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1933 Wellington City Mayoral Election
The 1933 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1933, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including the fifteen city councillors, also elected biannually. Thomas Hislop, the incumbent Mayor sought re-election and retained office unopposed with no other candidates emerging. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Background The Labour Party chose not to stand a candidate for the mayoralty and decided to put all its resources in to winning a majority on the council, thinking this was the best way to achieve their goals. Labour actually polled more votes than the conservative Citizens' Association, but won fewer seats by virtue of most Labour votes being won by several popular candidates with the rest of the ticket trailing well behind them, whilst the Citizens' vote was far more evenly spread among its candidates. This was to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop
Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop (29 November 1888 – 21 June 1965) was a New Zealand politician, lawyer, and diplomat. He served as the mayor of Wellington from 1931 to 1944. Early life and family Born in Wellington on 29 November 1888, Hislop was the son of Thomas William Hislop, who was mayor of Wellington from 1905 to 1908, and Annie Hislop (née Simpson). His grandfather was John Hislop. He attended Wellington College, and then the University of Cambridge where he graduated in law. In 1911, he was called to the bar as a barrister-at-law of Inner Temple, London. In 1921, Hislop married Ailsa Craig Dalhousie Ramsay at St John's Church, Wellington. Legal and military career Hislop joined the Wellington legal firm of Brandon, Ward and Hislop in 1912. He enlisted in the Wellington Regiment in World War I in 1915, and saw active service at Gallipoli and in France. He was twice wounded, and returned to New Zealand in 1919 with the rank of captain, resuming legal practice. Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Luckie
Martin Maxwell Fleming Luckie (30 January 1868 – 3 July 1951) was a New Zealand cricketer who played two matches of first-class cricket 29 years apart – one in 1891 and the other in 1920. He became a prominent cricket administrator and a city councillor in Wellington. He was twice deputy mayor: from 1929 to 1931, and again from 1936 to 1947. Biography Early life and career Luckie was born on 30 January 1868 in Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson. He worked as a barrister and solicitor in Wellington. Cricket career Luckie played first-class cricket for Wellington cricket team, Wellington in 1891 and 1920. He was primarily a left-arm slow bowler. He played lower grade cricket when his senior days were over and did not retire from active play until he was 70 years old. He later served as President of the Wellington Cricket Association. The Wellington City Council named Martin Luckie Park in Berhampore, New Zealand, Berhampore after him, which houses playing fields for both cricket a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Elections In New Zealand
Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayoral Elections In Wellington
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Malcolm Galloway
Malcolm Scott Galloway (7 May 1887 – 19 July 1978) was a New Zealand soldier, author, and politician. He was a founder and early leader of the New Zealand Red Cross, leading the organisation for 41 years. Biography Early life and career Galloway was born in Picton in 1887 and was educated at Thorndon School and Banks' Community College. He worked for the firm Sargood, Son & Ewen from 1906 to 1911 and the Thomson Bros, in London from 1911 to 1913. In 1915 he married Margaret McBean. He enlisted in the army during World War I and left New Zealand as a sergeant in the 5th reinforcements. While stationed in Egypt he was promoted to a commissioned officer. He then took part in the Gallipoli campaign. Afterwards, as a second lieutenant, he was posted to the western front where he was awarded the Military Cross for valour in 1917. Later, he was appointed as the Defence Department's director of occupational and vocational training after the war. He was a member of the executive of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robertson (New Zealand Politician, Born 1875)
John Robertson (1875 – 5 August 1952) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life Robertson was born in Scotland, and was a watchmaker by trade. Interested in politics early, he joined the Social Democratic Federation. He was then in 1893 a foundation member of the Independent Labour Party in Britain. In 1895 he became Secretary of the party, the youngest man to hold the job. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1902. He settled in Dunedin and continued his trade as a watchmaker until moving to Palmerston North in 1910. In 1920 he entered the film trade as the manager of the Crystal Palace Theatre in Christchurch. Upon the formation of the New Zealand Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association in 1927 he became its national secretary. He was in addition a member of both the Government Film Advisory Committee and the New Zealand Film Industry Board. Political career He represented the Otaki electorate from 1911, when he was elected on the second bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Macalister
Sir Robert Lachlan Macalister (2 December 1890 – 23 May 1967) was the Mayor of Wellington from 1950 to 1956, and had been the acting mayor for five months in 1948 during the absence overseas of Will Appleton. Biography Early life and career Macalister was born in Blenheim and moved to Wellington in his youth to study at Victoria University where he qualified as a Lawyer. He then enlisted in the military and served during World War I and once returning he became a member of the War Relief Association. He was a barrister and solicitor by trade and worked at the same legal firm as Ossie Mazengarb and Ernst Peterson Hay. The firm of Mazengarb, Hay and Macalister was founded in 1918 and quickly became one of the largest law practices in Wellington. In 1919 he married Katherine Featherston Fitzgerald. Political career In 1933 he stood for council on a Citizens' Association ticket and was narrowly elected on the first count. However, after special votes were counted he lost his se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Butler (trade Unionist)
Peter Michael Butler (31 May 1901 – 24 September 1995) was a New Zealand seaman, trade unionist, communist and local politician. Biography Early life He was born in Whiteabbey, County Antrim, Ireland, on 31 May 1901. Butler was largely self-educated, yet proved an effective speaker, writer and organiser later in life. At age 16 Butler joined the Mercantile Marine reserve, serving mostly in the North Sea for the remainder of World War I. After the war Butler became one of the leaders of a militant faction in the seamen's union and briefly courted communist ideology, which he rejected strongly later in life. During the late 1920s and early 1930s (the duration of the Great Depression), Butler served as secretary of the Wellington Builders' and General Labourers' Union. On 18 December 1930, Peter Butler married Doris Annie Sevina Cooper at St Paul's Cathedral Church in Wellington (an Anglican church despite Butler being a committed Catholic). Later, he and Doris reaffirmed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Brindle (politician)
Thomas Brindle (1878 – 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] |
Thomas Forsyth (New Zealand Politician)
Thomas Forsyth (17 May 1868 – 6 February 1941) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. Early life Forsyth was born in Dunedin in 1868. He was the third son of James Forsyth of Dunedin. He received his education at schools in Dunedin and attended the University of Otago. He was prominent in rugby and represented Otago and Wellington. Professional life In 1884, Forsyth started to work for Dodgshun and Company, woollen importers. In 1891, when the head office transferred to Wellington, he moved to New Zealand's capital city. He was the manager of Dodgshun and Co. from 1894 to 1898. In 1898, he became the accountant and secretary for the Te Aro House Drapery Company Ltd. He became that company's assistant manager in 1905 and general manager in 1914, a position that he held until 1922, when he started his private accountancy practice. Public roles Forsyth was a member of the Wellington Education Board for 18 years, and for 16 of those, he was its chairman. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Appleton
Sir William Appleton (3 September 1889 – 22 October 1958) was a New Zealand local body politician, advertising agent and leading company director. He was Mayor of Wellington for two terms from 1944 to 1950 after serving as a city councillor from 1931 to 1944. He was knighted in 1950. Biography Early life and career Appleton was born in Alexandra in Central Otago in 1889, the eldest of nine children. His parents were Yorkshireman Edwin Appleton and his Scottish wife, Margaret Bruce. The Appleton family briefly moved to Gisborne in 1904 but was back in Alexandra in the following year. Appleton, left by the postmaster in charge of the local post office as a teenager, did some bookkeeping for local businesses. In October 1906, aged 17, he was appointed a cadet in the accountancy department of the General Post Office at Wellington. In 1909 he passed his accountancy exams. He left the Post and Telegraph Department, then still a centre of modern communications technology, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gaudin
William James Gaudin (17 April 1877 – 19 November 1969) was a New Zealand merchant and politician. Biography Early life and career Gaudin was born in Wellington in 1877, his parents having migrated to New Zealand from Jersey. He was educated at Te Aro School and Wellington College, Wellington, Wellington College. He was a participant in multiple sports as a youth, particularly rugby union, rugby and rowing. He was a captain of the Wellington Rowing Club and later was the club president for over fifty years. He entered business as a merchant, later opening his own firm of coal and grain merchants, W. J. Gaudin and Sons. On 11 June 1902, Gaudin married Olive Banks at St Mark's Church, Wellington, and the couple went on to have four sons and two daughters. Gaudin Street in Rongotai was named after his father, William Gaudin senior. Political career At the 1919 Wellington City mayoral election, 1919 local elections, Gaudin stood for the Wellington City Council on the Wellingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
