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George Gee (mayor)
George Gee (11 November 1921 – 27 March 1984) was a New Zealand businessman and local politician. He was the first Asian New Zealander elected to a mayoralty. Biography Gee was born in New Plymouth in 1921 and was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School. He and his family moved to Petone in 1938. He married Dorothy Bing in 1940, having met in Blenheim, with whom he had one son and one daughter. He and all of his family were fluent speakers of Chinese. In World War II he served domestically in the Army Service Corp from 1942 to 1944. He suffered an injury in an accident which invalided him from service just before he was to be posted overseas. After the war he worked in his family's greengrocer and fruiterer shop on Jackson Street in Petone. From 1956 to 1961 he was President of the New Zealand Federation of Fruit Retailers & Greengrocers. He was also a Rotary member and was President of Petone Rotary from 1966 to 1967. In 1965 he was elected a member of the Petone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Petone
The Mayor of Petone officiated over the Petone Borough of New Zealand, which was administered by the Petone Borough Council. The office existed from 1882 until 1989, when Petone Borough was amalgamated into the Hutt City Council as part of the 1989 local government reforms. There were seventeen holders of the office. History There were two sets of mayors who were related. George Thomas London and his son, George, were both mayors. Likewise Joseph Mitchell and Lily Annie Huggan were spouses. When Joe died in 1957 his wife won the by-election to replace him as mayor. In 1968, George Gee, a Chinese-New Zealand greengrocer, was elected the mayor of Petone, the first Asian mayor in New Zealand history. Upon amalgamation into the Hutt City Council, Petone's last mayor, Ted Woolf, stood for Mayor of Lower Hutt in 1989. He was unsuccessful but was elected a councillor for the new Harbour Ward. List of mayors Mayors of Petone were: Key †: Died in office Table footnotes: Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
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Wellington Harbour Board Members
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Mayors Of Places In The Wellington Region
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Petone Borough Councillors
Petone (Māori: ''Pito-one''), a large suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, stands at the southern end of the Hutt Valley, on the northern shore of Wellington Harbour. The Māori name means "end of the sand beach". Europeans first settled in Petone in 1840, making it one of the oldest European settlements in the Wellington Region. It became a borough in 1888, and merged with Lower Hutt (branded as "Hutt City") in 1989. Geography Petone is flat. It is nestled between the Hutt River to the north and east, hills on the west and Wellington Harbour to the south. The land along the Petone foreshore was uplifted by a metre or more after the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake. This improved drainage around the mouth of the Hutt River. The foreshore at Petone has a shallow sandy beach, formed by sediment from the Hutt River, which is a popular family swimming spot. The Korokoro Stream comes down off the hills at the western side of Petone. As a low-lying suburb, Petone is vulnerable to tsun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Military Personnel Of World War II
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People Educated At Palmerston North Boys' High School
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New Zealand People Of Chinese Descent
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1984 Deaths
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1921 Births
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