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1923 Wellington City Mayoral Election
The 1923 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1923, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Background Incumbent mayor Robert Wright was narrowly re-elected for a second term seeing off a strong challenge from local Labour MP Peter Fraser, the closest election result Wellington had ever seen. It would remain the narrowest Mayoral election in Wellington until 2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of .... Mayoralty results Councillor results References Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Alexander Wright
Robert Alexander Wright (8 August 1863 – 6 December 1947) was the Mayor of Wellington from 1921 to 1925, and a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party. Biography Early life and career He was born in Dunedin to Robert and Lydia Esther Wright, who moved to Hokitika on the West Coast when he was an infant. He had eight siblings; a brother, Hercules Richard Wright was later a notable Rugby League player. Robert was educated at the Scots Grammar School. He married Elizabeth Coulter from the Wairarapa in 1898, and they had two daughters. He was a printer with the Government Printing Office, then for 17 years with the '' New Zealand Mail''. Then with W. J. Carman he founded the printing firm of Wright and Carman. He was a member of the Church of Christ.Obituary in '' Evening Post'', Wellington, 8 December 1947 page 8 On 31 October 1924 Wright opened the de Lux Theatre on the corner of Cambridge Terrace and Majoribanks Street. In 1930 the building was sold and renamed the Embassy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Chapman (New Zealand Politician)
Charles Henry Chapman (1876 – 2 March 1957) was a New Zealand unionist and politician of the Labour Party and various predecessor parties. Early life Chapman was born in London, England, in 1876. At the age of 17 he joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and was later secretary of the London ILP Federation. Chapman was a linotype operator by trade as well as a union secretary. Upon leaving England he was made a life member of the ILP. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1905. He settled in Wellington and became secretary of both the Wellington Typographical Union and Wellington Journalists Union. Chapman was also secretary of the Wellington Female Printers Assistants Union and the Wellington Related Printing Trades Union and was a proponent of related unions merging together for unity. During World War I he was an advocator for dependents of servicemen and their rehabilitation. He became a member of the National Reparation Board. He was keenly interested in the work of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Elections In New Zealand
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Mayoral Elections In Wellington
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Tom Brindle (politician)
Thomas Brindle (1878 – 19 November 1950) was a New Zealand activist for the New Zealand Labour Party who was jailed during World War I for speaking out against conscription. He was a member of Wellington City Council and stood for election to the House of Representatives five times. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1936 until March 1950. Early life in England Brindle was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, in 1878. In England, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. Political career Brindle emigrated to New Zealand in 1910 or 1912, and he became active with the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He was jailed in 1916 during World War I for speaking out against conscription. In 1918 he was nominated by the SDP for the Labour nomination in the Wellington South by-election, but was defeated by Bob Semple. He stood for secretaryship of the New Zealand Labour Party in 1919, but withdrew and Michael Joseph Savage became the first full-time paid secretary. Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Young (trade Unionist)
William Thomas Young (27 April 1870 – 20 September 1953) was a New Zealand seaman and trade unionist. Biography Young was born in Karori, Wellington, New Zealand in 1870. He married Margaret Anne Craig in 1906. He stood in the as an independent Labour candidate in the electorate and was defeated in the first ballot. He stood in the for the original Labour Party in the electorate and was again defeated in the first ballot. In 1918 he was nominated by the Painters Union for the Labour nomination in the Wellington South by-election, but was defeated by Bob Semple. Young was a Labour Party candidate in several Wellington municipal elections in 1905, 1907, 1913, 1915, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1927. He died at Karori Karori is a suburb located at the western edge of the urban area of Wellington, New Zealand, 4 km from the city centre and is one of New Zealand's most populous suburbs, with a population of in History Origins The name ''Karori'' used ..., Welli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Glover (New Zealand Politician)
John Glover (1866 – 2 June 1947) was a New Zealand politician and trade unionist. He was an organiser and candidate for the United Labour, Social Democratic Party then the Labour Party serving time in local government. Early life Glover was born in 1866 in England. He spent his early years working as a miner before moving to New Zealand in 1899. Once in New Zealand he likewise worked as a miner and became involved in the local labour movement. From 1912 to 1913 he served as the secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, known as the "Red Feds". Political career Glover joined the Social Democratic Party after the 1913 unity conference and was later elected the national secretary of the Social Democratic Party in 1916. He would later play a prominent role in the unity meetings in July 1916 that would merge the Social Democrats with the remnants of the United Labour Party which led to the foundation of the modern New Zealand Labour Party. Upon its creation he was el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Croskery
Alexander Wellington Croskery (19 December 1878 – 18 August 1952) was a New Zealand draper, political activist and trade unionist Biography Early life and death Croskery was born in 1878 in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, to Alexander Brown Croskery, (1838–1897), an Irish accountant and provision merchant from Downpatrick, County Down, Ireland, and Mary Ann Mortimer Thomson, (1850–1925), from Ballynahinch, County Down, Ireland. He had a brother, William Hugh Croskery. Croskery arrived in New Zealand with his parents in 1880. He attended Queen's College in Auckland, before working on a farm in Taranaki from 1894 to 1895. He then moved to Wellington, and in 1896 began work as a draper's assistant at James Smith and Sons. He married Emily Clark on 17 December 1902; they were to have ten daughters and three sons. The family lived in Newtown, where between 1902 and 1911 Croskery ran his own drapery and tailoring business in Riddiford Street, then about 1917 moved to Lyall Bay. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McKeen
Robert McKeen (12 July 1884 – 5 August 1974) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives. Early life He was born in 1884 in Edinburgh and received his education in West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland. In Scotland, he was active in the labour movement, and worked as a grocer's assistant in a co-operative store. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1909, and worked in coal mines on the West Coast before moving to Wellington, and a grocery store. He was a union official. Political career In the , McKeen organised the campaign of the Labour Party in Wellington. He first stood for the House of Representatives in the and was successful. He was the Member of Parliament for Wellington South from 1922 to 1946, then Island Bay from 1946 to 1954, when he retired. McKeen was Labour's junior whip in 1935 and 1936, and its senior whip in 1937 and 1938. He was Chairman of Committees from 1939 to 1946. Subsequent to that, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie McVicar
Annie McVicar (4 November 1862 – 26 February 1954) was a New Zealand community worker and local politician, and the first woman elected to the Wellington City Council. Biography Early life and career She was born Ann McLachlan in Kilmartin, Argyllshire, Scotland, on 4 November 1862. She attended a state school in Kilmartin and later trained as a nurse in Glasgow. In 1888 she married Gordon McDonald, with whom she sailed to New Zealand in 1901. Gordon died in 1906 and on 9 October that same year she re-married to Alexander McVicar, a widower with three children. From 1906 McVicar was actively engaged in both teaching and social work in Wellington. She was an early member, and later vice president, of the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children and also established the local branch of the Plunket Society in 1908, which she was also the secretary of. She frequently accompanied Plunket nurses on visits to mothers and on occasion carried out these duties b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Monteith
Alexander Lamont Monteith (15 December 1886 – 24 November 1972) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for the Labour Party and a trade unionist. Biography Early life and career Monteith was born in Woodville, the son of Sarah Ann Monteith (née Carter) and Charles Forrester Monteith, and was a farmer and storeman. He was secretary of the United Storemen's Union and later secretary of the Wellington Tramways Union and the New Zealand Tramway Workers' Federation. Political career In 1918, Monteith was nominated by the Soft Goods and Storeman's Union for the Labour nomination in the Wellington South by-election, but was defeated by Bob Semple. At the , he was the Labour candidate in the Wellington East electorate, but was defeated by the Reform Party incumbent, Alfred Newman. Monteith represented the Wellington East electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives between and 1925. In the 1922 election, he was one of four candidates, with Thomas Forsyth of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Forsyth (New Zealand Politician)
Thomas Forsyth (17 May 1868 – 6 February 1941) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. Early life Forsyth was born in Dunedin in 1868. He was the third son of James Forsyth of Dunedin. He received his education at schools in Dunedin and attended the University of Otago. He was prominent in rugby and represented Otago and Wellington. Professional life In 1884, Forsyth started to work for Dodgshun and Company, woollen importers. In 1891, when the head office transferred to Wellington, he moved to New Zealand's capital city. He was the manager of Dodgshun and Co. from 1894 to 1898. In 1898, he became the accountant and secretary for the Te Aro House Drapery Company Ltd. He became that company's assistant manager in 1905 and general manager in 1914, a position that he held until 1922, when he started his private accountancy practice. Public roles Forsyth was a member of the Wellington Education Board for 18 years, and for 16 of those, he was its chairman. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
