Everything about John Hall New Zealand totally explained
Sir John Hall (c.
December 18,
1824 –
June 25,
1907) was born in
Kingston upon Hull,
England, and later became the
Prime Minister of
New Zealand.
Migration to New Zealand
After reading a book on sheep ranching, Hall emigrated to New Zealand, on
Samarang, arriving
July 31,
1852. He developed one of the first large scale sheep farming runs in Canterbury.
In 1853, he was elected to the
Canterbury Provincial Council. He would later rise through the ranks of magistrate, town council Chairman (effectively mayor), and Postmaster-General.
Premier of New Zealand
On
October 8,
1879, he was appointed the Premier of New Zealand, where his ministry carried out reforms of the male suffrage (extending voting rights) and dealt with a conflict with Māori at
Parihaka, although poor health caused him to resign the position less than three years later.
Women's suffrage
Taking an active interest in Women's rights. In the final years of his life, he moved the Parliamentary Bill that gave women in New Zealand the vote (1893), (the first country in the world to do so), he became the honorary
Mayor of Christchurch, for an exhibition, where he died in 1907.
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