Ernest Aderman

Rev. Ernest Philip Aderman OBE (22 May 1894 – 27 February 1968) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1943–1946	27th	New Plymouth		National
1946–1949	28th	New Plymouth		National
1949–1951	29th	New Plymouth		National
1951–1954	30th	New Plymouth		National
1954–1957	31st	New Plymouth		National
1957–1960	32nd	New Plymouth		National
1960–1963	33rd	New Plymouth		National
1963–1966	34th	New Plymouth		National

Aderman was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1894. He received his education at Lapwood Primary (Queensland), and at Church of Christ Theological College (Melbourne), from where he obtained a diploma in theology. He attended the University of Queensland (Brisbane) between 1920 and 1925, and graduated with a BA. During his student years, he helped out on his parents' farm, and later served the church in Auburn, Sydney.^[1]

He arrived in New Zealand on 3 March 1928, lecturing at the Church of Christ Theological College in Glenleith, Dunedin, and ministering in South Dunedin. From 1930, he served the church at Dominion Road, Auckland. He was President of the Churches of Christ in 1936. During World War II, he was a chaplain to the 2nd Taranaki Regiment.^[1]

Aderman contested the 1938 election in the Dunedin South electorate and was unsuccessful against the incumbent, Fred Jones.^[2]

He won the New Plymouth seat in an upset victory in 1943 over Rev. Frederick Frost, who was also a Christian minister.^[3][1] He represented the New Plymouth electorate from 1943 until he retired in 1966.^[4]

In 1957, he was Senior Whip, and from 1958 to 1960, he was Junior Whip under Richard Geoffrey Gerard.^[5] In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced.

Aderman was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for public and political services in the 1967 New Year Honours.^[6] He died in February 1968.^[1]

Notes

1. Gustafson 1986, p. 296.
2. "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. p. 2. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
3. Wilson 1985, p. 198.
4. Wilson 1985, p. 179.
5. Wilson 1985, p. 280.
6. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44212. p. 44. 1 January 1967. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

References

• Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
• [New Zealand National Party ephemera, 1935-1945, including election propaganda and pamphlets, etc.], n.p.: New Zealand National Party, 1935–1945
• This collection [housed at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington] contains a pamphlet authored by Aderman.