New Members.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 137, 9 December 1896, Page 2

New Members.

MB GEORGE HUNTER (WAIPAWA). Mr George Hunter, who has been elected for Waipawa, is a son of the late MrG. Hunter, one of Wellington's earliest settlers. The son, who was born in Wellington, is about 36 years of age, and was educated there. He is truly "a chip of the old block." Ho is a sheepfaruoer on a large scale at Forangahau, where his station buildings are like a township, and noted throughout Hawke's Bay for their completeness. Generous to a fault, solicitous of the good of every man in the place, he is one of the most popular men in the province. He has in his three campaigns developed into a ready speaker, dealing very effect* ivtily with his subjects. HON. WM. BOLLB3TOW (KICCABTON). The Hoa William Bolleston is the son of the late Rev. George Rolleston, MA , who for more than fifty years w;is Rector for Maltby, near Doncaste.r, in Yorkshire. The Hon. Mr Rolleston was born on September 19tb, 1831, and was educated at Kossall School, Lancashire, under the late Dr Woolley. Entering at Emanuel College in 1851 he became Foundation Scholar of his College in the following year. In 1855 he graduated with classical honours. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1858, and settled near Lake Coleridge. Ir 1863 he was appointed a member of the Education Commission which framed the educational system of Canterbury, and in 1864 he became Provincial Secretary and a member of the Canterbury Board of Education. From 1868 to 1884 he was M.H.R. for Avon. He was a member of the Hal Government from October, 1879, to April, 1882, holding the portfolios of Minister of Lands, Immigration, Justice, Mines and Native Affairs for successive periods. In the Whitaker and Atkinson Government?, which succeeded, he was Minister of LaDds, Immigration and Mines, from April, 1882, to August, 1884. In 1891, on the retirement of Mr John Bryce from the leadership of the Opposition to the Ballance Government, he v.as unanimously elected to succeed hia«. Be did much to promote the adoption of the system; of perpetual leases. Mr Rolleston was not returned at the general election in 1593. He opposes Prohibition, the Elective Executive, further borrowing and religious teaching in schools. MR M. GILFEDDER (G.) (WALLACE). Mr Michael Gilfedder is thirty-one years of age, and was born in Southland. After working some time on his father's farm he entered Dunedin Training Col* lege, and was then appointed teacher at the Roman Catholic School, Invercargill. Three years ago be was appointed mas* ter of Wrey : s Bush School, and still holds the position. Mr Gilfedder supports an elective Executive and the referendum. He will uphold the present education system, leaving the question of grants to denominational schools to a referendum . He favors borrowing at the rate of half a mil ion a year for the next two years for public works and land settlemen. MR K. ». I>. MCLEAN (HAWKE'S BAT). Mr R. D. D. McLean, the new member for Napier, is a son of Sir Donald McLean, whose name is still a household word in New Zealand, and was born in Wellington in 1852. A natural love of study, and a desire to fit himself for public life, led him tofarticle himself to Messrs Hart and Bnckley, of Wellington. He then returned to England and entered the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1882, passing tenth in a long list. He did not practice, bnt came back to New Zealand. He owns Maraekababo, a station of some 20,000 acres of fine rolling hills, every acre of which is improved. The station is perhaps, the model one of New Zealand* Mr McLean is a model employer in the best sense of the word, and is well served by a devoted band, most of whom are Highlanders. He is a member of the Heretaunga Road Beard, the Hawke's Bay County Council, the Charitable Aid Board, Hospital Board, &c. MR I. HOLLAND (AUCKLAND CITY) was born in Leicester, England, in 1841, and was educated at the British School, .Leicester. He left England in the ship Persia in May, 1860, arriving in Auckland in August of the same year. In 1861 be went to the Otago goldfields, but returned to Auckland in 1862. He was drafted into the first-class Militia, and was made a sergeant in 1863, con-, tinuing to serve until the Militia was disbanded in 1864. In 1886 he was elected to represent the east ward in the City Council, and held this position continuously till 1893, wben be was elected Mayor of Auckland. He has now been Mayor for three years. Mr Holland has been twice a member of the Auckland Harbour Board, and by virtue of the Mayoral office has served on the Uni. versity College Council and the Auckland College and Grammar School Board of Governors. He has also been a mem* ber of the Licensing Committee for five years, and Chairman of the City Committee for three years. He favours present system of education and the referendum, but is opposed to Elective Executive. He is against farther borrowing unless for something really urgent. MR H. S. FISH (O) (DUNEDIN). Mr H. S. Fish, who re-enters Parliament as one of the members for the City of Dunedin, was boru in London in 1838, but has spent the greater part of his life in Duuedin, anl has been closely identified with politics there for the past thirty years. He has been five years mayor of the city, being elected for tbe first time in 1870, and on tbe last occasion in 1894, while he was unseated on another occasion after bis election, on the ground that he was a contractor under the corporation. On three occasions be was elected to represent Dunedin in the Provincial Council. In 1881 he was first elected to a seat in the House of Representatives, but in 1884, in the contest for Duuedin South, be was defeated by Mr Jas. Gore, upon whom he turned tables in 1887. Mr Fish was one of tbe successful candidates. fqr tbe amalgamated city constituencies. \q 1890, but was defeated in 1893. MB H. BROWN (TABANAKj). Mr Henry Brown was born \n Lincoln., shire, England, in 1842. His father was clergyman of the Churob of England. He was educated at Neuwied and Lausanne. He landed in Taranaki in 1859, and has resided in the district ever since. He served throughout tbe wars with the Natives, holding a Lieutenant's commission in tbe Taranaki Rifle Volunteer Corps ; and has since held a Captain's commission in the New Zealand Militia. For some time be followed farming pursuits, but for the past thirty years has beeu engaged in the sawmilling industry, most of the time at Inglewood, where tun firm of wbich he is tbe seuior partner owns one. of tbe most complete mills on this coast, employing a large amount of labour. Mr Brown has occupied various public positions iv Taraaaki ; is a staunch churchman ; is opposed to further colonial borrowing, except for 'urgent necessities ; a'dvocatVfs reading of the Bible without c/iinm/RU^ in public schools ; inclines to |avour! the. elective Executive, but not th,e %fere\jdmjx.