MR. H. L. TAPLEY.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 10

MR. H. L. TAPLEY.

Mr. Harold Livingstqn Tapley, M.P. for Dunedin North, was born at Semaphore, South Australia, in 1875, and was educated in South Australia He came to Dunedin in 1893, and established his present business of shipping stevedoring, and insurance agents in 1900. From 1907 to 1911 he was a member of the Dunedin City Council,, and from 1908 to 1911 he was a member of the Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. He was a member of the Otago Harbour Board from 1913 to 1920, and: was chairman of the board in 1918 and 1920. In 1921 he was again elected to the City Council, and two years later he was elected Mayor. Last year h» received the compliment of being re elected without opposition to.the Mayoralty for a second term of. two year* Since 1923 Mr. Tapley has been a member of tho Board of Governors of the Otago Boys' High School and of tho Technical College. He was appointed City Sinking Fund Commissioner two years ago, and about that time became a member'of'the Ocean Beach Domain Board. Mr. Tapley was one of the originators of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, and acted as chairman of the Organising Committee in its initial stages of the formation of the company. He is a director of the company, and a vice-patron of the Exhibition. He has been president of the Overseas Club since .1921. My. Tapley was associated with the old volunteer system. He was a, captain in the B Battery, jSf.Z.F.A., and was afterwards transferred to the reserve of officers in the * Territorials. On tho. outbreak of war he was appointed captain of the Coast Defence Infantry for home service, and is still on the. reserve of officers.