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Whitford James Brown, OBE CBE (13 May 1910 – 14 April 1986) was the foundation mayor of Porirua City, a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, for 21 years from 1962 to 1983. Porirua, when "Brownie" and "Francie" moved there, was part of what was then called the Makara County Council. In 1961, the Local Government Commission deemed that Porirua should become a borough. The region had its first elections in October 1962, and, since Brownie (as well as his wife Francie) had already been involved in local affairs since shifting there from Wanganui, they became Porirua's first Mayor and Mayoress. ==Biography== Whitford James Richard Brown was born at Maori Creek near Greymouth in the South Island on 13 May 1910. Brown moved to Wanganui as a teenager, then transferred from the New Zealand Public Works Department to the New Zealand Railways Department at Wanganui, where he worked as a civil engineer until shifting to Porirua East in Christmas 1954 to work in the New Zealand Railways Head Office in Wellington. After his marriage to Frances Ward, daughter of New Zealand astronomer Joseph Thomas Ward, Whitford Brown and his family settled in Porirua East. Their 4 Martin Street home was one of many in the Government's state housing scheme but, at this time, there were relatively few houses at all in the area and remote from shops and other facilities. He first stood for the then Makara County Council in 1959, and although he was unsuccessful, was elected at a by-election the following year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whitford Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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