Talk:Mayor of Invercargill

Source information may need correcting
I've heavily relied on the mayoral history pages on the Invercargill City Council (ICC) website to compile this list of mayors. Some details didn't quite stack up (e.g. there were some periods left blank) and so I've looked at contemporary newspaper sources. I'll document here where the discrepancies are and will then contact the Council, inviting them to compare this against their sources. Hopefully, we'll end up with two records that show the same information. So here we go: I hope this is all that needs looking into.  Schwede 66  04:41, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The ICC website says that C.S. Longuet was mayor in 1901-2. I reckon that he was mayor in 1901–1903. He handed over the chair to the new mayor (Frogatt) in May 1903 according to this source.
 * The ICC website says that Geo. Frogatt was mayor in 1902-1903. I reckon that he was mayor in 1903–1904. This source from May 1904 mentions in about the ninth paragraph that Scandrett is mayor-elect, and Frogatt is the outgoing mayor.
 * The ICC website says that D. McFarlane was mayor in 1913-14, 1915-16. I reckon that he was mayor in 1913–1917, i.e. without a break in between. Here's what I've found about that period:
 * April 1914 Duncan McFarlane re-elected against William Ott.
 * November 1914 Mayor McFarlane presiding over a meeting.
 * April 1915 Duncan McFarlane re-elected.
 * March 1916 McFarlane still mayor; I couldn't find any evidence of there having been an election in 1916.
 * April 1917 Stead succeeding McFarlane.
 * And a minor issue is that Shadbolt (first elected in 1993) is mayor number 42, and Harrington (first elected in 1995) is mayor number 43 – and not the other way round as it's stated on the ICC website.
 * When I've got time (hopefully tonight) I'll compare this list against the list of Mayors in J.O.P. Watt's 1971 centenary history. I'll also double check some spellings while I'm at it - particularly Frogatt (Watt has Froggatt, a road near Invercargill is named Froggat). Daveosaurus (talk) 05:19, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I've been through it. I also double checked some of the names against the ICC cemetery search site (which has photos of the headstones) and fixed a couple of spellings and got the missing first names. (Russell Miller was a bit more recent but his name can be verified here: ). This is a typical photograph from the cemetery web site: . Daveosaurus (talk) 07:05, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Cool! Shall we try and add some more text to this, and then nominate it for DYK? List content doesn't count towards it, so it needs to be the history section etc. It currently has 466 bytes and it needs 1500 bytes to be eligible, i.e. some additional 150 words or so. It needs to be in within five days of the article having been published, so we'll have the weekend to get this done. Keen?  Schwede 66  23:41, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK
I've submitted this to DYK.  Schwede 66  20:06, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Jewish mayor(s)
I've found a source saying that Eve Poole was the only Jewish mayor so far. A blog claims that Abraham Wachner was also a Jew. Does Watt's book shed any light on this? Or any other source that's acceptable (a blog certainly isn't)?  Schwede 66  05:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Abraham Wachner's pen-portrait in Watt's book makes no reference to his religion; neither does his gravestone from the Council cemetery web site. Checking the blog in question, the comment is not made by the blogger but by an anonymous commenter, who also mistakenly claims the Troopers' Memorial as a World War memorial (it is in fact a Boer War memorial), so I would discount that claim entirely unless a reliable source can be found. Daveosaurus (talk) 08:17, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Found http://jewishonlinemuseum.org/jewish-lives-southern-lands which says Abraham Wachner (1892–1950), the first New Zealand Jewish man to be wounded at Gallipoli, became a valuable member of the Invercargill City Council in 1938, the city’s deputy mayor in 1941, and its mayor from 1942 to 1950. Had a look at the Auckland Museum and found http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C57638 which lists his religion as Jewish.

More about him http://keteinvercargill.peoplesnetworknz.info/kete_invercargill/images/show/168-abraham-wachner-obe Linnah (talk) 13:16, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

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