Harry Barker
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1898 –
Who is Harry Barker?
Sir Harry Heaton Barker KBE was a New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor, local politician. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand on 18 July 1898. His father, John Heaton Barker, was the founder of the Four Square supermarkets chain.
Barker came to Gisborne in 1920 to work as a reporter for The Gisborne Times. He moved to Auckland in 1923 on his father's request, but soon returned to Gisborne, this time for the rest of his life.
He stood in the 1943 and 1946 elections in the Gisborne electorate for the National Party, but could not unseat the incumbent, David William Coleman.
From 1950, he was Mayor of Gisborne for nine consecutive three-year terms. When he retired in 1977, he was awarded a KBE. He died on 18 May 1994.
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