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Suburbs Of Auckland (New Zealand Electorate)
Suburbs of Auckland was a parliamentary New Zealand electorates, electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, from 1853 to 1860. Population centres Suburbs of Auckland covered the area close and adjacent to the city of Auckland. Those suburbs were east, south and west of the city and covered Parnell, New Zealand, Parnell, Newmarket, New Zealand, Newmarket, Grey Lynn, and Ponsonby, New Zealand, Ponsonby. To the east, the Suburbs of Auckland electorate bordered the Southern Division (New Zealand electorate), Southern Division electorate. To the south and west, the boundary was with the Northern Division (New Zealand electorate), Northern Division electorate. In the north, the Suburbs of Auckland electorate wrapped itself around the City of Auckland (New Zealand electorate), City of Auckland electorate or it bordered onto the Waitematā Harbour, Waitemata Harbour. For the 1853 New Zealand general election, 1853 general election, there were 163 electors on the roll. This had increased to 325 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Electorates
An electorate or electoral district () is a electoral district, geographic constituency used for electing a member () to the New Zealand Parliament. The size of electorates is determined such that all electorates have approximately the same electoral population. Before 1996, all MPs were directly chosen for office by the voters of an electorate. Thereafter, Electoral system of New Zealand, New Zealand's electoral system provides that some (in practice, the majority) of the usually 120 seats in Parliament are filled by electorate representatives with the remainder being filled from party lists in order to achieve proportional representation among parties. The number of electorates changes periodically, in line with national population growth. Starting from the 2020 New Zealand general election, 2020 general election, there are 72 electorates including the Māori electorates. Terminology The Electoral Act 1993 refers to electorates as "electoral districts". Electorates are inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Brodie
Walter Brodie (1811 – 11 September 1884) was a New Zealand politician in Auckland, on both provincial and national level. Biography Brodie was born in 1811 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, as the sixth of twelve children. His mother was Anna Brodie (1779–1864), the daughter of ''The Times'' founder John Walter. His father was Revd Dr Alexander Brodie DD (1773–1828). His parents had married in 1802, and his father had become the Reverend at St Mary's, Eastbourne, in 1809. His grandfather died in 1812, the year after Brodie was born, and his mother inherited 2/16ths of the shares in ''The Times''; the same proportion went to her sister Mary Carden. In 1821, the two sisters and their respective husbands signed an affidavit that clarified that the shares were held by the daughters of ''The Times'' founder, and were not the property shared with their husbands. His father died in 1828. Brodie emigrated to the colony in the early 1840s. He returned to England in 1844 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of The Auckland Region
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Electorates Of New Zealand
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. Similar debates surround the purpose of history—for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past. In a more general sense, the term ''history'' refers not to an academic field but to the past itself, times in the past, or to individual texts about the past. Historical research relies on primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations. Source criticism is used to evaluate these sources, assessing their authenticity, content, and reliability. Historians strive to integrate the perspectives of several sources to devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Pollen
Daniel Pollen (2 June 181318 May 1896) was an Irish-New Zealand politician who became the ninth premier of New Zealand, serving from 6 July 1875 to 15 February 1876. Early life The son of Hugh Pollen, a dock master, Pollen was born in Ringsend, Dublin. Little is known about the early part of his life, but it is supposed that he grew up in Ireland and in the United States of America.Alexander H. McLintock, ''An encyclopaedia of New Zealand'', vol. 2 (1966), p. 814 However, his father was dock master of the Grand Canal Company at Ringsend in 1812, still held that office in 1832, and died in 1837 to be succeeded as dock master by Thomas Pollen. On some accounts, Pollen's father helped to build the United States Capitol. A doctor, Pollen claimed to hold the MD degree, although where he graduated is not recorded.L. K. Gluckman, Ann Gluckman, Mike Wagg, ''Touching on Deaths: a medical history of early Auckland'' (2000), p. 83: "DANIEL POLLEN (1813–1896) Pollen was born in Dublin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Logan Campbell
Sir John Logan Campbell (3 November 1817 – 22 June 1912) was a Scottish-born New Zealand public figure. He was described by his contemporaries as "the father of Auckland". Early life John Logan Campbell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 3 November 1817, a son of the Edinburgh surgeon John Campbell and his wife Catherine and grandson of the 3rd baronet of Aberuchill and Kilbryde and Kilbryde castle near Dunblane, Perthshire. He had four sisters but his two elder brothers had died by the time he reached the age of two, and he became the only surviving son. Campbell graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1839 and later that year sailed for Australia, New South Wales, as a surgeon on the emigrant ship ''Palmyra''. Migration to New Zealand Confronted with drought and constrained prospects at the time Campbell departed Australia for New Zealand in March 1840 on the ''Lady Liford'', arriving at Port Nicolson, and eventually travelling to Waiou (now called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 1860 Suburbs Of Auckland By-election
The August 1860 Suburbs of Auckland by-election was a New Zealand by-election held in the electorate following the resignation of Joseph Hargreaves. He was replaced by John Logan Campbell unopposed. The Suburbs of Auckland electorate was one of the original 24 electorates used for the 1st New Zealand Parliament in 1853 and existed until the end of the term of the 2nd New Zealand Parliament The 2nd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. It opened on 15 April 1856, following New Zealand's 1855 election. It was dissolved on 5 November 1860 in preparation for 1860–61 election. The 2nd Parliament was th ... in 1860. It was a two-member electorate. Hargreaves resigned on 24 July 1860, and was replaced on 4 August by Campbell, who was known as the ''Father of Auckland''. References Auckland 1860 3 1860 elections in New Zealand Politics of the Auckland Region August 1860 1860s in Auckland History of Auckland {{NewZealand-election- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hargreaves (politician)
Joseph Hargreaves (1821 – 10 April 1880) was a 19th-century member of parliament from Auckland, New Zealand. Born in Liverpool in 1821, Hargreaves represented the electorate in 1860, from 5 April (elected in the electorate's April 1860 Suburbs of Auckland by-election, second by-election that year) to 24 July, when he resigned on private grounds. John Logan Campbell was elected unopposed (in the electorate's August 1860 Suburbs of Auckland by-election, third by-election that year) to fill the vacancy. He died on 10 April 1880. Hargreaves was married to a daughter of William Spain, who had been appointed in 1841 as a New Zealand Land Commission, New Zealand Land Claims Commissioner and had lived in the country until 1845. His wife died on 2 October 1910, aged 84. Footnotes References 1821 births 1880 deaths Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates 19th-century New Zealand politicians {{NewZealand-politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 1860 Suburbs Of Auckland By-election
The April 1860 Suburbs of Auckland by-election was a New Zealand by-election held in the electorate following the resignation of Frederick Merriman. He was replaced by Joseph Hargreaves unopposed. The Suburbs of Auckland electorate was one of the original 24 electorates used for the 1st New Zealand Parliament in 1853 and existed until the end of the term of the 2nd New Zealand Parliament The 2nd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. It opened on 15 April 1856, following New Zealand's 1855 election. It was dissolved on 5 November 1860 in preparation for 1860–61 election. The 2nd Parliament was th ... in 1860. It was a two-member electorate. Merriman resigned on 13 March 1860 and was replaced on 5 April by Hargreaves. Theophilus Heale—the other representative of the electorate at that time—thanked the electors for electing Hargreaves. References Auckland 1860 2 1860 elections in New Zealand Politics of the Auckland Region Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theophilus Heale
Theophilus Heale (1816–1885) was a 19th-century British Pākehā settler, later a Member of Parliament from Auckland, New Zealand. Biography Heale was the captain part-owner of one of the first British migrant ships to arrive in Wellington. During the 1830s and 1840s, Heale was one of the investors in the failed logging and trading colony established at Cornwallis, New Zealand. Heale sailed from New Zealand to America to investigate the latest milling techniques, and later to England to purchase equipment for the venture. The settlement was established in 1840, however due to problems with land ownership and the high cost of milling kauri wood in the Waitākere Ranges, the settlement struggled. After the death of William Cornwallis Symonds in 1841, Heale became the main representative for the Cornwallis company in 1843, however the settlement continued to struggle. By the 1860s, Heale salvaged the boiler from the Cornwallis steam mill and repurposed it for the Kawau Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 1860 Suburbs Of Auckland By-election
The January 1860 Suburbs of Auckland by-election was a New Zealand by-election held in the electorate following the resignation of Walter Brodie. He was replaced by Theophilus Heale unopposed. The Suburbs of Auckland electorate was one of the original 24 electorates used for the 1st New Zealand Parliament in 1853 and existed until the end of the term of the 2nd New Zealand Parliament The 2nd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. It opened on 15 April 1856, following New Zealand's 1855 election. It was dissolved on 5 November 1860 in preparation for 1860–61 election. The 2nd Parliament was th ... in 1860. It was a two-member electorate. Brodie resigned on 6 December 1859 and was replaced on 25 January by Heale. References Auckland 1860 1 1860 elections in New Zealand Politics of the Auckland Region January 1860 1860s in Auckland History of Auckland {{NewZealand-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd New Zealand Parliament
The 2nd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. It opened on 15 April 1856, following New Zealand's 1855 election. It was dissolved on 5 November 1860 in preparation for 1860–61 election. The 2nd Parliament was the first under which New Zealand had responsible government, meaning that unlike previously, the Cabinet was chosen (although not officially appointed) by Parliament rather than by the Governor-General of New Zealand. Historical context At this time political parties had not been established (they were not established until after the 1890 election), meaning that anyone attempting to form an administration had to win support directly from individual MPs. This made forming (and retaining) a government difficult. The Sewell Ministry, the first responsible government, led by Henry Sewell, lasted only two weeks. The first Fox Ministry, the second responsible government, led by William Fox, also lasted only two weeks. The third responsible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
