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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 202, 24 May 1944, Page 9

THE MAN I THINK IS GOING TO BE OUR FUTURE MAYOR Bl I''-' WILL APPLETON Perhaps you don’t know Will Appleton interest In a company which owns another ns I do. I would like to tell yon some- block. He was responsible for demolishthins about him. Politically lam anti- ing two verv old buildings which housed conservative, so when I met a man who j n all four families. In their place there was able to retire from active business have been built 27 flats, let at reasonable at 42 I was rather curious, wondered rentals, with accommodation for at least how it was done. I could not delve into so people, plus 5 modern shops, every hour of the past, hut I Checked as wlll _A P pi e ton is also a director of sevmuch as I could. era i companies employing some hundreds For a start I discovered one who could of nands He was asked to accept these give up the pursuit of private gain when positions more as a recognition of his outhe considered he had enough to live on standing business ability than for the precomfortably, without that fear of the rO g a tive of financial Interest. I could not future which assails so many of us. I flnd workers in them to complain of their wouldn’t mind being able to do that treatment during his association with the either, would you? Arms, but I did .find many cases where the Recently I met some old folks from wage award was the minimum and where Otago Central. They knew WHI as a boy he j ia( j introduced bonus or profit-sharing and his Dad as electorate secretary for systems Dick Seddon’s party. They remembered • . ’ . . comnlaint the youngster starting as a telegraph boy of at 10/- a week, and hfs departure fox’ Wei- Je had eent to the Works Committee of lln?ton ss a cadet on 25/- a week- the City Council, and bls pleasure at reO g thers here took up/the threads with bT learning C ™ my fS that Will di^'h S eig a hts ofTsto’res cl 4 ln g the Post Apptetoni^igate d every «omptaUt sent and Telegraph Department. Although he to him ’“ d „veplied personally. That was qualified as an accountant his salary was pnolfrti abote £l2O p.a. He wae not 21 then; not bad .. Bu ‘ e “° ug “„ , 2~v»nt £?« tel-’ progress for those times, but he resigned x the business man and servant: of is fe To hf'COTYiA TionlckPArypr to nn Advortifiin o ' low Citizens, except to mention XIIS KB6D Agency at £2/1 J/week AdTertlBin ’ interest and Chairmanship of the WellingOn £4/K>/-'» week Will Appleton built |on Technical College Board of Governors, a home at Khandallah with the aid Of the “X Hosnlta? Boa?d Io? a State Advances Department. He fenced aad . alB ° °£ ‘he Hospital Board : for a the section himself, and had to raise a th#* second mortgage of £l5O from Mr. Martin wlu-nLn on the iLuckie, to complete the home. Even in { lagt0 Pinnknt those early days he made time for public «•„ S t ory n s l ° n JJ!t itt l e ;o °«onnte’ t 4««ncintten t service. With other young fellows he Interest In tbitree ground himself in public speaking at a SLJ 1 thlnse church debating club. Some of the mem- that affect the people s welfare, hers decided to exercise their talents in Now for his home. It’s not so full as local body work. when I first came to Wellington. The At the age of 27 Will Appleton topped four boys got into the fight early, the the poll in an election for the Onslow youngest, just turned 21, is a Flying Borough Council where he was one of the Officer in the Typhoon Squadron, and has far-sighted leaders who fought to have been busy over Europe for two years. Onslow (Khandallah, - Ngalo and Kai- Another was in Libya, Greece, and Crete—warra) amalgamated with the City. Long Range Desert Patrol—he has been a Will Appleton got ,on well in the adver- prisoner of war in Germany for three tising business and became the head ot years. One is in the Pacific. The eldest the Company when his partner died. For and first to enlist was rejected on medical some years the enterprise had been con- grounds for overseas, but he served here ducted on a co-operative basis. Due to in various units, and for the last two years the profit-sharing system the staff had ac- has been a Y.M.CA. Secretary in a large quired practically half the share-holding, military camp. None of these boys had and on his retirement Will Appleton ar- a sliver-spoon start either. Two were ranged to transfer the remaining portion farmers, another an apprentice lino of his interest to the staff on liberal terms. operator, and the youngest was learning I thought there might be a catch in this. journalism when the big scrap started, so I asked several members of the staff I found their home ’’homely,”-no serjust what occurred. It was a fact, and vants, no fuss. Mrs. Appleton, the bearer a generous one. That made me think of the usual household burdens of most there must be something worth-while in wives. The 17-year-old daughter is learn- * man who so long ago took a step that ing shorthand and typing to fit herself many great leaders of industry and com- for a commercial career. Every Tuesday merce today see as an inevitable link in finds Mrs. Appleton working at the the chain of social progress—proflt-sbar- Mayoress’s Wool Section of the Patriotic ing. Committee, working alongside others who Like others I heard the rumour that think in practical terms of their own boys Will Appleton was a wealthy flat-owner. and those of other wives and mothers. He is not wealthy but comfortably off Thursdays she is among women volunteers through thrift; he lives modestly and is packing parcels for the Patriotic Fund a quiet benefactor. I found he did own Board. one block of nine flats subject to a sub- In my opinion they are a great family, stantial mortgage. He also has a tenth I hope you do, too. If so, you will vote WILL APPLETON FOR MAYOR ON SATURDAY (Inserted by a fellow-New Zealander, i(j years a Trade Union Member.)

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