A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN NEW ZEALAND.
The Liverpool "Weekly Posf'of JH9 12th December says:—" From printewHH devil' to legislator is the record of nHB Dublin man who has recently been electeHffi a member of the New. .Zealand House («B Representatives. Mr George Fisher waSRB bom in Dublin in 1843, and went to Vie-SSB! torn with his father in 1845. Ho was era-HH ployed for a short time in the "Age" as a fIU reading boy but went to Fergusson and ffi Moore's office shortly after, where he H served his apprenticeship as a compositor. H Ho left Melbourne for New Zealand at the B exgduj to Qtago in, 1863, worked at his 1 trade in variqu's parts Qf'lhafe jjqjony, ais 1 lastly at the Gbvernmeht v Prinfcmg Office. | Wellington, in 1870. Mr Fisher took to J newspaper writing, mastered shorthand, JB and became a newspaper' reporter, and is fl now on the "Hansard"'Btaff, He was f elected to the.City Council in 1887. In 1 1881 lio was elected Mayor of Wellington | by the citizens, He :was re-elected in 1882 aud 1883, the poll on the last ' occasion being the largest ever recorded Jffjj for any Mayor of that city, Mr Fieliers JH election to Parliament is one further in-BH cident in a most remarkable career. ~W
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1931, 5 March 1885, Page 2
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216A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN NEW ZEALAND. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1931, 5 March 1885, Page 2
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