AUCKLAND'S MEMBERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 299, 16 December 1911, Page 9

AUCKLAND'S MEMBERS.

RETURNED ON THE SECOND BAIXOT. SOME NEW FACES. Mr. Jolmi Payne, who as a Labour candidate has defeated the sitting member for Grey Lynn, after a very dose contest, has not been heard "of in public life hitherto. For a number of years he was engaged as an- accountant with various Auckland firms, and on the opening of the Technical School in Auckland he took over the" evening commercial classes, and from 1906 devoted his whole time the work. Last July he resigned and went into business on his own account, and I*. now well known in. connection with picture entertainments, in the Grey Lynn' campaign he showed very considerable ability for -organisation. As regards his political leanings he has given a pledge to vote against the Liberal Government on the land question. Air. Payne was j born in Lancashire, where his father was a barrister in one of the cotton centres. Mr. Dickson has always taken a keen interest in local affairs! Of his forty-one 'years he has spent twenty-live in Auckland, employed in. the haberdashery and ■' mercery business. For eleven y-sars he j was with Messrs. Smith and Caug ley, for ' another eleven he was manager for 3dr. George Fowlds, and for the past four he . has conducted his own business. After I some years an the liemuera lioa-i Board, ' of which for three years he was chairman, he was elected a member of the ' Auckland City Council last year, and at ' present sits as a member of that Council and the Drainage BoaTd. Mr. Dickson will be remembered as a warm advocate of the movement for a re-trial of Captain Knyvett, acting as chairman of the ! committee. In the Par.aell Parliament- !« ho .irfiritiallv 811-

>; nounced himself as a Liberal-Labour can--1 didate, but subsequently he changed his '■ ground to that of Independent Liberal, • and later pledged himself to vote against • the Government on a no-confidence issue, [ Mr. Alexander Harris is a Londoner, 133 vears of age, and has been in New , Zealand for the past 16 years. A com r ' meroial traveller by occupation, he has ; hitherto had no experience of public life,. 3 but active participation in several licensi ing polls as an enthusiastic no-license „ worker was probably responsible for f his desire to enter Parliament. After . . h<» had announced his intention to conI* at the Waitemata seat, he was set'lected at a meeting at Devonport as the l Opposition candidate, and it is as a [ straurht-out and uncompromising Oppo- . i sitionist that he has contested and won , the scat. 'Mr. Harris is well-known in i' the Masonic fraternity, having risen to , the rank of Past District Chief Ranger ; in the A.O.F. > Mr. J. G. Coates is a young New Zea- • lander born in the far North, and sobse- ' quent to leaving the State school was ■ j engaged on his father's farm. Now he 1 is one of the best-known of Northern i pastoralists, and a specialist in Here- « fords and Shropehires. With his brother ■ he started the Auckland Farmers' Union, i! Limited, and is cliairman of the North I Kaipara Co-operative Stores. TDa experience in the work of local bodies has been extensive and varied. In the fight against the Bitting member for Kaipara he has stood as Independent Liberal, "tHrt Bpeirfcrrrtr -TsHt -nlgMi at DarpraViTle after the result of tilt' poll -became. (known he stated that he would support the Ward Government for 12 months in ! the event of its return. j .'Mr, R. F. Bollard has had the advan- • Itage of a long political apprenticeship, first as assistant to his father; who for ' | many sessions has represented Eden, and • later as a member of various local bodies j in .the Waikato. Among others Mr. : j Bollard was a member of the Waikato I County Council, Waikato Hospital Board, the Waikato and the Waikato Central A, and • P. Associations, and the Waikato Racing and Hunt Clubs. After some years 'in the timber business he is farm- : ing at Tamahere, in the Waikato. In politics he stood as a supporter of the ' Opposition. i Mr. J. Poland's record as a member for . the OhinemuTi goldfields district through" i ' two Parliaments makes any. lengthy reference to his position unnecessary. Ho • has sat as a consistent supporter of the i Liberal administration, and a jealous , guardian of the mining interests. .Mr. G.'B. Sykes (Masterton) is welb known in the district as a successful • breeder of Romney sheep, being one of 1 ; the first New Zealand breeders to export ■ 6heep to the Argentine. He lives at I Manaia, and was for several years eecre - ' tarv to the Masterton A. and P. Association. , 1 Mr. J. Robertson, the Labour member i j for Otaki, arrived a few years ago from ,! Scotland, where he was prominently asso- . I ciated with the Labour movement, and was till recently secretary of the PalmII erston branch of the Drivers' Union. He ' 11 is at the present time secretary of the . Taianaki Buttennakers' Employees' Dr. A. K. Newman (Wellington East) was born in India in 1349, and arrived in New Zealand in 1853. He was educated privately in New Zealand and at Bath, Kngland. On taking his degree he ; was house surgeon at Guy's Hospital. In 1875 he returned to New Zealand, ! and entered mercantile life. He has been Mayor of Wellington, a member of , the Board of Governors of Wellington College, and president of the old Wellington A. and P. Association. He represented Thorndon in Parliament from 1884 to 1890, Hutt 1890-93, and Suburbs from 1593 to 1896. Dr. Newman has also been prominently connected with maty , branches of sport during the whole of his career. Mr Alfred H Hindmarsh, elected ao the Labour member for Wellington South, is a solicitor, and a member of the Muni- '! 'cipal Association of New Zealand. He is " I also a member of the Hospital and Chari--1 l-table Aid- Board. In 1005 he was elect- ;! «d to the Wellington City Council in the •, interest of Labour. |.j Mr W. H. D. Bell, member for Wel- ,! lirigton Suburbs, is a solicitor, and son . of Mr H. D. Bell, K.C. Mr Bell, jun., was educated in New Zealand and at the | -universities in England, where he took his ( degrees. He returned to New Zealand a . few years ago, and at once entered the nrm of Bell, Gully, Belh -and Myers. : Mr Harry Atmore. the Independent [ Liberal returned for Nelson, is a son of i the htte Mr E. Atmore, a pioneer colonist i who arrived by the ship Cressirell, and i was born at Nelson in 1870, receiving his . education at the Nelson public schools. , Be served his time as a signwriter with ( Mr A. Lawson, of Wellington, and subsequently started bpsrnass on his own , account. .He has been a member of the , Nelson Committee, tho Education I Board, awf tk* City. Council, and has t 'btxtn a rnomber of the Nelson Liorammg • Committee cine* 1003. He was at one I time a promineni Freemason, and was a member of the Southern. Star Lodge, No,,

735, E.G., Forest ledge, N.Z.C., and Trafalgar Royal' Arch Chapter, S.C He first stood for Parliament in 1902. During, .these.. three attempts Mr Atmore stood, as a "staunch and consistent supporter of the Government," but -on this occasion be stood -as an Independent Liberal Mr F, H. Smith, returned for Waitaki, is the fourth son of the late A, B. Smith, of Mona "Vale, Albury. He was bora in Now Zealand, and is 43 years of age, married, but with no family. All his life has been spent on the hind, and at the present time he has a fine sheep property,' on which he resides, at Albury. He is a well-known breeder of merinos, and was one of tine judges in this class at the last ChristchuTch Show. For a good many years past he has taken a keen interest in public affairs, serving on the Timaru High School Board of Governors and on the Timaru Harbour Board. He also took an interest in volunteering when the Mounted Kifles were in existence, and used to ride many miles to attend parades as an officer of the troop in his district. lie opposed Mr HallJones for the Timani Seat when first he stood for Parliamentary honours, and though he was not widely known then, he was only beaten by 562 votes. At last election he opposed Sir William Steward for the Waitaki seat, and was less than 300 votes behind that veteran. He has been a consistent supporter of the Opposition, Mr. J. H. Eseott, M.P. for Pabiatua, is a farmer, of Woodville, and is one oi the East Coast young settlers. For years he has been a prominent figure in the New Zealand Farmers' Union, and has rarely missed one of its conferences. He is very popular with the farmers in his district. Mr. W. A Veiteh, the hew Laboor member for Wariganui, was, up to a few weeks, ago, employed in the New Zealand Kail ways as an engine-driver, and resided at Cross Creek. He is president of the Amalagamated Societv of Railway Servants, and a member of the Kailwaya Superannuation Boar a.