Joe Sayegh

Situated on Auckland's Queen Street, opposite to the Civic Theatre, Sayegh's establishment specialized in serving tea and confectionery.

Sayegh was viewed a respectable individual and competent city councillor, but most gave him little chance of beating Citizens candidate Ernest Davis.

[6] Sayegh's campaign was not helped due to continued interference by Lee who tried to discredit him, calling him a "dumb wop fellow who could not even speak English".

[10] Later that year, he stood for the Labour nomination at the Auckland West by-election following the death of Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, but lost to Peter Carr.

He had closed his Queen Street store and had taken up a position as the Chairman of Directors at the Robinson Ice Cream Company.

[13] His sister, Josephine Catherine Sayegh, married rugby league player Wilf Hassan on 9 July 1935 at St. Benedict's Church.