WHO'S WHO

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 95, 21 April 1917, Page 9

WHO'S WHO

Cm COUNCIL CANDIDATES

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

With twenty-nine candidates in the field for the City Council election there are bound to be some who, though capable men, aye little known to the electors. To give some assistance to voters in identifying candidates, the ■ following brief biographicnl notes have been compiled. The candidates are mentioned in ,>'phabetical ordur in groups according to the " tickets" on which th-ey are represented : — MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION TICKET. Arthur Richmond Atkinson (sitting member! is a member of the legal, firm of Atkinson and Dale. He was a member of Parliament for many years, «md has been on the City Council since 1909. He is chairman of the Legislation and Leaseholds Committee in the present council,.and occupies a seat on the Victoria, College Council.

William Henry Bennett (sitting member), entered the council at the iaet election. He is a. building contractor, and has been prominently identified with the Builders and Contractors' Association for some time as president. Ho is a member of the following committees : ISaths, Libraries, and Beaches; Bylaws, Fire Brigade, and Street Lighting; Public Health.

C \V. Chilman came .to New Zealand in W64, and after a period of newspaper work (with the Taranaki Herald find the Wellington Independent) and some experience of farming, he joined the Bank of New Zealand. Last year he retired from the managership of the 'J> Aro branch after 25 years' service in that position. He is one of three gentlemen recently appointed to be a Soldiers' Financial Assistance Board.

George Frost (sitting member) is a. retired builder, and has been a member of the City Council for twelve years. He, was Mayor of Melrose at the time of tho borough's amalgamation with the ciiy. On the council he has been chairman of the Reserves\ Committee for six years and a member-of the Tramways, Finance, and Outlying Districts Committees. .He is at present chairman of the Technical Education Board, and has also occupied a seat on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. ' :

James Gortber (sitting member), caterer and confectioner, was a member of the council from 1901 to 1909, and again from 1911 to the present. He has,been associated with other, public .bodies,' including tho Hospital Board (for six ' years), and has been prominently connected with the work of friendly societies. He is chairman of the Public Health Committee, (which has dealt with the milk and fish, market questions. John Edward Jenkinson, head of the firm of Jenkinson, Ltd., motor: and cycle manufacturers, was for 21 years a member of the Legislative Council. His father was. a member of the first Dunedih Town Board. He himself has taken a prominent part in'the work: of the Early Settlers' Association. Martin Maxwell Fleming Luckie (sitting member) entered the council four years ago. He is a member of, the-legal firm of Field, Luckie, and Sladden. A son of the late Mr. D. M. Luckie, late Commissioner of the Government Life Insurance, he was educated at Wellington College. He has been' to the . fore in the athletic life of the city, especially cricket, having been for some time chairman of the Cricket Association Committee. • - - ; . Charles John: Boyd Norwood was for many years connected with the Gas Company, besides being a director of several large trading concerns. 'He is r.ow managing director of the Dominion Motor Vehicles. Ltd. For two years he has been president of the Wellington Provincial Industrial- Association, arid vice-president of the Industrial Corporation of New, Zealand. : " John Oline Shorland, cycle-dealer, of Cuba-street, has been chairman of the .Island Bay School Committee for some ! years. He was at one time a champion cyclist. He has been specially nominate ed by the Island Bay Batepayers' Association. ■ ". .' '■: .''.' John Sidney Swan is a member'of the firm of Swan and Swan, architects. For the past 25 years he has been a resident of Wellington, well-known, though not taking a leading part in public affairs. Alexander Veitch . (sitting member) was first elected, two years ago. He lias lately retired from active business life* < but was formerly head of the firm < of Veitch and 'Allan. For some years he : was a member of the Clyde-quay School Committee.; part of the time as chairman ; and he was the first chairman of the Wellington Employers' Association-. In bowling circles he is well .known. Robert' Alexander Wright (sitting member) is a partner in, the. printing 1 firm of Wright and Carman. From 1908 to 1911 he represented Wellington South. in Parliament, and since 19i4 he hasbeen the member for Suburbs.' .He'is a. member of the Education Board, the Harbour Board, and the Victoria College Council. He was an Unsuccessful candidate for the: Mayoralty in 1912, and became a councillor and "a member of the Harbour Board in 1913. He is chairman of the Baths,-' Libraries, and Beaches Committee of the council ', CITIZENS' " TICKET." The Citizens' "Ticket" comprises the thirteen sitting councillors who are seeking re-election; the seven, on 1 the Municipal Association ticket, and the following six in addition. William Henry Peter Barber (sitting . member), has been on the council since 1910, and is chairman of the Bylaws, Fire Brigade, and Street-Lighting Committee For a long period ending in 1905 he was a member of Parliament, representing Wellington constituencies. He is chairman o{ directors of the Wellington Woollen Co., and of the Opera House Co.. and is- a director also of financial and joint stock companies. ./ Thomas Bush (sitting member) was formerly in the soft goods trade. He entered the council two years ago, and has been a member of the Reserves, Public Health, Bylaws, Fire Brigade, and Street-Lighting Committees. He is treasurer of the Bed Cross Shop. In bowling circles he is a popular figure, a past president of the Wellington Club, and a member of the executive of the Dominion Association since its inception. He has also been a member of the Master Drapers and Employers' Associations. .

John Edwin Fitzgerald (sitting member) is a motor importer and engineer, and has twice been a candidate for Parliament. At one time Mayor of Onslow, he was electee! to tho City Council in 1909. He lias also been a member.of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. He is now a member of the Technical Education Board.

William Thomas Hildreth (sitting member) of the New Zealand Bottle Exchange, first entered public life in Karon', where he served on the Borough Council. He became a, member of the City Council and of the Harbour Board at the liist elections. ' He has long ..been identified with public affairs in tho suburb in which he resides.

Leu. .'M'Kenzie (sitting member) js a ■ chemist, by profession, and has been president of the New ZeaJand Chemists' Association; secretary and treasurer of the Wellington Pharma-ceuticaJ Association, and a member of the New Zealand

Pharmacy Board. He was first elected to the council in 1911, and is chairman of the Outlying Districts Committee. He has taken an active interest in sports and, as a member of the To Aro School Committee, in education.

W. J. Thompson (sitting member) is head of the mercantile firm of Thompson Bros., and has been on the council sinca 1913. He is a member of no fewer than five council committees: Tramways and Power Stations, Reserves and Public Gardens, Bylaws, Fire Brigade and Street Lighting, Baths and Libraries, and Outlying Districts. He is also president of the Employers' Association, a member of the Technical Education Board, Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, and Industrial Association Executive. For eight ot ten years he was on tho Te Aro School Committee. As a member of" the Rose and Carnation Club ho assisted in having the rosary formed at the Zoo. LABOUR "TICKET." Charles Henry Chapman came to New Zealand in 1905. In England previously he had fought with the Labour Party in 1893, and was secretary of the London Federation of the 1.L.P., of which he was subsequently elected a life-member. He contested the Wellington South seat at the General Election in 1908, and stood for the City Council in 190 D and 1913. John Glover followed mining occupations, in New Zealand and at Home for thirty years. For the past five years he has been manager of the Maoriland Worker. Before coming to Wellington ho was secretary of the old Federation J of Labour, Workmen's Inspector at the State mines, and president of the Runanga Co-operative Society. He is now secretary' of the New Zealand Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party. Ha was an unsuccessful candidate for the Mayoralty in 1914: Henry Edmund Holland, editor of the Maoriland Worker since 1913, has been connected with Labour journalism all his working da.ys. He was for 23 years manager of the Australian Workman (now absorbed by the Australian Worker). He came to New Zealand in 1912 on a, health trip and afterwards made his home here. He is on the National Executive of the New Zealand Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party, and has pievionsly conrested Pailiament, MayoraJ, and City Council elections. John Hutchison is a bootmaker by trade, and has been secretary for some time past of the Wellington Boot Operatives' Union and the New Zealand Boot Operatives' Federation. Recently he was elected secretary of the Wellington Tramways Union. Edward Kennedy, a West' Coaster by birth, was for some years a miner, but i came to Wellington fourteen years ago. I He has been president of the Trades and Labour Council, and secretary of a number of unions. He is now secretary of the Labour Representation. Committee and assistant secretary of the Hotel Workers' Union. He has been.a candidate for the council previously, i James, M'Kenzie, a native of Scotland, : came to New Zealand about eight years ago, and worked for come years in the grocery trade. He has been president of' the Trades and Labour Council, and is now chairman of the Labour Representation Committee, vice-president ■of the New Zealand Labour Parly, and secretary of the Grocers' Assistants' and other unions. John- Read is English by birth, and , has worked in New Zealand as an enI gine-driver, subsequently he-coming secI retary of the Wellington Union. He is i president of the Wellington Trades and j Labour Council, and was formerly secretary of the Social Democratic Party. i He is secretary of the Dairy Workers, | Laundry Workers, and Timber Workers' Unions in Wellington. ~ 1 William Wiles, a locomotive enginedriver, was formerly president of the Railway Loco. Association, and is now prominently connected with that organisation, and with the State Servants' Council. He has been a member of the . Newtown School Committee 'for two years. This year he was an unsuccessful candidate for the position of workers' ' representative on the Arbitration Court. INDEPENDENT. John Castle, chemist, of Nowtown, has been prominent in public affairs in Wellington South. For eight years he has be|an chairman of the Newtown .School Committee. He was founder of the Wellington South Progressive Society, and is now secretary, and treasurer of the Zoological Society. Francis Eugene M'Parland, licensee of I tho. Tramways Hotel, . Newtown, was I born, on the West Coast, where , : his j father was the first Mayor of Brunner- [ ton". He has lived in Wellington for 25 years, being engaged for '20 years in the bakery and storekeeping trade, and five years as hotel proprietor. He is president of the West Coasters' Association, well known in sporting circles, and has lr)ng been interested in general and municipal politics. Edward Perry, tobacconist, of Man-ners-street, is known 'better as "Ned" Perry. Before losing ah arm in an accident," he was to the front as an all-round athlete, prominent in swimming, rowing, cricket, and Rugby. He.twice represent- j cd the North Island at Rugby, and lie holds the highest awards of the Royal Humane Society for life-saving.