Individual Notes
Note for: Folk Cohen, ABT 1844 - 28 APR 1915
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Burial: Date: 30 APR 1915
Place: Karori Cemetery
Individual Note: Name from Scholefield Papers
*Marriage Details Date: 1874, Folio No: 142, Names: Folk Cohen and Annie E Levy*
The Evening Post 29th April 1913 shows
Who Who?
In the Election of the City Council
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Brief Biographical Sketches
Altogether thirty-seven candidates have been nominated for seats on the City Council, and fifteen are required to be elected.
Following are brief biographical notes respecting the candidates :—
Arthur Richmond Atkinson is a member of the firm of Atkinson and Dale, solicitors. He is an ex-member of Parliament, and has occupied a seat on the City Council since 1909.
William Henry Peter Barber was in business for many years as proprietor of Barbers' Dye Works, Cuba-street. He is an ex-member of Parliament, and from 1891 to 1905 occupied a seat on the City Council, and again in 1910 up to the present time. In the latter year he unsuccessfully contested the Mayoralty of Wellington. Mr. Barber is chairman of directors of the Wellington Woollen Company, a director of the Wellington Opera House Company, and a member of other joint stock companies.
Walter Scott Bedford, master tailor, took an active part in municipal affairs in Dunedin, and largely assisted to bring about the Greater Dunedin scheme. Mr. Bedford is father of Mr. H. D. Bedford, who represented Dunedin City for three years, in Parliament. The candidate was a member of the Caversham Borough Council and also occupied a seat on the Dunedin City Council for some time.
E. J. Carey is a native of Gympie, Queensland. He has been a resident of Wellington for about twelve years, and in 1910 occupied the position of president of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council. Mr. Carey, who is secretary of the Cooks and Waiters' Union and the Grocer's Union, is contesting the election as one of the Labour ticket.
John Castle, chemist, has occupied the position of president of the Central Pharmaceutical Association, is a director of the Newtown Bowling Club, hon. treasurer of treasurer of the Wellington Zoological Society, and a member of the Newtown School Committee.
Falk Cohen, draper, has been a member of the City Council for the past nine years. He has resided in Wellington for 49 years, and has been in business on his own account for 29 years. Mr. Cohen occupied a seat on the Hospital Board for five years, has been a member of the Wellington Fire Police since that body first came into existence, joined the old volunteer fire brigade in 1865, and remained a member until the brigade came under the control of the corporation, and has occupied a seat on all the more important committees of the City Council.
John E. Fitzgerald, principal of the firm of Fitzgerald and Co., was first elected to the council in 1909. He is also a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Mr. Fitzgerald is also standing for election to the Harbour Board.
Robert Fletcher, head of the firm of R. Fletcher and Co., Customs agents and carriers, has been a member of the City Council since 1907. From being an employee of the Wellington Harbour Board he worked himself up until to-day he is chairman of that body. Mr. Fletcher is also standing for re-election to the Harbour Board.
George Frost, a retired builder, was Mayor of Melrose at the time that the amalgamation with the city was effected. He first entered the City Council in 1903, sat till 1907, then retired, but was again elected in 1909. He has occupied a seat on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board and many other public bodies. John Fuller, jun., is a member of the well-known firm of John Fuller and Sons. Mr. Fuller is manager of the firm's Wellington business. He was educated at Auckland, and for eighteen years has resided in New Zealand. For the past two years he has occupied a seat on the City Council.
James Godber has been in business in Wellington for many years as a confectioner and caterer. He occupied a seat on the council from 1901 to 1909, and has served on many local public bodies here. He was again elected to the council in 1911.
Alfred H. Hindmarsh, solicitor, has occupied a seat on the council since 1905. His sympathy with Labour has secured him a place on the Labour Party's ticket. Mr. Hindmarsh was a member of the executive of the Municipal Association of New Zealand and a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.
Andrew R. Hornblow, master printer, first entered the printing trade in the Wairarapa. He is now in business in Newtown.
Leonard McKenzie, chemist, son of one of the founders of Wellington, had been , president of the New Zealand Chemists' Association, secretary and treasurer of the Wellington Pharmaceutical Association, and a member of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board, and a member of the Te Aro School Committee. He was first elected a member of the City Council in 1911.
Michael John Reardon is secretary of the General Labourers' Union and the Slaughtermen's Union, and a delegate and trustee of the Trades Council. He has contested a seat on the council on previous occasions in the Labour interest. William John Thompson is a native of Victoria and head of the firm of Thompson Bros. He has previously occupied a seat on the City Council.
Charles Thorpe, a wharf labourer, is contesting the election as an Independent Labour candidate.
James Trevor, builder, sat on the council from 1905 to 1907, and again from 1909 to the present time. He has been in business in Wellington for very many years, and has always taken a keen interest in public affairs, the administration of Hospital and Charitable Aid affairs occupying a considerable portion of his time. Martin Maxwell Fleming Luckie is a son of the late Mr. D. M. Luckie, late Commissioner of the Government Life Insurance Department. He has been a member of the firm of Messrs. Field, Luckie, and Toogood, solicitors (now Field and Luckie) for many years. Mr. Luckie has been actively identified with most forms of athletic sports for nearly a score of years. He is an old Wellington College boy, and has presided over the deliberations of the Wellington Cricket Association for several years.
Harry Buddle, a member of the legal firm of Messrs. Buller, Anderson, and Buddle, is better known to the Wellington public perhaps on account of his prowess on the Rugby field. He also attained senior honours on the cricket field. Mr. Buddle was educated at Wellington College and Victoria College.
Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop is a son of the Hon. T. W. Hislop,. ex Mayor of Wellington and ex-member of the Atkinson Ministry. Mr. Hislop received his education at Wellington College and Cambridge University, England, where he took his degrees and graduated for the legal profession. Quite recently he returned to New Zealand, and has since been in practice with his father in Wellington.
William Perry, a member of the legal firm of Messrs. Fitzgibbon and Perry, a native of the West Coast. He finished his education at Wellington College, and then joined Messrs. Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers. Mr. Perry has been identified with the Wellington Rugby Union management for several years, and has seen "active service" on the cricket field. Latterly he has been treasurer of the Rugby Union.
Robert Bradford Williams was a member of the original Jubilee Singers, and was so enamored of this country that he left the organisation and graduated for the New Zealand Bar. Mr. Williams is not a novice in local government matters, having occupied the Mayoral chair for the borough of Onslow for some years.
Solomon Gordon is a picture-framer, doing business in Cuba-street. He has been identified with the New Zealand Labour movement for many years, and is one of that organisation's most supporters.
Thomas Neave, senior partner in the legal firm of Messrs. Brown and Dean, is a native of Gore. He joined the Law Department after practicing in Wellington for a brief period. After acting as Crown Prosecutor for some little while, Mr. Neave joined the firm he is at present associated with.
John Henry Pollock has been a resident of Wellington for thirty-five years, and has been prominently identified with most forms of sport for many years. He was a member of the Wanganui Borough Council for three years. During the late seventies and early eighties Mr. Pollock was a member of the firm of Pollock and Young, wholesale butchers, Wellington. He is now more generally known as handicapped for a number of racking clubs, and is one of the keenest supporters of amateur athletics in the province.
Cyril William Tanner, barrister and solicitor, was a member of the Wellington City Council some seventeen years ago. In the past Mr. Tanner has been an aspirant for political honours, he being a close student of politics. He has closely associated himself with many movements in the city during his lengthy residence here.
Edward Kennedy was born in Westport in 1879. Some years ago he followed the occupation of a miner, but for the last ten years has been a resident of Wellington. He is president of the Trades and Labour Council, and secretary of the Wellington Building Labourers' Union and the Petone Woollen Mills Employees' Union.
C. H. Chapman was born in London, and came to New Zealand in 1905. In 1893 he fought with the Labour Party in England, and was secretary of the London Federation of the I.L.P.; a body which has since elected him a life member. He contested the Wellington South seat at the General election in 1908, and in 1909 stood for the City Council.
G. W. Dalrymple comes from Glasgow. He arrived in New Zealand in 1863. He is a public accountant in Wellington, a fellow of the Federal Institute of Accountants, and a Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Accountants. He has acted as organiser of the liquor trade in the local option battle.
F. W. Mackenzie is a son of the late Captain F. W. Mackenzie, of Otago. He studied for the medical profession at the Otago University, and afterwards at London, Edinburgh, and Brussels. For several years now he has been a resident of Wellington.
W. Dobson, a plumber by trade, who is now secretary of the Wellington Plumbers' Union, was born in Galashiels?, Scotland. In 1863 he arrived in Queensland, and for many years lived at Warwich, where he was superintendent of the local Fire Brigade. For the past nine years Mr. Dobson has been a resident. He is a prominent Highlander, and recently strenuously opposed the abolition of the kilt when the Territorial scheme was inaugurated,
W. H. Hampton was born in Ashburton, and has resided in Wellington for eighteen years. He has been chairman of the Mitchelltown School Committee, president of the Trades Council for two terms, and chairman of the United Labour Party. By occupation he is at journeyman carpenter.
R. A. Wright has been resident in the city for thirty years, and is a partner in the printing firm of Wright and Carman. He first came before the public in 1903, when he was elected to the Licensing Bench. In 1908 he was elected to Parliament for South Wellington, but was defeated at the last poll. Mr. Wright is chairman of Nos. 2 and 3 Co-operative, Building Societies.
D. Moriarty is a native of Canterbury, and was educated at the Ashburton High School. He has resided in Wellington for six years, and is secretary of the Wellington Furniture Workers' Union and the Federated Furniture Trade Workers' Association. He is standing as an independent Labour candidate
W. C. Noot, a native of Swansea, Wales has resided in Wellington since 1894 and has been prominently identified with the Labour Party since that time. He is at present secretary of the Wellington Tramway Employers' Union, and has occupied the position of president of the Trades and Labour council.
Edward Tregear, who is again standing in the Labour interest, is the ex-Secretary of the Department of Labour. He is a native of Southampton, England, and arrived in New Zealand in 1863. He served in the New Zealand war and for a long period of years held important positions in the public service. Since he retired he has been chairman of two Royal Commissions. Mr. Tregear has been a voluminous writer and has published several books.
William T. Young, secretary of the Seamen's Union, Wellington Branch, was born at Karori, and for several years followed the calling of a seaman. In later years he has been a prominent figure in labour circles, being an expresident of the Trades and Labour Council.
Probate Record shows Folk Cohen, Place: Wellington, Occ: Clothier, Date of Death: 28/4/1915, Court: Wellington, Archives Reference: AAOM 6029 17519, Probate No: 17519, Date Filed: 7/6/1915, Type: Will, Archives NZ, Wellington
The Evening Post 29th April 1915 shows
Cohen - On the 28th April, 1915, at his residence, 321, Upper Willis street, Wellington, Folk Cohen, in his 71st year. No flowers (by request)
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Funeral Notice
The Friends of the late Mr. Folk Cohen are invited to attend his Funeral, which will leave his late residence, 321, Willis street, Tomorrow (Friday), 30th April, 1915, at 2 p.m., for the Karori Cemetery.
No flowers by request
J. Flyger and Co., Undertakers and Embalmers, 222, Cuba street, Telephone 945a
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Obituary
Mr. Folk Cohen
Mr. Folk Cohen, one of the best known business men in Wellington, died suddenly in Upper Willis street last night. For some months past he had been in failing health, but was able to attend to business. Yesterday morning he went to his shop, and in the afternoon he recorded his vote in connection with the local bodies' elections and the half holiday poll. At 5 o'clock, feeling that he required rest, he went to bed. During the evening he was quite cheerful, and chatted freely with some relations. Shortly before 11 o'clock he became seriously ill, and before a medical man could be summoned he was dead. The late Mr. Cohen, who was much respected, was born in London seventy years ago, and had lived in Wellington for half a century. When he was nine years of age he accompanied his parents to Melbourne, where he resided for ten years. He then went to Westland, attracted thither by the gold discoveries, after a short residence in that part of New Zealand he came on to Wellington. For a number of years he was employed in local drapery establishments. In the 80's he started in business in Willis street, as a clothier and mercer on his own account, and continued in the trade until his death. His wife, who was a daughter of the late Mr. Sol Levy, died a year ago. Mr. Cohen always took a great interest in fire brigade matters. As soon as he settled in Wellington he joined the Volunteer Fire Brigade, then under Captain Lewis Moss, and he was one of the founders of the Wellington Fire Police, occupying the position of treasurer of the corps for about fifteen years. He was a chartered member of the Excelsior Lodge of Druids and a member of Masonic Lodge Leinster. In 1904 he was elected a member of the City Council, and held a seat on that body until two years ago. In his younger days he took a keen interest in athletics, and had a great reputation as an oarsman, being a member of the well known "Independent" crew. For ten years he was treasurer of the Wellington Hebrew congregation. He has left a daughter, the wife of Mr. H Cain (sic), of this city. The funeral will take place at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow
Karori Headstone Reads
In loving memory of Lewis Albert Cohen only son of Folk and Annie Cohen born 4 January 1875 died 25 June 1902.
'May his soul RIP.'
Hickmott
In loving memory of Harry F. Cane beloved husband of Gladys and loving father of Coralie died 30 October 1961
In loving memory of Folk Cohen who departed this life 28 April 1915 and of his wife Annie Elizabeth who departed on 3 April 1914.
'Loving and pleasant in their life time and in death not separated.'
Platt
In loving memory of Gladys Cane beloved wife of Harry and loved mother of Coralie. A loving Nanna died 30 July 1974