CITY COUNCILLORS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 188, 7 May 1931, Page 10

CITY COUNCILLORS

Records of Service

Mr. W. Appleton is managing director of the Charles Haines Advertising Agency, Ltd., and a director of several city companies. He yvas a member of the Onslow Borough Council prior to its amalgamation with the city, and a member of the Hospital Board from 1923 to 1929.

Mr. W. H. Bennett has been a member of the City Council for sixteen years. He has been closely associated with the city milk department, having served as acting-chairman of the milk committee under Mr. Norwood, and filled the chairman’s position ever since. For the past eleven years he has been chairman of the Technical College Board.

Mr. W. J. Gaudin is principal of the firm of W. J. Gaudin and Son. Born in Wellington in 1877, he has taken, an active part in many movements for the city’s improvements and welfare. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Technical College. First elected to the Citv Council in 1920, he was re-elected in 1921. 1923. 1927, and 1929. He is a member of the health, libraries, reserves, and tramways committees.

Mr. T. Forsyth has been a member of the City Council for eight years and has served on the reserves, staff and tramways committees. He was member for Wellington East in the House of Representatives for three years. Mr. is perhaps best known as an educational worker, having been chairman of (he Wellington Education Board for 14 years.

Mr.* C. H. Chapman, M.P., has served on the City Council for eight years, aud for a similar period on the Harbour Board and Hospital Board. He has been a member of the Technical College Board for nine years. He successfully contested the Wellington North seat in the Labour interests for the House of Representatives in 1925. He is president of the Wellington Red Cross Peacetime Centre, and has acted on three occasions as hon. secretary to Wellington’s' Health Week campaign.

Mr. H. A. Huggins has lived his life in Wellington. After occurring important positions in the head office. General Post Office, he became chief accountant of the service, and was subsequently controller of the savings bank. I’rior to his retirement he was chairman of the Public Service Superannuation Board. He has been chairman of the Kilbirnie; School Committee, and an active member’ of the Hataitai Horticultural Society. Polynesian Society, and New Zealand Astronomical Society. He has been a city councillor for six years, and has served on the libraries, by-laws, works, and staff committees, being chairman of the Hitter for the past two years.

Mr. R. McKeen, M.P., is a prominent member of the Labour Party, and has held the secretaryship of several workers unions. A member, of the Labour Representation Committee, he has represented Wellington South in Parliament since 1922 . He was elected to the City Council in 1925, and has retained his seat ever since.

Mr-. R. Semple, M.P., is a prominent member of the Labour Party. He was first elected to the City Council in 192» nnd has held his seat ever since. A past president of the Trades and Labour Council, he was elected to represent Wellington South in Parliament in 1918-19, and has represented Wellington East since 1928. He has also served as a Labour representative on the Technical College Board. Mr. Semple led the cooperative party which successfully completed the tunnel contract at Orongordngo.

Mr. J. McEldowney was an active member of a.firm of wholesale merchants in the city for some years, and has been a director of no fewer than five building societies.

Mr. I*’. Meadowcroft has for the past eight years served on the City Council, being a member of the reserves, leasehold, tramways, libraries, milk, works and lienlth committees, and chairman of the latter. He is a representative of the council on the Winter Show Association, and the Wellington Fire Board, and for twelve years has been president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He is a member of the Wellington Licensing Committee, and is also a Justice of the Peace. He was president of the Congregational Union of New Zealand on two occasions, 1905 and 1924, and was mannging-direetdr for Cadbury •and Frys (N.Z.), Ltd., but six years ago retired from active business.

Mr. John Burns has been practically a lifelong resident of Wellington. For more than 20 years he held responsible executive positions in the Government service, and upon the completion of 40 years' service retired. He served on the Karori School Committee and the Karori Borough Council for a number of years, and on the Wellington City Council for nine years. He was chairman of the. city legislation and libraries committee for the period 1925-29. Mr. Burns contested the Wellington South seat at the last general election as a United Party candidate.

Mr. W. Duncan has been a well-known business man for over 27 years. He has been closely associated with sporting and athletic circles, and has been a member of the Wellington Football Association management committee for 25 years, and its chairman for the last six years. For the past eleven years, he has been commodore of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club.

Captain S. Holm was born in Wellington, and left at an early age to go to sea. After qualifying as a master mariner, he took charge of several well-known vessels. He then came ashore, and started business in Wanganui. Six years ago he transferred to Wellington, and is now senior partner in the firm of Holm and Co., shipowners and shipping agents. Ho was for eight years a member of the Wanganui Harbour Board, and for, the past two years has been a member of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. J. N. Wallace was born in London. He has seen service in engineering and executive work in England, Germany, France, Belgium, America, Australia and New Zealand. A member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and n Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, he is the only one in New Zealand to hold both these honours. Mr. Wallace is also a member of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers, and is a registered engineer of New Zealand. He Ims secured and carried through to successful completion many engineering works for the New Zealand Government.

Mr. J. McDonald has been a resident of Wellington for 28 years, and was licensee of the Albert Hotel for some time. He is an enthusiastic sportsman, and has occupied a position ou the executive of the Wellington Trotting Club for a considerable time.

DECLARATION VOTERS During the course of the polling yesterday quite n number of electors turned up at the various booths only to find that their names, for one reason or another, wore not on the roll. If they were entitled to be on the roll all they had to do was to make a declaration before the returning officer, and they were allowed to vote. These votes, however, are specially scrutinised and the particulars investigated after the colling is over.