DAVID GOLDIE.
Mr David Goldie is regarded as one of the staunchest of Auckland members, and it says a great deal for his popularity that he was permitted to have a walk-ovor for the Newton seat, upon which so many orv/iouseyes were cast from time to time. Mr Goldie is a son of one of the earliest free immigrants to Tasmania, where he was born in 1842. He served his apprenticeship as a carpenter, and arrived in Auckland in 1863. After working at his trade for some years, he commenced business in the same way, as a timber merchant, and by industry and frugality and business rectitude worked himself into a leading position in that business. In 1874 he was returned member for Auckland West in the Provincial Council, and continued a member of that body Until its dissolution by the Abolition of the Provinces Act. Iα 1879 he was elected to represent Auckland West in Parliament;, as a supporter of secular education, beating his opponent, Mr Patrick Dignan, denominationalist, by 500 votes. On the dissolution at the end of the session 1879, ho declined to stand again, as., hie businees demanded his solo attention, bufei after about three years' retirement he again entered the lists and represented City West in the last three Parliaments, at the last election polling 711 votes agaiusb 523 recorded for Mr Shera, and 209 for Mr Morrison. For the last twelve years Mr Goldie has been a member of the City Council, for ton years he has been a member of the Board of Education, and for several years he occupied a seat at the Harbour Board and Charitable Aid Board. He has been Grand Master of the Orangemen in the North Island, Presi- : dent of the New Zealand Order of ftood Templars, Vice-President of the New Zealand Alliance, and is regarded as the inosb uncompromising teetotaller in Auckland. He is an able speaker, with a wonderful grasp and power of demonstrating figures, and is an inveterate worker. He has been a persistent advocate of retrenchment, andis by nomeans " mealy-mouthed" in expressing his views on the subject, so much so that during the last Parliament he came to be regarded as the head and front of the so-called " skinflint party."
DAVID GOLDIE.
Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 6 December 1890, Page 2
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