THE NEW MAYOR

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

THE NEW MAYOR

Mr. Hislop’s Career

BORN TO POLITICS Record of Service Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, Wellington’s new Mayor, might be said to have been born to politics, and as a lad assisted his father in election campaigns. His grandfather, John Hislop, LL.D., F.R.S., prepared the first Education Act in 1875, and his father, the late Hon. T. W. Hislop, wa« a Cabinet Minister and Mayor of Wellington for four consecutive terms. Born in 1888, Mr. Hislop was educated at Wellington College and Cambridge University. He entered the legal profession, and for some years past has beeen a principal of the firm of Brandon, Ward, and Hislop. He was first elected to the Wellington City Council in 1913, and was granted leave of absence in the following year to answer the call to arms in the Great War. On his return to the Dominion, he topped the poll at the City Council election in 1927, and occupied the same proud position at the last election. Mr. Hislop held the position of chairman of 4he libraries, legislation, and leaseholds committees in the last council, and has served on the finance, by-laws, health, staff, observatory and airport committees. He is president of the Wellington Aero Club, and a member of the Wellington Fire Board.