词条 | Neville Pickering |
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|honorific-prefix = |name = Neville Pickering |honorific-suffix = MBE JP |image = |imagesize = |smallimage = |alt = |caption = |order = 41st |office = Mayor of Christchurch |term_start = 1971 |term_end = 1974 |alongside = |vicepresident = |viceprimeminister = |deputy = |lieutenant = |monarch = |president = |primeminister = |taoiseach = |chancellor = |governor = |governor-general = |governor_general = |succeeding = |predecessor = Ron Guthrey |successor = Hamish Hay |constituency = |majority = |order2 = |constituency_MP2 = St Albans |parliament2 = New Zealand |term_start2 = 30 November 1957 |term_end2 = 31 October 1960 |predecessor2 = Jack Watts |successor2 = Bert Walker |majority2 = |birth_date = 18 November 1923 |birth_place = |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1988|06|25|1923|11|18}} |death_place = |restingplace = Memorial Park Cemetery, Christchurch |restingplacecoordinates = |birthname = |nationality = New Zealand |party = Labour |otherparty = |spouse = Alexia Pickering |partner = |relations = |children = |residence = |alma_mater = |occupation = |profession = |portfolio = |religion = |signature = |signature_alt= |website = |footnotes = }} Neville George Pickering {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (18 November 1923 – 25 June 1988) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Early lifePickering was born in 1923.[1] He married Alexia Pickering, who would become a notable disability advocate. They adopted three children before she had another child of her own.[2] Political career{{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=left}}{{NZ parlbox|start={{NZ election link year|1957}}|end=1960 |term=32nd |electorate=St Albans |party=New Zealand Labour Party }}{{end}} In the {{NZ election link year|1949}} and {{NZ election link|1951}}s, Pickering stood in the {{NZ electorate link|Awarua}} electorate, but lost against the incumbent, George Richard Herron of the National Party. In the {{NZ election link|1954}}, he lost against Alfred James Davey in the {{NZ electorate link|Waimate}} electorate. Pickering won the 1957 election in the St Albans electorate in 1957, one of six new Labour MPs.[3] He was defeated in the 1960 election by Bert Walker.[4] In 1962, Pickering was elected onto Christchurch City Council.[5] He served for nine years as a councillor before he was elected Mayor of Christchurch from 1971 to 1974, when he was defeated by Hamish Hay.[6] In 1972, Pickering boycotted an Anzac Day wreath-laying at Cathedral Square, protesting against the Returned Services' Association's restrictions on who could lay wreaths.[7] Having lost the mayoralty, his wife insisted on moving back to Wellington.[2] In the {{NZ election link|1978}}, he stood in the {{NZ electorate link|Wellington Central}} electorate but lost against Ken Comber.[8] Two years later he stood for the Wellington City Council and narrowly missed out on election.[9] Awards and commemorationIn the 1985 New Year Honours, PIckering was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to local government.[10] Pickering Courts, a council housing project in St Albans designed for the elderly containing 25 units built in 1978 was named in his honour.[1] Pickering died on 25 June 1988 and is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch.[11] His wife, who subsequently remarried, died in 2017.[2][12][13] References1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/PlaceNames/Miscellaneous.pdf |title=Christchurch Place Names |last=Harper |first=Margaret |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries |page=93 |date=May 2015 |accessdate=12 June 2015 |location=Christchurch}} {{s-start}}{{s-par | nz}}{{s-bef | before = Jack Watts}}{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for St Albans | years = 1957–1960}}{{s-aft | after = Bert Walker}}2. ^1 2 {{cite journal |issn=1178-4717 |date=July 2008 |title=A Life Most Ordinary |url= |journal=Rise |publisher=Ministry of Social Development |volume= |issue=3 |pages=6–8 |doi= }} 3. ^{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MBR1HzT96X4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+lifetime+in+politics:+the+memoirs+of+Warren+Freer&hl=en&ei=Ys1jTIKbDI3uvQPU_YWfCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=A lifetime in politics |authorlink=Warren Freer |first=Warren |last=Freer |page=113 |year=2004 |isbn=0864734786 |publisher=Victoria University Press }} 4. ^{{cite book |ref = harv |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |origyear=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 |page=227}} 5. ^{{cite web|url= http://www1.ccc.govt.nz/handbook/councillorsofthecityofchristchurch.asp| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110720010657/http://www1.ccc.govt.nz/handbook/councillorsofthecityofchristchurch.asp | archivedate = 20 July 2011 |title=Councillors of the City of Christchurch |publisher=Christchurch City Council|accessdate=12 May 2010|location=Christchurch}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/christchurch-city-council/news/article.cfm?o_id=600647&objectid=10531055 |title=Former Christchurch mayor dies |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=8 September 2008 |accessdate=21 May 2010}} 7. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nUwVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cuUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1253%2C9682510 |title=Fists fly as youths try to lay wreaths |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Google |date=26 April 1972 |accessdate=13 June 2015}} 8. ^{{cite book |ref = harv |last = Norton |first = Clifford |authorlink = |title = New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science |year = 1988 |publisher = Victoria University of Wellington |location = Wellington |isbn = 0-475-11200-8 |page=?}} 9. ^{{cite report |last=Smyth |first=A.J. |date=24 October 1980 |title=Declaration of Election Results |url= |publisher=Wellington City Council |page= |docket= |access-date= }} 10. ^London Gazette (supplement), No. 49970, 28 December 1984. Retrieved 3 February 2013. 11. ^{{cite web |title=Result Detail |url=http://heritage.christchurchcitylibraries.com/Cemeteries/interment.asp?id=62805 |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries |accessdate=12 June 2015}} 12. ^{{cite news|last1=Manson|first1=Bess|title=Alexa Pickering - A formidable advocate for New Zealanders with disabilities|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/inspire-me/67468059/Alexa-Pickering-A-formidable-advocate-for-New-Zealanders-with-disabilities|accessdate=12 June 2015|work=Stuff.co.nz|date=21 March 2015}} 13. ^{{cite news | url=http://deaths.dompost.co.nz/obituaries/dominion-post-nz/obituary.aspx?n=alexia-pickering&pid=185236798 | title=Alexia Pickering death notice | work=Dominion Post | date=29 April 2017| accessdate=29 April 2017}} |-{{s-off}}{{s-bef | before = Ron Guthrey}}{{s-ttl | title = Mayor of Christchurch |years = 1971–1974}}{{s-aft | after = Hamish Hay }}{{end}}{{Mayors of Christchurch}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Pickering, Neville George}} 14 : 1923 births|1988 deaths|Burials at Memorial Park Cemetery, Christchurch|Mayors of Christchurch|New Zealand Labour Party MPs|New Zealand MPs for Christchurch electorates|New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire|Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives|Unsuccessful candidates in the 1949 New Zealand general election|Unsuccessful candidates in the 1951 New Zealand general election|Unsuccessful candidates in the 1954 New Zealand general election|Unsuccessful candidates in the 1960 New Zealand general election|Unsuccessful candidates in the 1978 New Zealand general election|20th-century New Zealand politicians |
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