PRIME MINISTERS FROM NELSON
“Fine Contribution From Citv”
(New Zealand Press Association) NELSON. Sept. 23.
Nelson’s contribution to the Parliamentary life and government of New Zealand had been a striking one. said Mr Cheviot Dillon Bell, of Mastbrton, when opening the Nelson Centennial Historical Exhibition last night. There had been 27 Prime Ministers, of whom Domett, Stafford. Fox, Weld, Bell, and Holyoake had either been bom in, or had direct connexion, with Nelson and its environs. “Your city has produced a nuarter of New Zealand’s Prime Ministers, and that Jrom a ponulalion which even todav falls short of the crowd which witnessed the football test last Saturday,” he said. Mr Bell is a grandson of Sir Francis Dillon Bell, who was an early Nelson Magistrate, and who, in 1848. became resident agent for the New Zealand Land Company. His father was Sir Francis Henry Dillon BeU.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28699, 24 September 1958, Page 7
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