NEW COUNTY CHAIRMAN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 252, 1 December 1914, Page 1

NEW COUNTY CHAIRMAN.

Mr J. Flanagan. Mr Joseph Flanagan, the new chairman of the Franklin County Council, was born in County Down Ireland, in 1860 and came out to New Zealand in 1879. Be first lived in Auckland, where be was engaged in the building trade, but in 1883 be took up his residence in Drury, where he has since remained, tie is one of the most prominent Bettlers of the Drury district and is popular everywhere. For eight years he was manager for Mr T. C. Williams of the Karaka Estate, and under his guidance that pro. perty was brought into cultivation. Mr Flanagan took a prominent part in the platform campaign waged in 1907 in. connection with Mr R. McNab's Land-Bill, Until recently he was a member for severs! years of the Farmers' Union Executive and the other offices he has filled include those of chairman and member for many years of the Drury Road Board, director of the Drury Hall Company and member of the Drury School Committee. When the County Council was formed in 1912 he was elected as member for the Drury riding, defeating his opponent, Mr Thomas (Bombay), by 135 votes to 82, and at the elections this month the ratepayers recorded their appreciation of his wotk oq the Council by returning him unopposed. NEW COUNCILLORS.

Councillor T. J. Lockwood, wh« succeeds Mr Campbell as member for the Hunua riding, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1858. He arrived in New Zealand 35 yeats ago and came direct to Hunua, and with the exception ot short periods of residence in different parts of the North Island Mr Lockwood has spent all his subsequent dajs in tbe Hunua district. He follows tbe occupation of farming, and as chairman of the Hunua Road Board and a member of School aud Church Committees he has bad good training for bis office as County Councillor. Councillor T. W. Woods, who takes tbe place of Mr Dynes Fulton as one of tbe two members for the Pukekohe riding, is a New Zealander by birtb, having first seen the light of day in Auckland nearly halt-a-century ago. As a child he came to Pukekohe and has since always lived in the district. He is a farmer by occupation and has been for 17 years and still is a member of the Pukekohe West Road Board.