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William Lock (other)
William Lock (1 May 1858 – 20 July 1940) was Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ..., from 1913 to 1915 and again from 1921 to 1927. Lock was an auctioneer, and a grain and produce merchant for 40 years. During his term as mayor, HMS ''New Zealand'' visited Nelson in 1913. Lock died on 20 July 1940 at his home in Collingwood Street, Nelson. Politics The 1893 general election was contested by four candidates in the Nelson electorate: John Graham (1289 votes – elected), Richmond Hursthouse (1011 votes), John Kerr (910 votes) and Lock (74 votes). Local government In Lock's 1913 campaign for the mayoralty he sought lower rates and better use of Council funds. Lock was elected with 1,226 votes to William Wallace Snodgrass' 1,1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Field (politician)
Thomas Andrew Hemming Field (1859 – 27 October 1937) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform Party. Early life and family Field was born in Long Gully, Victoria, Long Gully, Colony of Victoria, in 1859, the son of Thomas Field, who had migrated from Ireland to Sydney in 1845. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1862, settling in Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson, where Field attended Nelson College from 1871 to 1872. He married Jessie Black at Nelson on 24 May 1881, and they had two sons and two daughters. Their eldest son A. N. Field, Arthur Nelson Field was a journalist and right-wing author. In 1885, Field became one of the first cyclists to ride the length of New Zealand. Wilkins and Field Field was managing director of Wilkins and Field Hardware in Nelson. The firm was founded by his father in 1866 in Westport, New Zealand, Westport, and became Wilkins and Field in 1880 when W.C. Wilkins joined the business in Nelson. Political career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Harley
Charles John Harley (10 October 1861 – 16 December 1922) was a New Zealand local-body politician. He served as Mayor of Nelson from 1915 to 1917. Early life and family Born at Stoke on 10 October 1861, the son of Alfred Harley and his wife Emily Annie Harley (née Cundy), Harley was educated at Nelson College from 1875 to 1878.''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition (CD-ROM). A barrister and solicitor by profession, he was admitted to the Bar in 1883. Harley married Janet Ramage Kerr the following year. Their son Howard was a marine engineer on the '' Laurentic'' when it was sunk in 1917 of the coast of Ireland. Howard survived and joined the Royal Navy Reserve, serving on a cruiser in World War I. Businesses Harley was a partner in Adams and Harley and one of the owners of the Tonga Bay Granite Company. Local government and civic affairs Harley, a city councillor since the 1890s, defeated William Lock by 1223 votes to 1065 to become Mayor of Nelso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Snodgrass (politician)
William Wallace Snodgrass (1870 – 20 March 1939) was an English-born politician from Nelson, New Zealand. He was Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor of Nelson and later a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, Legislative Council. Early life and family Snodgrass was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Robert Snodgrass. His early education was at Liverpool Methodist School. When he was 10 his family migrated to Nelson, New Zealand. On 27 January 1896 Snodgrass married Annie Frankham, the daughter of Walter Frankham, and they had five children — two sons and three daughters — including Frank Snodgrass, Wallace Frankham Snodgrass who played three matches for the All Blacks. Business Snodgrass was a member of his father's merchant firm of R. Snodgrass and Sons established in 1880 in Nelson.Prominent Citizen, Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 21 March 1939, Page 4 On his Snodgrass's death in 1939 the business was wound up and the premises sold by the official ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Moffatt
Walter John Moffatt (5 October 1866 – 14 May 1938) was a local-body politician in New Zealand. He was Mayor of Nelson from 1927 to 1935. Early life and family The son of Harry Louis Moffatt, wharfinger at Motueka, Moffatt was a coachbuilder by trade having served his time in Nelson and Motueka. He followed his occupation in Feilding, Palmerston North, and Marton, before returning to Motueka to set up his own business. He was married to Fanny (Ette) Tasker with three children, two sons and one daughter. Political career Moffatt resettled in Motueka in 1886. In 1899 Moffatt was on the Motueka Road Board, when it decided to break away from Waimea County Council and set up the Motueka Borough Council. That same year Moffatt stood against Roderick McKenzie, a Seddon supporter, for the Motueka parliamentary seat and then, having been unsuccessful, stood in 1900 for the new Motueka Borough Council. In 1902 Moffatt stood for Motueka Mayor but was unsuccessful. He stood unsucce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson, New Zealand
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New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS New Zealand (1911)
HMS ''New Zealand'' was one of three s built for the defence of the British Empire. Launched in 1911, the ship was funded by the government of New Zealand as a gift to Britain, and she was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1912. She had been intended for the China Station, but was released by the New Zealand government at the request of the Admiralty for service in British waters. During 1913, ''New Zealand'' was sent on a ten-month tour of the British Dominions, with an emphasis on a visit to her namesake nation. She was back in British waters at the start of the First World War, and operated as part of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, in opposition to the German High Seas Fleet. During the war, the battlecruiser participated in all three of the major North Sea battles—Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank, and Jutland—and was involved in the response to the inconclusive Raid on Scarborough, and the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight. ''New Zealand'' contributed to the destruction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 New Zealand General Election
The 1893 New Zealand general election was held on 28 November and 20 December in the European and Māori electorates, respectively, to elect 74 MPs to the 12th session of the New Zealand Parliament. The election was won by the Liberal Party, and Richard Seddon became Prime Minister. 1893 was the year universal suffrage was granted to women over 21 (including Māori), plural registration was abolished, plural voting for Māori property-owners was abolished, and only those whose descent was exactly half Māori were allowed to choose whether to vote in European or Māori electorates. Women's suffrage was the most consequential change. 1892 electoral redistribution The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1890 for the . The 1891 New Zealand census was the first to automatically trigger an electoral redistribution, which was undertaken in 1892. The population drift to the North Island resulted in the transfer of one electorate from the south to the north. Only three el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson (New Zealand Electorate)
Nelson is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the House of Representatives of New Zealand. From 1853 to 1860, the electorate was called Town of Nelson. From 1860 to 1881, it was City of Nelson. The electorate is the only one that has continuously existed since the 1st Parliament in 1853. The current MP for Nelson is Rachel Boyack of the Labour Party after defeating long time incumbent Nick Smith of the National Party in the 2020 general election. Population centres Nelson is based around the city of Nelson, with the dormitory town of Richmond and the smaller community of Hope drafted in to bring the electorate up to the required population quota. A significant adjustment to the electorate's boundaries was carried out ahead of the change to mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting in 1996; the decrease in South Island electorates from 25 to 16 lead to the abolition of one western South Island electorate; Tasman was split between Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graham (New Zealand Politician)
John Graham (12 January 1843 – 8 February 1926) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Nelson in the South Island. Early life Graham was born in Nelson in 1843, the eldest son of one of the earliest European settlers of the region. Member of Parliament John Graham represented the Nelson electorate in the House of Representatives for 18 years from 1893 to 1911, when he retired. The 1893 general election was contested by four candidates in Nelson: Graham (1289 votes), Richmond Hursthouse (1011 votes), John Kerr (910 votes) and William Lock (74 votes). The 1896 general election was contested by Graham and Jesse Piper, who received 2061 and 1718 votes, respectively. Graham was thus elected with a majority of 343 votes. Independent Liberal In 1894, Graham successfully opposed the Midland Railway Bill insofar as it proposed to abandon the obligations of the company to provide a railway to Nelson. As Chairman of the Banking Enquiry Committee of 1896, John Graham fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Hursthouse
Richmond Hursthouse (5 May 1845 – 11 November 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Nelson, New Zealand, and a cabinet minister. Family life Hursthouse was born in New Plymouth in 1845, soon after his family's emigration from England. His parents were John Hursthouse (1811–1860) and Helen, née Wilson (1803–1895). His parents and other family members (his father's brother, Charles Hursthouse, and a cousin, Thomas Newsham, and their families) came to New Zealand on the ''Thomas Sparks''; they arrived in Wellington in early 1843. John Hursthouse and family proceeded to New Plymouth, but the outbreak of the First Taranaki War saw the family move to Nelson. Richmond Hursthouse's education was restricted to one year at Nelson's Bishop's School. In 1873, he married Mary Fearon, the daughter of Edward Fearon. She died in September 1901. Activities Aged 19, he helped with the survey of Westport. Afterwards, he returned to New Plymouth and was in the militia. He partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kerr (Nelson Politician)
John Kerr (1830 – 3 May 1898) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Nelson, New Zealand. As well as Lake Station (including Lake Rotoiti and Pourangahau / Mount Robert), Kerr also owned the Tarndale Run and around the Wairau River before entering into a business partnership with Molesworth Station owner Acton Adams. Kerr commissioned cob builder Ned James to build Tarndale homestead in 1874. Biography Kerr was born in 1830 in the south of Scotland. His father's name was also John Kerr. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1842 on the ''Fifeshire'' and settled in Waimea West. Early in his life, he was engaged in whaling in the Tory Channel / Kura Te Au. He was a butcher in Nelson before he started sheep farming at Lake Station. Following the resignation from Parliament of Joseph Shephard, who had been appointed to the Legislative Council, a Waimea by-election was held on 3 June 1885. It was contested by six candidates: Kerr (253 votes), W. N. Franklyn (250 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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