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David Campbell Kidd
David Campbell Kidd (29 September 1889 – 23 September 1954) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. Early life Kidd was born in 1889 in Shag Point, Otago and received his education at Albany Street Public School in Dunedin. Together with his brother Peter, he worked on and later managed his father's farm, 'Moss Vale', Mt Nessing Road, Albury. He played rugby for the Albury club before the Great War. He went into World War I with the South Canterbury Mounted Rifles and was wounded in the Battle of Gaza in 1917. After the war, he took up a farm as a crown lease at 'Single Hill" Burkes Pass. In 1940 he purchased 'Manahune' in the Te Ngawai district of Albury. Political career Kidd became the first Dominion president of the Crown Tenants' Association, and was also represented on the Canterbury Land Board, and the Timaru Harbour Board. In the , Kidd won the electorate from Labour's David Barnes by just 14 votes. He held the electorate at the next election in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Campbell Kidd
David Campbell Kidd (29 September 1889 – 23 September 1954) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. Early life Kidd was born in 1889 in Shag Point, Otago and received his education at Albany Street Public School in Dunedin. Together with his brother Peter, he worked on and later managed his father's farm, 'Moss Vale', Mt Nessing Road, Albury. He played rugby for the Albury club before the Great War. He went into World War I with the South Canterbury Mounted Rifles and was wounded in the Battle of Gaza in 1917. After the war, he took up a farm as a crown lease at 'Single Hill" Burkes Pass. In 1940 he purchased 'Manahune' in the Te Ngawai district of Albury. Political career Kidd became the first Dominion president of the Crown Tenants' Association, and was also represented on the Canterbury Land Board, and the Timaru Harbour Board. In the , Kidd won the electorate from Labour's David Barnes by just 14 votes. He held the electorate at the next election in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Press
''The Press'' is a daily newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand owned by media business Stuff Ltd. First published in 1861, the newspaper is the largest circulating daily in the South Island and publishes Monday to Saturday. One community newspaper—''Northern Outlook''- is also published by ''The Press'' and is free. The newspaper has won the title of New Zealand Newspaper of the Year (in its circulation category) three times: in 2006, 2007 and 2012. It has also won the overall Newspaper of the Year title twice: in 2006 and 2007. History James FitzGerald came to Lyttelton on the ''Charlotte Jane'' in December 1850, and was from January 1851 the first editor of the ''Lyttelton Times'', Canterbury's first newspaper. From 1853, he focussed on politics and withdrew from the ''Lyttelton Times''. After several years in England, he returned to Canterbury concerned about the proposed capital works programme of the provincial government, with his chief concern the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand MPs For South Island Electorates
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New Zealand National Party MPs
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New Zealand People Of Scottish Descent
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People From Otago
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1954 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waimate (New Zealand Electorate)
Waimate was a parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region of New Zealand from 1881 to 1893 and from 1946 to 1957. It was represented by three Members of Parliament. Population centres The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–1876 election. In the six years since, New Zealand's European population had increased by 65%. In the 1881 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives increased the number of European representatives to 91 (up from 84 since the 1875–76 election). The number of Māori electorates was held at four. The House further decided that electorates should not have more than one representative, which led to 35 new electorates being formed, including Waimate, and two electorates that had previously been abolished to be recreated. This necessitated a major disruption to existing boundaries. The area for the electorate was in its entirety from the electorate, which continued to exist with a much reduced geographic siz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hayman
Thomas Leonard Hayman (24 May 1904 – 2 January 1962) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party and a farmer. Biography Hayman was born in 1904 in Willowbridge near Waimate. He received his education at Nukuroa School and Waimate High School, and left school aged 17 to help on the family farm. Between 1926 and 1945, he worked as a contractor in farming. He was active with several organisations, including the South Canterbury Power Board (where he served as deputy-chairman), chairman of the South Canterbury Federated Farmers, and treasurer of the Methodist Church Trust at Nukuroa. From 1941 to 1949, he was director of the Studholme sale yards. He represented the Otago electorates of Oamaru from 1949 to 1957, and then Waitaki from 1957 to 1962, when he died. In 1949, he defeated Labour's Arnold Nordmeyer. He was a cabinet minister from 1960 to 1962; Postmaster-General from 12 December 1960 to 2 May 1961, then Minister of Agriculture An agriculture minist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitaki (New Zealand Electorate)
image:Waitaki electorate, 2014.svg, Waitaki electorate boundaries used since the Waitaki is an electorate for the New Zealand House of Representatives that crosses the boundary of Otago, North Otago and Canterbury, New Zealand, South Canterbury towns on the East Coast of the South Island. The electorate was first established for the that determined the 5th New Zealand Parliament. It has been abolished and re-established several times and in its early years was a two-member electorate for two parliamentary terms. The current electorate has existed since the and is held by Jacqui Dean of the New Zealand National Party, National Party. Population centres Through an amendment in the Electoral Act in 1965, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, an increase of one since the 1962 electoral redistribution. It was accepted that through the more rapid population growth in the North Island, the number of its electorates would continue to increase, and to keep pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Davey (New Zealand Politician)
Alfred James Davey (29 March 1888 – 2 October 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand National Party, National Party. He was a farmer in South Canterbury and involved in many community organisations. Biography Davey was born on 29 March 1888 in Rangatira Valley inland from Temuka. After school, he farmed in nearby Waitohi. Davey was involved in many community groups in South Canterbury. With the Farmers' Union, he presided over the Temuka branch for many years, belonged to the executive of the South Canterbury district, and was its representative on the Dominion executive. Davey held a directorship on the Midland Dairy Company. He had a particular interest in education. He is the author of histories of the Geraldine County and of the Timaru Choral Society. He was elected onto Geraldine County Council in the 1938 New Zealand local elections. He subsequently became chairperson of the county council for 10 years and a member of the Timaru Harbour Board for 13 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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