Eric Armishaw

Eric Cameron Armishaw (3 December 1905 – 30 May 1971) was a New Zealand local-body politician and boxing referee.

[1] Armishaw was a friend of Dove-Myer Robinson, both were members of the Drainage League that opposed the Brown's Bay scheme supported by the then mayor John Allum.

[4] Later, he was elected to the Auckland City Council in 1953 as part of Robinson's United Independents ticket and was re-elected in 1956.

He was a popular councillor and at both the 1959 and 1968 local elections he "topped the poll", receiving more votes than any other candidate.

Labelling it an "iniquitous habit" he advocated for New Zealand to adopt the Tahitian practice of having no tipping signs placed at airports and in hotels to signal to tourists to refrain from doing so.

Eric Armishaw Reserve