Jesse Piper

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Jesse Piper
10th Mayor of Nelson
In office
1904–1905
Preceded by Henry Baigent
Succeeded byHenry Baigent
In office
1906–1910
Preceded byHenry Baigent
Succeeded by Thomas Pettit
Personal details
Born1836
Hastings, Sussex, England
Died (aged 83)
Nelson, New Zealand

Jesse Piper (1836 – 21 April 1920) was a Nelson, New Zealand city councillor and mayor.

Nelson, New Zealand City in Nelson City, New Zealand

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Early life

Piper was born in 1836 at Hastings, Sussex, England. He went to sea as a youth. [1] On the outbreak of the Crimean War joined the storeship HMS Apollo and sailed to Malta. Once there he was transferred to the express boat Banshee, and then to HMS Britannia, the flagship of Admiral Dundas. Later Piper served on the paddle steamer Cyclops, which took the 28th Regiment from Malta to Gallipoli. Piper was injured and discharged from the navy. He joined the merchant service until 1860.

Hastings Town and Borough in United Kingdom

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He then became a storekeeper in Hastings until he migrated to New Zealand from London on 24 July 1872 [2] on the ship Asterope arriving at Nelson on 19 October 1872. [3] Piper settled in Nelson, and ran the YMCA hostel on the corner or Bridge and Collingwood Street until 1883, [4] when he retired from business.

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Politics

Local body

In 1890 Piper was elected to the City Council and in April 1904 was elected mayor. He lost the mayoralty in April 1905 to Henry Baigent. [5] He stood again in 1906 and was re-elected until 1910. In the 1910 election he was defeated by Thomas Pettit. [6]

Henry Baigent was a timber miller, and served as a Nelson city councillor and mayor. The Nelson firm of H Baigent and Sons Ltd was formed by him. His funeral was noted as one of the largest that had ever taken place in Nelson.

Thomas Pettit was a city councillor and Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand, a baker, temperance advocate, and Baptist.

Parliament

Joseph Shephard resigned on 15 April 1885 from the Waimea electorate when he was appointed to the Legislative Council. The resulting 1885 by-election, which was held on 3 June, was contested by six candidates: John Kerr (253 votes), W. N. Franklyn (250 votes), William White (94 votes), Christian Dencker (91 votes), W. Wastney (59 votes) and Jesse Piper (32 votes). Kerr was thus elected. [7] [8]

Joseph Shephard was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Nelson, New Zealand.

Waimea was a parliamentary electorate in the Nelson Province of New Zealand, from 1853 to 1887.

New Zealand Legislative Council Upper House of the Parliament of New Zealand (1841 - 1951)

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Piper unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in the City of Nelson electorate on several occasions. In the 1884 election, he came second against Henry Levestam. [9] In the 1887 election, the electorate was contested by Henry Levestam, Piper and WB Gibbs (a son of William Gibbs), and he came second. [10] [11] In the 1896 election, he came second against John Graham. [12]

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1884 New Zealand general election

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Henry Augustus Levestam was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Nelson, New Zealand.

Piper was noted as a man of firm convictions. [1]

Community service

Piper was a member of the Hospital Board for a time, a prominent member of the Recabite Order and interested in the temperance movement. He was a trustee of the local YMCA. [1] Piper was a Justice of the Peace (JP). He became a member of the Nelson Charitable Aid Board in 1890. In May 1890, members of the Nelson Charitable Aid Board, including Piper, made a surprise visit to the Stoke Industrial School. The school, also called St. Mary's Orphanage, was a privately run, Roman Catholic, reform school. The inspectors found two boys locked in solitary confinement cells. This discovery and other matters lead to the tabling of The Royal Commission Report on Stoke Industrial School, Nelson. [13] Piper testified under oath to the Royal Commission. [14]

Death

Piper died at his Waimea Road residence in Nelson on 21 April 1920, aged 83, [1] and was buried at Wakapuaka Cemetery. [15] He was survived by his second wife. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Obituary". Colonist. LXII (15357). 22 April 1920. p. 4. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Government Immigration, Timaru Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 791, 26 August 1872, Page 3
  3. ↑ Arrival of the ship Asterope from London, Colonist, Volume XV, Issue 1574, 22 October 1872, Page 2
  4. ↑ Untitled, Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 238, 10 October 1883, Page 2
  5. ↑ Ex Mayors, page 42, The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts], The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1906, Christchurch
  6. ↑ Page 2, Advertisements Column 3, Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12779, 28 April 1910
  7. ↑ "Official Declaration of the Poll". Colonist. XXVIII (4170). 20 June 1885. p. 1. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  8. ↑ "Summary Notes". Colonist. XXVIII (4122). 25 April 1885. p. 3. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  9. ↑ "The General Election, 1884". National Library. 1884. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  10. ↑ "The City Election". Nelson Evening Mail. XXI (222). 19 September 1887. p. 2. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  11. ↑ "The General Election, 1887". National Library. 1887. p. 2. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  12. ↑ "The Nelson Election". Nelson Evening Mail . XXX (292). 10 December 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  13. ↑ 1900 New Zealand, Stoke Industrial School, Nelson (Report of Royal Commission On, Together With Correspondence, Evidence and Appendix), Government Printer: Wellington.
  14. ↑ Piper J. 1890, Testimony to the Stoke Industrial School Royal Commission, 26-28.
  15. ↑ "Cemeteries database". Nelson City Council. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
Political offices
Preceded by
Henry Baigent 		Mayor of Nelson
1904–1905
1906–1910		Succeeded by
Henry Baigent
Succeeded by
Thomas Pettit
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