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1956 Auckland City Mayoral Election
The 1956 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1956, 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. Background Mayor John Luxford was challenged over his claim of wasteful expenditure by the Council by former Town Clerk Thomas Ashby Thomas Ashby, (14 October 1874 – 15 May 1931) was a British archaeologist. Family He was the only child of Thomas Ashby (1851–1906), and his wife, Rose Emma, daughter of Apsley Smith. His father belonged to the well-known Quaker family ... who claimed Luxford had not remedied the problem with the programmes he had initiated. Ashby was endorsed by the United Independents electoral ticket after Luxford had joined the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket after a falling out with Robinson and his United Independent colleagues who ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ashby
Thomas Ashby, (14 October 1874 – 15 May 1931) was a British archaeologist. Family He was the only child of Thomas Ashby (1851–1906), and his wife, Rose Emma, daughter of Apsley Smith. His father belonged to the well-known Quaker family to whom belonged Ashby's brewery at Staines – this became a private company in 1886. Appearance and manner Stocky in figure, he had a tall and forceful head and a neat beard (first red and later white). His English and Italian were both equally brusque ( John Ward-Perkins recalled a 'flow of impeccably idiomatic Italian spoken in an accent which to his dying day remained obstinately British'), and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "shy with strangers, blunt with acquaintances, and devoted to his friends". Life Early life Ashby was educated initially at Sunningdale School, a prep school close to his childhood home. He was later an exhibitioner at Winchester College (1887–93), where he gained the lasting nickname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Forsyth (trade Unionist)
George Frederick Harry Forsyth (23 October 1898 – 13 August 1974) was a New Zealand trade unionist and politician. Biography Early life Forsyth was born in England in 1898. He served in the Royal Navy during World War I and fought at the Battle of Jutland, Dogger Bank, Heligoland and the Zeebrugge Raid. One of his most vivid memories from the war was meeting Colonel T. E. Lawrence whilst he was serving off the Palestinian and Syrian coast aboard the . He was subsequently a member of the King's Empire Veterans. In 1925 he married Edith Elizabeth Ellen Jordan. During World War II he commanded the Auckland Home Guard. Union and public involvement He came to New Zealand in 1923 as a seamanship instructor and became active in union affairs before finally retiring from the Navy in 1930. Forsyth was an active trade unionist for 44 years until retiring as the President of the Auckland Caretakers, Cleaners, Lift Attendants and Watchmen's Union at the age of 74. By his retirement he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Elections In New Zealand
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine. * January 25– 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14– 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow. * February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany. * February 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayoral Elections In Auckland
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Hodder Moa
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette. History Early history The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged 14, with Messrs Jackson and Walford, the official publisher for the Congregational Union. In 1861 the firm became Jackson, Walford and Hodder; but in 1868 Jackson and Walford retired, and Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton joined the firm, creating Hodder & Stoughton. Hodder & Stoughton published both religious and secular works, and its religious list contained some progressive titles. These included George Adam Smith's ''Isaiah'' for its ''Expositor’s Bible'' series, which was one of the earliest texts to identify multiple authorship in the Book of Isaiah. There was also a sympathetic ''Life of St Francis'' by Paul Sabatier, a French Protestant pastor. Matthew Hodder made frequent visits to North America, meeting with the Moody Press and making links with Scribners and Fleming H. Revell. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Andersen
Gordon Harold "Bill" Andersen (21 January 1924 – 19 January 2005) was a New Zealand communist, social activist and trade union leader. Biography Andersen was born in Auckland on 21 January 1924, the youngest child of Hans (Skip) Andersen and Minnie Boneham. He was educated at Panmure School. Andersen was one of the participants in the 1951 Waterfront Lockout and the president of the Northern Drivers' Union and later the National Distribution Union. He was later the president of the Socialist Unity Party, which broke away from the Communist Party of New Zealand over the Sino-Soviet split, and he also led its successor, the Socialist Party of Aotearoa. Andersen's opposition to then National Party Prime Minister Robert Muldoon made him a household name in New Zealand during the 1970s. He stood for parliament in the safe National seat of against Muldoon in the , , and s, receiving 108, 39, 62 and 188 votes respectively. Whenever the two flew from Auckland to Wellington, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Smith
Lillian Rita Smith (née Hampton, 9 May 1912 – 7 June 1993) was a notable New Zealand communist and political activist. She was born in Perth, Western Australia, Australia in 1912. Her parents, Ann Bawden Moses and Henry Hampton, had married in Auckland in 1898 before their emigration to Australia. Hampton had four sisters and two brothers; she was the second-youngest of them. Trained as a nurse, she worked as a parlour maid for a wealthy family during the Great Depression. This opened her eyes to "the contradictions of capitalism", and she joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1936. In December 1935, she married Ted Smith in Kellerberrin, Western Australia, and they had one son. They moved to Auckland in 1941 and joined the Communist Party of New Zealand The Communist Party of New Zealand (CPNZ) was a communist party in New Zealand which existed from 1921 to 1994. Although spurred to life by events in Soviet Russia in the aftermath of World War I, the party had root ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Te Hau
Matiu Te Auripo Te Hau (11 July 1912 – 9 November 1978) was a notable New Zealand teacher, educationalist and community leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Te Whakatohea iwi. He was born in Omarumutu, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, on 11 July 1912, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1973 New Year Honours, for services to Māori education. In both 1956 and 1968 he stood unsuccessfully for a seat on the Auckland City Council. He was a member of the National Party and was the Northern Maori Northern Maori was one of New Zealand, New Zealand's four original parliamentary Māori electorates established in 1868, along with Eastern Maori, Western Maori and Southern Maori. In 1996 New Zealand general election, 1996, with the MMP in New Ze ... electorate secretary in 1954 and its chairman from 1965 to 1974, and again in 1978. He served three spells as a member of its national executive as National's Maori vice president from 1963 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moodabe Family
The Moodabe family is a long established Auckland family which has been associated with the development and operation of cinema in New Zealand since the 1920s. Business beginnings Michael Joseph Moodabe, OBE (1895–1975) was born in Sydney, Australia, on 24 June 1895, and, after the family shifted to Auckland, his brother Joseph Patrick Moodabe (1899–1985), was born in Auckland on 16 December 1899. Their parents were Ferris Moudabber and his wife Elizabeth Ann (nee Akoorie). Michael Moodabe, "Moodabe, Joseph Patrick 1899–1985; Moodabe, Michael Joseph 1895–1975" '' |
Val Chapman
Valentine Jackson Chapman (14 February 1910 – 5 December 1980) was a New Zealand botanist, university professor, and conservationist. Biography He was born in Alcester, Warwickshire, England, on 14 February 1910. Chapman was an associate of Auckland's Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson and was a member of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board between 1955 and 1956. He was a member of the Auckland City Council winning two by-elections in 1954 and 1961. Despite these successes, he was defeated in both subsequent elections in 1956 and 1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ..., missing out by only 172 votes in his second attempt. In the 1974 New Year Honours, Chapman was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for academic and public services. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Glasse
Alfred Onslow Glasse (4 December 1889 – 13 December 1977) was a New Zealand electrical engineer and local-body politician. He was chief engineer of the Auckland Electric Power Board for 29 years, and served as president of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers in 1942–43. Glasse was later elected as an Auckland City Councillor, and was deputy mayor from 1962 to 1970. Biography Early life Glasse was born in Dunedin in 1889 and was educated at Otago Boys' High School, Dunedin Technical College and then the University of Otago. He trained as an engineer and travelled to Britain to gain further experience at the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, a large firm of electrical engineers. During World War I he enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1914 and was awarded the Military Cross and mentioned in dispatches. Following the war he returned to work with the same firm. Career In 1922 the Thomson-Houston Company secured a contract for the supply of machiner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Curran (New Zealand Politician)
Patrick Thomas Curran (12 December 1908 – 26 June 1985) was a New Zealand trade unionist and local-body politician. Biography Early life and career Curran was born in Ashburton in 1908 to Maurice Curran and Elizabeth Trevathan. He was a motoring enthusiast and together with his brother David, he established a motor dealership in Ashburton. Curran then married Phyllis and moved to Auckland shortly before World War II, David likewise moved to Auckland in 1946. He also had a pilot's license and in 1940 enlisted in the Air Force during World War II and he served in the Pacific. In 1945 he was Mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Bronze Star Medal. Political career Curran was a sympathizer of John A. Lee and joined the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). In the he stood as the DLP candidate for the Auckland West, placing third out of four candidates. Curran later left the DLP and joined the Labour Party. He stood for election to the New Zealand House of Representatives for in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
