MR. ELLIOTT L'ESTRANtiE BARTON, MAYOR OF HAWERA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 15

MR. ELLIOTT L'ESTRANtiE BARTON, MAYOR OF HAWERA.

Mr. Elliott L'Estrange Barton, Mayor of Hawera, is a son'of the late Mr. 6. Elliott Barton, who was a well-known lawyer in the late 'seventies in Wellington. Mr. Barton was born in South Yarra, Melbourne, in 18*57, and came to Now Zealand in 1862. He, however, received his education in the South of France, and, returning to Now Zealand, was admitted to the Bar in 1881. -After residing in Patea for a fotv years, he moved to Hawera, in 1884, and has since made that place his home. Mt. Barton intends to contest the Patea seat at the neft general election as an Independent Liberal. In connection with this matter it is interesting to record the fact that Mr. Barton's most strenuous political battle was fought long ago, on behalf of his father, in Wellington, when the son was only nineteen years of age. The stoiy of that struggle ;'is interesting. In tho practice of his profession, Mr. G. Elliott Barton crossed swords in grim earnest with the vSupreme Court Bench, and was committed to prison for contempt of Court. Public feeling, however, was roused over the matter, and the son conducted such an active campaign on his father's behalf that the people returned him in 'triumph to Parliament, while ha was . still 6 prisoner.