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Neville Pickering was born on 18 November, 1923 in Hāwera, New Zealand, is a New Zealand politician. Discover Neville Pickering's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 18 November, 1923
Birthday 18 November
Birthplace Hāwera, New Zealand
Date of death 25 June, 1988
Died Place Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1923

Neville George Pickering (18 November 1923 – 25 June 1988) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Pickering was born in Hāwera in 1923.

He was educated at Hamilton Technical College where he was also keen sportsman.

In his youth he represented both Hamilton and Bay of Plenty at cricket.

He married Alexia Pickering, who would become a notable disability advocate.

They adopted three children before she had another child of her own.

He was also vice-president of the South Canterbury Rugby Referees' Association.

1948

In 1948 he began his first posting in the Labour Party as their Southland party organiser, leading to him standing in the and s, in the electorate, but lost against the incumbent, George Richard Herron of the National Party.

1950

From 1950 to 1952 Pickering was the business manager of the Grey River Argus, a Labour newspaper in Greymouth before leaving for Wellington in 1953 to become an assistant research officer at Labour's head office.

1956

In 1956 he took up position as Labour's South Island organiser.

In the, he lost against Alfred Davey in the electorate.

He settled in the electorate nonetheless to work for the Prudential life insurance company in Timaru.

1957

After initially refusing nomination, Pickering stood in the 1957 election in the St Albans electorate (Labour's initial candidate Desmond J. Scott withdrew for health reasons).

1960

This time he was successful and became one of six new Labour MPs. He was defeated in the 1960 election by Bert Walker.

Following his defeat, Pickering gained employment as manager of the Atlas Rubber Company.

1962

He was later a contender for the Labour nomination at the 1962 Buller by-election, though lost the nomination race to Bill Rowling.

Pickering also declared his intention to seek the Labour nomination at the 1962 Timaru by-election after Clyde Carr announced his resignation.

As a former resident his intentions were welcomed and received endorsement from trade union leader Fintan Patrick Walsh.

In October 1962, Pickering was elected a member of the Christchurch City Council.

1963

Several weeks later he withdrew his name from the race at the insistence of the chairman of the St Albans electorate who wanted to retain him in Christchurch, convinced Pickering could win the seat back in 1963.

He later reconsidered after receiving "overwhelming representations" from various union and party members urging him to seek nomination.

He was ultimately not selected for the nomination.

1971

He served for nine years as a councillor before he was elected Mayor of Christchurch in 1971.

Upon his election as mayor he resigned his job at Atlas Rubber to be Mayor full-time which he saw the role of as bringing the people closer to the council.

As one of his first acts as mayor he reinstituted the wearing of full mayoral robes and regalia, which many saw as a contradiction to his status as a Labour mayor.

His time as mayor was marked by stormy debates among councillors and disagreements with officials where Pickering's style of leadership drew contrary descriptions; some describing him as a vigorous and decisive leader with keen political acumen, others saw him as arrogant.

Pickering's time as mayor was not helped by the fact he was leading a largely inexperienced council.

Aside from himself only two Labour council members (Durham Dowell and Robert Macfarlane) had any previous local-body experience.

This became especially difficult when it came to appointing committee chairmanships which were allocated largely according to party strength and thusly several more experienced Citizens' candidates were passed over.

1972

In 1972, Pickering boycotted an Anzac Day wreath-laying at Cathedral Square, protesting against the Returned Services' Association's restrictions on who could lay wreaths.

1974

The dominant issue during Pickering's time as mayor was Christchurch's hosting of the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.

He fulfilled an election pledge to leave Hagley Park untouched and build a purpose built facility for the games athletic events, which resulted in the construction of Queen Elizabeth II Park.

Pickering insisted on the construction of a permanent facility for the city to have after the games' completion.

This caused some concern by the games organising committee, who worried that the facilities might not be built to meet the deadlines and/or quality standards, though they were both met comfortably.

In recognition to his contribution to the games, Pickering was given the honorary title of "President of the Tenth Commonwealth Games".

In 1974 he was defeated for the mayoralty by Hamish Hay.

It was a closely fought election with a large turnout.

Pickering actually increased his vote share, but overall the increased voter turnout favoured Hay leading The Press to state the result was out of increased interest rather than a swing of public opinion.

Having lost the mayoralty, his wife insisted on moving back to Wellington.

1975

There, in early 1975, he was appointed by the Third Labour Government to a post with the Local Government Commission.