside branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and later its secretary. Military career In 1928 he was a foundation member of the Otago Division of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve and was commissioned as an officer with the rank of Lieutenant. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Connelly (New Zealand Politician)
Michael Connelly (29 April 1887 – 30 October 1970) was a New Zealand trade unionist, politician of the Labour Party, and a Member of the Legislative Council (upper house) from 1936 to 1950. Biography Early life and career Connelly was born in Kakaramea in 1887 where his father was a farmer. Early in his life, they moved to the West Coast and gained work as a coal miner. He joined the trade union movement and was elected an executive member of the Paparoa Miners' Union. In 1911 he moved to Wellington to work for the New Zealand Railways Department. Subsequently, he was active in the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants as Secretary of the Thorndon (Wellington) branch 1914–18, Greymouth branch 1920–21, and national president 1923–25. He was a director of the '' Grey River Argus'', the first following it becoming a Labour Party newspaper. He was a member of first the Westland and later Wellington Labour Representation Committee. Political career Connelly unsuccessfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Walls (politician)
Robert Walls (18 September 1884 – 6 November 1953) was a New Zealand businessman and politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life and career Walls was born and educated in Dunedin in 1884. He was educated locally at High Street and Union Street Schools before proceeding to serve a carpentry apprenticeship. He then entered trade as a cabinetmaker, after which in partnership with John McCracken, purchased ownership of Laidlaw and Sons, a piano repairing and tuning business, renaming the business as McCracken and Walls, Ltd. The business evolved to be an electronics retailer and was at the forefront of modern communication technology in the 1920s and 1930s. He was for a time the owner and proprietor of the private Dunedin radio station 4ZM, which was taken over by the government and closed down in the late 1930s. It was from 4ZM that Methodist minister Leslie Neale broadcast his famous Radio Church of the Helping Hand. The message was heard by tens of thousands of wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Neilson (politician Born 1879)
Peter Neilson (1879 – 3 November 1948) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life and career He was born in Dunedin in 1879 and was educated locally at George Street Public School. He then became an apprentice baker before gaining employment at a local bakery firm. He was then a business partner of Jim Munro from 1914. When Munro was elected to Parliament in 1922 the partnership was dissolved and Nielson found employment as foreman at another bakery, which he held until 1935. He became a trade union member and was later president of the Dunedin Bakers' Union. Member of Parliament He had been active in the Socialist Party and Social Democratic Party, and had been a member of the Maori Hill Borough Council for four years. He was elected to the Dunedin City Council at the 1935 local-body elections, serving until 1938. Mayor Edwin Thoms Cox appointed Neilson chairman of the council's library committee for the triennium. Neilson had unsuccessf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Cameron (mayor)
Sir Donald Charles Cameron (12 May 1877 – 8 October 1962) was a Dunedin businessman and was Mayor of Dunedin from 1944 to 1950. He was knighted in the 1948 Birthday Honours and received the freedom of the City of Edinburgh in 1949. Personal life He was born in Dunedin, and married Frances Raines in 1905. Career In 44 years with Reid and Gray he rose from office boy to director. He was on the Dunedin City Council since 1935. He was connected with the Methodist Central Mission for 55 years, and was president of the Methodist Conference of New Zealand in 1926. He was president of the Otago Centenary Association in 1948, chairman of the Armed Forces Appeal Board and on the Otago Education Board and Otago University Council. He stood for parliament for the Reform Party unsuccessfully for in the and for in the . Later he stood for parliament unsuccessfully for the National Party in in the . In the 1948 King's Birthday Honours, Cameron was appointed a Knight Bachelor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Allen (New Zealand Politician)
Andrew Henson Allen (23 December 1876 – 6 August 1963) was a New Zealand businessman and politician. He served as mayor of Dunedin from 1938 to 1944, and was briefly a member of the Legislative Council. Biography Born in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham on 23 December 1876, Allen was the son of John Allen, originally from Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, who arrived in New Zealand in 1867, and his wife Ellen Allen (née Godso), originally from Birmingham, England. He was educated in Caversham, and then worked for Hallenstein Brothers for 10 years before joining his father in business as a partner in John Allan and Son. The firm of wholesale merchants and manufacturers' agents became a limited liability company—Allen, Son, and McClure Limited—in 1907, and Allen succeeded his father as managing director in 1912. On 13 January 1904, Allen married Etta Elaine Peacock at St Matthew's Church, Dunedin, and the couple went on to have two children. Allen served two terms as mayor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Begg (mayor)
William Begg (31 May 1870 – 7 January 1950) was a New Zealand businessman and politician. He served as mayor of Dunedin from 1919 to 1921. Biography Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 31 May 1870, Begg was the son of Elizabeth Johnston Begg and John Begg. In 1879, the family migrated to New Zealand in 1879, settling in Dunedin. Begg studied at King Edward Technical College and later at the University of Otago, and trained in his father's sheepskin, mat and rug manufacturing firm, John Begg and Company. As a young man, Begg played rugby union for the North East Valley and Union clubs, was captain and president of the Dunedin Cycling Club, and was a lieutenant in the North Dunedin Rifles. He later took up Bowls, lawn bowls, and was a founding member and president of the North East Valley Bowling Club. In 1902, Begg travelled to Britain and, after travelling for a time, took employment with a rug and mat manufacturing company near London. However, in November 1903, his father was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
