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John Dransfield
John Dransfield (born 1945) is an honorary research fellow and former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom, as well as being an authority on the phylogenetic classification of palms.
Dransfield has written or contributed to several books on palms, notably both the first and second editions of "Genera Palmarum". The first edition was the standard reference for palm evolution and classification and the second edition, expanding on the original, is expected to achieve that same benchmark.
Sir James Prendergast
Incumbents Main centre leaders.
- Mayor of Auckland — Henry Brett followed by Thomas Peacock
- Mayor of Christchurch — James Gapes followed by Henry Thomson
- Mayor of Dunedin — Richard Henry Leary followed by Henry John Walter
- Mayor of Wellington — Joseph Dransfield
Events.
- 2 February: Alois Lubecki makes the first telephone call in the country, between Dunedin and Milton. Later in the year the first public demonstration of the telephone is made with a call between Blenheim and Nelson.