Ernst Peterson Hay (1886 – 13 December 1955) was a New Zealand lawyer and judge who was the

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from 1947 to 1949.

Biography

He was born in

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in 1886 to William Hay. He was educated at Lawrence District High School and later became an assistant solicitor at the

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Office in 1910. He was later a lawyer at the

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firm of Mazengarb, Hay and Macalister (founded 1918) with

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and

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. He was also the President of the Wellington

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in 1939. During

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Hay acted as chairman of the Armed Forces Appeal Board at Wellington. He was married to Agnes Mitchell with whom he had two sons and three daughters. His brother was

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businessman and city councillor Sir

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. He was a member of the

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Borough Council from 1938 to 1947. In June 1947 the mayor,

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, resigned and the councillors elected Hay as mayor for the remainder of the term until the scheduled election in November. He was re-elected mayor at the November 1947 election. In 1948 he was appointed as a Judge of the

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. After joining the judiciary he resigned as mayor on 20 January 1949. He retired in February 1955, owing to illness, and later died on 13 December that year. Hi wife Agnes, who was a benefactor and volunteer for the Red Cross and Women's Guild, died in 1959.

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