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1974 Lower Hutt Mayoral Election
The 1974 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including sixteen city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Background The incumbent Mayor, John Kennedy-Good, stood for a third term. The Citizens' Association had mended its relationship with Kennedy-Good in 1973 and his combined ticket from the previous election had merged back in to the Citizens' Association ticket. The renewed unity helped Kennedy-Good to win a much increased majority against his only challenger, deputy mayor John Seddon John Seddon is a British occupational psychologist and author, specialising in change in the service industry. He is the managing director of Vanguard, a consultancy company he formed in 1985 and the inventor of ' The Vanguard Method'. Vangua ..., and als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kennedy-Good
Sir John Kennedy-Good (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2005) was a New Zealand politician. He was mayor of Lower Hutt from 1970 to 1986. Biography Early life and career Kennedy-Good was born in 1915 in Goulburn, New South Wales, where his father was working as a stock and station agent. The family later moved to Invercargill, New Zealand, where they ran a butcher's shop. Kennedy-Good was educated at Southland Boys' High School and graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 1940. In 1940, he opened a dental practice in Lower Hutt and married June Clement Mackay, with whom he would have seven children. He served as president of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Dental Association in 1950 and chair of the Dental Health Council in 1952. Political career Kennedy-Good became involved in local politics through the issue of fluoridation of Lower Hutt's water supply, which he supported. At the 1953 local-body elections he first stood for office for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bryan Seddon
John Bryan Seddon (29 December 1934 – 30 November 2021) was a New Zealand politician and chief executive. He was the deputy mayor of Lower Hutt and later chief executive of Porirua City Council for twenty years from 1980 until 2000. Biography Early life Seddon was born in 1934. He was an engineer and was employed by Fletcher Construction and later Mobil Oil, eventually becoming a senior manager. Seddon's first marriage had broken up while he was running his own small business after a succession of senior management jobs in local companies. Political career He stood for election to the New Zealand House of Representatives as the Labour Party candidate for the seat of at the , finishing second and significantly increasing Labour's share of the vote. Apart from the one-term of the Third Labour Government, Labour was in opposition the whole time he was trying for a seat in the 60s and 70s, "I could see no fun sitting in opposition year after year" he later recounted. He ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Seddon (politician)
John Bryan Seddon (29 December 1934 – 30 November 2021) was a New Zealand politician and chief executive. He was the deputy mayor of Lower Hutt and later chief executive of Porirua City Council for twenty years from 1980 until 2000. Biography Early life Seddon was born in 1934. He was an engineer and was employed by Fletcher Construction and later Mobil Oil, eventually becoming a senior manager. Seddon's first marriage had broken up while he was running his own small business after a succession of senior management jobs in local companies. Political career He stood for election to the New Zealand House of Representatives as the Labour Party candidate for the seat of at the , finishing second and significantly increasing Labour's share of the vote. Apart from the one-term of the Third Labour Government, Labour was in opposition the whole time he was trying for a seat in the 60s and 70s, "I could see no fun sitting in opposition year after year" he later recounted. He serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Lower Hutt
The city of Lower Hutt, New Zealand, was first proclaimed a borough on 1 February 1891. Prior to this it had been part of Hutt County, initially as a Roads Board and from 1881 as a Town Board. Since 2019, the mayor has been Campbell Barry. List of mayors Key References {{Mayors in New Zealand Lower Hutt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-past-the-post Voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their vote for a candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins even if the top candidate gets less than 50%, which can happen when there are more than two popular candidates. As a winner-take-all method, FPTP often produces disproportional results (when electing members of an assembly, such as a parliament) in the sense that political parties do not get representation according to their share of the popular vote. This usually favours the largest party and parties with strong regional support to the detriment of smaller parties without a geographically concentrated base. Supporters of electoral reform are generally highly critical of FPTP because of this and point out other flaws, such as FPTP's vulnerability t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Hutt Citizens' Association
The Lower Hutt Citizens' Association, was a right-leaning local body electoral ticket in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It was formed in 1945 by merging the selection process of council candidates of several civic interest groups and business lobby groups. Its main ambitions were to continue to control the Lower Hutt City Council, reduce local spending and deny left-leaning Labour Party candidates election. History The Citizens' Association was formed on a permanent basis in 1945, growing out of the Ratepayers' Association which was founded in 1905. Previously electoral tickets had existed only at election periods where candidate tickets were formed by ratepayer groups but had no permanent infrastructure and was inactive outside election periods. From the 1930s on, the Labour Party had been steadily winning more votes in local elections and it was thought an opposing ticket was necessary to defeat them. Similar associations of citizens and ratepayers had existed in Wellington and oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Evening Post (New Zealand)
''The Evening Post'' (8 February 1865 – 6 July 2002) was an afternoon metropolitan daily newspaper based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded in 1865 by Dublin-born printer, newspaper manager and leader-writer Henry Blundell, who brought his large family to New Zealand in 1863. With his partner from what proved to be a false-start at Havelock, David Curle, who left the partnership that July, Henry and his three sons printed with a hand-operated press and distributed Wellington's first daily newspaper, ''The Evening Post'', on 8 February 1865. Operating from 1894 as Blundell Bros Limited, his sons and their descendants continued the very successful business which dominated its circulation area. While ''The Evening Post'' was remarkable in not suffering the rapid circulation decline of evening newspapers elsewhere it was decided in 1972 to merge ownership with that of the never-as-successful politically conservative morning paper, '' The Dominion'', which belonged to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Werry
Harcourt Chenoweth "Chen" Werry (16 December 1908 – 5 October 1995) was a New Zealand businessman and politician. He was a Lower Hutt City Councillor for 36 years from 1950 to 1986 and was twice deputy mayor. Biography Early life and career Werry was born in Christchurch in 1908 to Alfred Ernest Werry and Florence Beatrice Chenoweth, who he labelled 'academics of liberal thinking'. He grew up in the 1920s when his father was working as a headmaster. Two uncles and later a brother were teachers. He was the Dux (education), dux of Belfast School and after passing his proficiency certificate he attended high school after shifting with his family to the West Coast Region, West Coast where he attended Reefton District High School, where his father worked. After finishing school he started work as a student teacher, but left after just one week after his father purchased him a used truck with which he "went bush" and worked cutting wood and sold firewood. He then sat the public service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Turbott
Harold Bertram Turbott (5 August 1899 – 16 March 1988) was a New Zealand medical doctor, public health administrator, broadcaster and writer. For four decades he broadcast a weekly talk on health on the radio. Early life Turbott was born in Auckland on 5 August 1899, moving to Hamilton as a child where he attended Hamilton High School. He was dux of the school and went on to study medicine at the University of Otago, qualifying in 1923 after topping the class in midwifery. Career Turbott's first job was as a house surgeon at Waikato Hospital; he intended to become a surgeon. In 1923 he was persuaded that experience in India and China would be valuable and he went to work in a hospital near Canton (Guangzhou). While in China he spent three months researching hookworm for the Rockefeller Foundation, followed by a course in radiology in Beijing (Peking). By the time he returned to New Zealand he had decided on a career in public health but as graduates from Britain we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teri Puketapu
Teri is a given name directly from Teresa. Notable people with the name include: * Teri Ann Linn (born 1961), American actress and singer * Teri Anulewicz, American politician * Teri Austin (born 1957), Canadian actress * Teri Byrne (born 1972), American fitness competitor * Teri Clemens, retired American volleyball coach * Teri Copley (born 1961), American actress * Teri DeSario (born 1951), American singer and songwriter * Teri Greeves (born 1970), Kiowa-Comanche-Italian beadwork artist * Teri Garr (born 1944), American actress * Teri Greeves (born 1970), American artist * Teri Harrison (born 1981), American model * Teri Hatcher (born 1964), American actress * Teri Holbrook, American mystery writer * Teri Hope, (born 1939), American model and actress * Teri Lake (born 1972), Canadian curler * Teri McKeever (born 1962), American college and Olympic swimming coach * Teri McMinn (born 1951), American actress * Teri Moïse (born 1970), American singer * Teri Peterson, (born 1959), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Barry
Ernest Albert Barry (1928 − December 2003) was a New Zealand educator and politician. He was a Lower Hutt city councillor and was deputy mayor from 1977 to 1980. Biography Early life and career Barry was born in London, England. Both his father and brother were Labour Party members and local government politicians, influencing his own political philosophy. After his education he trained as a plumber. He then emigrated to New Zealand as a "Ten Pound Pom" in 1950 aboard the ''Atlantis''. After arriving in New Zealand he worked as a plumber. He and his wife, Barbara, had five children. They had met in 1952 and married in 1953. The family lived in Wainuiomata and Barry started his own plumbing and sheet metal business. Subsequently, he became a technical tutor at the Petone Technical Institute in 1962. In 1968 purchased a plot of land in the hills behind Epuni. He was involved in the local school committee, the Lower Hutt Boy Scouts and Petone Rugby Club. For leisure he was a bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Evans
Thomas Glendwr Gardner "Glen" Evans (22 April 1936 – 24 August 2016) was a New Zealand politician. He served as the mayor of Lower Hutt from 1986 to 1995. Biography Early life and family Born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, on 22 April 1936, Evans was the son of New Zealand parents. In the wake of the Great Depression his father, an engineer, had gone to England to find work, and later served in the Colonial Service in Ceylon. Evans was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, and went on to study at the University of Otago and Victoria University College, graduating BA, LLB from the latter institution in 1962. In 1959 Evans married Barbara Cunningham, and the couple went on to have three sons. He was a member of the Jaycees and was a winner of the Jaycees national debating championship. From 1963 he was a lawyer in practice, first with the commercial law firm Chapman Tripp then as a partner with the firm Agar, Keesing and Evans. In 1979 he became a Wellington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
