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1953 Auckland City Mayoral Election
The 1953 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1953, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland City, Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Background Long serving incumbent mayor John Allum was successfully challenged by former magistrate John Luxford. Allum was the first mayor in the 20th century who had stood for re-election unsuccessfully. Luxford was endorsed by the new United Independents electoral ticket who gained the balance of power between the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party and Citizens & Ratepayers, costing the latter the majority they had held since 1938 Auckland City mayoral election, 1938. The Labour Party initially intended to stand a candidate and it was seen that MP for and former councillor John Stewart (New Zealand politician), John Stewart would sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Luxford
John Hector Luxford (28 May 1890 – 8 April 1971) was a New Zealand lawyer and Mayor of Auckland City The Mayor of Auckland City was the directly elected head of the Auckland City Council, the municipal government of Auckland City, New Zealand. The office existed from 1871 to 2010, when the Auckland City Council and mayoralty was abolished and ... from 1953 to 1956. Biography Born in Palmerston North, Luxford qualified as a solicitor in 1913 and then during the World War I, First World War joined the army and saw military service in Europe and the Middle East, rising to the rank of Major. In 1919, soon after returning home from the war, he qualified as a barrister. He practised law in Te Awamutu, Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, and Auckland, and was Chief Judge in Samoa from 1929 to 1935, then served as a magistrate in Auckland from 1941 to 1951. He wrote several law books and a memoir, ''With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine''. Becoming a city councillor fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the List of cities in New Zealand, most populous city of New Zealand and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth-largest city in Oceania. The city lies between the Hauraki Gulf to the east, the Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitākere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The surrounding hills are covered in rainforest and the landscape is dotted with 53 volcanic centres that make up the Auckland Volcanic Field. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitematā Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. Auckland is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Drennan
Alexander Drennan (16 December 1899 – 9 November 1971) was a New Zealand labourer, trade unionist, communist and watersider. He was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ... on 16 December 1899. References 1899 births 1971 deaths New Zealand trade unionists New Zealand communists Scottish emigrants to New Zealand {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman King (New Zealand Politician)
Norman James King (28 December 1914 – 28 May 2002) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, and a cabinet minister. Biography Early life, family and career King was born in Auckland on 28 December 1914. He had no secondary schooling and lived in a state house. He worked as a storeman in the Minties confectionary factory. He was a trade unionist and became vice president of the New Zealand Federated Storemen and Packers' Union. On 8 July 1939, he married Marjorie Evelyn Rush, and the couple went on to have one child. During World War II, King served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Pacific. Political career King was president of the Orakei branch of the Labour Party. In both 1950 and 1953 King stood unsuccessfully on a Labour ticket for the Auckland City Council. King first stood for Parliament in Hobson in , coming second. He then represented the Waitemata electorate from 1954 to 1969, and the Birkenhead electorate from 1969 to 1975, when h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Forsyth (trade Unionist)
George Frederick Harry Forsyth (23 October 1898 – 13 August 1974) was a New Zealand trade unionist and politician. Biography Early life Forsyth was born in England in 1898. He served in the Royal Navy during World War I and fought at the Battle of Jutland, Dogger Bank, Heligoland and the Zeebrugge Raid. One of his most vivid memories from the war was meeting Colonel T. E. Lawrence whilst he was serving off the Palestinian and Syrian coast aboard the . He was subsequently a member of the King's Empire Veterans. In 1925 he married Edith Elizabeth Ellen Jordan. During World War II he commanded the Auckland Home Guard. Union and public involvement He came to New Zealand in 1923 as a seamanship instructor and became active in union affairs before finally retiring from the Navy in 1930. Forsyth was an active trade unionist for 44 years until retiring as the President of the Auckland Caretakers, Cleaners, Lift Attendants and Watchmen's Union at the age of 74. By his retirement he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Dreaver
Mary Manson Dreaver (née Bain, 31 March 1887 – 19 July 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. She was the third woman to sit in the New Zealand House of Representatives, one of the first two women to sit in the New Zealand Legislative Council, and the only woman to sit in both chambers. Early life and family Mary Dreaver was born in Dunedin in 1887, the oldest of 13 children of Alexander Manson Bain, a Scottish Presbyterianism, Presbyterian cabinetmaker and trade unionist, and his Irish Catholic Church, Catholic wife Hanna Kiely. The children were raised Anglicanism, Anglican. She married Andrew James Dreaver, a salesman and former boxer, in 1911 and moved to Auckland. The couple had six children. One son, Alex, was an Auckland city councillor from 1953 to 1974. Mary Dreaver taught piano and became active in the National Spiritualist Church of New Zealand, in which she was ordained as the church's first woman minister in New Zealan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Cumberland
Kenneth Brailey Cumberland (1 October 1913 – 17 April 2011) was a New Zealand geography academic and local-body politician. Academic career After a bachelor's in geography at Nottingham University College and a MSc at University College London, Cumberland emigrated to Canterbury College, Christchurch (now the University of Canterbury) immediately before the outbreak of World War II. After the war he moved to Auckland University College (now the University of Auckland). In each place he played a key role in the establishment of teaching of physical geography. After retiring in 1978 he made and narrated a television series, ''Landmarks'', on the geography of New Zealand. Political career Cumberland was an associate of Dove-Myer Robinson and were both members of the Drainage League that opposed the Brown's Bay scheme supported by the then mayor John Allum. Later, he was elected to the Auckland City Council in 1953 as part of Robinson's United Independents ticket. He was re-el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Curran (New Zealand Politician)
Patrick Thomas Curran (12 December 1908 – 26 June 1985) was a New Zealand trade unionist and local-body politician. Biography Early life and career Curran was born in Ashburton in 1908 to Maurice Curran and Elizabeth Trevathan. He was a motoring enthusiast and together with his brother David, he established a motor dealership in Ashburton. Curran then married Phyllis and moved to Auckland shortly before World War II, David likewise moved to Auckland in 1946. He also had a pilot's license and in 1940 enlisted in the Air Force during World War II and he served in the Pacific. In 1945 he was Mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Bronze Star Medal. Political career Curran was a sympathizer of John A. Lee and joined the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). In the he stood as the DLP candidate for the Auckland West, placing third out of four candidates. Curran later left the DLP and joined the Labour Party. He stood for election to the New Zealand House of Representatives for in , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Savory
Sir Reginald Charles Frank Savory (27 May 1908 – 27 October 1989) was a New Zealand businessman and politician who introduced container ship capability to Auckland. Biography Early life and career Savory was born in Ponsonby in 1908. He was the oldest of five children and attended Auckland Grammar School until the age of 14 when he was forced to look for employment to help with family finances. He took a job as an office boy at the Auckland Gas Company. He found work as a carpenter and helped build many of the high quality houses in Remuera in the 1920s. After his five-year apprenticeship became a fully qualified chippie and joiner after taking night classes at the Seddon Memorial Technical College. Soon afterwards he lost his job after construction was cut short by the onset of the Great Depression. He proceeded to start his own building business leading him to public life. He founded R. Savory Ltd, a carpentry business which eventually became a full construction company. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bloodworth
Thomas Bloodworth (10 February 1882 – 11 May 1974) was a New Zealand politician. He was a Member of the Legislative Council and its last Chairman of Committees. Political career Born in Maxey, Northamptonshire in 1882, Bloodworth was a member of the British Independent Labour Party and came to New Zealand in 1907. He joined the Auckland Socialist Party in 1910 and was Secretary of the Auckland Carpenters' Union (1914–1936). Bloodworth helped found the Auckland WEA (Workers' Educational Association) and was Auckland Vice-President of the Land Values League. He stood as the NZLP candidate for Parnell in 1919 and again at the 1930 by-election. Bloodworth was an Auckland City Councillor for a total of 33 years:1919–1927 and 1928–1931 (Labour); 1931–1938 (Independent); and 1953–1968 (Citizens and Ratepayers). He was also a member of the Auckland Electric Power Board and Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board. Bloodworth broke with the New Zealand communist Party in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Armishaw
Eric Cameron Armishaw (3 December 1905 – 30 May 1971) was a New Zealand local-body politician and boxing referee. Biography Early life and career Armishaw was born in Denniston on the West Coast in 1906. His family moved to Auckland when he was a child and was educated in New Lynn. After leaving school he gained employment with the Farmers Trading Company. In 1928 he married Brenda Mary Ann Arthur. Boxing career Armishaw was a keen boxer in his youth and maintained an interest in the sport his whole life. He fought his first match as a bantamweight aged 15. He won the Auckland amateur welterweight title in both 1925 and 1927. He won the New Zealand welterweight title (Morgan Cup) in 1927 after finishing runner-up in 1925. Later he was a referee in over 3,000 fights from the 1940s to the 1960s and controlled bouts at the 1950 British Empire Games. He later became the first New Zealander to be on an international panel of referees. He retired from officiating and training in 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Buttle
Keith Nicholson Buttle (23 November 1900 – 15 December 1973) was a New Zealand businessman and politician. He served as mayor of Auckland City from 1957 to 1959. Biography Born 23 November 1900 in Auckland, Buttle attended Auckland Grammar School. On 23 March 1927, he married Una Agnes Parkinson at the Pitt Street Methodist church in Auckland. He was a sharebroker and partner in an Auckland firm of sharebrokers. He served on the Auckland City Council for 18 years, the Auckland Harbour Board for five years and Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority for three years. Buttle was elected mayor of Auckland City, replacing Tom Ashby in a by-election in November 1957 after Ashby died part-way through his term.''New Zealand Who’s Who'' 8th edition 1964 In the 1961 New Year Honours, Buttle was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
