Jack Watts (politician)

Hon. Jack Thomas Watts MP
15th Minister of Health
In office 13 December 1949 – 19 December 1951
Prime Minister	Sidney Holland
Preceded by	Mabel Howard
Succeeded by	Jack Marshall
29th Minister of Finance
In office November 1954 – 12 December 1957
Prime Minister	Sidney Holland Keith Holyoake
Preceded by	Sidney Holland
Succeeded by	Arnold Nordmeyer
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Riccarton
In office 1943 – 1946
Preceded by	Herbert Kyle
Succeeded by	Angus McLagan
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for St Albans
In office 1946 – 1957
Preceded by	new constituency
Succeeded by	Neville Pickering
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Fendalton
In office 1957 – 1960
Preceded by	Sidney Holland
Succeeded by	Harry Lake
Personal details
Born	15 April 1909 Palmerston North, New Zealand
Died	6 August 1970 (aged 61) Wellington, New Zealand[1]
Political party	National

Jack Thomas Watts (15 April 1909 – 6 August 1970) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party and the twenty-seventh Minister of Finance, from November 1954 to 12 December 1957, when he retired.

Political career

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1943–1946	27th	Riccarton		National
1946–1949	28th	St Albans		National
1949–1951	29th	St Albans		National
1951–1954	30th	St Albans		National
1954–1957	31st	St Albans		National
1957–1960	32nd	Fendalton		National

He was the Member of Parliament for Riccarton 1943–46, then St Albans 1946–57, then Fendalton 1957–60. He was Minister of Health and Minister of Social Security in the Holland Ministry (1949–54), then Minister of Finance and Minister in Charge of the Census and Statistics Department in the next Holland Ministry (1954–57) and in the first Holyoake Ministry of 1957 (plus Minister in Charge of the Inland Revenue Department).

Watts retired at the 1960 election due to poor health.^[2]

References

1. The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party - Barry Gustafson - Google Books. books.google.ca. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
2. Gustafson 2007, p. 311.

• Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
• Gustafson, Barry (2007). Kiwi Keith: a biography of Keith Holyoake. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-400-0.
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.