John Aitken (Mayor of Wellington)

John Aitken (Mayor of Wellington)

John Guthrie Wood Aitken (1849-1921) was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand from 1900 to 1904.

He represented the City of Wellington electorate from 1902 to 1905, and then the Wellington East electorate from 1905 to 1908, when he retired.

He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1914 to 1921. He was Chairman of the Wellington Education Board, and in 1917 was the first layman to be Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

References

*"New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984" by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)


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