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1941 Dunedin Mayoral Election
The 1941 Dunedin mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1941, 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. Andrew Allen, the incumbent Mayor, sought re-election for a second term. He was successful, defeating a strong challenge by Gervan McMillan David Gervan McMillan (26 February 1904 – 20 February 1951) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, and a medical practitioner. Biography McMillan was born in 1904 in New Plymouth, the eldest child of Annie Gertrude Pearce and ... the Labour MP for Dunedin West. Mayoral results Council results References {{Reflist Mayoral elections in Dunedin Dunedin mayoral election Politics of Dunedin 1940s in Dunedin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Henson Allen
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] |
Len Wright
Sir Leonard Morton Wright (1906 – 22 October 1967) was a Dunedin businessman and was Mayor of Dunedin from 1950 to 1959. He was born in Australia and educated in Sydney. He married Cecily Bell in 1936. He was a tea importer and formed his own business in 1927. He was on the Dunedin City Council for ten years, was Chairman of the Otago Development Council, and was honorary tea controller from 1941 to 1950. He was a rugby referee and sports administrator. In 1953, Wright was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1957 New Year Honours. Morton died at Dunedin on 22 October 1967, and his ashes were buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery Andersons Bay Cemetery is a major cemetery in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located to the southeast of the city centre, on a rocky outcrop which forms the inland part of Lawyers Head, a promontory which juts into the Pacific Ocean. The .... References 1906 births 1967 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Elections In New Zealand
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Mayoral Elections In Dunedin
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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] |
John McManus (New Zealand Politician)
John Edward McManus (14 February 1875 – 1950), often known as "Big John" due to his large stature, was a New Zealand politician, trade unionist and farmer. Early life Born in Caven, Ireland in 1875, McManus immigrated to Australia and was the organizer of the Australian Workers' Union from 1900 to 1905. He then shifted to New Zealand in 1906, joining the New Zealand Socialist Party and becoming the Secretary of the Dunedin General Labourers Union. By trade he was a tunneller, working for the Public Works Department in Kahnika. McManus changed from the Socialist Party to join the more moderate Labour Party at the behest of his good friend Tom Paul who was a leading figure in the party. Political activity During the factional bickering amongst the early Labour movement in New Zealand, McManus sided with Paul and David McLaren. McManus was the Labour Party candidate for in , narrowly losing to Liberal Party incumbent Thomas Sidey in a two-horse race. Had an Independent Libera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Prince Albert College, Auckland, the University of Auckland and the Victoria University of Wellington from which he graduated in 1915 with first class honours in history. A Methodist minister since 1916, he was Superintendent of the Auckland Central Mission for six years, then minister of the Central Church, Wanganui for eight years before moving to the Mornington Methodist Church, Dunedin in 1932. In 1933 he successfully stood for the mayoralty of Dunedin as an independent with Labour backing. In 1935 he stood on the Labour ticket both for the mayoralty, and unsuccessfully for in the . His programme for Dunedin included work for the unemployed and for adequate housing for all citizens, although not all his proposals were accepted by the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel McMillan
Ethel Emma McMillan (née Black, 12 May 1904 – 13 August 1987) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She was a Member of Parliament for Dunedin electorates for 22 years, but despite her political seniority, was not appointed a cabinet minister. She was very active in local affairs in Otago and was the first woman to be elected to Dunedin City Council. Biography Early life McMillan was born at Kaiti, Gisborne, in 1904. She was dux and prefect at Gisborne Girls' High School. She graduated with honours in history from the University of Otago in 1926. She lectured in history at Otago for a year, during which time she met the medical student and her future husband, Gervan McMillan. She then taught at Nelson College for Girls for three years. After their wedding on 4 September 1929 at Gisborne, they settled in Kurow, where he had worked as a locum and then purchased the medical practice. They moved to Dunedin in 1934, where her husband was elected to Parliament for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Hudson
Walter Arthur Hudson (18 July 1897 – 9 June 1972) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life and career Hudson was born in Caversham in 1897. He was educated at the Caversham School and later Caversham Technical College. He then entered the printing trade and became a bookbinder. In 1920 he married Esther Marion Campbell. In 1930 Hudson became an executive member of the Otago branch of the Printing Trades Union and served for four years as president, later becoming vice-president of the national union and later a life member. Hudson was also involved in various local bodies and organisations, such as the Caversham School Committee, Caversham Ratepayers' Association, and Disabled Servicemen's League. He served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force The New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) was the title of the military forces sent from New Zealand to fight alongside other British Empire and Dominion troops during World War I (1914–1918) and ... [...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] |
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] |
Jim Munro (politician)
James Wright Munro (22 February 1870 – 27 May 1945) was a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. Early life Munro was born in Dunedin in 1870. He was a baker by trade, and president of the Dunedin Bakers' Union in 1907. He started his own business in partnership with Peter Neilson (politician born 1879), Peter Neilson (who also became a Labour MP) after victimisation by employers. Munro was president of the Dunedin branch of the Independent Political Labour League (IPLL) in 1907. In 1911, he was national president of the New Zealand Socialist Party. Political career He first stood for Parliament when he contested the electorate in the for the IPLL. On this occasion, he was beaten by John A. Millar of the New Zealand Liberal Party, Liberal Party. He contested the same electorate in the for the Socialist Party as one of three candidates and was eliminated in the Second Ballot Act 1908, first ballot. He unsuccessfully contested the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
