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1968 Wellington City Mayoral Election
The 1968 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1968, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Background Initially, long-serving councillor Denis McGrath announced his candidacy for Mayor on behalf of the Citizens' Association. He withdrew in June after he was appointed President of the New Zealand Law Society and decided not to seek re-election as a councillor either. This generated press speculation that the Citizens' Association would decide not field a candidate. However, despite previously declining to stand, deputy mayor Bob Archibald eventually accepted nomination following a deputation of local businessman requesting that he stand. Ultimately, Frank Kitts Sir Francis Joseph Kitts (1 May 1912 – 16 March 1979) was a New Zealand politician. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Kitts, 1954
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George Porter (New Zealand Politician)
David George Porter (4 September 1921 – 25 February 1998) was a New Zealand architect, company director and politician. He was a Wellington City Councillor and Deputy-Mayor from 1970 to 1971. Biography Early life Porter was born on 4 September 1921 in Wellington to Ernest and Arline (née Thompson) Porter. He was educated at John McGlashan College and Wellesley College. He then attended the University of Auckland and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1944. Porter married Frances Ann Fyfe on 23 December 1949 with whom he had two daughters and one son. Professional career He worked as an architect for the Wellington office of the Ministry of Works from 1945 to 1948 and later as a town planner from 1948 to 1951. Together with Lew Martin he started the architectural firm Porter & Martin working as a consultant from 1951 to 1982. He was the President of the Town and Country Planning Institute from 1959 to 1961. In 1984 he became the Director of the Pacific Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of The Wellington Region
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with Decision-making, making decisions in Social group, groups, or other forms of Power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or Social status, status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Elections In New Zealand
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. ** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayoral Elections In Wellington
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Ron Smith (peace Activist)
Ronald Joseph Smith (2 May 1921 – 16 June 1995) was a notable New Zealand public servant, communist and peace activist. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1921, and educated at Wellington College. He died in Wellington in 1995. He stood unsuccessfully for the Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ... for the electorate in , , , , and . References 1921 births 1995 deaths People from Wellington City New Zealand public servants New Zealand communists Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand) politicians Unsuccessful candidates in the 1949 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1954 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1960 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1963 Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saul Goldsmith
Abraham Saul Goldsmith (17 February 1911 – 4 November 1988) was an importer and merchant from Wellington, New Zealand. He was a foundation member of the National Party and was active at a local level. Goldsmith was also a noted chess player. Early life Goldsmith was born in 1911 in Auckland. His parents were Joseph Isaac Goldsmith and Deborah Goldsmith (née Cohen). Goldsmith received his education at Brooklyn School and at Wellington College. He was also the cousin of Auckland Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson. In the 1920s he started work as a messenger-clerk before leaving to start his own business. In 1930, he founded the General Agencies Company and was its managing director; the company concerned itself with importing goods. By 1980 the company imported over two thousand product lines, the majority tobacconist lines. Political career Goldsmith was for many years an executive member of the Brooklyn Municipal Electors Association. He was also a member of the Wellington Travel Clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Rodger
Stanley Joseph Rodger (13 February 1940 – 29 May 2022) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was president of the Public Service Association between 1970 and 1973 and Member of Parliament for Dunedin North from 1978 to 1990. Biography Early life and career Rodger was born in Dunedin on 13 February 1940, the son of Edith Rodger (née Lloyd) and James Stanley Rodger. He was educated at Kaikorai Primary School and King Edward Technical College. In 1968, he married Anne Patricia O'Connor and the couple went on to have two children, including Craig Rodger who became the Beverly Professor of Physics at the University of Otago. In 1957, Rodger began his career in the public service in Dunedin working at the Ministry of Works and Development, later moving to Wellington to take up another position at the Ministry. He remained at the Ministry of Works and Development until 1974 when he transferred to the newly created Housing Corporation. He became involved with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hill (New Zealand Politician)
Edward Owen Eustace Hill (30 March 1907 – 2001) was an English-born New Zealand politician who served as the 18th Mayor of New Plymouth. Biography Early life Hill was born in Bristol in 1907 into a traditional shipping family and was later to become a director of the Bristol City line of steamships, trading between South Wales ports and North America until he became a parson. Hill was educated at Oxford University where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in history. While at Oxford he was involved with the Christian movement the Oxford Group (Buchmanites). He then worked in a legal office until joining the Army during World War II serving for most of the war as a staff officer at Western Command headquarters. He later moved to New Zealand with his wife, Jean, and daughters, Rowena, Beatrice and Theodora in 1946 where he became an Anglican clergyman in Canterbury and later Taranaki. Political career Hill was elected Mayor of New Plymouth in 1953 succeeding the long 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] |
Michael Fowler
Sir Edward Michael Coulson Fowler (19 December 1929 – 12 July 2022) was a New Zealand architect and author who served as mayor of Wellington from 1974 to 1983. Early life and family Fowler was born on 19 December 1929 in Marton, the son of William Coulson Fowler and Faith Agnes Netherclift. He was educated at Manchester Street School in Feilding and Christ's College in Christchurch, before studying architecture at Auckland University College between 1950 and 1952 and earning a Diploma of Architecture. He later returned to the University of Auckland, graduating with a Master of Architecture degree in 1973. In 1953, Fowler married Barbara Hamilton Hall, and the couple went on to have three children. Architectural career Fowler started his career in 1954 at the London office of Ove Arup and Partner, and became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1955. In 1957, he returned to New Zealand, working initially as a self-employed architect in Wellington, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Spry
Stuart Keith Spry (1911 – 14 October 1991) was a New Zealand swimmer, conservationist and local politician. On his death '' The Dominion'' described him as "one of the great identities of Wellington city". Biography Early life and career Spry was born in New Zealand in 1911 on either 6 June (death entry) or 6 July (birth entry) to Palmer and Isabel Spry. In his youth Spry was a talented swimmer. He was New Zealand champion at breaststroke and only narrowly missed out on selection for the New Zealand swim team for the 1934 British Empire Games. His love of swimming, other sports and outdoor activities as a child lasted all of his life. Spry was a textile importer and women's wear manufacturer by trade. He married Edith (Eda) Beatrice Burney in 1935 with whom he had two sons and two daughters. Political career In 1965 Spry was elected to the Wellington City Council on a Labour Party ticket and held a seat continuously until he retired from the council in 1986. Wellington Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
